...i wonder what would happen if I...

here's an experiment... text ppl telling them of an event you are organising...

see how many people actually text you back....

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conference is over. praise Jesus.
I awoke on Friday with a splitting headache/migraine, and opted not to go to work.

my pay from footprint had not arrived on friday and I was quietly stressing, but I had enough in my other account *coughs* to at least go grocery shopping.

and in the end the moolah turned up saturday morning. freaky. rent is now paid.

had another look at the car, and something appears to be wrong with the wiring to the car stereo. when the car was turned on I only got a reading of just over 5 volts out the the +12v wire. Today I go looking for a hayes manual so i can pull the car to bits.

more so.

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Sunday Adelaja talked last night at church. I was shooting camera #1.
He had three questions people might have based on the previous 4 sermons he had preached. Essentially he vindicated himself of any contextual errors people could make.

His thesis is essentially that we are built for the kingdom of God, and built to grow the kingdom of God, and the church is not the kingdom of God.
Therefore when we go to work, we do not work for money, we work to grow the kingdom. the money is merely compensation.
At the end of days we will be called to give an account of our stewardship (john bevere spoke on a similar topic, interesting) our stewardship is to grow the kingdom based on the things God has called us to do. Some are called into church ministry, some are called into the business world... et rata.

Sunday said that he tells businessmen that they're job is firstly to build the kingdom of God in their workplace, through changing attitudes & mindsets, secondly the monetary compensation received can be used to help build other ministries.

I feel that the point he was trying to make was that we are often still focused on money instead of the kingdom, although its less of a obvious focus and more of a faulty-mindset ie. I have this job to make money.

anyway if you missed it, you can stream the service (i think??) from the net, or else contact the Goldstore and church and buy it.

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*burp*

(for michelle)

J.

...they shall remember...

Day Three

nearly over.
micah has been feeding us well today, proper gourmet sandwiches and wraps..

also Wes & i went on some amusement park ride that is setup on the church grounds.
unfortunately his weight headed in my direction, much fun to be had...
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the 'worship' has been sooo good during conference. micah & i were just talking about how the 'worship' can be better during conferences because the people who attend have paid to be there and genuinely want to worship.

I guess i'm just disappoined when worship seems dry and repetitive, although to be fair its all pretty good here.

in saying that... it is most likely that you're corporate worship experience can be dictated by how your personal worship is going.

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...this is either really bad for my back... or really good.

second day of conference... over... well for me at least.

Micah asked if i wanted to cable pull for craig. my brain said yes but my body and body language said 'NO' kinda like a scream.
a point on my lower left leg just above my ankle started aching too. michelle tells me its all related... back... muscles et all.

still i looked at the clock and realised that I have been at church 12 hours today.
4 x 90 minute sessions and 1 x two hour session... which adds up to a big number i think.

im sure michelle, who is watching me type this entry, is looking down her nose... don't worry michelle, i will harden up... maybe...

she denies it vehemently of course...

of course all credit to her she does work hard...

part of me is looking forward to normal life, but then part of me is loving conference.. and I assume God wanted me here..
it certainly helps explain why my job at footprint books dried up the week before production & conference.
BUT BUT BUT B UT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT

MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL MY NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES AND GLORY THROUGH CHRIST JESUS...

and as Phil preaches; God will bless us so that we can bless others.

i volunteered to help someone shift last weekend and they gave me $50 as appreciation. God Bless Them SO MUCH...

... and we are getting fed all week at conference for being volunteers...

also today we had the CCTV Faith Partners Afternoon Tea
essentially the volunteers got fed spiffy food...

all this is quite good because I think all i have at home is cereal, milk & eggs.... oh and coffee... there's always coffee..

Andrew's dog has returned/././ well not actually his dog, but the dog he borrows occasionally..

this dog is a staffy-lab cross. and the ---- got pregnant to a blue cattle dog.. and roughly 6 weeks??? ago gave birth to 10 puppies which are right at this moment pooping and urinating all over our deck... BUT NOT MY clothes on the washing line please God.

they also stink something chronic at the moment...

speaking of stinking something chronic....

...

i am currently wasting precious time on the G5 with a 30" screen, blogging...
when i could be changing the world... or video editing...

hehe

i love being me...

praise Jesus..

J.

...and there shall be silence

Monday...

roughly 7:41 pm

First day of Presence/Phenomena ... or as muzza says 'Phesence'

Spent the morning helping set up Goldstore.

--- Michelle says hi ---

Goldstore setup.

on the bonus side i got paid for that.... God rules.

did two services with wes on camera 1. second service got to actually do camera, learnt a lot, screwed up a lot.
generally tired but happy that conference has started, was hanging out for it.

I will be starting a second blog shortly to uncover the depths of the Metal scene from a christian perspective, it will not be definitive and it will not be concise. However it do more to describe where I am as a person musically.
on that note it will probably include all of my musical leanings...

...also a third blog containing film related blogging.

i figure, go hard, or go get pizza... and dammit I am sick of being that 'go get pizza' guy i mean come on other people can get fricken pizza, and I...I...I

get a little crazy sometimes..


c'est la vie

peace

out-side

J.

....this day is a new day... all i ever wanted...

For reasons unknown I have been convinced to blog again, something to fill in the time...

what friggin time...

theres some proverbs about giving things you want done to a busy person.

[and I dislike all the stupid fonts here ...]
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[grumble... ]

so yeah, expect me to do profile-ly things whenever I have time...

to summise though I am a spirit filled committed christian who likes equal measure of heavy metal, power pop, & experimental music...

also i'ma film-maker.

peace

out-side

J.