By Jonathan on 11/26/2007 5:39 PM

Well, the last pic, in which the new van is displayed, showed a cemetery visible. I thought it warranted a little explanation (plus I wanted to test using pictures some more).  Here's the same place from a different angle.



The chapel in the background is Hicks Chapel.  Laurel's ggpa and ggma used to attend church there.  Laure's ggma was buried here when she died, and they had purchased...

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By Jonathan on 11/26/2007 5:06 PM

Ok, first time didn't work.. here are the pictures...

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By Jonathan on 11/26/2007 4:48 PM

Pictures of our two vans, before and after... :)

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By Jonathan on 11/21/2007 7:56 PM

Well... it was time to upgrade our websites....  we've got 6 that I manage, and they were all at least one version behind (dotnetnuke is an opensource web content management system, and periodically there are significant official changes).

So... I decide to upgrade them, starting with our personal site first (this one!)  I shut it down (so visitors don't mess it up) and start updating files.  After enabling it again, I browse to it and get "Server...

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By Jonathan on 11/15/2007 9:12 PM

I've thought for a while that we (Christians in general) lack faith.  This shows up in a few ways...

We worry.

We don't ask for the elders to pray for us and lay hands on us.

Our prayers always leave an 'out' just in case what we're asking isn't God's will.

We see a tremendous lack of obvious miracles, and most of the healings and tongues and such are obvious fakes.

I'm not gonna address each of these issues now, but here's the text for a song by the group Georgia...

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By Jonathan on 11/15/2007 10:10 AM

Finally!  I uploaded sermons for Sept 16 through Nov 4....  I guess it had been a while.  ;) I found out that my attempts to FTP the sermons up to had been blocked by my firewall.  A little more determination earlier would have been fantastic!

Yesterday, along with helping Bob Henkel and Dad work over at the Henkel House, I did some insulating in our new wall (I need to get some pictures up) and will finish it soon, hopefully... it's a bit chilly around here.

Our van failed the emissions...

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By Jonathan on 11/9/2007 12:31 AM

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire

 

We are back! 

I'll try to post more tomorrow.

By Jonathan on 11/1/2007 8:32 PM

Yes, you read it right!  We have a 'new' van. 

It's a 1999 Ford Club Wagon F150 12 Passenger (11 seatbelts, we need to replace one).  Thanks to some donations and a generous loan, we were able to purchase it from a seller in Franklin, NC.  It's in great shape and everything works!  God has blessed us far beyond what we ever expected, and we are extremely grateful.  God is working...

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By Jonathan on 10/30/2007 8:28 PM

But, it's been a good day overall.

We decided to go ahead and move forward on the van that was available...  after a good day's work with Wayne, we stopped by to pick it up, but it wasn't quite ready for us, so hopefully we can get it tomorrow.  He hasn't found the brackets for one of the back seats, but tomorrow may reveal them.  ;)  We will still owe on the van, but I'm confident God will provide what is needed.

Work was a little frustrating.  A three or four hour job took us about...

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By Jonathan on 10/28/2007 2:42 PM

Well, we'd like to drive home on the 8th of November.  But we have this issue...  our van is totalled and in Nashville.    I am fully confident that God has made a way for us to get back home, but we would appreciate your prayers for wisdom as we seek His will.

Just to give an idea, we've gotten some donations toward the purchase of a replacement vehicle, and are looking for something that would fit us and work for us long-term.  One van that we are looking at, the seller (a trusted friend...

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