Apr 30 2012

Another update

Friday Night’s Revolution at RMC went off rather well. There were some excellent graffiti artists there that made some amazing works of art in under an hour. The cipher contest was fun to watch. No way I could come up with stuff off the top of my head like that.

I ended up using my old 8mm camera along with my Canon Rebel to capture over 52 GB of video. Going through all of that to make a promotional video is going to be fun. Now I want to buy a new digital video camera and some professional audio recording stuff so I can take better video.

If you like violin music I found an artist that you have to check out.  Lindsey Stirling rocks on her violin while dancing.  It is pretty impressive.  Check out her youtube page.  Especially the Lord of the Rings medley and the Skyrim song.

Something that God has brought to my mind lately is how when we are not living the way we know we should, completely sold out for God fully denying ourselves and just being consumed by Him, is simply because we do not love God enough.  It is not a matter of us not working hard enough for it.  Once our heart is on fire for God then we do not need to “try” to do anything, we will just want to deny ourselves and serve God. 

So if you are not living the way you should, pray and get to know God more.  Examine your spiritual life and make sure you have a relationship with God in the first place, and then pray that God will ignite your heart for Him and make Him the love of your life, your treasure.

Anyway, I’m off to go listen to some more Lindsey Stirling and get started on the Revolution video.  (You should check out those links by the way.)

Later!

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Apr 28 2012

I need to come up with a new domain name instead of jonzenor.com. Any ideas? Going to use it for …

I need to come up with a new domain name instead of jonzenor.com. Any ideas? Going to use it for all my sites except ETM.

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Apr 23 2012

No missions trip, I procrastinated :(

I was looking forward to going on the Mexico missions trip with my church, but I waited too long to decide for sure and get the money in. Now the deadline is past.

Oh well… There is always next year.  I do need to hurry go ahead and get my passport though.

But, I found out today that there is an Israel study tour coming up next year… That one will be pretty costly, but it would be an awesome trip to go on. Should I try for it?

In other news, one of my sisters is going through a really bad breakup right now, so if you could please keep her in your prayers, for the heart ache.  Also pray that both of my twin sisters start to follow God first in their lives.  I’m tired of watching them get involved in relationships or things of this world I know will just lead to heart ache again and again.  There really is so much joy found in Christ and such a freedom from the bondage of sin.

Beyond that there really is not anything much going on right now.  School started 2 weeks ago so I am spending much of my time on that, as well as trying to spend more time writing.

Next Friday is the Revolution event from RMC, where kids are getting together for a rap contest, graffiti contest, a Hip Hop concert, and of course the gospel.  This is aimed at being an outreach ministry trying to draw in unsaved kids and share the gospel with them.  I will be playing the part of the photographer at this event.

I really enjoy still photography more than video, but video is a lot more exciting for others to watch, so I will likely be doing mostly video.  I may even break out my old 8mm video camera and get someone to help me out with running different cameras.  If I can find anywhere that sells 8mm video tapes anymore.

That is about it for anything worth mentioning.

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Apr 10 2012

I cannot wait for school to be over with!Tonight was the first night of class for this semester…..

I cannot wait for school to be over with!

Tonight was the first night of class for this semester… This class shouldn’t be too hard (Computer assisted statistics, aka Excel Spreadsheets) but not sure about my other classes this semester. This is my first semester taking a full course load.

Only 6 more semesters to go.. or 66 weeks.

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Apr 9 2012

A wonderful weekend celebrating 8 years of marriage

This weekend was mine and Danae’s 8th anniversary.  We had a pretty good anniversary.  Malikai and I went out for burgers Sunday afternoon where I taught him how to eat peanuts and then we grilled up steak for dinner.

I found a recipe for some type of orange sauce to go with the steak and lamb chops, so I tried it.  And it actually came out kind of good, which is surprising since I was the one who cooked it.

It has been a great 8 years of marriage, and I pray the next 8 + will go even better.

Saturday was a pretty lazy day. I did some cleaning but for the most part I just dug into the book “Erasing Hell” by Francis Chan.  Good book. Expect a review on ETM soon.

Along with reading that book I have been listening to a few sermons that pretty much all boil down to really putting God first in your life.  I feel like we have heard these words so many times before that we have become a bit numb to them and I am trying to break free from that.

Why haven’t I been putting God first in my life? Isn’t He worth it?  Of course He is!

Anyway, so that’s my struggle right now, which means you will be hearing my thoughts about it from ETM articles coming up.

In geek news I think I found a viable Google Wave alternative since Google shut down the service.  This one is called Rizzoma.  I have been messing with it today and now I can’t wait to get home so I can use their Chrome extension to import all of my Google Wave waves to Rizzoma.  So if you are a wave fan check it out.  I am trying to put together a kind of exploration guide here: http://rizzoma.com/topic/d0ae9905e76469d62cf3aa6b6054c389/

Oh yeah, on Easter morning I woke Malikai up and then realized I completely forgot to do anything “eastery” this year.  No baskets of candy, no colored eggs to find.  It was weird, but then I thought “Is that what Easter is really about?” Does it matter at all that we did not do any of that stuff?

Easter is not about bunnies and eggs and chocolate.  It is about the gospel, what Jesus did.  Those traditions are fun to do, but they are not what Easter is about.  So I think in the future we will do some of the traditions, just not on Easter Sunday.  Let’s keep Easter to a focus on Christ and leave the egg hunts to another day.

So yeah… that was a lot of topics to cover in one post.  Any comments?

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Apr 6 2012

You know you have an awesome wife when you can come home after something bad happens that makes y…

You know you have an awesome wife when you can come home after something bad happens that makes you feel down and seeing her makes you know that this day is awesome regardless of what else happens.

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