The goal of the gospel is that, loving the Lord Jesus with the first love, we would pour out upon Him what is most precious to us, even our most costly and valuable spiritual treasure, "wasting" ourselves upon Him.

I received my Full-Time Training in Anaheim acceptance letter yesterday by email ( Read more... )

Before visiting my family for the holidays this week, I took an inventory of all of my Prismacolor Premier colored pencils.

I scored a chart of the 132-pencil product line during a local art supply store caper, on which chart I circled the pencils I already possess.


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Majestic musical scores. Mysterious and imaginative imagery. Deeper message or purpose compared to most of today's animation.


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Today I visited our First Fridays art walk. Every seco...I mean first friday of the month, streets are closed downtown to house an open-air market where foods, arts, crafts and other goods and services are sold from many rented booths. (I think this time, though, our Friday is part of a weekend-long event called the "40th Anniversary Fall Festival ( Read more... )

Exhibit A: My nephew Seth inside of a pumpkin.


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Here is Irenaeus (c. 2nd century-202 AD) highlighting the ridiculousness and trifling sophistry of renowned Gnostic teachers who manufactured extravagant and hopelessly esoteric litanies of metaphysical entities and assigned to them arbitrary names of their own invention, then pitched their own alternate version of arbitrary nomenclature as true ( Read more... )

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Got a new cell phone today and then saw WALL•E with Ryan, Kristian, Dale and Seth.

Wish my cell phone would say "WA~~~LL-E" whenever I open it.

Tim and Jimmy moved in 95% of their stuff today. Tim enlisted John Hartke and an army of YP to help. Giovanni will move out on Sunday or Monday ( Read more... )