Last night I felt compelled to re-communicate the core values of ZAO to our community… I quickly learned that I have been doing a poor job of keeping them in the front of the minds of our community, and at first it pricked me to the core…but what came next blew me away… There was… [Read more…]
May 27, 2008
This morning I think I felt God speak to my heart more clearly than ever before…and it stung… How many hours do I pour over books, and podcast, counseling, and phone calls…at this point I am not exactly sure…but at some point during the last several months I began scheduling God along with every other… [Read more…]
May 26, 2008
The Wood…what can I say, you were full of magic and wonder…mystery and surprises…I will miss you. My last day at The Wood, was primarily spent here… rockin out at the “Dreamland Drive Inn” I must admit, that although this is not my first choice of musical genre, it was quite entertaining, and the cast… [Read more…]
May 23, 2008
Day two in the Wood began much as the first had…we were once again greeted by smiling faces, hanging meat, and funny hats… Today we went on a deeper exploration of what the Wood had to offer…I don’t know how it is that we missed it, but Dolly has an entire county fair right there… [Read more…]
May 21, 2008
Once we got into Dollywood, or, as I affectionately call it, the Wood, there was a surprising amount of things to do…but I only had one thing on my mind…a corn dog…. You see, Dolly’s corn dogs are renowned for their crisp and juicy perfection…I had to have one, so we made a b-line straight… [Read more…]
May 20, 2008
On our first day visiting Dollywood was full of excitement and interesting things unique to the wood, but it all began with this open air trolley ride in , the young lady pictured here was very excited about the trip…she had been to the wood three times already this year…She was kind enough to take… [Read more…]
May 19, 2008
So here it is…I have succumbed completely to the fact that I am no longer in the city… I live in rural Tennessee…I have come to love the mountains…the open space…the quiet…it is no longer driving me crazy…I have relented… So, in accordance with my new found submission to where I am, I am now… [Read more…]
May 17, 2008
Who knew that a bag of dirty diapers could be so heavy….seriously, I am a fan of the worlds strongest man competition, and they have an event called the farmers walk… Very large men pick up two large weights in their hands and carry them as far as they can… This is how my walk… [Read more…]
May 16, 2008
The scriptures…God’s personal message to humanity…but do we really hold it in that regard… Evan Almighty paints a pretty clear picture that usually we don’t…again,this is a movie, not a theological well spring of knowledge…it just amazes me that pop culture has their fingers on the pulse of human behavior so much better than we… [Read more…]
May 15, 2008
This is not a deeply theological movie…but it really messed with me on several levels… This movie chronicles a man told by God to build a gigantic boat…he loses his job…his family thinks he has lost it…and he fights it all the way, but eventually gives in to God and builds this boat… It just… [Read more…]
May 30, 2008
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