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JB

God's concerned more about our character than our comfort. - Rick Warren

About Me

We've lived in Columbia for almost a year now and have really enjoyed our new city so far. This past winter was so mild compared to Ohio which was awesome, and it's great being less than 2 hours from the beach, close to the mountains & Charlotte as well.Sarah and I have been married for almost 4 years now and we have already experienced so much together, I'm blessed to have her. My main goal in life is to live & love like Jesus did and have the discipline to remember that it's not about me - it's all about God in this life. This is a constant battle, there are so many things that try to occupy my time besides the Lord, but I'm striving to do my best at it.I have almost fully overcome cauda equina syndrome (a spinal-cord injury) that required back surgery in March 2007 - God is good!I have a passion to take care of God's creation; check out www.servegodsavetheplanet.org for ways you can help out.I also have a passion to help people understand God's way of handling money. I believe there are 2 main principles (getting out of debt and also giving generously w/in our means to further the gospel of Jesus) and many other things that are close behind that will naturally flow when we seek the Lord in helping us to manage our money well. For daily advice, I recommend checking out the Dave Ramsey show (www.daveramsey.com), I agree w/just about everything he teaches. This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

My Interests

Loving others as Christ did; Spending time w/Saree; walking & jogging w/our dogs; biking; sodoku

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Billy Graham, Lebron James

Music:

David Crowder Band, TobyMac, Sanctus Real, The Rocket Summer, Fireflight, Shane and Shane, The Rocket Summer, Anberlin, Bebo Norman, Chris Tomlin, Rebecca St. James, Relient K, The Fray, and many others. In general: Christian, Christian Rap, 90s hits & 90 New Jack Swing

Movies:

Love and Basketball, 'O', Passion of the Christ, Major League I and II

Television:

Friday Night Lights is awesome. Jim Rome is Burning (ESPN M-F @4:30) TVU Sports in general Also, if you get Fox Business Channel, check out Dave Ramsey weeknights @8 PM EST.

Books:

Gotta go w/Seven Habits of Highly Successful People - Stephen Covey, Case for Christ by Lee Strobel and a great book for all Christians to read is Serve God Save the Planet by J. Matthew Sleeth, MD

Heroes:

Jesus - he changed my life.

My Blog

New Year = great time to examine our lives

This past week I had the opportunity to read Dr. Matthew Sleeth's book 'Serve God Save the Planet.' To give you a little background on Dr. Sleeth, just a few years ago he had a great job as a doc...
Posted by JB on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:14:00 PST

Is it 1997 or 2007?

So I'm watching the Tribe yesterday just hammer the evil empire from New York in their first game in the playoffs in 6 years, the Jake was rocking like it did in the 90s when the Tribe was in the play...
Posted by JB on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:57:00 PST

Changes

So I've been in the midlands of South Carolina for 3 weeks now. I won't lie, it's not been the easiest adjustment for me, but that was expected being that I've only ever lived in Ohio. The area does h...
Posted by JB on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:37:00 PST

Wondering

As I've been watching the Wonder Years reruns on TV the past couple of months, I've been reminded as to why I enjoyed it growing up, and why I still think it is one of the most well-thought out shows ...
Posted by JB on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:02:00 PST

New Beginnings

On the eve of the first services in our brand spanking new, state-of-the-art church building, I have been thinking about what the 'church' is supposed to be. We have been excited literally for years n...
Posted by JB on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:13:00 PST

Character...

Ever since I was reminded by the quote from Rick Warren a few weeks back, I keep running this quote through my mind..."God is more concerned with our character than our comfort." We live in such a 'co...
Posted by JB on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:43:00 PST

marriage....

As I start the blog...listening to Eleventyseven's song "My Space"...kind of humorous. Anyways, I'm going to blog about something near and dear to my heart...the covenant of marriage...I guess having...
Posted by JB on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:56:00 PST

4.8% Interest rate

I wanted to notify any of you out there w/a little spare cash on hand to check out www.emigrantdirect.com - they currently offer a 4.8% yield on savings, no minimums. You can link up your checking acc...
Posted by JB on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:11:00 PST

Off to the city of angels

It's my last day of being 24, I can't believe that I turn a quarter of a century tomorrow, at least I get 3 extra hours of being 24 today b/c we are leaving for LA this afternoon and will get the time...
Posted by JB on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:26:00 PST

Eliminating debt

As I say in my profile, I believe it's God's desire for any of His followers to eliminate debt as soon as possible. Obviously it is unrealistic (unless you were blessed to have a very large inheritanc...
Posted by JB on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:38:00 PST