This is The Kind of Blogger I Wana Be When I Grow Up!!

Anne Jackson, Author, Blogger, Speaker, Bad Driver

This Lady is My Favorite Blogger! She totally Inspires me! She is the Kind of Woman/Blogger I wanna be when I grow up!

Not only is She an Amazing Blogger, She's a published author as well!  She has written a book called:

Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic ( Published in January of 2009 by Zondervan)

She Also has a New Book coming out in August that I Cant WAIT to read. Its called: 

Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace 


This Book is from a Question she asked on her Blog " What is the one thing you feel you cant say in church" and the resulting hundreds of  answers she had gotten from that one question.

I found her Blog thru a mutual friend and started reading & I love It!. She never fails to  make me think & challenge me Spiritually.

She  is so totally open and transparent, her blog challenges me to step up to the plate & Strive to as open and transparent as She is! To be all God has called me to be!

Ichthus Fort Wayne

Ichthus Fort Wayne

This is Something Amazing!! I am so looking forward to taking my kids to this Concert!!!



 Check this Video out!! I am sure I will be posting more on this in days to come!!!

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1 Corinthians 13:7 MSG - YouVersion.com: Online Bible

1 Corinthians 13:1-7 MSG - YouVersion.com: Online Bible

This is my Favorite Online Bible. The You Version.      



Probably because not only is it an Online Bible, but, It has an App for Just about every Smart-phone there is!
so you can use this handy little app wherever you need a Bible.  it also has a Feature that I totally LOVE, you can Share Verses with Twitter and now for the Blackberry, you can Share Verses on your Facebook page!



But, anyway, your probably wondering why I have a Particular Verse attached to it.
This Verse has been Speaking LOUDLY to me over the Past week.

You know how you can read a verse of scripture and you think "yeah, that's nice" one time & then you can come back to that same verse, and WOW! It totally comes alive!

Almost Kinda like God Saying " Did you really catch what I am trying to tell you?" and we don't see it
& then the next time, WHOA! There it is!

I dont know about you but, MAN, I think to myself WOW! that was there This Whole time!!! What a Gift!

Its like finding money in a coat or a Pair of Jeans that you didn't know you had, or perhaps, you forgot you had.
Here's This Verse, it has been Speaking VOLUMES to me from the Message:

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

4 Love never gives up. 

Love cares more for others than for self. 

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. 

Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,

5 Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

6 Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

7 Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end

Wow! That's Powerful! Especially in light of the Fact that THIS is how God Wants us to live our Lives! 

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Warehouse Lake Retreat 2010

Here it is!

I Said I would Post details about the Lake Retreat! We had such an AWESOME, AMAZING time!


The Students had a Crazy time, Learned about our Crazy God that Loves Us with a Crazy Love, and Learned about having a deeper, closer walk with Him.

Lake Wawasee

This is The Yacht We Went on our Cruise around the Lake on. The House in the Background is Where we stayed

Another View from the Yacht!

2 of my Fellow Leaders Enjoying the Cruise! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                         

There Was LOTS of Water Fun to be had!  there was tubing, they were able to have Jet-ski rides, as well as there was a small boat they were able to ride themselves!

My youngest Daughter having a Good time in the Water mouse!

Warehouse Students Getting Ready for Some Great Teaching and Worship!

Life Bridge Student Ministries

Life Bridge Student Ministries

This is The Warehouse, The Youth Ministry of LifeBridge Church.

I can honestly say that Being a Youth Leader in this Youth Group is one of my favorite things.

The Warehouse is Led by an awesome couple. Their Names are Aaron & Cecily Jackson & they Totally have a Gift & and a Heart for Youth! As a Parent I am SO Blessed to have them to speak into my kids lives!

The Warehouse is all about equipping Students to be passionate followers Christ.

I really enjoy serving along side the Youth Pastor, and the other Leaders, whether or not we having a crazy time, or Serving others Its all the same!

                                                           These Picture are From one of the Service projects that  I have been Involved in with the Students.                                     

We sorted the Donated Cans of food that the Mail carriers picked up for the local Food Bank.










Tommorrow, We are Going to Have Some Fun & Ministry for 3 days. We will be going up to Lake Wawasee for some Fun in the Sun and Crazy times, and some Deep time in the Word!

Of course I am going! So I will Be Sure to take Lots of pictures so I can show all the Fun that was Had!