The Prayers of David....

There is a followup here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64Xz9QWb44&feature=related

David - The Power of Prayer

Courage Hangs by a Thread

Theoden: Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end, as to be worthy of remembrance.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Closer we are to Danger...

Pippin: The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. It's the last thing he'll expect.
Merry: Are you mad? We will be caught for sure.
Pippin: Not this time.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Dawn

[to the Orcs]
Saruman: There will be no dawn... for men.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

This is not our war

Treebeard: We Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.
Merry: How can that be your decision?
Treebeard: This is not our war.
Merry: But you're part of this world, aren't you?... You must help... please.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

What Do You Fear?

Aragorn: You have some skill with a blade.
Eowyn: The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain.
Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?
Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
Aragorn: You are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Courage Hangs by a Thread

Theoden: Crops can be re-sown, homes re-built. Within these walls... we will outlast them.
Aragorn: They do not come to destroy Rohan's crops or villages. They come to destroy its people. Down to the last child.
Theoden: What will you have me do? Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Open War

Theoden: I will not risk open war.
Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Look to the East

Gandalf: Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Fear

Frodo: I know what I must do. It's just... I'm afraid to do it.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Into the Wild

Frodo: Where are you taking us?
Aragorn: Into the wild.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Do You Fear the Past?

Arwen: Why do you fear the past? You are Isildur's heir, not Isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.
Aragorn: The same blood flows in my veins. The same weakness.
Arwen: Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Edge of a Knife

Galadriel: The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

A Pity

Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship

Aragorn: If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...
Legolas: ...and you have my bow...
Gimli: ...and my axe.
Boromir: You carry the fate of us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done.

Free Hugs

Free Hugs

Humility

Humility is confidence property placed.

Neil Anderson, Restored

Daily Audio Bible

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Coach Carter

The Call - 07/07/07 Nashville - Daily Audio Bible

Boys to Men

I came to coach basketball players, and you became students. l came to teach boys, and you became men.

Carter, Coach Carter

Our Deepest Fear

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", by Marianne Williamson, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])

• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people."
• The film Akeelah and the Bee includes this quotation without citing its source. Some viewers have inferred that the source is W.E.B. Du Bois. There is a later scene in the movie in which Akeela reads a passage from The Souls of Black Folk written by Du Bois ("He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another”).
• The film Coach Carter includes a variation of this quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Coach Carter

In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter's tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team's behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Finishing What You Start

Jason Lyle: [to Coach Carter as he walks into the gym] Sir, they can cut the chains off the door, but they can't make us play.
Damien Carter: We've decided we're going to finish what you've started, sir.
Worm: Yeah, so leave us be, coach. We've got shit to do, sir.

What's Your Deepest Fear?

Coach Ken Carter: What's your deepest fear?
Worm: Why he keep saying that? What's your deepest fear? What's that mean?

Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Timo Cruz - Coach Carter

Book Review s- Epic

Below are some links to some reviews to the book Epic, by John Eldridge. Not all of them are favorable, but I think they're worth reviewing and taking into consideration.

http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/book-review-epi.php

http://mcdanell99reviews.blogspot.com/2007/11/epic-story-god-is-telling.html

Ransomed Heart Books

Click here to view the books published by ransomed heart, of which Epic is one. There are several books focused toward a general Christian audience, and others focused toward men, women, adults, etc. Epic is a good example of one of the books that fits almost any generation from youth on up, I believe.

Epic Church Curriculum Kit

The gospel has been called the old old story. In Epic, John Eldredge has re-cast the ancient truth of the gospel in a new light. He has captured a freshness and vibrancy in his message that resonates with young and old alike. Using imagery from contemporary film and literature, Eldredge distills the essence of the gospel into a six-part message. Epic is an evangelistic tool that will catch the heart of the searching soul on fire.

Now Epic is available in a Church Curriculum Kit. The resources included in this kit will enable you to use this unique re-telling of the gospel to bring renewal to your congregation. It also can be used to reach your community with the message of redemption.

Epic Church Curriculum Kit contains:

• Epic softcover book
• Epic Study Guide
• Facilitators Guide on CD-ROM
• Quick Start Guide for jumpstarting your church experience
• Youth Facilitators Guide on CD-ROM
• 1 DVD containing two live Epic presentations by John - a 1 Hour Full Length Version and a 38-Minute Version
• 1 DVD containing the Epic Six-Part Curriculum Version
• CD-ROM containing additional marketing materials and fully-reproducible small group materials

Epic

Epic... that's the book on my heart right now for using for these "outings" - if you can call them that. This blog label is here to give me space to jot notes, thoughts, and ideas about the book, as well as quotes and other things I might want to use from it.

