Friday, April 19, 2013
My New Favorite Website
The site has several special groups for encouragement and memorizing passages of scripture. You can pick your version of preference for memorizing. They even have cards you can print out for help in learning verses.
The program begins with you entering the verse or passage you want to concentrate on learning. You type the scripture passage out while looking at the verse. That's the "Type-It" phase. Then you move to the "Memorize-It" phase. This is where some words of the verse are missing from the copy you will type from. You can even switch which words that are hidden from your view so you get a well-rounded practice round. When you feel like you have memorized the verse you can move to the "Master-It" Phase. You type the verse. If you need a hint, you can click a button that will give you a three word hint. To truly have mastered a verse you will have to type it in a certain amount of time with no hints. Once you've mastered a verse you will get reminders about reviewing the verse to keep it fresh in your mind.
The program gives several memory tips as well. I recommend reading them and following them for optimal success.
This summer my son will be participating in the National Bible Bee. (well, he'll be doing the Bible study and learning the verse, but I don't think he'll be competing) I plan on learning the verses with him. He's an auditory learner and memorization comes very easy to him. I, however, will be using Scripture Typer to keep up with the memory work.
Quinoa Salad
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Word of God
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Happy Anniversary...25 years and counting...
Mickey and I met when my dad took the interim pastor position at Freedom Baptist Church. My dad became the full time pastor the summer before our freshman year. Mickey and I were in the same homeroom class. However, sparks did not fly with us until our junior year of high school. The rest, as they say, is history.
First and foremost we are thankful to Jesus Christ and His ultimate example of mercy and grace. We are also thankful to our parents (Homer & Glenna Knipp and Charles & Garnet Jayne) for providing solid marriages as an example of love and commitment that spans decades.
Over the years, the Lord provided other specific people in our lives who influenced us. They may not have known it at the time, but we still reflect on certain events and even things we remember them saying that shaped the way we live our lives today. That shaped the way we have looked at marriage and raised our children.
We are thankful that before marriage, and at every duty station couples took us under their wing (whether that was their intention or not) and encouraged us along.
On the eve of our 25th wedding anniversary we will give tribute to you publicly via the blog world and say those two words that don't seem adequate enough to express how we feel about you, but here goes, "thank you!"
Scott and Rhonda: (Our youth leaders) You were around before there were many official "youth pastors". Your home was always open to us. Wise counsel and fun times could always be found at your home. You were also an excellent example of commitment. Turtle soup, a good pie crust, and orange crush still remind us of you.
Clarke and Judy: When we came to Nebraska, I (Mary Ann) didn't even know the difference between an officer and an enlisted troop. You guided us and gave us confidence. You also exemplified the importance of raising your kids in church even when they were little. I'll never forget Judy saying, "I don't want my kids to ever ask 'Are we going to church?'"
Bill and Jean : A family for us away from our own. Holidays and birthdays were always so much more fun with you in our lives. It has been a blessing to see you raise your kids and now a joy to watch you with your grandchildren.
Lin and Maribeth: Bondage Breaker, importance of doctrine, & sola scriptura. You were always an example of reaching out and inclusion. Our lives will never be the same because of you two and your fantastic children.
Melvin "Bishop" and Shirley: You knew us at two different points in our lives and were different things to us. Not only a pastor and wife, but friends or second parents as we lived so far away from our own parents. We were challenged and loved by you.
We hope we can be the kind of influence to others that you have been in our lives. May God's love continue to fill you-- as we know you are still blessing the lives of others. Thank you for your love and support.
Mickey and Mary Ann
Friday, July 27, 2012
Goals 2012
1. Study through Romans and James
2. Exercise more
3. Read more (fiction and non-fiction)
We are over half way through the year and I'm good on two out of the three objectives. I will begin my study in James next week. I completed Romans and also got through 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John; I'm currently studying Philemon.
Exercise...well, that is something that has been severely lacking but today I will do some sort of exercise. : D
On the reading front, I've read several books this year. Gospel by J.D. Greear was a great read. I've also picked up several Beverly Lewis books which continue to whet my appetite with my fascination of the Amish life. I also finished Robert Whitlow's Water's Edge. I'm a huge Whitlow fan. This book is definitely in my top three favorite Whitlow's books. The first two being The Trial and Jimmy. Another read that I started but have paused on is Jerry Jenkin's Riven . This is a book that I hope to go through before the end of the summer. So many people have recommended it to me and from what I've read about what Jerry Jenkins himself has said about this work being sort of the "book of his life:, I'm excited to read it.
This is a book I'm putting on my list for next year John MacArthur's Counseling.
What were your goals for the new year? Have you completed any goals? Are you still working on the goals you set for yourself in January? While I'm basically failing at the second of my three goals, now is the time to pick up myself by the boot straps and say, "Hey, the year is not over and it is much better to exercise and succeed with half a year's worth of fitness than to waste the next six months waiting for a new year to roll around!" So, here we go...
Thursday, July 26, 2012
A poem
That princes and kings,
And clowns that caper
In sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
And a book of rules'
And each must make,
Ere life is flown,
A stumbling-block
Or a stepping-stone.
