1. You can impersonate Chuck, Jon, and Raul.
2. Your pastor is a convicted felon.
3. Your youth pastor is younger than you in high school.
4. If you can draw a perfect dove with your eyes closed.
5. In the NW your coffee cart is more expensive than your building.
6. The only sandal in your closet are Birkenstocks.
7. You have a different Hawaiian shirt for every bible study of the week.
8. You end every conversation with, may the Lord bless you and keep you, may His face shine upon you.
9. Your last Christmas/ birthday present was a Taylor. 10. All the employees at the Starbucks are friends from church.
11. Your library contains more notes than books.
12. When you hear 4-20, you think its a bible verse.
13. You think seminary is for the cults.
14. At least twice a week you have a "word from the Lord."
15. Your first language is "hmmmmm, mmmmmm"
16. You go to summer retreats and swim in a parka
17. Your first name is "brother"
18. Your idea of a tropical vacation is getting baptized in the Dead Sea.
19. Beer is a four letter word
20. Side hugs!
21. You are taught twice a week by someone whose never taken a single college course.
22. The average age of your pastors is 17.
23. A short Sunday service is 2 hours even.
24. You think its a GOOD idea to get married at 18.
25. You always know what chapter your pastor is going to speak on next Sunday.
26. And he prays with his eyes shut extra tight.
27. The "pulpit" is a wooden stool.
28. A suspiciously-high number of CC churches are in areas with beautiful weather.
29. When you've been saved longer than your pastor.
30. You know what "koinonia" means.
31. If you think the first book of the Bible is Revelations.
32. "non-denominational" means that there are a list of doctrines you must hold, a logo, a name and culture, and your pastor attends at least two CC pastor's conferences per year.
33. Your prayer meeting is longer and more largely attended than the church service.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
You know you grew up in Calvary Chapel when...
Found this on Facebook, thought it was fun, can anyone relate?
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Oh Christians.....
Maybe you've heard that our church has been doing a little advertising around town lately. They are very humble looking ads like this one here:
This poster below was hung on the river port wall in the russian city of Pierm. It's not like your typical welcome-to-the-city poster, that's for sure :) The underwriting says: "He who receives one of these little ones, receives Me"......
(taken from englishrussia)
It's SO much more impressive than our modest design work, that i'm quite jealous, although inspired. i think for our next project i'll try to convince jake to come up with something less aesthetically appealing, more shocking, more randomness in the message and it will be the size of a government building wall. any thoughts?
This poster below was hung on the river port wall in the russian city of Pierm. It's not like your typical welcome-to-the-city poster, that's for sure :) The underwriting says: "He who receives one of these little ones, receives Me"......
(taken from englishrussia)
It's SO much more impressive than our modest design work, that i'm quite jealous, although inspired. i think for our next project i'll try to convince jake to come up with something less aesthetically appealing, more shocking, more randomness in the message and it will be the size of a government building wall. any thoughts?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Theme parties are fun!
On Sunday we celebrated Mira's birthday and the theme was American gangster 30ies. Here's Mira and more pics below:
Monday, February 23, 2009
Free Giveaways rock.
So I really like trying to win on free giveaways, I used to win these sort of things a lot but haven't recently so I figure the more I try, the more likely I will win!
Check the link out below and maybe you can win a free copy of the new Logo's bible software.
biblestudymagazine.com/driscoll
Check the link out below and maybe you can win a free copy of the new Logo's bible software.
biblestudymagazine.com/driscoll
copyright and human rights
What do you think, should digital information be copyrighted? If you can reproduce it without cost, is it really stealing?
That would mean taking a photo of a piece of art and reprinting it on your printer or throwing it on your desktop would be stealing, would it not?
Would playing a song written by another not be stealing? Why is it that churches have to pay to sing a song written by Chris Tomlin? Why doesn't each individual have to pay if he plays it?