Logo

I'm working on a logo for this site. Trying to brainstorm some ideas and them put them together...

• A set of reins
• A leaf
• A compass
• Water
• Bread
• Hearts
• Life

Just some ideas...

The Journey Begins

Well, well, well... my first real post for this site. I don't know where this will go, or if anyone will ever even come across it. If you do, well... this is the beginning. This is the first visible root this place will see, the first piece of the puzzle... and I have absolutely no idea where this is going to go.

And I DO NOT CARE, one little bit. It has to start somewhere.

This site is here, for the moment, for a concept I want to develop, as home base for a passion on my heart, one I want to share with others, and one I need help with from others to make happen. I am not going into this alone. I may start here alone - but there are already several behind me lifting this ministry, my passions, and the direction of this up in prayer. And if you made it here, I guess it did something.

Here is my dream. It may grow. It may change directions. It may totally change. But this is it, NOW.

I am a hunter. I am a hunter of hearts. I love finding fresh hearts, damaged hearts, hurt hearts... hearts much like my own... and seeing them come alive. Seeing them come alive for the first time - yes - but also seeing what may be simply a candlelight have fresh fire breathed upon it into a roaring flame. As someone once put it, I long to help people quit trying to become who the world asks them to be. I want to see them, to help them, to go with them, as they find what makes them come alive, and see them go do that. I believe that the things that make us come alive, when we really get down to it, are things with eternal significance - not things that matter "in the afterlife" - but things that matter now, and will affect us - and others - from now into eternity. This means things like purpose, meaning, destiny... we are each put into this universe with those things, and I think so many of us, myself included for so, so long, simply forgot, or were never told.

I am beginning to experience this fresh flame myself. And it's time to start sharing.

My heart lies in two places right now. First, I love to equip leaders. For me, at the moment, that means playing the role I have in my local church. I have a leadership team of about 8 people I lead, and from those eight people, we lead about 20 other people, who in turn lead about another 100 people. It's small right now... a big stagnant, even a bit rough and hard to figure out from time to time. But I am beginning to see my team come alive in their roles, from leading preschool teachers to captivating adults with new styles of learning... I see visions being formed, lofty goals being set, and it is a thrill to be on this ride.

Secondly, I love the hearts of youth. I love teaching them, love hanging out around them, love seeing them try to figure me out (and doing the same with them). I'm not all that hip on the churchy youth group thing - I can do that, but Sunday Morning Sunday School in the teen room is not so much my thing as a free-for-all Wednesday night when we can just sit back and let our hearts run wild. When we can talk. When we can laugh, when we can maybe even disagree some... but where we can talk about what matters, to us, and to God.

As I see those to places where my heart is at - youth, and leadership - I come to where I am with this site today. I need some comrades. I have some ideas for this, which I'm sure I'll eventually get written out here, that are bigger than me... much, much bigger than me. I could attempt them now, but if I did, I am sure I'd fall flat on my face, and probably give up. But that is not stopping me from starting what I need to do, now.

Here's the short version. If you have ever read anything by John Eldridge, you'll know where a lot of this comes from, but this is what I love, how it's a different story each time. I recently read the short book Epic while on a solo camping trip in an Indiana forest. It's a quick read - easy to do in a few hours, and there's apparently a youth leadership kit that you can get with it as well, complete with plans, DVD's, all that... That is where I think this may start.

• A couple men.
• 2-3 teenage guys.
• A pickup truck.
• A horse trailer.
• Some horses.
• Some adventure ideas.
• Maybe a couple mountain bikes.
• Some navigating stuff.
• Some trust games.
• Some discussion time.
• Some reading time.
• Some quiet time - as in TOTALLY quiet time.
• A teensy bit of sleep
• A campfire.
• Some water.
• Some food.
• Very scant cell phone coverage... maybe.

Get the idea? If you do - and if you'd like to be part of this - in person, or in prayer, please.... email me. Leave feedback here. Do something. I need comrades in this. I want to be a comrade in this. Maybe someone else already is doing this around here and I can add to what they have... fine. But this is where my heart is, where God is taking me, and this is now the first post on a website I've been longing to start for quite a while.