The Sweetest Frame

Hello Everyone. (These are two of my favorite E-Team Guys Picking and a Grinning) This is just a note to let you know about the summer missions program we are involved with called E-Team. We are working with 8 great teens and learning how to work together. I'll give more details later, but for now I wanted to share the picture gallery over at pennsweb . Enjoy.

How much imagery is too much? Back in the fall Collide Magazine ran an article by Camron Ware , and his work really caught my eye. He uses projectors and lighting to transform auditoriums into different spaces. Some of the scenes are incredible. It's almost as if your walls become a monitor and you just pick whatever desktop wallpaper you want for the occasion. For more examples check out Camron's site at visualworshiper.com or check out his Flickr Feed. You could really run with themes and certain designs for specific messages. I like this idea, and aside from the expense, I wonder if there are any drawbacks to this kind of setup. Would this enhance the purpose of the church, or would it be distracting? I'd like to see this setup in person, but I have a feeling that I would find it appealing. What's your take?

Hat Tip to Kruse for this news... YouveBeenLeftBehind.com . Yep, that's right. A website that will send out emails to your lost friends and family members 6 days after the rapture occurs. So the obvious questions... 1. Why six days? 2. How will they be sent? According to the site... We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system. My question is, What if one of the team members doesn't get raptured and logs in? Do you get your money back? Hmmm...

I appreciate everyone who's been following the blog this year. I just wanted to warn you that things are about to really slow down in June. It's a crazy month for my family, (VBS, Camps, Missions, One Prayer) so there probably won't be many posts. But I hope to be taking lots of pictures and showing them in July. Enjoy your summer...

Lots of good stuff this week. First just a few reminders... I still have a song to giveaway. Check out Captivated . Second, if you haven't seen the video clip of Touching Them All , you've got to check it out. It is the epitome of sportsmanship. Now on to the links... Godin has a good post about playing within the spirit of the game ... Kruse tells us that sometimes self interest is proper . What if Walmart ran the government? Piper shares some tremendous advice from Adoniram Judson... Is August really the new September ? Second best quote of the week: There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good." - Stephen Colbert Best quote of the week: (from Crystal's son) "Hey, one nice sunny day in a row." Ed Stetzer interview Mark Dever . An interesting combination. Russell more tries to move us beyond a Veggie Tales Gospel . (HT: Challies)

Play Ball (Click on the image to see a higher resolution picture) It's that time of year again. I'm not quite up to par yet, but shooting little league baseball is one of my favorite things to do. If I get a chance later in the summer I'll try to build a small gallery, but here's some interesting shots from the first few games of the season... Wind 'er up... Hold the line... Look out below... I bet that guy can really limbo... This one's for your mom... How do they get their arms to do that?

Now here's a name you don't hear much on the playground nowadays... Ittai. (Actually I did find an Israeli violinst named Ittai Shapira .) From today's reading ... 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home. 20 You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.” 21 But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be .” Ittai is willing to serve no matter the consequences. Whether for death or for life, he will serve. Lord, grant me the courage to serve for death or for life.