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Following Jesus is a response to His lavish grace and love. It involves repentance, which is also a response to His great initiatives of kindness and love.

Often the closer I get to Jesus the more I see I need Him.  The more I see I’m so prone to sin.  I’m pondering and wanting to understand more of the stark contrast between wordly and godly sorrow.  Here’s the quote from a Bible commentary which really gripped me:

The sorrow of carnal men about worldly objects, loss of fortune, fame, or friends; which, being separated from the fear and love of God, and faith in his providence and mercy, frequently drinks up their spirits, breaks their proud, rebellious hearts, or drives them to lay desperate hands on themselves.

Btw, I was looking at 2 Corinth 7:10 on Blue Letter Bible.  this is where I found the commentary.

What’s of further interest is that BLB has a MOBILE VERSION – sweet on a cell phone browser.  Check it out here:  http://mobile.blb.org/

Our chance encounter with the President’s arrival at Tri-Cities airport for a quick visit last week.  Obama was breezing through for one of his town hall type meetings at the local Kroger there.  Surprisingly he did not have time to receive an invitation to Avery’s 10yr birthday party, which we celebrated that same night.

Video during our patient wait of his arrival:

And the big plane did arrive!

The motorcade rushed past us – just 100 feet away.  At least we got a wave:

See a few more snapshots here on our Facebook album.

Hard to believe she’s in double digits. We celebrated with a small party last week.

For her present, we gave her 2 tickets to the Barter Theater in Abingdon to see the musical – Wizard of Oz.  She loved it!  . . . And she chose me to be her guest and escort!

Newest Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Highlights Growth in Mobile Traffic -> News@Cisco

Cisco recently released a report which forecasts mobile internet data usage to reach 2 BILLION Gigabytes PER MONTH in the next 4 years. 

Staggering?  Translation:  That’s about half a billion DVDs worth of data transferred via cell phones and handheld devices every month.

Think about how easy you find the internet of today vs. the Internet of 7 years ago.  In a similar vien, the Internet is just gonna get easier – in many ways – on your cell phone, iPhone, etc.

So, the Lord may be giving us a real opportunity here.  This goes along with other interesting developments in the Internet world as noted earlier.  We should be looking for ways to tell our stories and listen to others’ stories on handhelds.  Do you have any thoughts?  How should we best take steps to do this?

Tags: internet, cell, technology, growth, web, mobile, iPhone