Back in Okie........

I am back. Now I have the task of trying to condense my trip into a blog post. This one will take awhile. If it takes too long I will do some other post to fill in. I will end by saying Drive Conference 2008 was amazing!

Destination Atlanta......

I am now in Atlanta. The men that I am traveling with have computers, so I have been able to provide some pictures of my trip thus far (I took 244 at the Braves game). I am here in Atlanta to attend the Drive Conference put on by North Point Community Church. We went to church this morning at North Point and Buckhead (one of North Point's satellite churches). I will talk more extensively about my church experience later (which was awesome).

After we attended church we went to an Reds vs Braves game. Ken Griffey Jr. pretty much stunk. He is slumping bad and is still sitting at 597. Even though I did not get to see baseball history, we did see a hitfest. Braves won 14-7 with over 30 total hits in the game.

Drive Conference begins tomorrow! For now, here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure.











Going east through the gate to the west.







Jim and Ed.







Glavine starts.







Griffey Jr. whiffs bad.

Turner Field

A chance to see baseball history......

I need Ken Griffey Jr. to get hot swinging the bat right now. This afternoon I am going to be starting my trip to Atlanta for a conference next week. A couple weeks ago I checked to see if the Braves were going to be in town. They are. Then I noticed they were going to play Cincinnati. Then I thought at that time, "Griffey Jr. is at home run 696." This could work out. I have a legitimate chance to see Griffey hit his historic 600th home run. I am going to the game on Sunday. Griffey needs to hit 3 HRs in the next three games and the 3rd one being on Sunday. No matter what happens, it is always fun to hit an MLB game. I will have pictures.

I will still post while I am gone because I can do them on my Amazon Kindle, which is the coolest thing for reading since the invention of the printing press.

"In this place".........

I really appreciate what Manders pointed out in a recent post.

What is up with the phrase “in this place”? You know what I mean, if you’ve been in church: “Lord, we just ask You to be here in this place…” or some other permutation. It’s been bugging me because a) isn’t that just an overly verbose and/or redundant way of saying “here”? b) where else do you want Him to be? I don’t know.

Also–”Stand to your feet.” Where the heck else are you going to stand? Your hands? I don’t get it.

Christians have their own pop culture too. We catch on and do/say what sounds the most spiritual. We have our own fads and it makes me sickly. Deep down people say things like this so they can be perceived as "spiritual" or "holy." Who cares if it is Theologically correct or just logically correct. I know, I know, you are saying "Trevor, you cannot know that persons heart or intentions." True. Being human is something I know about. I know that being genuine and pure is in the minority. I know that it is in our nature to make ourselves look good.

"Be holy, because I am holy." - 1 Peter 1:16

"Being" and "Sounding" are far from being similar.

The rest of the Manders post can be found HERE.