okay this will be a short post, but i’m actually one week and some days post total right hip replacement surgery on thursday/july 29th was the day.
i’m learning to walk and deal with pain.
man did i have some fun with my family on vacation this past week. today being monday is first day back to work and i’m ready to go.
big thanks to walt disney for the give a day, get day(volunteering in your city) which allowed my whole family to get a free tickets for one day fun day @waltdisneyworld.
thanks to my brother-in-law and his wife and family for letting us hang with them for three amazing days of world cup watching and beach and watching some city of ft. lauderdale recreation basketball games as my nephews sported their basketball skills. also enjoyed wednesday night @fbcft.lauderdale and briefly meeting @pastorlarry.
some good visits with some old friends ruth, sue and jimmy. and a quick tour of @pbau.
and a couple of days of resting and relaxing in tallahassee with my parents and their amazing pool, and quick movie @ the tallahassee mall and some worship @thewell.
good to be home to the ATL, @1027church and all my amazing friends and neighbors. it’s gonna be a super week!
okay, here you go with the latest off the press information about tim wolfe “can I change” blogs. you can find the other blogs under the title “can i change.” this is number 4 and basically in this blog i’m sharing with those who read that i going in for hip replacement thursday,july 29th. it’s hard to believe it but it looks like i’m about to get some surgery.
i’ll bring a little bit more of a detailed “can i change” . . . soon. until then i’m going to walt disney world with my family monday.
peace out!
Records are very few pertaining to Clifford Calverly. He came from Clarksburg, Ontario and in 1887 came to Niagara Falls to perform his tight rope act. During his successful crossing he set the speed record for crossing the Gorge, 2 minutes and 32 seconds. Most of the performers averaged around 15 – 20 minutes. During subsequent crossings Calverly skipped rope, hung by one arm, sat on a chair and used a wheelbarrow.
Yesterday I was meeting with the 1027church team and we spent some time studying
Luke 1038As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.39She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
These three little verses carry a BIG punch or at least for me. I think a quick reading of these verses one could say that Jesus just wants us hanging out with him all day, or that just being busy is not that great. You also might say that Jesus likes Mary more than Martha. But be careful!
It could be that everyday we have the opportunity in Christ to find and live in the balance of spending time with God. Pushing into to his power, wisdom, just developing a deeper intimate relationship with him! And everyday there are all kinds of challenges, obstacles, opportunities, tasks that need to be done. But these can also carry with them stress and worry? And even sometimes we can be doing something for God and it is producing stress because we have drifted or lost sight of who or what we are doing it for?
Did you notice in the beginning of this story that we see Martha opens up her house to Jesus. And in the process of entertaining seems to get put out because her sister Mary is not helping enough with serving the kosher bagel bites. I think this story is about allowing Christ to abide in our lives rather we are still like the psalmist talks about or we are busy taking care of business. I think the scripture challenges us to not allow the work of life to stress us out and cause BIG amounts of pressure. I think this is a challenging story of about BALANCE!
So how is your balance? Is Christ at the center of your life rather you are still or working like an ant? Do you have your heart set on Christ? Or are you worried about other people and or things that are causing you stress? Let me know what you think about these power packed verses?
Today is Earth day, I have to confess that did not mean very much to me until my family moved to Midtown Atlanta in 2002. Now my wife was for sure already a head of the curb and probably much more green sooner.
But I will say the journey for my wife and I to care more about the creation of God has not been because it’s cool but because I believe God moved on our hearts. Over the years I think God has spoke into to our hearts on what it means to be a WHOLE follower of Jesus.
I would say over the past 3 years somebody who has befriended me and my family and 1027church Jonathan Merritt has taught us, modeled, and encouraged us about the responsibility of the follower of Jesus Christ to be take serious our stewardship responsibly for planet earth which is God’s creation. God even says in Genesis the all he creates is “GOOD!”
So my friend Jonathan who is amazing (pardon my man crush) has written a book – Green Like God – Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet. And it is a super book. Jonathan sent me an early copy to read and see what I thought, well before I could read it my mother-in-law who lives with us read it . . . loved it! Than my wife picked it up next before I could read it and she read it and loved it. Well I’m reading it and I love it.
So why is the book so good? Well it’s good because Jonathan is a good writer, he also shared in the book how God taught him to care about God’s creation and how the power of the Word of God, and the spirit of God spoke to him through God’s creation. Jonathan’s book has a very healthy, balanced and the super natural power of God in Jonathan’s life story. Not just a Christ follower trying to be cool or following some kinda of trend.
The book is also good because it has some super content besides Jonathan’s personal story! Chapter 9 for me is one of the BEST Chapters because in my opinion Jonathan did not write to book to be cool, to make Christians cool, but Jonathan is a prophet of God challenging you and I what are we gonna do about stepping up and taking care of GOD’s good creation. How are we doing in the area of stewardship with planet earth? The title of Chapter 9 say’s it all “The Enemy In Us All”
Page 116 is a very convicting statement of the book for me, for us all!
“Most of us live oblivious to any environmental crises so Americans rest easy. Unfortunately, our solace is like drinking rum in a snowstorm. We feel warm, but the warmth isn’t real. Ecological problems are bubbling up both at home and abroad. America has it’s share of environmental problems, and though many of them are localized to poorer neighborhoods and forgotten places, others intensely our children and us. Worse still, other people around the globe pay for the unsustainable life styles that Americans consider normal as we shift the burden to other nations’ citizens and export our way of life. As we realize the American dream. Much of the rest of the world is waking up to environmental nightmares.” – Jonathan Merritt – Green Like God
Wow that passage messes up my selfish life and heart. Jonathan thanks for writing such a GOOD BOOK! Thanks for showing me and our world what God says, for prophetically challenging my selfish desires, for encouraging me and others and loving us into to Godly stewardship of God’s creation. I’m telling everyone “Right Now” you better get out today or on-line and get u a copy of GREEN LIKE GOD and follow my friend @ JonathanMerritt.com and all he is doing.
