Meet Prossy

I have blogged about Compassion on here before and even introduced you to Francisco da Silva Neto, the child that I sponsor. I often read Shaun Groves' Blog and he does great work for Compassion. He just returned from a trip with Compassion to Uganda. While he was there he received a question from a reader of his blog about whether Compassion is really working. This video is about Prossy, who was herself sponsored through Compassion and is an example of how Compassion is working to break the cycle of poverty.

So, in case you're wondering what to do with the extra $32/month you have laying around, here's an idea: change the life of a child.

Ingrid Michaelson

I have to add one more. Ingird Michaelson singing "The Way I Am." You may recognize it from Old Navy's recent sweater commercial.

Colbie Caillat

I know I've bombarded the blog with videos of musical artists, but it's becuase they're great and need to be heard. Here is Colbie Caillat performing "Realize."

Chrisette Michele

This girl is awesome. Her music is fantastic and she's even on one of the new Nivea commercials. This video seems to be one that someone just put together and threw on YouTube, but it shows her and has her song. The song on the video is "Love Is You."

Check it out and enjoy.

What is Love?

I had to post this video because I love this song and might love the video even more. Enjoy.


P.S. The artist is Haddaway, in case you'd forgotten.

Question of the night

On the incarnation of Jesus and other incarnations in Hinduism David Pace, in his presentation, asked:

"Why would God not stay up in heaven and pimp it?”

I just couldn't keep it to myself; had to share it.

Global Warming Update

This just in:

The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 -- below zero.

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind -- it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

Residents of the area use electric engine block heaters to keep their cars from freezing.
"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside -- a "big mistake."

The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."

The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.
(Source: cnn.com)

I'm just glad that we're all agreed on the threat of global warming...oh, that's right, no we're not.

Welcome

Kenzie Lynn Whitley is the newest addition to our family. My brother and his wife had her at 9:55 Friday morning. She weighed 6lbs and 5oz. and was 18 inches long.

This is Kenzie with mine and Trinity's fingers.

Be Informed

With Super Tuesday behind us, I just want to remind everyone of the necessity of being informed. Super Tuesday has shown us a few front runners and that's great, but let's make sure we're informed on each candidates positions and voting for the one that matches most closely with our own. To help you out some I'm including a link to a website that should help with that.

The sight is On The Issues. Check it out and be informed.

The Flu

So yeah, I have the flu...enough said.

Conclave: Day 2

Today was a good day here in Chattanooga at Conclave. The best part of the day, though, was the evening session. Erwin McManus spoke. He is the pastor of Mosaic. He basically said that the we have forgotten what is most important: people. And these people are all doing the same thing - trying to make sense of their life. Human history is a conflict between tragedy and beauty. Its our jobs to enter into peoples' lives and show them the beauty in the midst of the tragedy.

For a while now I have seen the importance of just living life with people, building relationships with them and then, once trust has been gained, to share with them my convictions and beliefs. This is not what we usually do though. We feel that we need to change people to look just like us before they can become a part of our life or, God forbid, our church.

Tonight was a reminder to me of that and also an encouragement. Erwin said that we all have different answers, but we all have the same questions. When we break it down to some of the most basic things that all humans search for, we do. We all desire intimacy, love and acceptance. Some of may act like we don't care about these things, but we're just lying to ourselves. Well, I have been blessed with fantastic intimacy, love and acceptance with my family, my wife and my friends. Its my turn to show it to others.

Life hurts, but love is real. Am I showing it to others? Are you?


P.S. Erwin has a new book out (that I just bought tonight and got autographed by him) called Soul Cravings. Here is the description from his site: We can spend our whole lives trying to satisfy the one insatiable part of our being, our soul craving. Our capacity for spiritual experience both proves our need for something greater than ourselves and leaves us wanting when we fill it with anything but God. Soul Cravings is a powerful, down-to-earth exposition that interprets our need for intimacy, meaning, and destiny as common sense apologetics pointing to the existence of and our need for God. The book will deeply stir the reader to consider and chase after the spiritual implications of their soul’s deepest longings.