R.E. Sharpe
I Will Glory in My Redeemer
Once I heard a pastor say that he wouldn't have certain songs in his church's worship service because he didn't feel the words were truthful for today's culture.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Update
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Valentine Dinner
On Friday evening, we had a pleasant time at the Valentine Dinner for the Young Married's Class at our church. We are grateful that even though we are not young and have been married almost twice as long as some of the couples in the class, that they welcome us into their fellowship. :-)
Thanks to all the hard work our Sunday School class teachers did in planning and decorating. The cooks prepared marvelous food. The servers waited on us so graciously. The clean up committee did a fabulous job! A fun night was had by all. :-)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
I'm going green
I wouldn't say I'm really going green, but one small effort.....
Monday, January 31, 2011
FINISHED!
Monday, January 24, 2011
A Baby Coocoon
Friday, January 14, 2011
Checking In.
Revelation series: I'm behind on listening to the Revelation messages from Mamre Baptist Church. There is something wrong with the volume on either their end or my end and so I'm not able to just listen to them while sitting at my computer. I'll have to put them on my MP3 player and listen so I can get the volume loud enough for me to understand. So, I need to work on that one.
Crafts: Crochet projects are on target and maybe soon I will be able to post a few pics. We'll see....
Did any of you make any goals/resolutions for 2011? Are you staying on track? Are you giving yourself time to evaluate how you are doing and where you need to make adjustments?
Friday, January 7, 2011
Cleaning....
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
January 5, 2011 Another sad day in Omaha, Nebraska
Millard South shooting: Suspension ignited fury
By Henry J. Cordes and John Ferak
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS
Robert Butler Jr. was pulled from his first-period class Wednesday at Millard South High School, summoned to the school office to face the music.
A school security camera had caught the 17-year-old senior — who transferred to the school this past fall — driving across a school football field. Assistant Principal Vicki Kaspar informed him of his penalty: a 19-day suspension.
Butler was escorted out of the school. Sometime afterward, he posted an item on Facebook about the “evil'' that the school had driven him to.As the lunch period wound down in the suburban Omaha school's buzzing halls, the meaning of those words became clear.
Butler returned to Kaspar's office, this time brandishing a handgun. He shot the 58-year-old administrator, mortally wounding her, then fired on Principal Curtis Case.
Butler, the son of an Omaha police officer, then fled by car. Omaha police found him about 35 minutes later in a parking lot, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot Kaspar, described by colleagues as a consummate professional devoted to kids, was rushed from the school by helicopter but died hours later. Case, 44, was in serious condition and expected to survive the shooting that rocked the school, the district and the city.
It is believed to be the worst school shooting incident in Nebraska history. After Wednesday, Millard South joins the long, sobering list of schools around the globe that have been devastated by disaffected students with guns.
For many in Omaha, it also was a haunting reminder of the Von Maur shooting spree, which on a similar wintry weekday in December 2007 left eight victims dead.
“We had tragedy descend on our city,'' Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle said Wednesday.
None of the other students in the high school at 149th and Q Streets was hurt, but they endured an ordeal of terror.
After the gunfire rang out, students were ordered to huddle in the back of darkened, locked-down classrooms.
“Someone was shot. I'm not dead,'' one student texted her mother.
Another texted this message: “If I don't make it out, I love you.”
Panic-stricken parents rushed to the school based on such contacts and breaking news reports, fearing for their children's lives. Hundreds gathered in a church parking lot set up as a staging area, looking east to Millard South and nervously checking cell phones and messages.
Parents were quickly assured that their kids were safe, but it took hours before all the students were finally released.
All other Millard schools also had been ordered into lockdown. Even kindergartners went through the sadly common school drill — one that this time was for real.
Butler's father is Robert Butler Sr., an Omaha police detective. Omaha police officials released no details on the handgun that the young Butler used, though The World-Herald has been told it was his father's Glock .40, a common police service weapon.
Police and school officials also released few details on what transpired inside the school.
But interviews with students who knew Butler and two people familiar with the case provided an account of a good but unhappy student who struggled with the move to a new school.
Butler had transferred to Millard South in October from Lincoln Southwest High School. The midyear move to a new city and school had been difficult for Butler, his friends said. A source said Butler was upset about the transfer.
Butler appeared to reference his negative feelings in his Wednesday posting on Facebook, the social networking website. Omaha had changed him, he said, and his new school was “even worse.''
For Millard students, Wednesday was the first day back from Christmas break. Two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Butler and another student were seen Wednesday morning driving a car across an athletic field at the school, damaging it.
Butler, who reportedly had not had previous disciplinary problems at the school, was pulled from his first class by a school security officer and brought to Kaspar's office between 8 and 8:30 a.m. She imposed the suspension after the damage to school property. Kaspar also called Butler's father in his presence.
Butler was escorted out of the school building. His father did not pick him up, so it was unclear how he left the school or where he went.
It also was unclear what time Butler made his Facebook posting. The indefinite time stamp for the status update, made via a cell phone, makes it appear that it could have been either just before or just after the shootings. Either way, the words he wrote are chilling.
