Dear faithful blog reader. Why must I persist to receive comments such as, "Why don't you ever update your blog?" and other such irrelevant questions. I ask you this, is not the pictures on this blog worth continually seeing? Are the past articles written not sufficient enough for your intellectual stimulation that you can not keep reading them over and over and over again? Alas, when one ponders these thoughts, he (or she) must also couple with these thoughts that your most humble servant no longer has internet accessibility (not counting this moment at present). So alas, as long as I am in the land of archaic technology (note that I am not living in Canada), I shall update this blog only VERY periodically and will post a new notice if I am ever to resume weekly entries. Note: Please continue to enjoy the picture posted below of the toothless hockey player.

Thank You

Wedding Pictures

New update! Married life is still cool. O Yeah. To all of you who have tried to check pictures through this link... tough! Just kidding, click on Joel Byer's link and go to October archives.

Like Apologetics?

Have you ever had a friend say to you, “The reason I don’t believe the Bible is true is because it was passed from one person to another. If you keep passing a message along, the story changes. How do I know the Bible hasn’t changed?”

-Here’s the Answer!-
The New Testament was written within 60 (most books within 30) years of the death of Christ. (A.D. 30)

Evidence:
-Copies of the New Testament have been found that date within or close to the first Century. They are available right now!
-Early Church leaders were quoting many of the New Testament books by around 100 A.D. Thus, they had to be in circulation!
-The New Testament writers didn’t know about the destruction of Jerusalem (A.D. 70). Thus they had written the books before!
-According to history, Paul died in the mid-60’s A.D. He is still alive at the end of the book of Acts, and Luke was written some time before that!

Conclusion:
There was no time for myth to grow up about Christ. Keep in mind that the New Testament was written under Roman leaders who would have given anything to prove Christianity wrong. If there had been any error in the New Testament, it would have been exposed. There were still many witnesses around who would have said, “Hey I was there! That’s not what happened!” Also, many of the authors died for what they wrote. Why would they have died for a lie?!
The Bible is True!

See, I knew you would figure out the relation of the picture to the text! Much thanks to Dr. Bird for the material!

Better late than never!

Due to all the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth that has occurred because of this newsless blog, I have finally relented and posted this picture I took Sunday morning while camping. I thought it rather cool.

Camping Weekend

Well I finally found the time to blog! The weekend was really great. It was one of those times where you can leave your watch behind and just relax! It's a beautiful area, but then, I guess any area looks good as long as its in the country. Cincinnati is nice and all, but sometimes it doesn't quite cut the mustard!

And yes since you asked, it was pretty cool to be with Cherie for the weekend. :)

Only three weeks till the wedding!

Emily attempts to fill her water basin. Notice how level she keeps it.

I thought this was a rather cool photo of the woods just beside the camp.

Here's Derek going all the way with the whole country theme.

Here's Morris in full flight in his never ending game of fetch. He's like the Energizer Bunny, he just keeps going, and going, and going...

Wow! ;)

On his second attempt he cleared the tree.

This is the view from the edge of the camping area. There are deer here many mornings.

Here's old faithful. With over 280,000 miles, it's done me rather well in all it's traveling to Michigan. It seems to feel led to travel there quite often.

For living out of a tent, I sure ate well! Here's a shot of Cherie & Bro. Jones cooking chicken. (Hmm., notice Kenny's strong helping hand)

Have I ever shown you a picture of Cherie and I?

The hectic schedule took a toll on us all - especially Morris.

Gone for the Weekend!

I'll be gone for Labor day weekend to go camping with the Jones'. Did I mention Cherie will be there? And no, this picture is not of the spot where we'll go camping, but I'm sure if it was it would be nice.
Au Revoir.

For intellectual stimulation...

This is a poem that was written by one of the teens at the Teen Center where I work. See I had this great idea that whoever could write a poem at least 8 stanzas long would have their name entered to win a free prize. I though it's artistic merit granted it at the very least it's very own blog post. PS, you haven't read it unless you've read it to the very end. I'm telling you this piece of journalism will go far.

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Cheetahs are fast Cheetahs are cool
I wish I had a cheetah To ride to school

They are nice They are awesome
They are better Than an Opossum

They might be nice They might be mean
But they are fast You have seen

They are faster than lightning They are faster than a truck
They are faster than a jet I bet you a buck

The cheetah I would have Would like you
Also it would like Winnie the Pooh

If I had a Cheetah I would name it Lil
I would go shopping for it At Goodwill

The End
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I'd really like to see this poem's true meaning discussed in a college English class. Particularity the whole awesome/opossum line.