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About Me

I believe Jesus is alive, loves me, loves you, and wants us to know it. Life is better when I trust Jesus enough to keep going, keep working, keep moving forward, keep hoping...instead of being afraid.
I'm often afraid that life will not turn out like I hoped it would...or that I don't have what it takes to do life. But I find hope by remembering the prayers God has already answered for me, for my friends, for my family. I find hope in remembering times when I asked God for comfort, and he brought it...when I asked him to resolve bad situations, and he did...when I asked him what he thinks of me, and I believe I heard him say he loves me and is not ashamed of me. I find hope in knowing that life is not often easy, but that I can "consider it pure joy whenever I face trials of many kinds"...and know that God is with me through them...and that he's not surprised by any of them, but is in control and can bring good from any situation.
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I've put a lot of effort into a business startup that still has a long way to go. It's called: ByOwnerJAX.com
It's a website I've helped put together that advertises FSBO houses here in Jacksonville.
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
"I will not boast in anything, No gifts, no power, no wisdom; But I will boast in Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection."
If you really wanna know something about me you can read the blog up there...the one labeled "the blog."
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My Interests

People

I'd like to meet:

People who don't take themselves too seriously

People who love genuinely;

People who aren't caught up in status or money or MTV culture;

People who know the difference between "you're" and "your"

Donald Miller; John Piper; Winston Churchill (if he were still alive); Tyler Myers; the ghost that lives in the graveyard outside Akron, AL; the man who owns Supercuts (so I could butcher HIS haircut)

and Evangeline Lilly, of course.

Music:

Recently I've been really digging Jeff Buckley, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, Ben Folds, The Shins, Whiskeytown, Jump Little Children, Damien Rice, Amos Lee, the 'Garden State' soundtrack and some old hymns put to modern music. Traditionally: Jack Johnson, Coldplay, Ben Harper, Weezer, David Gray, Jim Croce, Caedmon's Call, Bob Marley, Otis Redding, the Beatles, Counting Crows, Tom Petty, Norah Jones, Dave Barnes, John Mayer, the Strokes, Nathan Peek Band, Wess Floyd and the Daisy Cutters, George Gaston, Cory Sellers, Lauryn Hill, Jimi Hendrix, Dispatch, etc....Oldies...I miss the oldies.

Movies:

Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, Motorcycle Diaries, Braveheart (of course, it's every guy's favorite movie), Ocean's 11, Spy Game, The Game, Ben Hur, The Usual Suspects, Bottle Rocket, Tombstone, Last of the Mohicans, Zoolander, Legends of the Fall, Dazed and Confused, Dumb and Dumber, Office Space, The Last Samurai, Remember the Titans, Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, Cinderella Man, all the Lord of the Rings movies, Chronicles of Narnia.

Television:

The Andy Griffith Show (classic), LOST, 24, Alias, American Idol, The Office, Band of Brothers, The Simpsons, Family Guy

Books:

Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, Blink, Cat's Cradle, Into Thin Air, Wild at Heart, Forrest Gump, The Heavenly Man, Ordinary People, anything by John Piper, anything about Winston Churchill, anything about psychology or personality types.

Heroes:

Jesus, John Piper, John Newton, David Brainerd, Beck Weathers, Spencer Hall, Ryan Perkins, Tim Frickenschmidt, Paul Niager, Danny Wuerfel, Major Applewhite, Winston Churchill, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Shackleton

My Blog

what to do wit' my life

The question I'm thinking about today is, what should I do with the next several years of my life...or put another way...what is my calling? I think this question should be answered by finding o...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:08:00 PST

God doesn't promise riches

After Jesus was killed and then rose from the dead, his disciples experienced hardship to the point of death. All but John were killed because of their faith in Christ. Paul, who was given incredible ...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:27:00 PST

the blog

My older brother is basically a genius; he's working on his thesis to earn a Doctoral degree in Physics from Stanford right now. My little sister is 10 years younger than me and goes to a performing ...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:06:00 PST