We Shine

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It's electric!

This past weekend I left town to play music near Carlinville, IL for a weekend senior high youth gathering at Lake Williamson retreat center. As you can see, mom and the girls took off to have some fun. As it turns out, the Magic House in St. Louis is quite the electrifying experience!

At the Shameless Youth Conference, Dr. Micah Parker's theme was "Shameless" focusing on Romans 1:16

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." - ESV

Dr. Micah Parker did a terrific job. His story is amazing, especially his push through adversity. He also performed a pretty hilarious George Carlin (more like anti-carlin) routine. Did I mention that Saturday night he gave a straight up in your face sex talk to youth? I thought it was very bold, needed, and right on.

I was inspired to turn my devotional time to the book of Romans. I'm going to read a chapter a day and write down some thoughts. Then I'm going to use some outside resources (study guides) to study the book more in depth. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'll begin posting some thoughts on this blog soon after I finish my paper on the major christological controversies of the early church.

Magic House and a wild park

Today the girls went to the Magic House and to a park that had elk, bison and deer. We went with Justin, Trina, Eli and Claire. Brylee and Eli thought the trip was great and we are all worn out. I had to hold Brylee off and she fell asleep at 10! Woot! The animal park was a drive through thing and it was pretty impressive, too. I didn't know we had something like that nearby-and free too!

Plus-my brother treated us to Red Lobster and then I bought him Starbucks. Rounded the trip out with some Father's Day shopping. Lets just say by then- the kids were ready to go home.