who am i kidding?

i just like posting pictures on this thing... it's fun.

so i thought i would put up a picture of my NEW brother-in-law. my sister has been married now three weeks... and i got this thing kind of after her wedding and so i didn't really write anything about it. i will just say that she was a beautiful, beautiful bride, and matt was classy enough to wear an orange shirt on his wedding day! (see? that's why he's let into the family. that and that one time when carrie and i were driving all over spokane picking up stuff before the wedding and matt called to ask about some detail, but then wanted to stay on the phone just to throw around funny banter.)

anyway
i'm sure i've told most of you this already, but the reception food was a PIG ROAST. and let me tell you, i think it was quite possibly the best bbq pork i've ever had in my life... and they didn't even use the sauce that is the boss!! (the other best bbq i've had was that bbq brisket from that one place in that one town in iowa where we stopped on the way back from the onething this year). wow, i just realized how appropriate it is in multiple facets that it's called "the onething."

so yeah. i went to mad city church on sunday after the service here in fort atkinson, and it was the day that they were commissioning the group that is going to plant the new church in milwaukee--"brew city church." and it was awesome because one of the guys is a msoe graduate, and he majored in some sort of physics or something, you could tell, because he was describing the church (in the broader sense) and the fellowship of believers in kind of mechanical terms--terms that made sense in his head. and it was so stinking awesome because he did it with such passion!! totally geeking out. it was AWESOME. you know when you really just get a glimpse of how God reveals Himself to someone using the specific way that their mind works? like how you get a glimpse into someone's relationship with God and the way that He just reveals Himself into the unique heart and mind that He has given them? and then you see them put it into words? (plus i totally just love it when people geek out. and somehow he reminded me of aaron weiss of mewithoutyou.
and then this OTHER guy was explaining the values that God had impressed upon them in this endeavor to plant this church, and holy moly, was this guy a PREACHER. it was awesome. the fire of God was just coming out of his mouth, and the Spirit just filled the room. the FIRE. that's what i long for!
anyway. dereck was at church, too, and i don't know if God put any of the same impressions upon his heart as He did on mine, but either way, it was a wonderful morning.

okay. that was quite the ramble. i pray that the peace of GOD which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. man, God is good.