Here is the other videos that was shown last week during week one of REVOLUTION’s new series, “Messy Spirituality”…
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Week 1 Messy Spirituality (Part 2)
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Week 1 Messy Spirituality (Part 1)
8 11 2009Here is one of two videos that was shown last week during week one of REVOLUTION’s new series, “Messy Spirituality”…
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Wednesdays, 7-8:15pm, all November & December
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REVOLUTION Fall Retreat Top 10 List
6 11 2009This blog post is a first for briancromer.com. This is the first blog post written by a guest writer.
This weekend is the REVOLUTION Fall Retreat. Here is Jen Hartsell’s (blogger, coworker, REVOLUTION youth leader, and good friend) “Top Ten Things I’m looking forward to at the REVOLUTION Fall Retreat”. Enjoy…
10 – Plenty of of “I love you man”’s and lots of huggin’ it out.
9 – A ton of “I never knew that about you!”’s
8 – Pushing Michael B’s accent talent to its limits. I know he can do Scottish, Irish, Russian, and Spanish. I want to see if he can do Polite Pirate, Swahili Neck Stretcher, German lost in Australia, and/or a Hip Hop Grandma.
7 – Busting up EVERY SINGLE “pa-duh” (or at least, that’s what they called it on the PSA against PDA’s that was so funny a few Wednesdays ago) ….Not only busting them up AS we catch them, but even BEFORE they have even begun! LOL!!!!
6 – Something super messy, gooey or sticky. Something to do with Messy Spirituality. …but nothing that would stain our new REV hoodies, of course.
5 – Something that makes EVERYONE laugh, SOME people snort, and maybe even ONE poor kid pee their pants.
4 – Having to run into the nearest town for a toothbrush run after discovering that every single MS boy forgot to bring one. (NOT!!!!)
3 – Delicious Pancakes, Sammies and Spaghetti made by our AWESOME moms!
2 – Seeing how many girls and guys bring their stuffed animals along. (Don’t be ashamed! I’m bringing a teddybear!!!)
1 – NOT passing out any bandaids for razor cuts … because … THIS IS NO SHAVE NOVEMBER!!!!
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Check out more of Jen’s writing on her blog at http://jenhartnsoul.blogspot.com/.
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Things are again right in the world
5 11 2009Today I woke up refreshed and something was different.
Food tasted better. Air was fresher. Traffic seemed lighter. The sun was brighter.
And then I realized…
The New York Yankees won the World Series last night, clinching their 27th championship in team history.
Things are again right in the world…
Go Yankees!!!
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On another note, I asked on the October 27, 2009 World Series Prediction blog post for you to make predictions on three World Series topics (who would win, how many games would it take, and who would be MVP).
This is from great friend, coworker at NORTHchurch, and REVOLUTION youth leader Patty Rankin, “1. yankees. purely because they have cool colors and are from new york. 2. Win in 6 games. cause it sounds cool. 3. Hideki Matsui, because his name sounds cool.“
I am officially blown away that she got all three questions right. This is the World Series prediction equivalent of the girl who fills out a NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket according to the cuteness of the mascots and team colors AND gets them all right. Crazy!
Congrats, Patty! You are an official baseball prophet.
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Michael Jordan Quotes
3 11 2009
Playing softball last night, I came up to bat with two runners on base with two outs. I ended up grounding out to end the game. We lost by one run. Honestly, I was really bummed about it. I felt like I let my team down and didn’t get a hit when it mattered the most.
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One of my favorite athletes of all time is Michael Jordan. I distinctively remember watching highlights of watching him hit game winning shots. But he missed a lot too. In need of some motivation, I googled Michael Jordan quotes.
Here are some of the best Michael Jordan quotes…
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I’ve never been afraid to fail.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
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Thanks, MJ. I officially cannot wait to be in that situation again. Bring it.
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When the Unqualified Are Qualified
2 11 2009
Walking by a pet shop on his way back to school, a young boy stopped and stared through the window. Inside were four black puppies playing together. After school he ran home and pleaded with his mother to let him have one of the puppies. “I’ll take care of it, Mom, I will. If you can just give me an advance on my allowance, I’ll have enough money to buy one with my own money. Please, Mom, please.”
The mother, knowing full well the complications having a new puppy would bring to a busy household, could not resist her son. “Okay, you can get the puppy, but I will expect you to take care of it.”
“Yes, Mom, I will.” Filled with excitement, the little boy ran to the pet shop to buy his new puppy.
After determining that the boy had enough money, the pet shop owner brought him to the window to choose his puppy. After a few minutes, the young boy said, “Um…I’ll take the one in the corner.”
“Oh no,” said the shop owner, “not that one; he’s crippled. Notice how he just sits there; something is wrong with one of his legs, so he can’t run and play like the rest of the puppies. Choose another one.”
Without saying a word, the boy reached down, lifted his pant leg to expose a chrome leg brace to the owner.
“No,” he said firmly, “I think I’ll take the puppy in the corner.”
It turned out that what disqualified the puppy from being chosen by others is what most qualified him to be chosen by the little boy.
It’s amazing how few of us believe in the unqualified grace of God. Oh, yes, God loves us, as long as we’re clean and whole and fixed. But it turns out that what disqualifies you and me from “spirituality” – the mess of our lives and our crippledness – is what most qualifies us to be chosen by Jesus.
~ from Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli
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Powerful…
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Messy Spirituality
29 10 2009Here is the promotional video we showed last night at REVOLUTION for our new series called “Messy Spirituality”. This series will start next week and will run from November through December.
Enjoy…
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REVOLUTION
Wednesdays, 7-8:15pm, all November & December
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Jesus Loves You
28 10 2009The message of Jesus is as simple and concise as the song many of us learned and sang in preschool: Jesus loves me, this I know.
