Saturday, February 12, 2011

Great Quote

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing -when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors -when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you-when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, page 413



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Friday, February 04, 2011

Happy birthday darling

Nothing says I love you like Rigatoni "D" !!!



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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Create... Be creative

God is a creator, not an imitator. The most God-like thing you can do is create. Write songs, think of new things, create new iPhone apps!!! LOL New ideals should flow from the Church, no need to copy. The God of this world wants to steal your creativity, do not let him.

God told me this as I watched a girl sing a song she had wrote in church this morn.

I pray for new ideals to flow from me for the Church.


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Sturbucks @ Church

I love church and I love coffee. This is a good place to be!!


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Monday, January 24, 2011

Great argument.....Pro Gun

I cannot attest to who wrote this or where it comes from. Fact is, it is still a great argument for guns.




"The Gun Is Civilization!" Interesting take and one you don't hear much.

As the Supreme Court hears arguments for and against the Chicago, IL Gun Ban, I offer you another stellar example of a letter (written by a Marine) that places the proper perspective on what a gun means to a civilized society.

Read this eloquent and profound letter and pay close attention to the last paragraph of the letter....


"The Gun Is Civilization"
by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid.. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.
Thank You


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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Gillette, the worst a church can get...

One summer morning in 1895, an ambitious traveling salesman found that the edge of his straight razor had dulled. King Gillette later said that the idea for an entirely new kind of razor, with a disposable blade, flashed into his mind as he looked in irritation at his dull blade. King Gillette had been searching for the right product, one that had to be used--and replaced--regularly, around which to build a business. His innovation in shaving technology was just such a product. Another safety razor, the Star, was already on the market at the time but, like the straight razor it was meant to replace, its blade needed stropping before each use and eventually had to be professionally honed. Gillette envisioned an inexpensive, double-edged blade that could be clamped over a handle, used until it was dull, and then discarded.
Gillette spent the next six years trying to perfect his safety razor. Scientists and toolmakers he consulted were pessimistic, and thought the idea impractical. Gillette, 40 years old at the time and a successful salesman, inventor, and writer, did not give up. In 1901 he joined forces with William Nickerson, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated machinist. Nickerson developed production processes to make Gillette's idea a reality, while Gillette formed the American Safety Razor Company to raise the estimated $5,000 they needed to begin manufacturing the razor. Gillette became president of the company and head of a three-man directorate. Production of the razor began early in 1903.
The renamed Gillette Safety Razor Company began advertising its product in October 1903, with the first ad appearing in Systems Magazine. The company sold 51 razor sets at $5 each and an additional 168 blades--originally at 20 for $1--that first year.
In 1904 Gillette received a patent on the safety razor; sales rose to 90,884 razors and 123,648 blades that year.

Old man billeted had a great ideal that changed the way shaving had been done for a very long time. It worked great for shaving, however it does not work very well when applied to the church.

Churches need a straight razor for a pastor not a disposable razor.

It is my opinion that the most healthy churches in the world have staff members with the longest tenures. When I left college/bible school I was ready to go and minister as a staff pastor wherever God chose for me. I had full intentions of staying at every church I ministered at for a very long time. I had a philosophy that if I could not go somewhere and stay for 10 years or longer that I would not go at all. Yet, somehow the longest tenure I had at any church was just shy of 2 1/2 years. Why did my family and those churches have to go through the pain of separation when we had worked so hard getting to know each other so that we could minister to our community? I can't believe that is the model that is set for us as a healthy church.


I do not think I need to draw the picture of sheep knowing the voice of their Shepard or how a church body is a family. People want to hear a word from God from someone they trust. Someone that has struggled, laughed, and cried with them. They trust someone who has married them and buried their loved ones, someone who has built a life with them.

As I set in church this morning I listen to a pastor that has pastored these people for 34 years.

Churches do not need deposable pastors, they need pastors that for all intents and purposes are permanent. It is a rare thing to find a pastor that has been at the same church for 10 to 15 years. Support pastors make it even less! How does a pastor become part of a church family in just 2 or even 5 years? How does an "outsider" lead a group of people effectively?

I pray that this changes in the churches in America.



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I am mad at blog press

I just made a post and lost everything!!!


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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Guard your heart

I been thinking about my heart and true motivations.

Also, i have been thinking about the hearts of other people.
Exhibit A: Some people do good things but are all dead on the inside and think bad things and live good but do it not from the heart out of sincerity.
Exhibit B: Other people I know do things they should not, and have problems that some folks look down upon. However, these people are the ones I would have come by and help when my car is broke down or are more likely to spot me 10 bucks for lunch and never even want it back. These kind of people have what we all like to say "a good heart".

What was it about David that made him a man after Gods own heart?

Guard your heart above all else,
for it determines the course of your life. Proverbs

Do you think mean stuff about people? Are you convicted as soon as you do? Do you have a good heart?

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart. Luke 6:45

Your heart can trick you. You must know your heart. Ask yourself the hard questions.

