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About Me

Faith is meant to be lived, there is nothing greater than walking out our journey with Christ each day; that is my passion and desire. I am thankful for each day I get to spend with God, my family and my students. I have been fortunate in my life to find love, faith, hope and joy. Many people spend their whole life searching for just one of those. God has been so wonderful to me by blessing me with a wonderful wife, amazing children, and the chance to make a difference in the lives of students.I love to be passionate about the people around me. I want to believe in people, and to see them for who they can be in Christ. I am passionate about seeing students make a stand for their faith. To see them walk out their journey in Christ.My daughter is just amazing she has this truly wonderful heart that I love to watch in action. She is so expressive and totally enjoys life. My boys are pure males with testosterone poisoning. The are explorers with amazing imaginations. I'm truly excited to see them grow to be amazing men of God. As a father I could have never picked more wonderful children and so I am very thankful that God placed these three precious people into my life. I know God has tremendous things for them in life to accomplish.I have been fortunate to find true love in life. Sheri is my soul mate. Outside of God everything good in me comes from her.Like I said faith is meant to be lived and so is life. Cherish each day! Live it to the fullest. PUT YOUR ABOUT ME SECTION HERE! Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profile

My Interests

Well I'm interested in many things first knowing God, and teaching others how to follow Him. Anything that has to do with my Family. Coaching sports. I coach little league Baseball with my boys, and I coach Freshman Football at Lake Mary High as the Defensive Line and Defensive Coordinator. I love theology and philosophy, and I love to argue about it even more. I'm interested in Astrophysics and Quantium Mechanics, and I am currently working on a thesis about Black holes and how they eat socks in my dryer. I love baseball, specifically the New York Yankees, and anything that is negative about the Boston Red Sox. I'm a big Redskins fan, and yes I hate the Cowboys. I love Ford Trucks and yes I do believe that only little boys wear Bow Ties.

I'd like to meet:

The New York Yankees! My Great-Grandchildren, Ed Young, Bill Hibels, Roger Clemens, and the inventor of the twinky. To hang out with The Apostle's Paul and Peter my heros. PUT YOUR I'D LIKE TO MEET SECTION HERE! Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profileView All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

David Crowder Band, Big Daddy Weave, Chris Tomlin, Jeremy Camp, Dave Matthews Band, Jars of Clay, Frank Sinatra, I like so many 80's band I can't remember. So many more

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Glory, Remember the Titans, For the love of the game, League of their own, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Great Raid, Sands of Iwo Jima, Where Eagles Dare, and my all time favorite The Breakfast Club

Television:

Baseball, Football, ESPN, Jericho and Battlestar Galatica

Books:

Bible, Cost of Discipleship (Deitrich Bonhoeffer), Church Dogmatics (Karl Barth), Socrates, Plato, Ulysses, City of God (Augustine), Secular City (Harvey Cox), Black Power, Black Theology (James Cone), Emerging Church (Dan Kimbal), Speeches of Martin Luther King, Anything about Philosophy or Theology. Courage to Be (Paul Tillich), Courageous Leadership (Bill Hibels)

Heroes:

There are a lot of people who have inspired me! My Dad who taught me how to be a man. My mom who taught me about family and being together. My sister who reminds me to be humble, or she smacks me in my head. My wife and kids who have taught me about life and love. Then there are others, Deitrich Bonhoeffer who's dedication to Christ and his faith despite being in a Nazi Prison Camp. Two men who have inspired me to grow as a pastor Charles Kollar and Bill Adams who invested in my life and taught me to follow Christ without question. Then there is my students, both the past and the present. You have inspired me to believe. You have taught me the meaning of faith! Watching you grow has been my honor! Thanks for teaching me how to live out my faith. Then there is the most important person Jesus Christ who has given me more than I could have ever earned or deserved. He is my true inspiration!

My Blog

The New stuff

Well life is starting to begin its track back to normality whatever that is. This week Sheri and the kids made there trek to Tallahassee for the last time, we are now officially moved. The boxes still...
Posted by Pastor James on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:16:00 PST

See you all later.

Well today was my final day at Wekiva. I will miss you guys, take care and never forget the most important thing, focus on Christ. It has been an amazing ride and I know that you guys taught me a grea...
Posted by Pastor James on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:04:00 PST

The Move

Well I'm a week away from moving to Tallahassee, and things seem a bit weird. Yesterday we went up to find our new home, and God provided us the right house in the right neighborhood, all the right sc...
Posted by Pastor James on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:23:00 PST

A new Journey

Just as it says, a new journey. For those who don't know this last Thursday I resigned my position at Wekiva. Sheri and I along with our clan will make the move to Tallahassee, Florida on October 14th...
Posted by Pastor James on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:59:00 PST

Guatemala

This past Saturday my daughter and I returned from a week in Guatemala. We had the chance to spend it with some amazing people from our church and some from El Paso, Texas. As we traveled around Guate...
Posted by Pastor James on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:14:00 PST

Lessons I learned from My Son

Today I watched my son do something amazing. This summer we decided to let Jake workout with the Freshman Football team, and do everything that they do. At first he was scared, almost timid as he stoo...
Posted by Pastor James on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:24:00 PST

Where is our heart?

Recently I've been reflecting on my life and realized that the world has simply changed. I began to realize that the world of my youth has become nothing more than rerun stories of mythical events th...
Posted by Pastor James on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:17:00 PST

Today I was reminded

There are a few things in life that really matter, and many of them simply pass us by and never really make a big impact. Today I was reminded why I love being a youth pastor so much. After 5 years I ...
Posted by Pastor James on Sun, 13 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

Wonderings

I've been wondering, wondering why so many struggle to see the truth in front of them. Recently I was witnessing to an individual who said they were an atheist. As he threw his questions, his rants I ...
Posted by Pastor James on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:32:00 PST

It's a struggle to the cross.

The walk to Calvary was painful, difficult and almost impossible. Just like Christ's walk to the Cross was difficult so too can our journey be as well. Many of us have struggled through life to find o...
Posted by Pastor James on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:43:00 PST