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Name: brent
Gender: Male
Interests: Mountain biking in Dekalb, Running, Reading, Playing Backgammon & Chess, and Hanging Out With My Family.
Occupation: Consulting
Industry: Hospitality
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Member Since:
11/4/2004
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| I just hang a decorative shelving unit in our powder room that I had been putting off hanging nearly 2 years. The shelf sat on the floor of our laundry for endless months waiting to be hung in its proper place. I even moved into the powder room about a year ago, and there it sat, calling my name out, "Brent, please hang me soon!". But even with it sitting on the floor of our powder room for months, that still didn't motivate me to hang it. Needless to say, everyone in our home is a lot happier now. Of course I have several reasons, and a few of them are actually very legitimate for waiting til now to do it, but the bottom line is, that it is now hung and I can move onto new challenges. Why did I hang it now? Why out of the blue on a Thursday morning did I hang it? One reason. I had brought up the fact that I had not hung this thing to a few people. And I told them to hold me accountable to getting this thing hung by a certain time frame. Well, the time frame came and went, last friday, but enough was enough! I could not put up with it anymore. I had told a few friends about it and asked two of them to hold me to it. And before I would have to embarrassingly admit that I did not complete the task to them, I just buckled down and went for it. Why do we do what we do? I personally believe we do everything because we believe that doing it (whatever it is) will bring us more happiness than not doing it. In this case, I felt that having the shelf hung, and being able to tell my friends I did it, and have my wife enjoy this enhancement to our powder room, and having my kids stop asking me when I was going to take that shelf off of the floor of the laundry room, and buckling down and learning how to hang this thing, and finding the right type/size wall anchors to use(you should have seen how I hung this thing in the last house...oh man...it was not pretty...reminds me of the time I hung a paper towel holder to the wall with velcro...seriously...but that is another story) would all eventually bring me more happiness than putting off this task for another week, month, or even a year. I am happy right now. My family is happy right now. And now, off to my next job...filling out summer project references...yes, I was putting those off too.
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Initially I
wasn’t sure if Charles Logan became a born again Christian, went back to His Judaic
roots, or decided to “Become a Catholic…and Take the Sacraments” (as some of us
have seen Newman Center posters on campus). Then he pulls out that big honking Bible last
week and reads from Psalm 40. The fact
that he had both “Old and New testaments” as some refer to the Bible (be it
appropriately or not) I ruled out his possible returning to Judaic roots. And then last night, he refuses a cigar from the
Russian Consulate saying “I don’t smoke anymore”. Which really makes me think, yes, he is
indeed an official 21st century born again North American evangelical
Christian. Think I am going to call him
and ask him for support!
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| OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHARLES LOGAN!?
Amazing! Looking a bit like a young Fidal Castro, but oh my!!!!!!!!!!!
This just gets better and better!
So glad the daughter in law didn't sneak in and shoot Grandpa, that has been overplayed.
Love the silent slipping away into thin air!
Was that the new Mac iPhone that Jack used to call Logan? Thought that wasn't going to ship til June!?
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| Nine years ago while working at a restaurant as a server. One of Steven Lai's customers left a four spiritual laws on the table along with their check and tip. Steven read it, received Christ, and had his entire life change! He moved to the U.S. and found work here. Then just two months ago he joined the staff of Campus Crusade For Christ and is serving at our world headquarters.
I have been having email problems with my MS Outlook/USCM account. I foolishly tried to send a 351 MB video file to a friend of mine who is helping with an outreach this week at NIU (I zipped the file...come on, wasn't that supposed to help? Well, I find out that video files really don't zip very well. Where is my Tech adviser when I need him?) So...my email completely locks up on me, during this critical week. After a week of having various friends seek to help me, Steven Lai answers my call and gets the work ticket order. He contacted me from HQ and came alongside me to help with my problems. After a about 30 hope filled and painless minutes on the computer, I arise from the technological ashes with a working email account again!
Steven is on the other end of the line coaching me, rejoicing with me "Praise Jesus" were his exact words, as were mine. I was so encouraged by this brother's story. How amazing! I thank God for that restaurant customer who took the step of faith to leave the four laws for Steven. I will certainly re-step up my restaurant evangelism in light of this experience. I mean, why not? Who is it going to harm? Who am I afraid of? Could God not be pleased with such an attempt? And who knows who might come to Christ...And who knows how that person might help others find Christ as well...or at least help them with their computer problems?!
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| Jack Baur shares, to a degree, some incredible qualities that Jesus displays in perfection. He can be trusted. He is completely capable. He should never be lied to. He always comes through. He experiences righteous anger. His methods are not always conventional nor understandable but always prove to be the best for those he cares for. He has undergone unimaginable abuse for the betterment of the world. He is tough. He can dismantle a nuclear bomb in like 2 minutes just six hours after being released from a Chinese prison where he was tortured beyond belief. So why can't the characters of 24 come to understand this about Jack and trust that he is on watch and that in time, he will save world.
One small example from last nights episode... his sister in law. She lied to Jack about the location of Fyad, and look what happened...A perfectly nice blue house blew up and we most likely lost several members of a CTU tac team. Did she really think that she could trust her dead husband's father to keep his word not to kill her son? People who make those kind of threats usually can not be trusted.
People need to get to know know Jack better. And then they will come to trust Jack to do what he does best. Save people!
Oh, if I could just come to trust Jesus more, I would not bring about such pain and turmoil to my own life as well as to the lives of those I love most. May I learn lessons from those who are closest to Jack Baur, and learn from their mistakes. And come to see Jesus for who He really is...Faithful, trustworthy, capable, and so much more!
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