.....Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed .....everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as .....head over all. (1 Chronicles 29:13) I remember a few years ago listening to a Crown Financial Ministries radio program and hearing a discussion on ....."What do you hold dear now that you would NOT give up to accomplish a mission given you from God." Shortly thereafter, my fin… Continue

Happy New Year! It's 3:00 a.m. and somewhere in the White House the phone is ringing. Who do you want answering that call? HEY BARRY! IT'S FOR YOU! IT'S STEVENE! Of course by now you know that I am compulsive about injecting humor into any situation. So here's the situation: 1) I'm sitting on my hospital bed getting ready for a third surgery in five days, on my right foot. I believe this is the last debriding of dead or diseased tissue from my worse-off diabetic leg. 2) I'm about two hundred… Continue

Ok, so I thought that I really wouldn’t be using my blog for this, but maybe now is the time. I’ve really tried to stay away from personal rants and the like on here. I dunno, maybe I just think that no one really cares what I have to say. It’s a new year, I have this blog, and I really need to use it-so here goes. Why can’t parents be parents? Sometimes I wonder why I’ve been called into youth ministry. I ask myself and God: “Why? What are you trying to teach me through all of this?” I think… Continue

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This song is my testimony. I remember going to the same places two years after I repented and put my Trust in Jesus Christ. And this song was on my heart and came out of my lips. And because of His Amazing Grace He is still My Life and My Salvation. I hope it would be a blessing to you. In the words of his mama, "He was my only son." In the words of his sister, "He was on the run." In the words of his girl, "How could it end this way?" In the words of his daddy, "Well he never had much to say."… Continue

On Saturday one of our local men's clothing store was having a huge sale. We were particularly interested in the buy one/get one free sale on sport coats and blazers. My most recent purchase, is gettng big, not clownishly big, but loose enough that it looks like I am wearing somone else's blazer. We went in and discovered that I'm just about a 42 regular (American measurements, 42 inches across the shoulder) rather than the 42 pudgy that I had been wearing. Connsonant with our new years emphais… Continue

We celebrated New Years Eve by visiting friends, Ann and Michael, a couple we've know for nearly 20 years. They live a little over an hour from us, so it was convenient to stay overnight at their house. We picked up some Indian food, and Ann was cooking more Indian food when we arrived at their house. Ann is a great cook, and the meatballs she prepared tasted just as authentic as the carryout we provided. After dinner we went down into their basement rec room where Michael had a 52 inch digital… Continue

Lord I pray that You will bless all the members of My Life Ministries in the New Year. Father I pray that You will guide us in the New Year to do Your work with this ministry and that You will inable us to guide others to know You. Lord, Thank You for taking care of all of us and sending Your Son so our many sins could be forgotten. Lord, I thank You for this wonderful group to share in Worship. Father I pray that as we travel around the world doing Your work that You will watch over and Bless o… Continue

A 2007 study[1] purported to find (and show clinically) conversational homeostasis in which overly-familiar people (such as spouses) condense their speech so much that they are actually worse at communicating novel information than strangers are, while not being conscious of this problem. That would explain a lot of things -------------- [1] Keysar, Boaz (2007), "The Effect of Information Overlap on Communication E… Continue

So Wednesday was my day to deliver bread to the food bank. My neighbor Barbara and I met at 9 in the morning to go get it. We went to go around to the back side of Safeway and it was all ice, almost no snow, nust ice. It was snowing and slushy behind the store and you couldn't park at all close. We went and got our first baskets and found that the carts wouldn't roll on the icy stuff and you pretty much had to carry everything to the van. I love doing bread, I love volunteering for the food bank… Continue