Thanks God for Jonathan!
okay so it’s tuesday, march 2nd and its snowing in atlanta for at least the third time this winter. it should not get too bad because it’s not that cold outside. anyway i’m on a little journey this year 2010 to make some changes. for me it’s really an issue of being more discipline in the BIG 4 areas of my life; spiritually, physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
back on january 6th i wrote a blog entitled can I change, you can find it here! so here is the follow-up to that post or part 2. oh by the way these blog posts are just me dealing with stuff in my life, if they encourage or help you that’s great but really it just stuff I desperately need God to change in my life.
so how is the change going so far? and what I believe God is changing in me? what he wants to change and see in the form of discipline in my life!
some of the God changes i’m praying about and working towards by the power of the holy spirit are:
1. lose 50 lbs and keep it off to be able to get hip replacement surgery this year in june.
2. discipline to work out the right amount every week.
3. spend less time in front of the tv and more time reading for growth as a leader.
4. spend as much time with my kids, cheering for them, studying the word with them and praying together.
5. serving my wife more by cleaning the bathroom, and other areas that help out around the house and life.
6. worrying more about what God thinks about me than people around me.
7. and not worrying about trying to keep all this stuff I think somehow I have gotten.
so march 2 how am I doing? i have lost about 11 pounds, I have been in the gym about every other day until the middle of february when I allowed some travel and laziness to cause me to to drop back to once a week. so i’m headed to the gym tonight to work towards that continuing to change. cleaned the bathroom yesterday, watched my middle son play high school soccer last night and planning a father/daughter date asap with ariah who is a senior this year at grady high school. i did turn the tv off last night and go to bed. so baby steps, long way to go, I think God would give me a B-. I’ll keep you posted how God is changing me. I can change, or maybe better said God can change me!
let me know what you think?
okay, atlanta is not chicago, new york, or other cold city places. but it is snowing (don’t laugh so loud all you northern people) and people are flocking to my office starbucks for something good and warm. there is no room to sit down anywhere and people are not only standing in line for coffee but a place to park themselves in a chair.
so i was sitting at a table with three chairs. one for me, one for my computer sling pack, jacket, gloves and hat and one chair for the different people I meet with. so with it being packed you of course give up an empty chair, and you also move your stuff out of the empty ghost chair. but than you allow someone to sit at the same big table as you and work on their computer like you are working on your computer.
so what’s next do you talk to the person? do introduce yourself? do try to carry on a conversation? why do you even have to ask those questions, the answers are yes, yes, and yes. why because people matter to God! and they should matter to me. so i have a new friend on a snowy day @ starbucks.
JUNE 1988 (date of picture above)
okay it’s wednesday/january 6th, 2010 about to eat a late dinner (not a good idea.) i’m six days into some needed change and more discipline in my life and I want to blog about some of the change and discipline for just the simple reason of being real. so one of the main changes that needs to take place in my life is that God wants me to be physically healthier in 2010.
i have been on a fitness yo-yo for the past several years. having had the priveledge to play sports growing up and in college which does not mean your fit, it was a vechicle that helped keep me disciplined physically. in the early years of my marriage and during grad school I worked in corporate america for about 10 years doing fitness classes and personal training in corporate wellness centers. so my job kept me disciplined.
but today wednesday/january 6th 2010 i weigh 275 lbs and the doctor says Tim Wolfe is over weight and I need to loose about 40 pounds maybe 50. in the midst of all this i have a bad genetic worn out right hip that should be replaced this year when the dr. says go!
so these real, akward volunerable blogs that i feel GOD has encouraged me to share, are all about GOD dealing with Tim Wolfe. so I am taking baby steps! i pray God can change me physically and help me get healtheir. i’ll be sharing more about the changes and steps and discipline that take place over the next few months.
2 Corinthians 5:17 TNIV • “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
I have been following Jesus Christ since April 5, 1984. January 27, 2010 I will become another year older, as a matter of fact I will turn 46. In the past I think God has made some BIG changes in my life. And I think God is still changing me and I think God wants to see some more change “new is here!” I have made some new years resolutions in the past of hopes of seeing some change, some change I have kept for a while others things did not change or not last long at all. I have learned I do NOT have the power to make changes in my life or make the change last. I know by saying that some people would probably say that’s lazy or it sounds like you are making excuses.
Renewal is rooted in faith, not in resolutions! I cannot make a new me or a new u, but Christ can make you new and me new. (via @KayWarren1) from twitter.
I think Kay Warren is right and renewal is rooted in faith and the work of the Holy Spirit is the supernatural power that changes us through – DISCIPLINE. Not that our discipline changes anything but we have to become DISCIPLINED about the change. I have been praying for a while about some areas I think God wants to change in my life. And for me I feel like it has come down to just being obedient to God or not, so I’m going to jot some of this down in my blog for some accountability.
Really it’s between God and me, but I also believe some of these are things maybe I have tried to not to pay attention to in the past or have hoped to that they might go away. Maybe laying it all on the table would allow me to become completely obedient to the work of the Holy Spirit in my life in 2010.
So I will be blogging about some of the change that I’m praying for God to do in 2010 in my life, family and ministry, in the following weeks as well as other God stuff and life. And I have faith it will happen and the old things will leave the building!
God please do a NEW work in me!
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! I’m always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens. You’re mine and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain’t gonna have a life.”
Rocky
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