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Name: Peter
Country: United States
State: Kentucky
Birthday: 12/12/1978
Gender: Male
Interests: Creativity. Church. People. Deviously plotting ways to make the Mariners a better baseball team. Taking pictures. Partaking of the cinema in copious amounts. Biblical exegesis. Exploring this interweb thingy. Indie rock 'n roll. Church history. General Tsao's chicken. Hebrew poetry. Serving this God who is so into redeeming stuff.
Expertise: Procrastination, but I'll get to that later.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Media
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  RoyalBrougham11
MSN: astrophil78
Member Since:
10/14/2004
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| Well this quiz is crap...
 | You scored as Maximus. After his family was murdered by the evil emperor Commodus, the great Roman general Maximus went into hiding to avoid Commodus's assassins. He became a gladiator, hoping to dominate the colosseum in order to one day get the chance of killing Commodus. Maximus is valiant, courageous, and dedicated. He wants nothing more than the chance to avenge his family, but his temper often gets the better of him.
Maximus | | 63% | Lara Croft | | 58% | Batman, the Dark Knight | | 58% | James Bond, Agent 007 | | 58% | Indiana Jones | | 58% | The Amazing Spider-Man | | 54% | Neo, the "One" | | 54% | The Terminator | | 50% | William Wallace | | 50% | El Zorro | | 46% | Captain Jack Sparrow | | 42% |
Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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But then again, I really am my own superhero.
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| I woke up at 6:30 a.m. It was something like a hundred degrees below zero in Griffith, IN.
Jackie and I drove the six hours back to Lexington where I caught a 4
p.m. flight to Tulsa via Cincinnati. Arrived at 6:30 p.m. just in time
for Thanksgiving dinner with the fam.
On Sunday morning Pastora
Irma shared some of her struggles trying to communicate the point of
Thanksgiving to some of the Hispanic congregation at La Roca.
It's more than Turkey Day. She boiled it down the time to remember when
a group of people gave thanks to God for surviving their treacherous
circumstances. I really like the sound of that. That's what I choose to
celebrate this week.
Speaking of thankful... I'm in Tulsa not
just for family but also some denominational interviews on Monday and
Tuesday for the candidacy process for ministry. In preparing the
paperwork for these meetings, I had write out the most formative
experiences of my Christian life. There have been many, but I chose to
focus on three relatively recent ones. The first two deal with some
severe disappointments that led to some heavy disillusionment with
people who call themselves "Christians." Those stories are for another
day, as they are not entirely appropriate for a setting such as this.
The
story that is important right now is of the six people who stopped my
bleeding and of the kindest words I have ever heard. This is the story
of the beginning of God's manifest redemption in my life.
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I met Dave while blogging about the Mariners. Turned out we had more in common than we first thought. He works with a church plant in Winston-Salem. I bought his digital camera from him, and we hung out together one weekend in DC awhile back.
Now he and some friends in North Carolina have started a non-profit called ZAO Water for the purpose of providing fresh water to the impoverished nations of Africa. He writes on USS Mariner,
In order to raise funds, ZAO has entered the retail bottled water business (again, as a non-profit organization). We have an artisan well in North Carolina and are working to build our own bottling facility which will allow us to produce millions of bottles of ZAO water every year for retail sale, competing with Dasani, Aquafina, Le Bleu, etc… The price for ZAO water is extremely competitive; $1 for a 15 ounce bottle or $9 for a 24-bottle case. The difference? Every dime of profit that comes from the sale of bottled ZAO water goes directly to providing fresh water for people who badly need it in Africa. You get water, they get water, and everyone wins.
A donor has pledged to match every dollar raised from now until the end of the year up to the $500,000. You can read about that here, and here's the link for ZAO's fledgling webpage. | | |
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Grand Canyon
By Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker, Alfre Woodard
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I love Jesus. And because of this, I find myself obsessed with the
Bible. Every page of it. Every story. Every character. I remember once
hearing pastor share about Ezra 7:10 - that Ezra devoted himself to the
study and observance of the law of YHWH and to teaching it to Israel -
and how it gave him his life's mission. I have to say that something in
that hooked me like some big, shiny fishing lure. When Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire
passionately says that he feels God's pleasure when he runs, I know
that's what I feel when I've got my face in the Scriptures surrounded
by a desk full of open lexicons and commentaries and encyclopedias and
atlases and wandering deep in conversation with someone about what the
Good Book means and what it means to "perform" Scripture.
I know I'm weird, but this is me.
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| I just took a Myers-Briggs test. Says I'm an ESTJ.
This is a direct contradiction of a test I took six months that said I was an INFJ.
Now
I know that pigeon-holing a personality into one of sixteen slots is a
bit superficial. These two profiles are pretty different, though. But
I'm willing to accept that I may be schizophrenic.
So for those of you that know me, I'd like a little feedback. Which one do you think best reflects me? | | |
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