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Aug. 26, 2008
My Firend Larry
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Over the last two years I have become friends with some pretty cool people. One of them is Larry. I just wanted to take a second to introduce you to him. He is a great guy and a talented DJ. He does his thing all around the metro Detroit area.
I TRUST LARRY!
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Aug. 25, 2008
You Know Your First Sermon was a Hit When..
Aug. 20, 2008
My First Solo Endurance Race!
Aug. 20, 2008
I Finally Graduated!
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I posted this at MTBMichigan.com, but I thought I would post it here, too.
I finally have a little time to tell about graduation. I have been enrolled in the New Breed School of Ministry for a long time. It has been a challenging time for me. I have been youth pastoring for about four years, and I just felt I needed to get a better education and preparation for larger amounts of ministry.
After over a year of education in homiletics, hermeneutics, exegetics, theology, doctrine, sacraments, Old Testament, New Testament, Bible Prophesy, Personal Ministry, Leadership, and a whole slew of other topics I can say that this is one of the best things I have ever done. I am now an ordained pastor, which is exciting to say, but more than that, I have been immersed in education that has forced me to take a good look internally and figure out who I am in Christ, and who I am called to be as a leader in the church.
Another exciting thing about this is that I graduated with honors. In high school I think I might have been in the top 90% of my class, but I graduated School of Ministry #1. This is made more exciting because I did it in the midst of all my life duties of family, job, ministry, outreaches, and trying to get my health in order.
Pictures can be found here.
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Jul. 8, 2008
The value of a wife Part 1 of millions
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I posted this at MTBMichigan.com, but I thought I would post it here as well.
Many men realize often too little, or too late, the value of the woman God has given them to be their bride. I might be one of them who does, but I still do not see how valuable she really is often enough.
Andrea is an amazing woman. It isn’t the fact that she cooks or indulges me that is amazing. It isn’t how she keeps up the house, bills, or kids that amazes me. It isn’t how beautiful she is. It isn’t anything you would expect…
Andrea is hard on me. As a wife she is my helper. Sometimes she does things I like to help me, but other times she holds me to the fire of purification and forces me to grow to be the best I can be. She never lets up and is very good at taking a step back from herself, and forcing me to take a step back from myself. She makes me look at things form a bigger picture than my own self centered thoughts. She doesn’t let me off the hook.
You might think this is awful, and that my wife is a jerk. Sometimes I do. Unfortunately, I look back at these times and see how she has such awesome insight and how she pointed me in a better direction than I might have gone. She helps me to see where I need to grow and then encourages me to do it. I can’t help changing my thoughts on my wife from thinking about these moments in this way. I go from frustration to gratitude. She has my best interest in heart and wants me to reach my full potential.
I am sure I have written about my wife before, but I am not sure I have ever written about her in this way. I write about it because I am grateful that she cares so much. Thanks, honey.
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Jun. 29, 2008
Another Test at my site
Jun. 22, 2008
Heaven Bound
Jun. 17, 2008
I Don't Intend to Go Anywhere
I just wanted to make sure people know I don't intend to go anywhere. I made mention in a recent post that I am working on another website. This is true. I have had a website for a long time. I have been using it as a testing bed for other sites that I make. I use a content management software package called Joomla. I have gotten pretty good at the older version of Joomla, but the new one is really tricky.
I guess it would be good to explain the premise of the other site. It was the Michigan home of Believers On Mountain Bikes for a long time. you can find BOMB at www.ridedirt.com I got very involved with the MI biking scene. Finally after a point of doing too many websites and getting burned out from the MI biking organization I pulled my site and used it for testing. Well, after three years of testing and recuperating and most importantly paying for the domain, I decided it was necessary to use the space again.
At this time I have no plans on how I intend to use the other site. I am still learning the new version of Joomla and am in the middle of building a new church website for someone else using Joomla. This means that the other site will not launch any time soon. What I am thinking of doing is just using it for personal use such as putting all my RSS links there to read, a place to put all of the main weblinks I go to, and a place to ftp web information with other people I am working on projects with across the country.
That means I will be keeping my blog at HSB. In plainer terms I plan to blog here at HSB. I enjoy the community and the blogging relationships we have formed over the years and don't intend to go anywhere else.
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Jun. 11, 2008
I Posted at my Website Finally
As you may know I have had a website for some time. I have been using it to test things for other websites I have been doing. I felt that was a waste of my money since I have the site, so I am working on putting up a blog there. The bugs are definitely not worked out but I am starting to get things going. I posted over there and thought I would share it over here.
Here is the post
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May. 31, 2008
A Baseline Update
Well, I am not sure how many people would really care to hear about my riding experiences or my health and fitness, but it is an exciting thing to me to share with you, so I will.
