follow me.

fisher of men.

follower.

friend.

miracle seer.

good intentions.

i’ll never deny you.

yes you will.

Jesus arrested.

ear severed in anger.

expectations unfulfilled.

emptiness.

denial.

Denial.

DENIAL.

the look.

deep despair.

Jesus.

crucified.

dead.

entombed.

gone?

hardly.

bewilderment.

alive?

uh-oh.

what?

beach.

fish.

fire.

do you love me?

yes.

feed my sheep.

do you Love me?

Yes.

feed my lambs.

do you LOVE me?

YES.

take care of my sheep.

FOLLOW ME.

(photo courtesy of drouu)

You won’t be seeing any more  Twitter summary blog posts on Twitter,  Facebook or in my main RSS feed anymore.

At one point I thought it’d be good to have summaries of all of my tweets on my blog.  Yeah, now it’s just noise.

You’re welcome.

(photo courtesy of mmagellan)

h/t @joshuawhite

• I want to be flexible and not stubborn, stiff-necked and stuck in my ways.
• I want to have the courage to say “I don’t know” and then earnestly seek understanding and knowledge.
• I want to be an encouragement, not someone who sucks the life and passion out of people.
• I want to be excited about the exercise of God-given passion and creativity.
• I want to listen, hear and understand what people are saying to me not just nod my head and then write it off.
• I want to be genuine and honest. I want people to know the real me not just my public face.
• I want to care about people with my actions not just my words.
• I want to measure people not with numbers and statistics but with the discernment of the Holy Spirit.
• I want to be approachable and friendly, taking time out for people even when it interrupts my to-do list.
• I want to speak the truth in love, not just speak the truth.
• I want to give people good, solid reasons to trust me.
• I want to let other people take the credit for something awesome.

So, how about you?

image courtesy of sxc.hu

I was thinking this morning about the importance of remembering.

I’m terrible at it, but it is so important.  (Check that.  Reality is this: I remember what I dwell on.)

How many times in the Bible were things established for the sole purpose of remembering what God had done?

God’s words to the Israelites after Passover, altars erected after a mighty acts of deliverance by God, the words of Jesus at the last supper with his disciples, the thief on the cross next to Jesus, etc.

I take lots of notes when I’m trying to learn something new.  The sole purpose is to remember what I’m learning.

Lord, help me choose to think back and remember the important things.

these guys are absolutely insane.  love it.