Ya know, I think we’re the only Christian Fellowship that I know of that uses a shopping cart to transport stuff around…I hope we never get caught, hah…
BTW: I saw a PW’s (a supermarket near Berean) shopping cart in our store today, hahaha, I guess we’re really not the only ones…course Berean’s not really a fellowship
Alrighty, BBL.
current mood: crazy
Just getting things ready for tonight’s worship. A lot of stuff going on. We have two sets of stuff, one 15 and one 20 minute set (why do I feel like I’ve talked about this earlier….hrm…). Anyways, yeah, it should be interesting. I only have one kinda faster song, since we’re having a memorial kinda thing with more of a solemn worship-ish feel to it with it being the 1 year anniversary of Sept. 11th.
I still have to do two songs for trasparencies, “Light of the World” and “Here I am to Worship.” I KNOW I had one for the 2nd song, but dunno where it went…dern youth, haha. =P
Wow, just downloaded this new client called Semagic. It works really well. It kinda looks like a whole email client, but it works just for LiveJournal entries.
Well I’ve been on LJ now for over a year, kinda weird. I don’t have all that many posts, as opposed to some people, who I know have like a gazillion posts on this place. For a long while, I just posted once a week, and that was sorta sufficient for that. I guess a lot of times I don’t know what to post about, and I’m really not sure how many people read this, so it doesn’t seem like too much of a job to post here. I guess I’ll just talk about my day today.
Well, today is sort of a continuation of yesterday, part of it. I tried to get Erica to work for me (she’s one of my co-workers at Berean, and she also goes to AACF, and helps out with worship a lot). Reason being was that Josh, a rep from Word Entertainment was coming by today and Vanessa organized a dinner over at Elephant Bar with a bunch of us employees to go eat with Josh, and just kinda hang out. I actually went out with some of my co-workers last Wednesday for dinner, before our first AACF meeting (it was interesting, hehe). Anyways, Erica couldn’t work for me, so yeah, I had to work. It was alright today, went by pretty fast. Oh, forgot to mention that Vanessa got the staff pizza, because we sold 40 books of “Let’s Roll.” It’s a book written by Lisa Beamer, who’s husband was on United Flight 93 last year, that crashed into a field in Penn.
It’s amazing that just about a year ago now Sept. 11 happened. I still remember it pretty clearly in my mind, and I remember how we were all glued to our lil 13″ tv screen (which was actually betsy’s) and how about every 10 minutes we would be checking the CNN site to find out what was happening. It was a crazy day. I know a lot of churches tommorrow, as well as fellowships and stores will be having memorial services in remeberance of those who died (some where around 3,000 people =( it’s awful).
[side note: just switched keyboards, haha]
Tommorrow night I’m leading worship with Phil Chen, and Phil Jang. I have most of the songs picked out and what not, still need a few more, and hopefully I’ll have them before tommorrow night. hehe, well I better. I was listening to a CD I made of 722, which is a Singles Bible Study out in Atlanta. I think I’ve talked about it before, but it’s run by a variety of churches, and the main speaker for it each week is Louie Giglio of Passion. Anyways, last year, Sept. 11, they had service, and I’m sure that they had to change a lot of it, considering no one knew of what was going to happen. I was listening to that CD today to just kind of get an idea of what songs they used and everything. The songs they used were so good, and rightly picked, and powerful. I may be using atleast one of them tommorrow. They opened with the song by Delirious, “My Glorious” which is great, the chorus goes:
God is bigger than the air I breath
The world we’ll leave
God will save the day and all will say
My Glorious
Such a touching and timely song to use…
With the one year anniversary of Sept. 11 about to happen, and the increased security warnings around the world, it’s kinda scary. I really pray that nothing happens tommorrow, and that everything will be fine when I wake up. I almost have a feeling like I’m sacred to go to sleep, in the case of finding out what happens when I wake…
current mood: morose
Dinah and the Shechemites
1 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her. 3 His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her. 4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”
5 When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he kept quiet about it until they came home.
6 Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob. 7 Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had done a disgraceful thing in [1] Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter-a thing that should not be done.
8 But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. 9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. 10 You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade [2] in it, and acquire property in it.”
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask. 12 Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife.”
13 Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. 14 They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us. 15 We will give our consent to you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males. 16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you. 17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister [3] and go.”
18 Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. 19 The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s household, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. 20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to their fellow townsmen. 21 “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours. 22 But the men will consent to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. 23 Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us give our consent to them, and they will settle among us.”
24 All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
25 Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. 26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where [4] their sister had been defiled. 28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. 29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
31 But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
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That was from Genisis 34. Kinda weird stuff you can find in the bible sometimes…hah!
current mood: indescribable
current music: – While I Have Breath
Read this article for a choke full of laughs and memories of movies from the 80s.
current mood: amused