God knows your heart. He knows it better than you do. Exercise having a good heart! How do you do that? Listen to that small voice that says "that was not nice" or "you really should say this or do that". Pay attention, listen, Gods Holy Spirit will guide you in all truth. He will not trick you like your own heart will. He will not never lie to you.

Here is my prayer today!!!

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts. Psalms 139: 23



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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sunday, November 21, 2010

My heart is melted

Yesterday on the way to Phoenix Josiah and I picked him out some rocks it was a great experience for me. He loves them. We got them out counted them arranged them by color and he gave me one of them back (a small blue one).

Today I dropped him off at his class at church. He went in and he turned and ran back out where I was. I thought he was leaving and did not want to stay but he graves my around the waist hugged me then his mother and ran back in. I almost cried right there. His love for me shows me so much. Thank you God for the blessing of my little boy. I know you love me every time I look at him.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

I want to be like Him!

I remember almost every morning waking up to the sound of my parents calling on the name of God. I don't mean loud is Godly, but I do know they were not praying to be heard! They were calling on the name of God to help them and protect me. They wanted me and my brother to serve God, but they also knew that the choice had to be made by me and my brother.

I have made my choice. I choose to serve God with all my heart. I love him and look for ways to serve him better. I need his wisdom and guidance and really need his blessing. I claim the favor that I once had. Used to be, everything I touched turned to Gold. The last few years have been a huge struggle.

The greatest gift God has given me on earth besides the gift of his son is my wife! She has always stood by me and I can't describe how lucky I feel having a woman like that by my side. My children are a gift from God and I treasure them. I want them to see me as a stable Godly man that is like a rock! I pray for God to give them favor, and they don't need anything else besides that!

God's boy

Monday, March 15, 2010

Our Money system is Based on debt. Debt is sin

And Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said:

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Just Curious

I am wondering how many people out there still come by here on occasion? I have not been very active on here but that will change a little as time goes on. Drop me an email.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Quote by Me

There are those that can see something way in advance and we call those people prophets.
There are those who can see something before it happens, and we call those people wise men.
Then there are those that can see something while is it happening, we call those people visionaries.
Then, there are those that that could not see it until after it happened, we call those people fools.
Finally, there are those that could not see it at all, we call those people politicians.

Kris Barger

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Sitting at SCC. Augusta GA

They are going multi site. Awesome. I would love to be a part. I pray God opens a door for us soon. He has to make the stars align like only he can. I think I am ready. Kris

Sunday, January 11, 2009

missing jewel of worship........

Just wondering if you are still out there and if you have the courage to step up. I still have what you wrote in Feb of '06.

i am on a journey

I remember when i used to have a bunch of readers on this. Things have changed. I don't ever know if I will be on staff at a church again. Trying to find a guy you can trust to work for and knows what he wants is hard. This journey has had some crazy turns in it, I am glad the destination has not changed. The best things are the relationships I have made too bad they are all over the place. Kris

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Paradigms

Busted Paradigms
The stock market is where you need to be for the long term.
Just use an Index Fund.
Housing always goes up.
Get as much house as you can afford.
Just put that on the Home Equity Loan.
Big gas hog vehicles.
McMansions.
Flip this house.

Paradigms Bloated and Soon to Bust
Just toss it out, it’s cheaper to buy a new one.
Just get a divorce.
I can’t move back in with Mom and Dad.
I can’t move in with my kids and burden them.
I thought money markets were safe.
You can always trust cash.
At least I can use my credit card if things get bad.
Gold, what’s that?
Don’t worry, Washington will fix it.
Driving habits, eg., people driving to and from work with no riders.
High Paid athletes.
Pro Sports.
The Pro Sports revenue model itself.
Obesity everywhere.
Food TV.
I eat what I want, when I want.
If you don’t like it, just toss it.
Undecided majors in college.
College affordability/high priced schools.
Just charge it.
My job is safe.
Our country can fight a war anywhere, anytime.
Just Bail em out.
Retail Consumerism.
Vacations.

NEW Paradigms to come
Understanding money and economic basics.
You cannot trust Wall Street (well underway)
Political scrutiny from the people.
I talk with my congressman at least once a month.
Taking an interest and getting involved in Government.
Caring about your Government.
Anger/frustration about the state of the nation.
The dollar is not worth very much.
Gold is where you want to be or should have been.
Prices are going up all the time (underway)
Shortages of food, gasoline, etc.
Spend the dollar quick before the price of that item goes even higher.
I never eat fast food.
Eating out is a luxury.
Wasting food is a no-no.
Making homemade bread.
Frugal is in.
Bling is out.
Owning a home is not smart.
Renting is the way to go.
No, we don’t have cable TV.
Small Local newspapers make a comeback.
Who can afford college?
I am lucky and blessed to be employed.
Going to church/temple is good to do for many reasons.
Gardening. (well underway)
Saving money in a safe medium.
3 meals a day, snacks anytime — those were the good old days.
Save the money first, then buy it.
We cannot afford to keep troops all over the globe.
It’s hard to get a credit card.
Yes, I know my neighbors, don’t you know yours?
Able to make basic plumbing and electrical repairs.
Going to the library.
Mechanical knowledge is very handy.
At least baseball is cheap again.