Month: July 2007

Winning videos

The 2007 Buzz Conference in Washington DC is over and the winners have been announced.
Check them out online to see what other churches around the country are doing?
Audio and video from the conference is also available.
How about your church? What are you doing with film and media? Are you using videos from other services and media outlets or are you coming up with your own?
Lately we haven’t had much original content at encounter but we’ve found the Christian vs. Christ Follower videos to be a great help in illustrating our latest series.

Praise God for his grace, mercy and protection

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Received an update on Kathryn from Matt and her mom late last night…

PRAISE THE LORD AND HALLELUJAH!!!
I hope all of you’ve heard the miraculous way in which the Lord answered our prayers for Kathryn and the Buckner team. Ron and I have been away from our email most of the day and are just now able to send our tremendous thanks to you for your prayers. Please pass it on to others who were also praying.
Please continue to pray for the team, for one-on-one conversations with the kids, and for Kathryn’s arm and wrist that has been hurting since she arrived in Russia. Your prayers are part of the way in which GOD IS WORKING! Please keep it up.
For those who may not have heard, here’s a brief account of the results:
The government officials came out and had a great conversation with one of the Buckner staff members. The official apologized for everything and the caregiver was fired. The Buckner team had a really great day with the kids. Keep praying for this time for the team to present God’s love and salvation to these precious children. Please also keep praying for SVETLANA’s salvation, the caregiver who was fired.

“Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of thy redeeming love.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above!”

Wow. I can’t even read the lyrics of that hymn now without tearing up.
What great words of encouragement and grace and mercy.

Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94

Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson, former US First Lady from Texas died today at the age of 94.
She was an alum of the University of Texas and married Lyndon Baines Johnson on November 17, 1934, at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas.
She spent years working towards ending poverty, beautifying Texas and US Highways and served as a great ambassador for the state.
Thoughts and comments:
Capital Annex
Thoughts from various Texas politicians via the WDL
Wikipedia entry

Free slurpees?!

WOW oo00oo
FREE SLURPEES TODAY!?
Wouldn’t have known except for a DIY blog post.

Alright kids, it’s time to go get your favorite cool-tasty beverage from 7-Eleven. That’s right, Slurpees are FREE today. Why, you ask? Because it’s 7/11 of course! The Slurpees are small, at just 7.11 ounces, but whose complaining – it’s free, right? Start at the north end of town and hit every 7-Eleven within a 20 mile radius. But get down there quick, because the deal ends at 11pm (of course).

Jet ski over the spillway

Did anyone else see this video?
One of the guys at our Wednesday morning Bible study told us about this accident and I had to check it out.
With all the rains here in North Texas lately many of the lake spillways are overflowing.
Friday evening a couple was out jet skiing on Lake Lewisville when they apparently missed the warning signs and flew right over the spillway. They had a perfect landing but the impact caused both of them to fly over the handles of the jet ski and into the water.
According to the video both are still in critical condition.
Fox 4 has additional video