Joey skating at the Vans Skate Park

My small group took did a skateboard tour this past week.  We hit up the Vans Skate Park in Orlando and Kona Skate park in Jacksonville.  I am working on a video about the entire trip, but until then here are a couple videos of me.

Milkbone Aint Gonna Fix That!!!

The other night a couple teenage boys were over at the house.  A couple of the boys were playing with our dog, Bacon.  As the boys were rolling around and playing with the dog my oldest son James (age 7) was watching.  James said to one of the boys, "I wouldn't let the dog kiss your face because he has Butt-Stink on his tongue".

What a puny little bike path!

This is a picture of a bike path.  This specific part of the path runs through this pipe because above it is an enormous 6-lane Highway.

Our lives are like this small simple bike path.  All we can see is our path.  Our perspective is from our path. Our path is important, and our path is big.

...but compared to the 6-lane Highway our path is small and insignificant.

When our lives intersect with God's it is not because God showed up in our lives, but that our small insignificant lives were given permission (if only for a moment) to cross His big, enormous, powerful highway.

It's not about making our story important.  It's about working to get our puny story to intersect into the only story that is important.

That's not my name...Star Wars edition

James (6 yrs. old) and Nolan (4 yrs. old) were playing Lego star-wars on the PS3 this morning. Nolan began to negotiate with James which character he wanted.

Nolan:  I wanna be Obi Nobie

Dad:  I think you mean Obi wan Kenobi

Nolan:  (with a questioning tone) Obi nobie nobie obi

Dad:  Obi wan Kenobi

Nolan:  Nobie Nobie

Dad:  exactly

Beer Butt Chicken

Heather's Dad came over this week.  I knew I wanted to use the grill for dinner, and I asked him to give me a tutorial of "Beer Butt Chicken".  This was just simply fun to cook because it is such a unique idea, but the result was some of the best tasting, tender, and very juicy chicken I've had in a while.


Ingredients and cost:
1 baking hen ($5)
1 can of Budweiser ($6, for a 6-pack)
salt and pepper
BBQ sauce ($3)

Directions:
1.  Get the grill going at around 300 degrees
2.  Massage the chicken down with salt & pepper.
3.  Open the can of beer, and set the chicken on the beer (the can acts as a stand), inserting the can into the cavity of the chicken.
4.  Baste with BBQ sauce
5.  Place the chicken on the grill.  Use the can as a stand, and make sure it is set in a way that the can will not fall over.
6.  Close the lid


Cook for an hour and 40 minutes.  There is a lot of grease so make sure the chicken does not get burned by direct flames.  Periodically baste the chicken with more BBQ sauce.

Nolan Wants a Cracker

A few months ago my oldest son, James, made a decision for Christ.  He doesn't have it all figured out, but then again who does?.  He said he asked God to come in and change his heart, and he does believe that Jesus died for him, and he is supposed to serve him, and his sins are gone because of it.  That pretty much sums it up.

A week ago at church we came forward, as we do every week, to take communion.  Heather, James, and I took the elements.  My 4 year old Nolan was upset that I did not allow him to take the communion.  Nolan does not yet have a belief of Jesus as his savior, and I take very seriously I Corinthians 11:29, which says:

I Corinthians 11:29

For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. 

After communion and went back to our pew.  Nolan was still upset.  He looked at his mother referring to the alter rail he said, "Why am I not allowed to get a snack at the snack bar?"

...and that's why!