We watched Everything is Illuminated last night. It’s based on the book by the same title, and tells the story of Jonathan Safran Foer – a young man searching for the family that saved his grandfather during World War II, Alex – a Ukrainian that ends up acting partially as tour guide and translator, and Alex’s grandfather – who is …
ProPresenter Font Choice
Like I said in my previous post I’m tickled to death with ProPresenter for our worship presentation software. There are a couple of features I’d love to see added and I’ll write that up in a future post, but so far the quality of the text and background display has been great. The one problem we’re having is probably …
Christmas Eve @ Schweitzer & Merry Christmas
I hope everybody has a Merry Christmas today. Sarah and I are headed to the farm outside Purdy. Yesterday was a phenomenal day at Schweitzer, but it’s left me very tired. We had five worship services – one yesterday morning, and then four Christmas Eve services. The message last night was about the gift of Christ. My favorite part of …
Switched to GoDaddy
This is the first post within my new hosting environment at GoDaddy. I finally got tired of the headaches with my dedicated server that required it to be power cycled every so often (I know it has a hard drive issue, and I’m suspecting that one of the dimms has gone bad) – since it’s in Columbia it required bugging …
First Sermon @ Schweitzer
Saturday night I got the opportunity to preach my first sermon at Schweitzer. I’ve spoken during worship at a couple of churches in the past, but I don’t know if I would ever have called it preaching. It was a good experience and other than a few technical difficulties I think that it went fairly well. The message will be …
Accepted to Seminary
Just thought I’d update everybody on the seminary application status/process. After a long process getting a transcript from UMKC (I never had a student number there, because I took ONE class in high school) everything got submitted last week. I got notification this morning via email that I’ve been accepted to Asbury Theological Seminary for the spring semester. I’m planning …
The Kirks’ Wine Party
Last night was Steve and Tammy Kirks annual wine tasting party. It’s a great event and one we very much enjoy. Last night was more laid back than in previous years, but it was still quite fun. The concept is very simple. Each person/couple brings a bottle of wine which gets encased in a paper bag with a letter written …
Thanksgiving Smoked Turkey
We had Thanksgiving for my family at our house this year. The dinner consisted of smoked turkey, zucchini casserole, cranberry sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, rolls, and both pumpkin and apple pies for dessert. The turkey got smoked and was delicious. Prior to smoking the bird soaked overnight in a brine made of salt, unfiltered cider, sugar, pepper, …
New Mexico Pulled Pork
Last night the men’s group I’m in at church came over for dinner and to discuss the second half of Integrity. I made a chile rubbed pork shoulder served with beans, tortillas, guacamole, and chile sauce (both green and red). The event used up the last of our frozen stash so I had to order more (which will be here …
Election Night Bloggers Meeting
Went to my first Springfield bloggers meeting in a long time to get my fix of random political conversation. I figured election night would make for an interesting meeting. We started as the polls closed in Springfield and Patton Alley Pub has a TV set to CNN so we can watch results. More updates throughout the evening. Update on the …
Restored from Backup & Future Kerner.net Plans
After a hacking incident I’ve finally gotten around to restoring the weblog from a backup. Not sure exactly what happened, but I know that I used to have a relatively unsecure webdav configuration in place for the web root of this site – it’s gone now. No other security issues found on the machine, and apache logs indicate that the …
Las Vegas!
I got into Vegas last night around 9pm. MAX officially starts today with preconference activities – I’ve got the User Group event this afternoon. Not sure what the plan is for the day, but I don’t have to be anywhere until about 4 pm. I know there’s fasion show mall about a block away, so I can do some shopping. …