Looking forward to our new series this Sunday.
Dominos teach us science, about processes, sequences, and the way things work.
What domino effect is working in your life right now?
Is it knocking you down or pulling you up.
See you Sunday @ 10:00 AM
Prescott First Assembly
1455 Willow Creek rd.
Prescott, Arizona.
Pastor Steve
I have wanted to ride Ragbrai ever since high school.
Well, @ age 53 I think it might just happen….and what I am really excited about is that the ride finishes in my home town of Davenport.
Just wanted to post the route and mileage for this years route
http://ragbrai.com/routemaps/2011-interactive-maps/
GLENWOOD — Saturday, July 23
Population: 5,358
History: 1980, 1984, 1989, 1992, 2003
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ATLANTIC — Sunday, July 24
Population: 7,257
History: 1974, 1980, 1989, 1991, 2001
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CARROLL — Monday, July 25
Population: 10,098
History: 1980, 1988, 1994
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BOONE — Tuesday, July 26
Population: 12,803
History: 1975, 1988, 1998; also a pass-through town three times, last time in 2008
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ALTOONA — Wednesday, July 27
Population: 13,301
History: First time as overnight town; pass-through town in 1973, on inaugural ride
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GRINNELL — Thursday, July 28
Population: 9,105
History: 1976, 1991, 2001
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CORALVILLE — Friday, July 29
Population: 17,269
History: 1995, 2001, 2006
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DAVENPORT — Saturday, July 30
Population: 98,359
History: 1973, 1982
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MILEAGE AND CLIMB
Day 1 — 64.2 miles 4,946 climb
Day 2 — 65.4 miles 4,798 climb
Day 3 — 70.9 miles 1,784 climb
Day 4 — 56.1 miles 1,246 climb
Day 5 — 57.5 miles 3,294 climb
Day 6 — 75.3 miles 2,800 climb
Day 7 — 64.8 miles 2,338 climb
Total — 454.2 miles 21,206 climb
Had a great discussion and conversation with founder Peter Illyn from http://restoringeden.org/ today in Sedona.
just wanted to post a few pics of the pups for January’s entry.
If you want to enlarge the pic just double click it with your mouse.
They are 10 months old this month.
Clark loves the snow.
The pups love running the creeks…but I pay the price when we get home.
I love this pic of Lew.
Bella is eight year old but keeps up just fine.
Lewis flyin through the woods @ 10 months old.
trail332 here in Preskitt – Granite Basin.
Every night after their run they are crashed.
What an amazing and fun month with these guys .
Steve
January 31, 2011
Oh yeah, one more pic before you think Lewis and Clark are angles…
Just saw the movie 127 hours.
127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crushes his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Canyonlands National Park of Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, abseil a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued.
Great movie.
The Story: – April 26, 2003, started as a routine Saturday of climbing for Aron Ralston
Ralston was 150-yards above the final rappel in Bluejohn Canyon. He was maneuvering in a 3-foot wide slot trying to get over the top of a large boulder wedged between the narrow canyon walls. He climbed up the boulder face and it seemed very stable as he stood on top. As he began to climb down the opposite side the perfectly balanced 800-pound rock shifted several feet, pinning his right arm – he was trapped.
Within the first hour after becoming trapped Ralston had calculated his options and came up with four possible solutions.
Someone would happen along and rescue him.
He would be able to chip away at the rock and free his hand.
He would be able to rig up something with the ropes and equipment he had to move the rock.
If all else failed, he would need to sever the arm.
Death was a 5th possibility that Ralston didn’t want to consider.
Lessons learned:
1. Always let someone know where you are going.
2. If possible, don’t go it alone.
3. Make sure you take your Swiss Army knife.
What an amazing story of survival and a prevailing spirit.
Steve
July 24-30, 2011
From river to river this would be the Ragbrai I would love to do because the route finishes in my hometown of Davenport.
Gonna work on the schedule to try and make it happen.
Steve
I am looking forward to our last message in a series called ROAD TRIP this Sunday at Prescott First Assembly.
This Sunday at 10:00 AM we will be looking at the narrow road that is ahead of us.
Unfortunately, Map Quest.com does not provide directions to the narrow road. Only Jesus can provide the necessary directions.
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. – Matthew 7:13,14 NIV
I’m loving the study of Jesus words….They never bore me.
Pastor Steve
Lead Pastor
Prescott First Assembly
The latest edition of BACKPACKER magazine has a very interesting article regarding Evangelicals and the environment.
If you are a Christ follower and an outdoor lover you might what to pick up the March issue and read the “Hike Pray Protest” article.
This movement is resonating with a lot of people who are in the Evangelical ranks.
I was first introduced to the phrase “Thin Places” in Mark Batterson’s Book Wild Goose Chase.
Now I’m reading about it in BACKPACKER magazine.
The early Celtic Christians had a name for places where heaven and earth seem to touch. A place in nature where the spiritual and the natural came together….They called them “thin places.” The place were the wall between you and God more permeable and thinner.
I totally agree with my Celtic forerunners.
Anyway read the article for yourself and see if you have a kindred spirit with the author.
The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it. Genesis 2:15
An Adventure Friendly Shepherd
Steve
http://www.backpacker.com/
http://restoringeden.org/
http://action.restoringeden.org/p/salsa/web/blog/public/?blog_KEY=222
I just wanted to post a few pics of our Dad/Daughter excursion to the desert from last weekend.
One of the best ways to get to where everyone else is NOT is on a mountain bike.
My daughter Natascha had a little window of time so we took off for the desert on the bikes.
Tash on the BCT (Black Canyon Trail).
Mountain biking is fun…but it is more fun with Tash – what a great day.
the “Jumping cholla” .
Our first water crossing on the BCT.
Click the pic with your mouse to get a better view.
Just can’t beat a view like this – What a great trail system right in our back yard.
Steve
I love this quote about the difference between critics and contenders.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
