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Q Chew 11

May 27, 2008 9:38 am by Paul Jenkins in Quotes

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried.
- J. R. Miller


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It’s not what you think

May 21, 2008 9:04 pm by Paul Jenkins in Audio, Funny videos

Okay, I know everyone and their brother has seen this a gazillion times. I just put it there as a frame of reference for the rest of this entry. Apparantly, she also had to get some car repair work done recently, too. I cannot believe that anyone would do what is in this next clip. I almost wet myself.

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Walking on water

May 19, 2008 8:28 pm by Paul Jenkins in Random pictures

Water on water

Thankfully, this boat racer survived the crash. If he hadn’t, I probably couldn’t have used this picture and still slept at night. You can read the story here.


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Sweat Bees and armpits

May 14, 2008 3:24 pm by Paul Jenkins in Evotions

Proverbs 6:27
Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

I love this time of the year, mainly because I’m a real big transition guy. I love the transitional seasons because they aren’t too hot or cold and there’s always this “change is in the air” feeling (literally). Sweat beeAnyway, today has been exceptionally nice, and so after lunch Sydney and I stole a few moments in the hammock outside reading books and playing with the new kittens. If nothing had happened beyond that, it’s pretty close to a perfect afternoon, well, except for the kittens because I’m not as big on cats as I am on transitional seasons. Thankfully, though, our time got even better, thanks to a sweat bee and the wonderful way the 5 year old mind works.

At some point after the second book and before Sydney got down to push me and the kittens, I dozed off until Sydney woke me up talking about a bug by my foot. I looked down and saw it hovering near my big toe and I told her that it was just a sweat bee. That got her attention, because she followed it up with a question about why it was called a sweat bee and was it because they made people sweat. Sometimes, the questions alone are enough to crack me up! I told her no, they don’t make you sweat, but they do like sweat (specifically, the salt in the sweat, but that would open a whole new can of questions, so I went the simple route).

After I had successfully swatted at the bee with my feet until it was gone, Sydney moved her hands from behind her head to her side, and I asked her if she was comfortable. “Yes,” she told me. “I’m just closing my armpits in case that sweat bee tries to get in them.”


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Books are dropped off

May 10, 2008 12:01 pm by Paul Jenkins in Evangelism, Evotions, Resources, That Youth Thing

I just got back from the parking lot of a vacant Piggly Wiggly in Irmo, South Carolina (which is near Columbia – home of the Fighting Gamecocks). That was the designated “drop” for a meeting that has been in the works for a couple of months now between me and the Royal Rangers of South Carolina.

Big shout out to Michael Keese, the director for the S.C. Assembly of God Royal Ranger program, for making it work to get my book, God is My Air Traffic Controller, into the hands of 250 young men at their district PowWow this year.

Michael is an air traffic controller and has been using his training and experiences to train young men about how God leads us in our faith and so he knew that my book would be a perfect companion for his teaching and their theme for this year which is, as you probably guessed, “God is my Air Traffic Controller.” How cool is that?

Thanks, also, to the Assembly of God’s Light for the Lost program which saw the potential in Michael’s idea and came through with the funding for it. If you’re the head of a district Royal Ranger program and would be interested in doing what Michael did, contact me and I’ll gladly share how you can not only get some great devotional material to your boys, but also get funding for it and potentially raise funds for your RR program. It’s your basic win-win-win situation.


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