Arizona, outdoors

No Stress Address – Mount Humphrey

Saturday afternoon Caleb and I headed up to Mount Humphrey for an afternoon hike.

I just wanted to post some of the pics of this beautiful place.

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Interesting factoid. The South Rim of the Grand Canyon is 72 miles away from Mount Humphrey.

At the top, Caleb told me “as you are snow boarding down the slope you can actually see the Canyon” –

This is another NO STRESS ADDRESS. 🙂

Arizona, Bikes, family, Mountain biking, outdoors

The Best Parts Of Parenting

Proverbs 22:6 confirms what I was feeling on my most recent mountain bike ride with my daughter.

” Point your kids in the right direction— when they’re old they won’t be lost.”

There is just something amazing about being able to be 50 plus and still have a great relationship with you adult children.

Yesterday in the late afternoon I managed to squeeze in some time for a pre sunset mountain bike ride with Natascha my amazingly focused and goal oriented daughter.

Really, I might say she squeezed in the time.

Anyway, as I looked behind me to watch her flying over babyheads and cleaning some “non average terrian” I thought about Proverbs 22:6 and how I have watched Tash find her own way along lifes path without getting lost.

Man, the rewards of parenting for the long haul just keep getting better.

Here are some pics of my reward as well as hers.

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Helmet heads having a blast in this life! 🙂

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If you are parenting here is a qoute from one of my heros Pastor Bill Wilson of Metro Church in NY city.

“It’s easier to build boys and girls than it is to repair men and women.”

And just a note to self : It is a lot funner too.

Ministry

I Can’t See God – Part two

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Here is a outline for part two this weekends message called “I Can’t See God.”

I am going to look at how Christianity in America is so closely related to T-Ball in America.

As well, we will revisit the story of the old testemant body builder Samson – should be fun 🙂

I CAN’T SEE GOD BECAUSE I’M IN THE WAY

Pastor Steve Lummer

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If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed. Proverbs 29:18 ( message)

He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; Ecclesiastes 3:11 (niv)

The Promise and the Paradox

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly John 10:9,10

T-BALL CHRISTIANITY

1. QUIT the Christian life.

2. KEEP FAILING at the Christian Life

3. FAKE the Christian life.

ARE YOU LIKE SAMSON….JUST NOT AS BUFF?

And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times Judges 13:25 (kjv)

Then she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” When he woke up, he thought, “I will do as before and shake myself free.” But he didn’t realize the Lord had left him. Judges 16:20

Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison. Judges 16:21 (nkjv)

1. HE LOST HIS POWER.

2. HE LOST HIS VISION.

3. LIFE FOR HIM WAS A GRIND.

With the World Series wrapping up this past week I thought I would wrap up the message in a section call – “How To Catch A Glimpse of God”.