As I am writing.....

Just thought I would let you know that as I am writing this blog.......I have three teens who are looking over my shoulder and telling me to write something. So I am!

Top 5 Youth Road Stops:

1. Whataburger coming back from Bandina (Just Like you Like it!!)

2. Jumbo Buccees on I-10 (A 30 minute stop that should take only 15 minutes!)

3. I-Hop at Kerrville (Singing Cumpleanos y tu to Mr. Welch!)

4. Flat tires on the side of the road! You know what I'm talking about.

5. Subway (Elevation 6,000) all eating in the Colorado mountains! Oh yeah!!


If you have any more stops that you think are better, write in.......

BB

Dogpile

How many times have you been dogpiled? Or better yet how many times have you been the beginning of a dogpile on someone else? And I am not talking about the picture to the left, I mean a human dogpile. Do you even remember what it feels like to be under that much weight at the bottom or even close to the bottom? You have so many people on top of you that you can barely breath or feeling that your head is about to pop from all the blood rushing to your head?

Have you ever been dogpiled with all the weight of this world? You felt as if your under so much pressure that if one more thing would happen then you would lose your mind? Jesus felt this way when he was in Gethsemane. In Matthew 26:38, Jesus says to Peter, James and John, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death." Can you imagine how exhausted and horrible he felt as he is saying this? He said he is feeling so much sorrow to the "point of death". I have had some bad days and weeks, maybe even months, but not so bad where I have said that the sorrow is overwhelming me so much to the point of death. Jesus was dogpiled way beyond our understanding. He was dogpiled by the sin that people commit. All the pressure was from you and me being selfish in our own little world. This was so much pressure on Jesus that he says twice, "Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me." Jesus being human wanted all that pressure relieved. He wanted all the sins off his shoulders.

But Jesus says to His Father right after this, "Yet not as I will, but as you will." Jesus knew that there was no other way for us to have a relationship with His Father, than for Him to bear the sins of the world and be dogpiled. Thanks to Jesus that we have Him who willingly laid himself down at the bottom of the dogpile.

Next time you are joking around with your friends and trying to dogpile each other, stop afterward and take a little time and remember who took on the ultimate dogpile.

Live it,

BB

North bound I-45

I have a story to tell. I was travelling on I 45 just outside of Dickinson, listening to my radio, enjoying the highway scenery (yeah right!), when all of a sudden my truck engine quits. Yes I mean on I-45 travelling in interstate traffic. The traffic is not bad at all. I am going 65 or 70 mph when the engine quits and I just coast. Can't do a thing to my truck except to make my way to an exit and slowly.....yes very slowly coast to the side of the road on I-45 access road. I stop and try to figure what going on, but can't find anything wrong. I move my battery cables around......everything I knew to do I did, and nothing worked.

So there I am sitting on the access road of I-45.....windows rolled down......nice smell of car exhaust rushing through my windows. I am loving this. I am trying to get home so I can eat a quick bite and go to 1055 (youth bible study), so as I am sitting there I decide to try the engine again.....IT STARTS!! Oh yeah back in business....but I stay on the access road with windows rolled down still going about 50 mph. And I get onto FM 517 and I am just hoping the engine will not die again. So I get about 7 miles outside town and it dies. Not in business anymore. But the road does not have a shoulder to pull over on, but it does have a turning lane. So I coast onto the middle turning lane and just sit there. I call Erica and tell her whats up. I let the host of 1055 know I won't make it tonight. I call for a wrecker to come and pick us up because I sit for 30 -45 minutes and still it does not start. No bueno! Wrecker comes and picks the truck up and takes it to a car shop in town. I let the car shop owner I brought it to his place. The truck is being worked on today. Mechanic said it was a gas line processor? Something like that? He said it is a computer chip in the gas line to the engine that tells the gas pump to do its job.

I bet most of you are thinking that I will come up with some way to make a point from this story, but I am not. I probably will later! That's it.

Live it,
BB

This video is from SND with Pearland Youth Group.

We played a game and it involved some "craftiness" on my part. Thanks to all who were involved and thanks to PYG for allowing us to fellowship with them.

"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ." Ephesians 4:14-15

Live it,

BB