“ur gomna here about the evil s--- I did but that f---- school drove me to this,'' he wrote. “I greatly affected the lives of families ruined but I'm sorry. goodbye.''
Butler reappeared on the school campus about 12:45 p.m. He walked past an unarmed security guard and into the main attendance office, where Assistant Principal Kaspar worked. He opened a latch to get behind a counter where four secretaries are stationed and walked into Kaspar's office, just feet away.
Without saying a word, Butler shot Kaspar with a handgun as she sat behind her desk, hitting her three or four times in the upper torso.
Responding to the commotion, Principal Case bolted out of his office across the hall. Butler exited Kaspar's office and shot Case two or three times from about five feet away, hitting the principal in the back and hip.
As Butler left the school office, he fired wildly twice down the hall, one shot lodging in a wall about 15 feet from Case.
Through a window, the school security officer saw Butler leaving the office and crouched down behind his desk to protect himself. Butler saw the officer and pointed the gun at him, but did not fire.
Butler then left the school, and the officer ran into the office to check on the victims.
The whole incident lasted less than two minutes.
Kaspar was found down behind her desk, bleeding profusely. “Help me,” she pleaded.
Over the intercom, students said, another assistant principal announced a “code red,'' the signal for a lockdown. It requires students to stay in their rooms and take cover.
“It's not a drill,'' he said in a shaky voice.
The first call to 911 came at 12:50 p.m. A school resource officer at Millard South put out a “Help an Officer” call, and several Omaha officers rushed to the scene, the first arriving in seconds.
Responding officers learned that the suspect had fled in a red Honda Accord. Butler's name and description were quickly broadcast. Since it was not yet known how many suspects there were, officers, including some in tactical gear, entered the school to conduct a sweep.
Police found the red Accord about 1:25 p.m. in a parking lot near 148th and D Streets, about a mile from the school.
Officers approached the car and found Butler dead behind the wheel from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police announced about 9 p.m. Wednesday that Kaspar, too, had died of her wounds.
Millard South remained a crime scene into Wednesday evening, the school roped off, the cars of students and staff remaining in the parking lot.
Classes at Millard South were canceled for Thursday. The school district was making counselors available to talk to students and staff.
The shooting incident is only the second in a Nebraska school in the state's modern history. In 1995, a seventh-grader in Chadron shot and wounded a teacher.
But as with the Von Maur shootings three years earlier, Omaha received a grim reminder that such senseless violence can happen anywhere, anytime.
Said parent Milton Lopez: “I'd never expected this to happen in a little town like Omaha.''
Contact the writer:
402-444-1130, henry.cordes@owh.com
Monday, January 3, 2011
New Year -New Look
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Bistro Soup
Bistro Soup
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 big can of tomato sauce(then fill it up and add a can of water
2 cans of French onion soup
1 jar of salsa(whatever you like-hot medium etc.)
3 bags of mixed vegetables
1lb.-Kilbasa sausage
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tuscan Soup/ Cabbage Soup
She recently posted some excellent and yummy soup recipes. We have gained permission to post them here. Enjoy!
Tuscan Soup
2 lbs. sausage chunks
Diced potatoes and carrots
Beef broth
Minced celery and onion
Can of cream corn
Garlic, salt, pepper, and parsley to taste
TIP-When our friend, Michelle made this recently she sauteed the ingredients in some left over from breakfast bacon grease (more flavor)
Another TIP from Michelle: You can mix a slurry to thicken the soup or use her secret ingredient: flaked instant potatoes. They work perfect for any chowder type soups. This gives a creamy texture.
Cabbage Soup
1 head of cabbage diced
2 boxes of beef broth
2-3 cans of tomato soup
2 lbs. ground sausage (She recommends 1 lb spicy, 1 lb. mild)-browned and drained
2 cans diced tomatoes with green chili peppers
chopped celery and onion to taste
Put in crock pot and cook all day long until cabbage is tender. Season with garlic and parsley.
Thanks Michelle, for letting us post these great soup recipes!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
I haven't blogged in too long....
It hasn't always been a year of great things either...some great sorrows have taken place during this year. I think that is why I haven't blogged a lot. Some things have been too hard to write about. There have been some good things this year....don't get the wrong idea....it's just been a difficult year.
However, I'd like to get back into the swing of things. So this is the first post back....
Monday, December 1, 2008
Camo Plaid Revolution 2 Rocks!
Check them out:
http://camoplaidrevolution2.thruhere.net:8000/cpr2/cpr2home.html
This is boy humor at it's best....if you are not into that sort of thing...don't watch, however, they are so funny and random.
They did an excellent job on editing and producing...I think that is Micah's speciality. Way to go boys...can't wait for season 2 next Buckeye Christmas.
By the way, my favorite episode is number #4...it has my dad in it. :-D
The boys in these video shorts are: Micah Jayne of MD, David Jayne of VA, and Michael Knipp of NE. Ask the sheriff in KY what he thinks of these boys. :-D LOL