ATTENTION TRIANGLE IDOL PARTICIPANTS!

The finals of the competition will be held at King's Park International Church in Durham this Saturday, April 8th, at 6:00 p.m.  All finalists will choose from a list of roughly 400 karaoke tunes, ranging from pop to classic rock to R&B.  You will sing one and only one song from this list.  Winners will be decided by an audience vote, so make sure to invite plenty of friends to support you.

Directions to KPIC:

I-40 to exit 278.  Turn left (north) at the end of the ramp onto Hwy 55.  Go approx. 1.5 miles to Odyssey Dr at the entrance to Penrith apartments.  Turn left onto Odyssey Dr.  Turn right into KPIC parking lot.

Coming from Durham, take 55 south.  Odyssey Dr is just past the intersections of Cornwallis road and Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy.

Lyrics to songs will be made available if necessary.  If you have any questions, please email me at matt.jones@everynation.org.

Currently Listening Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 By Sam Cooke see related

- Jesus Gave Me Water

UNC beat Duke.

In no way does this event make me a better person, give me more validation, make my food taste better, or draw me closer to Jesus.

It's just fun to say.

I'll be taking a random two-day mini-vacation soon, and it's a coin flip between the beach or the mountains.  I'm leaning towards beach if the weather stays like it is.

love ya'll... mean it.

Currently Listening Love Train: The Best of the O'Jays By The O'Jays see related

Justin Phillips' site features a list of facts about Chuck Norris, one of the... nay, THE greatest action movie star of all time.

Have you ever laughed so hard that you kept looking around to make sure nobody saw you, because you were so embarrassed at how much you were laughing?  That's what I just did for the last 15 minutes.  I feel like I just did 100 sit-ups.

So I went online and found the rest of the random facts.  I laughed some more.  Here are some of them that are not included on Mr. Phillips' site.

Geez, even as I was copying and pasting these, I had to stop every once in a while to laugh.  I don't care who you are, that's funny stuff.

• Crop circles are Chuck Norris' way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie down.
• Contrary to popular belief, Chuck Norris, not the box jellyfish of northern Australia, is the most venomous creature on earth. Within 3 minutes of being bitten, a human being experiences the following symptoms: fever, blurred vision, beard rash, tightness of the jeans, and the feeling of being repeatedly kicked through a car windshield.
• If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.
• Chuck Norris invented Kentucky Fried Chicken's famous secret recipe, with eleven herbs and spices. But nobody ever mentions the twelfth ingredient: Fear.
• Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.
• Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
• Chuck Norris doesn't churn butter. He roundhouse kicks the cows and the butter comes straight out.
• A Handicapped parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there.
• Chuck Norris originally appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."
• The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
• Someone once tried to tell Chuck Norris that roundhouse kicks aren't the best way to kick someone. This has been recorded by historians as the worst mistake anyone has ever made.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is based on a true story: Chuck Norris once swallowed a turtle whole, and when he crapped it out, the turtle was six feet tall and had learned karate.
• Pluto is actually an orbiting group of British soldiers from the American Revolution who entered space after the Chuck gave them a roundhouse kick to the face.
• There are no steroids in baseball. Just players Chuck Norris has breathed on.
• When Chuck Norris was denied an Egg McMuffin at McDonald's because it was 10:35, he roundhouse kicked the store so hard it became a Wendy's.
• Chuck Norris’ house has no doors, only walls that he walks through.
• Chuck Norris doesn't actually write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.
• Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
• When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.
• Chuck Norris always knows the EXACT location of Carmen SanDiego.
• Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.
• The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Chuck Norris Roundhouse kicked one of the corners off.
• Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
• Using his trademark roundhouse kick, Chuck Norris once made a fieldgoal in RJ Stadium in Tampa Bay from the 50 yard line of Qualcomm stadium in San Diego.
• Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
• Chuck Norris eats beef jerky and craps gunpowder. Then, he uses that gunpowder to make a bullet, which he uses to kill a cow and make more beef jerky. Some people refer to this as the "Circle of Life."
• Chuck Norris once sued Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr, insisting that that actually is "his" way.
• When Bruce Banner gets mad, he turns into the Hulk. When the Hulk gets mad, he turns into Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris once roundhouse-kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendents are known today as Giraffes.

love y'all... mean it

Currently Listening Pages of Life: Chapters 1 & 2 By Fred Hammond & Radical for Christ see related

- Bread of Heaven

I have been a naughty boy... with a goatee.  Almost a month between posts?  Yikes.  No excuses.  Only action.  That's me, Man of Action.  And Questions.  Two of them.

1.  Is Xanga no longer on the cutting edge of 'cool'?  Was it ever?  I ask because I noticed that while MySpace and Facebook are blocked by Durham Public Schools, Xanga is not... leading me to believe that you are no longer using it.  Help me out.  Please.  I would like to stay informed and avoid the "hopelessly-of-touch-youth-minister" label, if at all possible.  Be nice.

2.  What did you all think of the Valentine's Day Dance?  Good, bad, boring, exciting?  If we had similar events once a month with different themes, would you invite your friends?  What are some of your ideas for those themes?  What could we have done better?

For all you sarcastic types out there, I realize that was technically more than two (2) questions.  I like to see it as two main questions with multiple sub-questions.  So there.  Eat it.  Before you have the chance to make a witty retort about my being a liar.

Finally, if you need encouragement on your Scripture memorization, or suggestions, holla.  It's something I hold dear and important.  Anyway, since I wouldn't ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself, here's my goal:

2 Timothy and Titus

I invite you to hold me accountable, and even quiz me to see how I'm doing.

With those Scriptures, I feel prepared to enter the long, cold winter of the dead time until August, when fantasy football begins anew.

Hooray hooray.