John Branyan

Just hours before Hannah passed away, we were enjoying a dinner at my mother-in-law's church with Christian comedian John Branyan. He and his brother did a terrific job, and it was a pleasure be able to meet him and chat for a few minutes. He seemed pleased that we owned his DVD. Visit John's website here.

Prayers of the saints

Thanks to all of you who have been praying for us this week. We have received much encouragement from the Lord and from many people. Please specifically pray that God would get as much glory as possible through the events of this weekend and that many would come to Jesus.

Services for Hannah

Thanks to everyone for the love you've shown us over the last few days. All services will be at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Bloomington.

Visitation- Friday 4:00-6:30pm
Funeral/Celebration service- Saturday 10:00am

Hannah Joy Thorp, February 17, 2003 - February 19, 2006

Last night I said goodbye to my little girl. I have never been so sad. She was the best daughter anyone could wish for, and we rejoice with her as she's now walking with Jesus. Please pray for us. This is an undescribably devastating time for us and has been an incredible shock. God bless my happy girl.

Revelation series

My pastor, David Bielby, just started a new series on Revelation, which I'm pretty excited about. He has been reluctant preach on this for the entire time that he has been at the Vineyard, but now he feels like it's time. You can read his sermon notes at his Revelation blog. This is a big topic and, of course, there are many different views on this book. I really want to land somewhere with one of the views, but, as of yet, I've not been fully convinced by any particular camp. Dave is not going to emphasize any particular view in this series, as far as I can tell, so it should be interesting.

Great website

Last night I found out that Dr. Sam Storms is coming to my church this year to speak and possibly do a seminar. It was tremendous news, and I very much look forward to it. Sam has put together a great website for Enjoying God Ministries. If you're like me and are interested in an excellent internet resource for new studies, reviews, commentaries, all kinds of good theological stuff, and a place that will help you know the Scriptures more deeply, and increase your passion for Jesus, than take a look!

Just a thought...

I wanted to start another blog where I could just share some of my thoughts and where you can comment on them. Thoughts about life, parenting, theology, music, movies or whatever else are what I'm thinking about posting. I'll try to reserve TV stuff for my Sky Angel blog here. Enjoy and please comment!