What is Required to Become a Christian

Message from 11-26-06 at LaOtto Wesleyan Church


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Last ND Home Game

It's hard to believe...but the football season for the ND Fighting Irish is almost over. They played their last home game this past Saturday, and I now have one year under my belt as a stadium usher.

6 games (there were actually 7 but I missed one due to my friend Matt's wedding), 8 alcohol busts, 6 pregame cookies, 1 steak sub, 6 McDonalds breakfast stops, 1 BK Quad Stacker, 1 trip to the pressbox, and many great stories and memories later, the season is done (for me at least).

It was a great experience (thanks to my uncle Dave for getting me in)...I already look forward to next season. It's so great to be a part of the ND experience. I'm still holding out for an ND national championship appearance, although I know it is an extreme long shot...but they don't call it the luck of the irish for nothing.

Even if we don't play for the NC though, I hope that we can at least beat USC (University of Spoiled Children). Go Irish (Go Irish)...Beat Trojans (Beat Trojans).

Joel and Brady Quinn

This is a video of Brady Quinn celebrating with the students after the Notre Dame vs. Army game. Notice my bro-in-law Joel getting a high five from Brady after his last home game at ND!


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Getting In Line With God's Vision

Message from 11-12-06 at LaOtto Wesleyan Church


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This is the most recent sermon I preached at LWC. I will try to post this each week. It will also be posted on the LWC Pastor's Blog. Click HERE for link.

What a great picture!

I will keep my commentary brief and suffice it to say what a great picture in response to the "joke" made by John Kerry last week. Some of you have probably seen it already, but I thought it was too good not to post.

Usher of the Game

Unbelievable! This week at the ND-NC game I was chosen as an Usher of the Game since I tossed three students at the ND-UCLA game for possessing alcohol. I was 1 of only 6 ushers out of over 850 stadium ushers to be recognized as an Usher of the Game this week. As a result of being chosen as an Usher of the Game, I was able to watch the entire game from the press box. Awesome!

Plus, as part of "working" the press box, I was able to enjoy all I could eat hot dogs, pizza, chili, Nelson's chicken, cookies, pop, and hot cocoa. I had a great view of the game, plenty of food, a place to get warm when it got too cold outside, and even got to meet Gerry Faust (former ND football coach). Sorry to the students who were thrown out of the UCLA game for alcohol. Thank you though for getting me Usher of the Game. See pictures below.

View from Media floor of the Press Box (Not a bad view huh?)

View of the band and team running out of tunnel from the Photo Deck

Picture with three other ushers and Coach Gerry Faust

Halftime show featuring ND band and the band Chicago

View of game from Photo Deck

Team and Band gathering in front of my normal section after the game

Good Food...Good Times!

Natalie and I were able to enjoy some great food this past week. Thursday night, thanks to some thoughtful folks at our church, we were able to eat at Takaoka with Aaron and Jenny. It was a great night of rice, veggies, and amazing steak. Our chef did a great job...I think his name was like Qua-Ke-Sur-Pe-Ni-Ku or something. Anyways...it was awesome. See pictures below.

Friday, since Natalie and I both had the day off, we were able to visit one of our favorite places for lunch. Again it was great food. And since it is our little secret, I won't tell you where...but trust me it was good!

Halloween at Home

For the first time in a long time, Natalie and I were able to enjoy a night at home without any major projects to finish. For the past several weeks we have either been out and about visiting my grandma in the hospital, doing life with people, working and going to school, or we have been at home working on all the projects we needed to finish in order to get our house ready to sell.

Finally though, last night it felt like we were able to settle down for a moment...and it was great. We watched some TV at home and gave out candy to the kids who were Trick Or Treating. It's so nice to spend some time with each other relaxing at home.

It was also fun last night to see all the costumes. We even dressed our dogs up in the costumes Natalie's mom bought for them a few years ago. Thanks to the Stones as well for bringing the girls by! We were so lucky to have both a princess ballerina AND Dora the Explorer in our house last night!