If I bought a CD and burnt a copy for the car it is not stealing, no? If I burnt a copy for my wife to use is it? What about my friend, if I gave a copy to him is it stealing? If he borrows the burnt copy from my car and plays it for his family, is it stealing?
I am a little confused... Something is whack here.
I personally think information should be freed from the chains of copyright if someone is not actually stealing hard goods, tangible items, or claiming it is their creation.
Any thoughts?
That would mean taking a photo of a piece of art and reprinting it on your printer or throwing it on your desktop would be stealing, would it not?
Would playing a song written by another not be stealing? Why is it that churches have to pay to sing a song written by Chris Tomlin? Why doesn't each individual have to pay if he plays it?
If I bought a CD and burnt a copy for the car it is not stealing, no? If I burnt a copy for my wife to use is it? What about my friend, if I gave a copy to him is it stealing? If he borrows the burnt copy from my car and plays it for his family, is it stealing?
I am a little confused... Something is whack here.
I personally think information should be freed from the chains of copyright if someone is not actually stealing hard goods, tangible items, or claiming it is their creation.
Any thoughts?
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Credit Crisis Visualized
The global financial crisis is pretty much affecting everyone.
This video will give you the low down on how it all started. It is a informative, typographic, educational, and entertaining little piece I highly recommend.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
This video will give you the low down on how it all started. It is a informative, typographic, educational, and entertaining little piece I highly recommend.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
San Luis Obisbo: not a cheap place to live
Check out this page for a rundown on the most affordable and unaffordable cities in the States. They have the highest and lowest priced cities with a population above 500,000 and below 500,000. You can check the entire list out if you want by I am just going to post what I found interesting, namely, the most expensive city in the States under 500,000 folks.
To all my friends in SLO, how does that make you feel?
By the way, San Luis Obispo is where our sending church is located and is the county I grew up in. My town, Nipomo, was probably 11th on the list:)
The National Association of Home Builders has released their Housing Opportunity Index covering the most and least affordable cities in the country.
Ten Least Affordable Cities with a Population Under 500,000
1. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
2. Ocean City, NJ
3. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
4. Napa, CA
5. Flagstaff, AZ
6. Medford, OR
7. Bend, OR
8. Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
9. St. George, UT
10. Laredo, TX
To all my friends in SLO, how does that make you feel?
By the way, San Luis Obispo is where our sending church is located and is the county I grew up in. My town, Nipomo, was probably 11th on the list:)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Ukraine heading towards defaulting?
Check out this article on the worsening financial situation in Ukraine.
I am no doomsdayer apocalyptic type, but I sure do hope something changes in the near future.
Time will be the tell.
Bank analysts predict that Ukraine is heading for a historic default on its national debt, in a scenario that could complicate EU-Ukraine relations and have an impact on the recent Russia-Ukraine gas transit deal.
"The market is pricing in a probability of sovereign default of almost 90 percent," Commerzbank analyst Ulrich Leuchtmann told EUobserver on Monday (16 February). "It could happen in the next couple of quarters."
I am no doomsdayer apocalyptic type, but I sure do hope something changes in the near future.
Time will be the tell.
St. Pete
After living in Ukraine for 9 years and never having taken a trip to St. Petersburg (or anywhere in Russia for that matter), I feel like something is wrong.
It would be like someone living in Fresno and never visiting Yosemite. I live about an hour from the border and there is a train that travels from Chernigov straight to St. Petersburg.
I have chalked it up to the hassle of needing a visa to travel through Belarus and needing a Russian visa, but even then it seems like the hassle would be worth it.
We are planning a trip to Samara Russia later this fall for a large conference but I most likely won't be able to go with Anya as we will have a 3 month old baby at that time.
Maybe in 2010.
St. Petersburg by Alexander Alexeev
It would be like someone living in Fresno and never visiting Yosemite. I live about an hour from the border and there is a train that travels from Chernigov straight to St. Petersburg.