As you know I have been working for months on my fitness and health. It has been an uphill battle and I am not a good climber. Let's just say it has been a little discouraging. I have been trying very hard, though, to keep this up so I last a little longer in this world. A few posts ago, I wrote about my first ride at Novi and mentioned that I would be using that as a baseline for the year.
This past Tuesday I went to Novi to ride. I was supposed to ride with members of my team, but they were all getting out of work a little late and I had gotten out a little early. I heard the voice of my wife ringing in my head as I unpacked my gear, "be careful." I don't really like to ride alone without some sort of protection like a Spot, but Andrea doesn't seem to see the need for something like this at this time. I had this time of 1:15:00 sticking in the back of my head as that is about how long it takes me to ride the 11 mile course. I wanted to push that limit, but felt caution against doing so. I decided I would just ride and see how I felt. I hopped on my Soul Cycles Dillinger and took off.
The 11 miles of the Novi Lakeshore Trail are very technical. Though it has very little climbing it is a very tough trail with many twists and turns. The climbs that are there are most always found right after a technical turn. There are no major descents to recover on and not many flat straights to open up on. Basically put, the only way to go faster on this trail is to get fitter. The trail seems to break up into four major sections.
On section 1, I decided to push my limits a little to get my lungs and heart working. I rode smooth and seemed to feel good. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary as far as riding, I just pedaled. The section has some twisty off camber climbs and seems to be one of the rougher sections of the trail. I worked through things well. I decided to stand and push harder gears during the climbs as they weren't very big climbs. A quick check of my cyclocomputer and I see that I am keeping on track of my normal pace.
I move into section 2. It is a pretty flat section and the most smooth of all of the riding at Novi. In the back of my head I heard the words of my buddy, Andy, telling me to push the big ring on the flats. I decided to take his advice. I felt good in doing this. It seemed to help keep my heart rate even, rather than pumping it up and down out of any turn. I rode across the bridge out of section 2 and saw the time on the computer looking pretty good.
Moving into section 3 you find some really rough riding. A few of the bigger and more technical climbs are here. Keep in mind that none of this is unridable. Novi is a moderate trail and can be ridden at any level. the difference is how hard you are pushing. I was pushing hard through this section.
As I moved past the technical, rocky climb and into the twisty rolling terrain I had an encounter. Out of a hairpin left turn and over a log I heard a major quacking and commotion of little baby ducks. "What would baby ducks be doing out here? Did I just run one over? I am doing really well on this ride, I don't want to stop. If I do stop, I am sure to get attacked by an angry Momma duck. Better keep on going..." These were the thoughts in my head after the incident. I ended up thinking I broke one of the little fuzzy things necks, so I had to check. This cost me about a minute. Oh well.
Back on track and into section 4. This section is different from the others, as well. It has a couple of smooth sections that are straight, few climbs, and many turns. Looking at my computer told me I was doing good and dropping a couple of minutes off that 1:15:00 was going to be a reality barring no more duckies. I decided to put some thought into how I ride. I used some of the bike handling skills I learned in BMX and downhill into my cross country riding. I found myself slightly off the saddle on off camber turns, standing more in climbs, getting the front tire over obstacles more confidently, working the corners more, and having a lot of fun in the process.
As I rolled into section 5 I decided not to look at the computer because I was sure I had ridden faster in the previous section, and I knew I was ahead of schedule by at least a minute. I heard two noises that made me want to ride as fast as I could. One noise was that of another biker. I hate getting passed on the trail. I had no idea where this rider was or whether he was faster than me. In this section of trail there is so much trail packed into so small an area that this noise could mean he was anywhere from right behind me all the way to a mile back. I did not want to get passed on my best ride of the season so down the head went into focused riding. The other noise was that of my front disc brake breaking in. It was letting off an annoying squeal, telling me that I will need to adjust it as soon as I got back to the car. The high pitched howl made me angry and not care if my lungs and heart exploded! I must get this thing out of here now!!!
I hammered as hard as I could through the last section and threw the bike into the big ring. I was not looking at that computer until I stopped. I pedaled as hard as I could back to my minivan and slammed on the brakes one last time! What was my time. I think I might have made up about 3 minutes. I looked down to see that I had done the trail in 1:07:00! I just took 7-8 minutes off of my average time there! I was excited!
NOTE: This is not a "great" time for this trail, it is just a personal best in my current state of health. I have buddies who can do all 11 miles in about 50 minutes. I am pretty excited with my time, and now have a new goal to push for. I really think by the end of the season I might be able to get my time down in the high 50 minute mark.
ANOTHER NOTE: I only put the links to products for your information to identify with what I am riding. That being said, I do appreciate the support of Soul Cycles for our racing team.
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