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Posted by genepensiero on October 10th, 2008 in bibling, check it out, deep thoughts, plug

i think a GREAT idea for a masters/doctoral thesis @ a seminary (shiver!) or Bible college would be to create a really good map/chart/timeline set.

i mean a REALLY good one. like, take each book of the Bible and have a set of maps and charts and timelines and genealogies for each one. then at the end of each book you could have your nice thick maps and measures that give reference to the prophet’s journey or the judge’s conquest. you’d be able to see just how far it is from Cana to Capernaum without having to look at “Judea in Jesus’ day.”

you could even grid the map with verse references from each book or at least glossaritize the set at the end of the project.

obviously there would be some gaps, but i’m so tired of only having the “1st, 2nd and 3rd Missionary Journeys of Paul Through Asia” in the back of my Bible.

i know there are talented people out there and i know all of us would benefit from a set like this.

who’s with me?

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Posted by genepensiero on October 9th, 2008 in in general

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thursday has been great thus far.

kelly is back, thus my marathon is over.

the thing about marathons is that the guy who ran the first one died. right after he finished running. it’s a fact i like to remind kelly of every once and a while when she heads out to exercise whilst i sit and compute.

today i start a new little discipleship group with a few young guitar players @ church. i am very excited.

all this week i’ve been working on the transition from calvaryhanford.com 2.0 to calvaryhanford.com 3.0. it hasn’t left much time for blogging.

tonight, dinner with my folks.

tomorrow, the sky is the limit.

thanks for reading.

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Posted by genepensiero on October 8th, 2008 in nonsense, video

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sorry about the ad at the beginning. lame.

kristen wiig, you are very funny.

HT - mr. munoz

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Posted by genepensiero on October 7th, 2008 in ministry, positive post tuesday

it’s tuesday.

today’s positive post is for new mexico.

well, not really. but it IS for some ladies from that fine, deserty, turquoised state.

i haven’t met them and i don’t know their names. but this tuesday is for them.

as yesterday’s post indicated, kelly is @ a pastor’s wives’ conference. at said conference she has 4 roommates from churches in new mexico who have made her feel quite comfortable and welcome as a first-timer.

so, thanks new mexico ladies. you encouraged and blessed me by encouraging and blessing my wife.

be positive!

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Posted by genepensiero on October 6th, 2008 in in general, studio updates

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today starts my very first marathon.

no, not in running. i hate running. it is worse than dysentery.

today starts my very first multi-day-and-night separation from my wife since we’ve been married (i think).

kelly’s headed down to calvary chapel’s pastor’s wives’ conference (there are way too many apostraphes in that sentence), which leaves me on my own till wednesday evening.

so, today i’ll be working.

then recording.

then sleeping.

and that’s it.

maybe i’ll do a JIEtv event for one of you to tune into…we’ll see.

what are you doing today?

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Posted by genepensiero on October 5th, 2008 in blogging, what has your blog been saying

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it’s sunday.

what has your blog been saying?

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Posted by genepensiero on October 3rd, 2008 in ministry, moments in ministry

i’m a little bit anti-social.

but, i am actively trying to be better at introducing myself, meeting new people and being generally more friendly while living life.

i’m doing so because i think it’s a better way to do things and because i believe it will help me in sharing my faith, especially with what we might call evangelism-cold-calls.

being at disneyland this week taught me something about this new pursuit of mine. specifically, it gave me a new technique to use when appropriate.

up top you see a picture of a phone.

the lg dare to be specific.

i know that it’s the lg dare because i read technology blogs and happen to pay attention to things like new phones and new laptops and the like.

while standing in the line for Space Mountain i noticed that the fellow behind me was toying with his lg dare. then i realized that i almost always take note of the phones i see people using. and after realizing that i decided that it might, for me, be an easy way to make a new friend while in queue for 10 minutes.

so i gave it a go.

“is that the lg dare?”

and i made a friend. not for life, just for the duration of the line.

as i thought about that interaction, which was pretty new and ground-breaking for my personality, i learned that God can use all sorts of things to give us an opportunity to talk to even the most blatant of strangers. He can use my ‘knowledge’ of cell phone models to start a casual conversation and then He can direct it thenceforth.

i’m excited about that, because most of the time the hardest thing for me is that opening line. i just don’t naturally understand how to get a foot in the door. but, the line for Space Mountain was the place God showed me that He can take what i’m already equipped with and use it for His desires.

what about you? not into phones? that’s ok. maybe you know about cars. perhaps theme-park-ride-lines aren’t your spot. maybe parking lots are.

the point is we all have knowledge built in, little areas of ‘expertise’ that could be helpful in beginning a conversation. and God can use those little, seemingly inconsequential thoughts to carry the Gospel to someone in need.

i’m pretty excited about that.

and will be looking for more phones in the future.

blessings

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Posted by genepensiero on September 30th, 2008 in in general

we’re still at disneyland and we’re enjoying our time. i know i haven’t been the trip-blogging-all-star-trip-blogger that you may have hoped for (i haven’t even been twittering very well), but kelly and i are really, really, really enjoying our time together at the park.

wish you were here! although, if you were it would seriously impede our foot-speed through the attractions…so…disregard.

not wanting to leave you with a static page, here are a few things i learned from tuesday in disneyland and california adventure:

1.   toy story mania is amazing. it is, to borrow a terrible, lame and uninspired phrase, OFF-THE-CHAIN! i want to become a hobo on katella avenue so that i can ride it over and over again.

2.   one of the jungle cruise boats is named the ‘ucayali una.’ which was pretty fun since kelly and i have actually been on the ucayali river. we felt special.

3.   star tours still makes me violently ill. this time also coupled with hiccups.

4.   i hate, hate, hate hiccups.

5.   when vacationing @ disneyland, even grown-ups need naps. or, if not naps in the official sense, naps in the go-back-to-the-hotel-and-crash-with-some-discovery-channel sense. so valuable.

6.   america is overweight and heavily tattooed.

7.   dads with sleeveless shirts are gross. yes, that is harsh. yes, it is a generalization. yes it is an opinion. and, yes, it’s true.

so, there you have it. just a sprinkling of items we learned about in our adventures.

what did you learn today?

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Posted by genepensiero on September 29th, 2008 in in general

happy monday from the happiest place on earth.

yep, the mrs. and i are at the magical kingdom for a few days. chances are, you are not here with us, but if you were, all i have to say is it’s time for breakfast.

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Posted by genepensiero on September 28th, 2008 in blogging, what has your blog been saying

it’s sunday.

what has your blog been saying?

go here and find out.

then come back and link us to it in the comments.

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