Catching up...

Just some pics to catch up over Christmas...The first picture is of my grandparents dog Tiny. He is 17, blind, deaf, and a few months ago was ran over by a car...hes still movin' though! The second picture is of Peggiford (Mom) Sarah's mom had to be on here with a crazy face because I put my mom on here too! Third, that is the Jellison Family Christmas 2005 edition including the tradition of Carrom, my finger still hurts...the last one is a picture of our "brand new" tabel. That line is a CRACK that goes through the table! Needless to say that we are going to be recieving a new one soon...but my oh my, the work it took to get that one up the stairs!

Christmas was wonderful... God truly has given me a great family


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Great news...

We found out yesterday that:

1. We are going to get a dog! A full bred Boston Terrier who is 1 year old and his name is Lex...he will look somewhat like this one.



2. We should be getting our furniture this week, so HOORAY!!!


I hope you have a great day and that you are in the Christmas spirit! It' hard to believe that it is Christmas already huh?


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Busy Weekend!!!

What a whirlwind of a weekend! First, it was to Elwood for Christmas with Jack's girls and us boys...that was fun and I got whipped in poker...then Saturday (see pictures below) we had the Christian Christmas and that was awesome as always. Then Sunday we were back up here for church and a little "wrapping" of the kids! I love my life and I love my family! Merry Christmas and sorry mom, but I had to put that picture on here!

The 1st Christmas Weekend

This is the first Christmas weekend with Christmas tonight at Mom's with The Wallaces, Johnsons, Millers?, Jellisons and Bess'...that was a mouthful...then tomorrow is the Christian Family Christmas in Celina, Ohio! Fun stuff...always a good time of the year...the drive might be fun though but like the United States Postal Service, nothing will stop us from having Christmas!!!

Have a great weekend and be safe....I had to change the stupid sign today too!




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Christmas time is definitely here...

This Christmas is different than any other Christmas I've ever had...with being married and all, having to plan for more stuff and having a youth conference a couple days after Christmas is definitely making things crazy...but we are adjusting and getting used to being married. Still, sometimes these are the faces that you would see if you were around us for very long...


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What's the difference?

I am studying world religions for the theme for January and a thought has creeped into my mind. Growing up in the conservative, Bible Belt of the Midwest, I have come to realize that I dont know much about "other" religions that I have not been around. While the Bible teaches us that we are to reject false teachings, it also tells us to be aware of them. Yet today I think that we really arent aware or educated enough to tell someone much more than the description of the hem of any other religion other than our own. Do you know what this makes us look like? Bigots and ignorant separatists. God did not call us to just be the light of the world...which shines a light hoping that someone somewhere sometime will come into the light and find Jesus...nor did he call us to just be salt which, other than seasoning, does nothing more than stall spoiling. We are to be leaven in the world...being a part, being relavent to the culture who we are trying to reach. Once we are relavent, then we can purposefully let God's grace flow through us to transform people of those religions that we know little to nothing about...



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13 days until Christmas...

Well, I received an early Christmas present on Saturday with Indiana beating Kentucky by 26!!! This is the beginning of a busy end of December...there are only a few days without something to do...between now and January 1st here is a list of what I have to do...

• 6 Christmas things...that is crazy huh?
• the normal church stuff: 2 Young Adult meetings, 1 Youth meeting, 3 sundays, a Christmas party...etc etc etc
• We are getting our furniture which means that we have to get rid of our other furniture
• I have to finish getting the $ from people for LOGOS5 which is December 28-31
• Prepare a sermon for January 1st
• Finish buying presents...
• Finish trying to help Sarah get the house put together
• and much more...

Sounds like fun huh?


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big game...

I can't even remember the last time that Indiana beat Kentucky...seriously! So heres hoping that this ends a frustrating week in Jellytown...Go Hoosiers!!!

Still...

It is still snowing...

Snowing in Plymouth

Boy, oh boy! It is coming down good today...hope things are good in your neck of the woods...





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Yes and God doesnt need you...

First off, Yes…I believe that Mother Theresa went to heaven. If we want to dissect the whole works saves thing it will come back to bite us in the butt. For most Christians I knew growing up lived life just like MT…they thought that you had to “do” stuff or not do stuff to be holy or without sin etc etc etc… the Bible says that faith without works is dead so works without faith are no good either…I believe that MT had faith that Jesus had forgiven her of her sins…enough said




Casting Crowns newest Cd was playing in my car yesterday and I heard a powerful song. The chorus goes…“its refreshing to know that you don’t need me and how amazing to find that you want me”. Sometimes we get a messed up view of who God is and how he feels about us…many times it felt as though God were Barney Fife, just waiting for me to do something that he could arrest me for. So today, know that God wants you to have the most abundant life in Him. Does that mean that everything will work out the way that you want it or that you will get everything you want? Of course not. Does that mean that we won’t lose loved ones? No. God has the best planned for us…the best in his eyes not ours…his ways not our ways…



Be blessed and bless others.

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6 degrees, Christmas lights and heaven or hell

Man, I love the cold and everything that it brings...but this is cold. It is like in the single digits! I have a couple of things on my mind this morning...I woke up at about 6 and one of those crazy morning shows was on and they had a fire marshall on there talking about decorating safely this year...he said that you should check your lights and make sure that you use indoor/outdoor lights outside and not indoor lights outside...so here's my question...why would they put indoor/outdoor lights and not just multi-purpose lights on the box? Is there something other than indoor/outdoor use that I am not aware of? Just wondering...


Keith Drury in his column today asked a great question for us "Evangelical Holiness" people...Did Mother Theresa go to heaven or hell? It has made me thing about how I view salvation and how we view it as a church and denomination and how I was taught when I was young. Growing up this wouldnt have even been a question that came up. She was Roman Catholic and we didn't really believe that they went to heaven. So fancy me a few lines today about this. We are saved by Christ's life, death and resurrection. We have been given salvation by grace through faith...it is a gift. Jesus said that the only way to heaven and to the father is through Him. We believe in a thing called prevenient grace which is the grace that God extends to all so that we might come into contact with him and turn to him. So...did Mother Theresa go to heaven or hell...I will tell you tomorrow after some of you post something...
http://www.drurywriting.com/keith/mother.teresa.hell.htm

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recent pics...

That is Sarah and our 1st Christmas Tree!!! Yeah for the Jellison's!

The other picture is of some of my teens in a Madrigal Dinner at their high school last week.

Great times....great times

Good Monday Morning...

Yesterday was a busy and good day...I preached in the A.M. service and then gave the message to the youth in the P.M. So it was a busy day...but good.

The morning service was a rough one for me. The topic was about the church and how we needed to not be so worried about how the service is going or how the programs of the church are going as much as we need to focus on taking what we are all here for (to praise the one who forgave us of our sins) to the world outside of these walls. It was a hard, hard, hard sermon to preach. Half way through it was like preaching to a wall, not that the people were turning me off, rather that it was rough for me to get through what I felt like we needed to hear. Anyways, it is over and done with so what can ya do?



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A December to remember...

I can hardly believe that it is December already...things are going really well...Monday, Sarah and I went and ordered our furniture...a RED sectional sofa with a chaise on the end...a large fluffy chair that I fell in love with in like .032 seconds with matching ottoman...and we got our black pub dining table that seats 8! God deserves all of the praise because He has blessed Sarah and I beyond anything we could ask for...people have asked us what we need and the answer is truly nothing! God is amazing and it is so great how he supplies every need.

In young adults this week, a couple of comments were made about me and what I meant to some people and it really caught me off guard. I guess our perception of how things are going and how they really are going sometimes is pretty far apart.




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