May 24

Twitter updates for the week of 2009-05-24

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May 18

Words of my Heart

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Just this morning as I was spending time in the Psalms, God brought back to mind a few things I heard in a testimonies at the Watermark Baptism Service yesterday. As I listened to the story of a young man, who was escaping the pain and real pain of his parents divorce by spending hours at the local library as a child… reading everything he could, raised by Buddhist parents.  Then he found a Bible there, and opened it for the first time.

“I opened the Bible to Psalms, and the cries of David to God were the very words that my heart had been trying to say”

One of the things that I love about the Psalms is the brutal honesty of the writers.  When they cry out to God, there is no holding back.  When they praise God, there is no holding back.  They speak the words that sometimes go unsaid in our own hearts.

As I remember back to a time in my own life where my heart had run out of words, I remember reading through Psalm 40

“I waited patiently for the LORD;  he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock  and gave me a firm place to stand.  He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD”

For those many dark months, I waited for deliverence from my own poor choices.  At the end of my rope… a broken, unusable, cracked vessel.  For years I had tried to be everything to everyone.  I had invested countless hours trying to make it on my own power.  For the first time, I understood the words of 2nd Corinthians 4:7: ” But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show us that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”

Through those months, the words from Psalms were the “words that my heart had been trying to say.”  God is faithful, and today “Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you;  were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare”

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May 17

Twitter updates for the week of 2009-05-17

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  • @mattarmstrong man if I wasn’t grilling for my kids dinner right now I would be SO up for a cold one with you. in reply to mattarmstrong #
  • Recap: Watermark Baptism Service http://post.ly/ZoL #
  • http://twitpic.com/5dg5t – Party continues. #
  • http://twitpic.com/5d67k – Beautiful. Baptism. Life change. #
  • http://twitpic.com/5d64n – Beautiful. Baptism. Life change. #
  • http://twitpic.com/5d4ed – Lots of folks enjoying the beautiful weather for the watermark baptism. #
  • Looks like the weather is going to be great for the Watermark Baptism Party (er… Service) tomorrow. Join us. http://tinyurl.com/wmdip #
  • Great time with the IT ministry team at Watermark this morning. And a good lunch at JG’s as well. #
  • Crazy day tomorrow. Watermark IT Brainstorming w/ volunteers, then bday party, then community group kids cookout @ our house, then collapse. #
  • @gtaogwebmin use irc.freenode.net as the server setting, and then use #citrt as the room name. That should be all you need for colloquy. in reply to gtaogwebmin #
  • Mary, Mary, quite contrary… http://post.ly/YfG #
  • http://twitpic.com/58uyi – Yep. Must be Friday. #
  • @robwthomas Peggy Sue BBQ in Snyder Plaza? in reply to robwthomas #
  • RT @rhowell: Free Coldplay Live Album LRLRL http://tinyurl.com/qakgkk (via @wesbutler) – This would explain our network slowdown. =) #
  • @LesBrown Stravinsky is dead, and now so it Pontiac… seeing a trend here. in reply to LesBrown #
  • The finale from Stravinsky’s Firebird is so powerful. I had forgotten how great until hearing this morning. just WOW. http://bit.ly/DDvdR #
  • Headed off for the staff “Ask a Geek” session starting at noon. #
  • @jeffhook great job this morning with your keynote. Keep pressing your team to take things to the next level. #
  • Why are we investing in the RESTful API? Because that’s the world we are living in. These guys GET integration. #DC09 #
  • Watching #DC09. Fellowship Tech really knows how to put on a conference. They have some amazing stuff coming down the pike… #
  • The fact that I’m able to get tweets coming in from outer space (literally) from @Astro_Mike is one of the coolest things ever. #
  • “Ask a Geek” brown bag lunch today. Sure we will get lots of random technology questions. #
  • @JasonPowell @kemmeyer you should know it is good by the copious amounts of food consumed when he comes to Texas,or how his pants fit after. in reply to JasonPowell #
  • If you haven’t read “The Reason Your Church Must Twitter” by @anthonycoppedge, then you really should. Great for explaining to church staff. #
  • Out of the office this afternoon trying to get some stuff done. “Ask a Geek” session tomorrow for staff. Lots of talk about Twitter. #
  • @therealjshiflet Thanks for the reminder… I will add that post today. in reply to therealjshiflet #
  • Great stuff coming from EQL for Vsphere4. Advanced multipathing, storage aware load balancing, 10gb scalability. #
  • Equallogic fail. Listening to an online training but the link they set up with webex doesn’t work. Dell fails again? #
  • A little ice cream treat for her first lost tooth. http://post.ly/X8L #
  • RT @darylhunter Retweet this if you disagree with Twitter’s decision to hide replies to people you don’t follow #fixreplies #twitterfail #
  • @cyberentomology sounds like NBC is have an “original idea recession” in reply to cyberentomology #
  • @LesBrown I know… but something tells me that people who are following 6000 people probably aren’t going to see my tweets… or read them in reply to LesBrown #
  • My firstborn just lost her first tooth. She is so thrilled about it and so cute. Wow… where did the time go. #
  • Dear @twitter, please kill whatever caused a zillion Internet marketing people from Germany to follow me today. K? Thks bye. #
  • seems like every social media/networking knucklehead in the world has decided to follow me in the last 24 hours. Must stop the madness. #
  • Oldest daughter has her first loose tooth. What’s the going rate for a tooth these days? Tooth fairy needs to know. #
  • RT @thoward: Social media should be an augmentation strategy, not a replacement strategy – NAILED IT. (via @giovanni) #
  • anyone put together a presentation to staff about twitter they’d be willing to share? #
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May 17

Recap: Watermark Baptism Service

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Today was absolutely perfect. We got to celebrate countless numbers of lives changed by Christ through the expression of baptism. Even though we were prepared with rain in the forecast, we awoke to a perfect cool and sunny day with highs in the low 70s. I got to personally hear the stories of individuals who have been rescued from abuse, alcohol, insecurities, Buddhism… all now in love with Jesus. Awesome stuff.

After the baptisms, we celebrated with a cookout (five thousand pieces of meat was the number I heard), bounce houses, snow cones, volleyball, etc. I’ve always believed the early church celebrated baptism as a big deal. Today was a celebration like it ought to be when we see lives changed.

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May 15

Mary, Mary, quite contrary…

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Finally got around to getting everything planted this past week. I don’t have much of a green thumb, but there is something very theraputic about digging for earthworms with little girls and putting down some roots. Hopefully now we can keeps these plants alive through the brutal Texas summer.

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