I have chalked it up to the hassle of needing a visa to travel through Belarus and needing a Russian visa, but even then it seems like the hassle would be worth it.
We are planning a trip to Samara Russia later this fall for a large conference but I most likely won't be able to go with Anya as we will have a 3 month old baby at that time.
Maybe in 2010.
St. Petersburg by Alexander Alexeev
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Learning to Teach the Bible More Accurately
I recently have been giving a lot more thought to teaching the bible in a way that is faithful to the overall message of God's revelation, not just faithful to the immediate context.
As a good Bible College student I learned the Inductive Bible Study method and ate up everything I could within the framework of observation, interpretation, and application. I still remember and cherish a few classes I had going through Mark and Revelation and the pastoral epistles with nothing but a manuscript of the text and a pen. I think that learning to study the word through asking questions was one of the most helpful and profitable lessons that I learned while studying at the school.
After quite a few years, roughly 10 to be exact (it has been a while now) I am seeing that there needs to be an overarching framework used to understand scripture outside of the IBS method. IBS is great for understanding the intention of one author in a particular book, but to understand the entire message and revelation of scripture, one needs to connect book with book, narrative with epistle, poetry with history, prophecy with parable, and mainly the Old Testament with the New Testament. I felt and continue to feel like the IBS method leaves one very unequipped to bridge the different texts and see themes running through all of scripture.
Two books that I read about four years ago helped me see more continuity and unity in the Old and New testaments. One was called Unity of the Bible by Daniel Fuller, the other Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey. I think what Fuller and Pearcey were able to convey was that there are central themes to all of scripture that are guides as we read any of scripture. The main themes being: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration. Seeing scripture through this lens was very new and fresh and exciting. It just made sense.
Jump to February 2009. I recently was encouraged to listen to a series of podcasts on iTunes U from Reformed Theological Seminary called Preaching Christ in a Postmodern world (don't be afraid of the postmodern label) by Tim Keller and Ed Clowney.
This series has proven to challenge my basic understanding of how to accurately teach the bible in a very positive way.
I will post on my interaction with the mp3s and share a few things that I am learning next.
As a good Bible College student I learned the Inductive Bible Study method and ate up everything I could within the framework of observation, interpretation, and application. I still remember and cherish a few classes I had going through Mark and Revelation and the pastoral epistles with nothing but a manuscript of the text and a pen. I think that learning to study the word through asking questions was one of the most helpful and profitable lessons that I learned while studying at the school.
After quite a few years, roughly 10 to be exact (it has been a while now) I am seeing that there needs to be an overarching framework used to understand scripture outside of the IBS method. IBS is great for understanding the intention of one author in a particular book, but to understand the entire message and revelation of scripture, one needs to connect book with book, narrative with epistle, poetry with history, prophecy with parable, and mainly the Old Testament with the New Testament. I felt and continue to feel like the IBS method leaves one very unequipped to bridge the different texts and see themes running through all of scripture.
Two books that I read about four years ago helped me see more continuity and unity in the Old and New testaments. One was called Unity of the Bible by Daniel Fuller, the other Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey. I think what Fuller and Pearcey were able to convey was that there are central themes to all of scripture that are guides as we read any of scripture. The main themes being: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration. Seeing scripture through this lens was very new and fresh and exciting. It just made sense.
Jump to February 2009. I recently was encouraged to listen to a series of podcasts on iTunes U from Reformed Theological Seminary called Preaching Christ in a Postmodern world (don't be afraid of the postmodern label) by Tim Keller and Ed Clowney.
This series has proven to challenge my basic understanding of how to accurately teach the bible in a very positive way.
I will post on my interaction with the mp3s and share a few things that I am learning next.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Geek Show Modeling
These pictures were taken the day we found out I was pregnant with the second. At least they show the reason we wanted the second baby is NOT because this one is too boring..
Friday, February 13, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Championship of Choreography
On Sunday I was invited to a dance competition, took a few photos, and was over all very impressed with the local talent.
