I was on http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com  researching SVO (straight vegetable oil) fuel systems and came across a great quote that i had never read before.  many of you probably have seen it before, but i liked it and thought it worth posting.

"lf ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

--Samuel Adams

flickr.com is where it's at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamfann/   is where you can keep up with me best right now.  I just got a nice camera phone and, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words.  It's just easier to take a quick picture and add a few notes to it than to try to keep a consistently entertaining blog going.  Reading about mine and Terri's impromptu Krispy Kreme date is no where near as exciting as looking at a panoramic picture of the doughnut conveyer belt.

What ever happened to The Refuge?

Someone was asking me about the Refuge tonight.  The Refuge was this thing where we had free shows at the building where The Assembly meets as a church.  The premise was that it was a great way for us to show people love by putting on these free shows, and that seeing people loving people would serve as a sort of example proving that being loved is possible, maybe even being loved by God.  Our thought was that you would realize that God loves you, and then want to love and worship Him in return.

This is what it communicated instead:  This church is representing God.  This church is doing something that makes me happy.  God wants me to be happy.  Worshipping God does not make me happy.  I don't need to worship God, OR I can worship God just through things that make me happy.

If this is what I taught you by being just a friendly, easy going, non-judgmental guy then I am sorry.  Something got miscommunicated along the way.  I need you to forgive me.  I had something more important to share with you, but it got lost in all the rock n roll.  Is there any way to go back and convince you that He is worthy of your worship?  This has been weighing on me a little lately, especially when thinking about The Refuge.

Acts 17:24-31 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,  that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'

Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.  The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."

i'm going to see the smashing pumpkins.  yeah i actually got tickets in the 2 minutes before they all sold out.

Nick Barnes, Nathan Emmert, Chris Mitchel, Adam Fann, Tim Smith, David Wright, and an unnamed other will all be going to see them in Asheville at the Orange Peel Monday July 2.  i'm excited. 

i think i made all A's at Graham Bible College.  i worked for it.  if you've ever had class with me before you know that me working for anything at school is a big change.  well i have changed, and i hope you notice.