Back on the Grind Again

"back on the grind again you know it's been a little while but it's time again"

I know it's been a while since I posted on my blog, not because I haven't been thinking, I just haven't taken the time to put my thoughts together for a blog post.

When I am lacking ambition and creativity, though, I can turn to Lecrae to give me an idea. The title and first line of the post come from his song Jesus Muzik. Pretty sweet and it makes me wanna "ride with my top down listening to some Jesus Muzik."

Here's the video for Jesus Muzik


If you listen carefully to his lyrics you can hear Lecrae rap the gospel...


Check out the Mars Hill website to hear an interview between the pastor of worship and Mars Hill and Lecrae with the focus on lyrical theology in his songs. In his interview he is totally humble and wants his music to be Christocentric and deflect glory to Christ. He is about redeeming hip hop from it's idolatrous nature and even says his music is "almost like your listening to the Bible when you push play..."

Sociology: The Divine Imprint

The Truth Project continues tonight at my apartment at 7pm and we have finished the first half of the study and also the foundation of the structure and now begin putting the roof on.


What does that mean? We will be looking at how the truth of the Gospel and the Christian worldview impact every relationship we have in our lives and also how the nature of the trinity is a model for those relationships.

Here is the promo video for our sociology discussion tonight,

Mammoth with the fam

After spending a few days in Yosemite my family went to Mammoth with a quick stop in the ghost town of Bodie. Mammoth was beautiful and we had a blast hanging out with Aaron and taking in the beautiful mountains and lakes, playing games, watching movies and the Angels.

Here is a shot of a chapel in Bodie, a ghost town that was the largest city in California for a few years before everyone moved out because of the brutal weather and licentious lifestyles there.


The people took off so fast that the inside of buildings was preserved, here is a look inside their schoolhouse.


They had some pretty sweet cars too.


We hiked up to a beautiful cascade,


and lake where we connected with a family that goes to church in Santa Barbara that Aaron had a connection with and they pour into Westmont students there.




Then we went on the most beautiful hike along Rock Creek and saw many lakes, wildflowers, glaciers, cascades, and awesome mountains.




Finally we hiked to Devil's Postpile

and Rainbow Falls (which have sentimental value to me from my Cross Country days at Valley Christian when we would go to Mammoth each summer for our running camp).


All in all an awesome vacation to beautiful places with an amazing family.

Yosemite

Alright, it's been a couple weeks and I've been out of town, but it is time for me to finally update my blog.

Last week I had a great time hanging out with my family in Yosemite and Mammoth, for today you can catch a glimpse of what Yosemite was like.

We were surprised to drive into Yosemite with a dark orange sky at 4pm

The tunnel tree looked awfully ominous

We went to the chapel in Yosemite on Sunday morning, who can argue with a worship service to our Creator God in the middle of Yosemite Valley

Thanks to the encouragement from a certain family, to be left unnamed, we tried to hike up to Sierra Point,

but were climbing up a rockfall

and the view was marred by the smoke

We did make it up to Vernal Falls

with a beautiful rainbow

and Nevada Falls

With the cooler, ask Krista about how glad she was to carry the cooler...

Although we don't have any pictures, we heard from our neighbors that a bear jumped on our bear locker in Housekeeping Camp both nights we were there...