VoD 6/30/08, Spiritual Warfare, and more

Ephesians 6: 16-18

16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

I believe that this is the verse that Danny was addressing in small groups training last night! Awesome verse. I also absolutely loved small groups training. It's really funny how

God gives you confirmation through others that have absolutely no knowledge of where you are at and what is going on! My Mom on the other hand does and not even 2 weeks ago her and I were talking about spritual warfare and how Satan is going to do everything in his power to make you not want to do small groups..so far he isn't convincing me! It is also funny that we talked about that last night because I have been being attacked by Satan, he has been making me feel insignifigant and like a failure alot lately and I know it's not true but there is doubt when he comes and pushes and pushes at you. I am as of today surrendering that to God! God and prayer and my shield of faith that God will deliver me from satan and will restore my confidence in His plan and path for me! He has already presented me with an awesome job offer (which is one of the things that satan has been making me feel insecure about!).

For those of you who missed the Football game!

This picture was taken like a second before I recover that loose ball, how she didn't get a shot of me falling on it or my celebration...i'll never know!

Here are some other Various pics with me in the standing around watching the plays develop!

Verse of the day 6-26-08

Exodus 9:16

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Verse of the day 6-25-08

Psalm 25:4-6

4 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;
5 guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

2 Years WOW! Congrats to the wife for putting up with me this long!

This is my absolute favorite picture of the two of us! I had this picture blown up and gave this to Diana for Christmas. The past two years have flown by and yes we have been through plenty of ups and downs but with God our downs seem so small and petty now. It has been an awesome experience witnessing Diana's hunger to grow in the Lord and I cannot wait to see what more comes of it in the next few years! She definately was a blessing from God at a time when I needed her most and even before we were married she has been there by my side through some rough obstacles and some very tough life altering decisions. I cherish her more than she will ever know and along with God she holds the keys to my heart!

A big huge thank you to my Mom (who I couldn't find a picture of from the wedding on this stupid computer), as well as Tom (Diana's dad) and Lynn (Diana's Mom) and especially Dave and Robin Hinman, They helped as much as anyone to make our day a special day and Dave only moments before we strolled out to the altar told me and I quote "Now is the time to run". He was only kidding and referring to the past October when I had postponed our wedding at the last moment. But they made it an awesome day!

Well I overcame the biggest obstacle in our marriage getting my wife to watch football, while she doesn't look very enthusiastic in the picture she should be the Buckeyes beat the crap out of Michigan for the 4th straight year. Oh btw the final was 14-3 Buckeyes.

She usually get so aggravated with me for making funny faces while people are taking pictures but sometimes it is fun to aggravate her! Love ya honey.

Wow a fun day at Kings Island, we have had a few of them the last couple of months and lucky for you guys we got pictures of me not in the waterpark, me with a shirt off is not a pretty sight!