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ry@n

On the run with a loaded gun.

About Me

Enough about me, lets talk about you for a while..

My Interests

I'm up for pretty much anything.. I love to be around people, especially in ways where we can encourage each other in Christ, some people say church is a building, some say its a group, I say its a lifestyle..

I'd like to meet:



Music:

David Crowder Band, Keith Green, CAKE, The Hives, The Clash, The Ramones, Jet, Rolling Stones, MxPx, Walkmen, Dandy Warhols, The Swift, Cat Stevens, Ataris, weezer, Stray Cats, The Rentals, Our Lady Peace, The Shins, The Postal Service, Gene Vincent, The Killers, Buddy Holly, The Cure, Elvis Costello, Budy Holly, Beatles, Red Umbrella, Something Like Silas (changed their name recently to Future of Forestry)

Movies:

Mystery Men, 8 heads in a duffel bag, gross pointe blank, Spider-man I & II, Xmen I & II, , Strange Brew, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Better Off Dead, Gardensate, The Life Aquatic with Steve Sizzou, The Goonies, Princess Bride, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Patriot, Gladiator, Say Anything..., The Sandlot, Zoolander, 50 first dates

Television:

Scrubs is numero uno! and then I also enjoy Veronica Mars, Lost, and Smallville

Books:

Besides the bible I have really enjoyed Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, Dan Kimball's Emergent Church books, lotsa stuff by John Piper, pretty much anything C S Lewis has written, and Confessions by Augustine

Heroes:

Keith Green, David Crowder, Rob Bell, the Apostle Paul, my dad, Jesus is always my hero cos He saved me..

My Blog

so im in israel

more to come...
Posted by ry@n on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:54:00 PST

we've gotten a reputation

So today I get a phone call from my madre... she tells me that my bible study has gotten a reputation... now I know this.. we have a reputation for breaking walls, leaving messes and teaching the dang...
Posted by ry@n on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:21:00 PST

baby steps..

I dont have much time to communicate a WHOLE lot.. I got a call from the guy who runs the boiler room in Kansas City and 24/7 for the U.S. It was tremendously encouraging.. the sum of it is.. he is s...
Posted by ry@n on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:00:00 PST

nostalgia..

you know the expression you dont know how much something means to you until its gone.. well.. three years after the fact i slipped a five iron frenzy cd in my car.. "the end is here" one of the few i ...
Posted by ry@n on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:37:00 PST

The Land of the Living

Well.. I just thought I would make a post to let any and all who are interested know.. I have a job again.. working in the shop at Kitchen Supply in Kirkland, WA. I covet your prayers during this...
Posted by ry@n on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:13:00 PST

nev'r ending journey

An update on the boiler room quest.. I received an email a while ago as I wrote about from one of the leaders of the Kansas City boiler room. It was asking for my tale and what not.. so I responded an...
Posted by ry@n on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:35:00 PST

Sometimes I'm emo

So I dont know what it is.. maybe some sort of post holiday blues from just coming back from camp or something, but Ive been in kind of a fog... avoiding hanging out with people who I normally love to...
Posted by ry@n on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:02:00 PST

Leaving on a jetplane

So Im heading out for a while to my church's high school camp. Sun, lakes, tubes. cliffs, snakes, I cant believe I get to live this life
Posted by ry@n on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:02:00 PST

Continue to boil

Just a quick note as an update, I finally got a response from the boiler room in Kansas City, not the UK, but its a start.. keep praying.
Posted by ry@n on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:37:00 PST

Everybody wants to go to heaven.. but nobody wants to die..

I recently heard that there is a lot of money in death and in bluegrass so I thought I thought with David Crowder's latest CD out and his new book on the way I would do my best to strike while the iro...
Posted by ry@n on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:42:00 PST