so what do you guys think about cute puppies? :)

yeah right... as if...
you always make it seem so bad

I hope everyone parties hardy tomorrow. I will be... at work. Which, coincidentally, is where I am now.

Tomorrow (saturday) my party starts at 2pm... and goes until people disappear. we're planning on having a bonfire after it gets dark, so it'll go til after that :) Hope to see everyone there! Just a note: LAN parties roooooooockolocko.

Boy...I wish I had the time to be outside listening to the birds and the wind. Must be nice.

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to blog?

It all depends on if the weather man (or woman) is an optimist or a pessimist. An optimist would say "partly sunny" and a pessimist would say "partly cloudy"

::psst if you really wanna know, partly sunny would be like 1/4 sun 3/4 cloud: partly cloudy would be 1/4 cloud 3/4 sun::

what's the differance between "Partly sunny" and "partly cloudy" in a weather report?

oooops... I guess censorship is ok after all... no need for the 1st ammendment - remember our heros gave their lives for that!

No good, Kairsie. Jeff and Jon are determined to place anything debatable here, and put random stuff on the discussTHIS! board. dorks.

::whines:: Nooooo! Jeff the other board was created for poltical/religious/whatever other kind of debates. This board is to return to it's randomness.

about Pres Bushs trip to africa:
"This trip demonstrates strong support for Africa in a way that adequate humanitarian aid never could."
opinion on the onion.

I'm bbbaaaccckkkkk! ::does dance::

Hooray for typos. :)

My blog is http://www.jonsblog.com, not http://www.joncarlson.com. Kairsie's blog is http://www.kairsie.blogspot.com not http://www.kairsie.blogpsot.com.

Uhm... why don't the links to Jon's blog and Kairsie's blog work? Someone want to enlighten me as to why they go to the Mega Bible Study site or whatevah?

good thinkin, jeff. :)

Oh by the way, for Kairsie's sake, I made this: Discuss THIS!

That way we can keep this board more random and less... goal oriented. :)

Balance is good

I havnt read all the posts, but it looks like there is good discussion here - which rocks

Faith and Works... Works and Faith - its all a matter of balance - you are both right really :)

oh... and practice has to do with callings, giftings, and being the hands, feet, eyes, and ears of Jesus... get it? different body parts for different purposes - all working together to make the body healthy, and productive.

so yall need to recognize your need for each other. And the callings that you have on your own lives.

thats what I think

I agree, Jesse, that we should evangelize, no matter what. But I also believe that being a missional person, or a missional church, is an all-encompassing endeavor. It's so much more than going around quoting John 3:16 and leading people in a quick sinner's prayer. It's being willing to come along side a person or group of people and walk with them, help them meet their needs, demonstrate the love of Jesus in a practical way. That's what's awesome about the Incarnation - no longer was the love of God a distant, abstract concept, but the Love of God put on Human Flesh and became a Man, sharing in our sufferings and meeting our needs. We can't present Christ as a distant figure who will bless you when you die. We need to present Jesus as a friend who sticks closer than a brother, and we need to show that we are the example of His love and His life - and one of the ways we do that is by blessing people.

Here, read this. The Word of Life - Abandoning an Incomplete Gospel

My argument: "But I say that being unable to provide earthly "necessities" for a person or group of people should never keep you from going to them and telling them what Jesus did for them. Sometimes you just don't have the resources to feed 35,378 people that need to hear the gospel. So does that mean that you don't go to those people because you can't feed that many?"

Jon's response: "I’m not saying that an inability to meet physical needs should prevent us from meeting spiritual needs, but meeting physical needs is highly important. "

Basically, if you can go and feed the hungry while telling them what Jesus did, go and be blessed. If you can't feed the hungry, go anyway, telling them what Jesus did, and be just as blessed. Sometimes, short of a miracle, we just can't provide for physical needs. This should never keep us from evangelic missions.