Me.
You.
Practically everyone knows that little ditty.
But many don’t know its truth and power. The first two words do not inspire a lot of emotion. “Jesus loves.” It is when one gets to the “me,” the “you,” that things get more complicated.
Jesus Loves You.
The all-encompassing “you” means that the love of Jesus leaves no one out.
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Let that sink in. Jesus loves you. With all your issues. With all your mess ups. With all your messiness. With all your quirks. Jesus loves you.
Rest in that fact today.
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First part of this post, taken from…
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World Series Predictions
27 10 2009
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It’s time for your 2009 World Series predictions…
- Who is going to win the 2009 World Series – New York Yankees or Philadelphia Phillies?
- How many games will it take that team to win?
- Who will be the 2009 World Series MVP (most valuable player)?
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MY PREDICTIONS…
- New York Yankees (surprise, surprise) win the 2009 World Series.
- They win in 5 games.
- C.C. Sabathia will be the World Series MVP.
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No Shave November 2009 is Almost Here
26 10 2009Yes, it is time for me to earn some more points to my man card. There is no better way to do that than by participating in “No Shave November” and growing a manly beard.
No Shave November is as simple as it sounds. All NSN consists of is picking a part of your body you normally shave and do not shave that area for the month of November. No Shave November is not gender biased. Women are encouraged as well as men in participating in this awesome month-long journey. It is not a competition. So if you know you have patchy, inconsistent facial hair that might be considered weak, you have nothing to worry about. Let it grow proudly. No Shave November is all about giving our Mach 3s, Venuses, Fusions, Quattros, Norelcos, and Remingtons a well-deserved break for one month.
I participated in No Shave November for the first time in 2007 and it was awesome. It was my first time to sport a beard and I promised myself that it would not be my last time. I hope to grow a fuller, thicker, more manlier beard this year.
In 2008, I kept a daily record of my No Shave November experiment (not on the blog because that would have been super boring for you, thus guaranteeing the loss of all my consistent readers) and posted sporadic updates on how the beard was coming. My goal was to take a picture everyday at the same spot, mesh all the pictures together, and make a sweet animation video of my beard growing before your very eyes.
Here is my No Shave November 2008 video…
So are you going to join me in participating in No Shave November 2009?
Men, are you going to join me in rocking the best beard you can grow in 30 days? Women, are you going to join me in letting your legs, your armpits, one leg/one armpit, or even a patch on your knees grow free for 30 days? Those of you that may have some rules and regulations about facial hair in your school or workplace, let me encourage you to grow something in the spirit of NSN. If you go to school where you can only have sideburns to your ears and hair above your upper lip, then I encourage you to rock the best sideburns and stache that you can for 30 days.
Can I count on you joining the No Shave November army starting November 1?
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Coolest Commercials Ever
22 10 2009In honor of being right in the middle of football season, here is a compilation of some of the coolest commercials ever…
Couple of questions…
- What’s your favorite? (My favorite is Chris Chambers.)
- Do you think these videos are real or fake?
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Rebels Without a Clue
21 10 2009
Do you have more authorities in your life as a child or as an adult?
Listen to these profound words by Andy Stanley in his book The Seven Checkpoints…
Most teenagers long for the day when they can move out of the house and be free. Meanwhile those of us who are adults wish they could back! Why? We’ve learned from experience that getting older doesn’t mean having fewer authorities over us. Just the opposite.
Think about it. When you were two years old, who did you have to answer to? When you entered elementary school, who did you have to answer to? When you started middle and high school, who did you have to answer to? Now, as an adult, who do you have to answer to?
The point is simple yet profound: The older you get, the more arenas of life you enter, the more authorities you have. There is only one group for which this is not true: men and women in prison. Their only authority is the warden. But that’s certainly not freedom!
The human heart has a tendency to cry, “I don’t want anybody telling me what to do!” But authority is a fact of life. It isn’t going away. We can either help students learn to live with it and benefit from it or continue to watch as student after student chooses to resist authority and lose whatever freedom they have.
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That’s good stuff.
Agree or disagree? Thoughts?
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Buying a House & Visiting Old Friends
20 10 2009Two major things are happening to me this week:
On Thursday, Heather and I will be buying a house. I have not said much about our house on the blog because there are so many things that can interrupt the process. I wanted to make sure that it was a done deal before I put it out there as public information. We are very excited about this house. We got a great deal. There are a few things that we still need to do to the house before we move in. We hope to be moved in around November 1.
Pictures will be coming soon. Email me if you want the address.
Also…
On Sunday, I will be preaching at the Shannon Oaks Church in Sulphur Springs, Texas. I will be going back to Sulphur Springs on Friday to be in a great friend’s wedding. I hope to take full advantage of the weekend by spending quality time with as many friends and former SOC/SM students as possible, running a few miles with my old running buddies, standing beside a great couple as they start their marriage, and preach what God lays on my heart to an amazing church family. Shannon Oaks Church, I am excited to reconnect and be with you this weekend. Invite your friends, neighbors, coworkers, and random strangers and expect God to do big things this Sunday.
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What’s going on in your life this week? Anything big?
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Fill in the Blank
19 10 2009
I need your help. I am doing some research for my message this Wednesday and need you to fill in the blank to this sentence:
I WISH MY PARENTS _____________________________________________.
Please indicate your first name and age with your answer.
Thank you so much in advance for helping me out.
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Three New I Am Second Videos
16 10 2009In lieu of tomorrow’s Oklahoma/Texas college football game (that I will be in attendance), I AM SECOND has released three new I AM SECOND videos featuring the starting quarterbacks from each team, Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy.
Enjoy…
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