3.25M - AHS Track...nice & cool

When my friend Jared left for Iraq, he left a pregnant wife, a future daughter, a very concerned and thankful buddy, and a verse for me to look up...

Psalm 144:1 - Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle-

Jared, I'm glad you're home & safe & with your girls...A day shouldn't pass that we don't entreat the Lord in thanks for these brave families that risk so much so we can enjoy such a life. God bless you Ledbetters and like kind & Thank God for Aggies and all those folks that wear the uniform.

(SAT) Run To The Corn 5k

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Psalm 139

Does God really love me? Did He really fashion me before time began? Does he really care about, or even know what I'm thinking, saying doing? Is He really with me wherever, whenever? Did He start this big thing spinning and just step back to see where all the pieces would fly, or is He intimately involved with every mundane and grand event of my life? Is He just some puppet-master from a far off galaxy or is He right here, right now...closer than my own breath? Further still...do I want Him that close?

Psalm 139 always, always gets me to stop in my tracks and stare at the throne...and honestly, wonder why in the wide wide world of sports would He love me so much...

2.5m RacePrep w/ 11-100m Intervals

Isn't God Good? Is that why we completely forget how righteous He is? Do we see with rose colored glasses and forget the wrath of God? Have we forgotten that the fear of Him is the beginning of knowledge? Just a thought running through my mind.

"And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, that you have lied and not remembered Me, nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old that you do not fear Me?" - Isaiah 57:11 (NKJV)

4Mile Recovery Run...Too Muddy To Get To Track

Yesterday was just one of those days…I don’t mean in a bad way…I mean it in a “ God says, ‘ OK boog I’m gonna go ahead scrap everything you had planned today and replace it with my plan, and quit whining b/c it’s gonna work…b/c I’m God, that’s why” kinda way. The Lord is truly Mighty to Save and Deliver…my Hero & Captain.

Even though I don’t deserve this at all, being me and all, God has called and chosen me and given me a relationship better than a son or daughter, and it just shows His mercy and grace and it should derive something from me…namely, Love for His Name, Service, Holiness, and a Tenacious Grip on His Covenant & Life. I don’t know what you think of when you see those things, but for me, I feel like I should Love His Name more than mine, His reputation and glory, more than mine, Him more than Me. I should lay my life down for others to serve man and so praise Him. I should not muddy up His Day, His Worship, His Word, His Life with sin, or selfishness and I should have a death-grip on every righteous day and way, because remember, I don’t deserve it, but I have it…so what will I do with it?

Check out the scripture that caused all this ponderous thought: BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Isaiah 56

3.25 Miles – 4 - 400’s < 85” Athens H.S. Track

I know you can't believe I have a new post, but here it is...a pic of the day, and my thoughts on some passages I was looking at today...enjoy or something.

Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of '26

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Joshua 7
This really jumps out and gets me because of two things. First, God says, essentially, “Quit Whining, Quit Sinning & Quit Losing!” I mean, God had made the covenant and said that He'd bless His people, all they had to do was obey Him, their provider and protector, and here Joshua is thinking, possibly, that God just up and runoft from them...God's response makes it clear that there is a time to talk, and that there is a time to act. Secondly, this story show how the people of God become God’s instrument of operation, so-to-speak, and are the manifestation of His Judgment, Emotion, Will, Etc. If God uses His people as that tool for judgment, then it stands to reason that we should also act as His instrument of Total Compassion, Love, and Care as well.

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Psalm 133;
Wow! I guess I've just never noticed this passage before...so many times we're focused on church unity as the alternative to a negative thing and here God the psalmist paints such a vivid picture of the goal and reward of loving each other...complete sanctity and holiness and a real life!

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Psalm 135:15-18;
Vanity!! Our idols are nothing, in that they have no truth to speak, no way to hear or help, no breath of life in them…they are dead, they are actually just…not. Where as our God is…He Be!

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Isaiah 55:1-7;
If you are in need, broken, hurt, thirsty…Come to the source, often imitated, never duplicated; come to God and be satisfied…Come to him while He is near and easy to find…Just leave everything behind, He will receive you and have mercy unlike any other.
v.8-9; God is so not like us in so many ways…I guess it makes sense then that we’d go to Him to get something different than what we’re getting in the world…
v.11; God’s Word…He doesn't waste it, there's nothing like it, there's nothing today that does what it does..

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: John 11:11-14;
Sometimes, honestly…we’re just kind of dumb. Gives me a little confidence every time I read because it shows God really can use anyone to accomplish His will...12 sometimes numbskulls and a dead guy...I mean, c'mon.

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Ephesians 4:25-32;
I love Grace R….I mean no matter what, she’s mine…period, forever…but do I take pleasure in the moment when she’s lied or done something quite different from her formed character? What do you think?

Amazing...

It's simply amazing...

It's simply amazing that my blog still works after not posting for a month...

And it's simply amazing how blessed Flo & I are to call Grace ours... Both kinds of Grace, really; the cute one and the life saving one. Recently God has been utterly benevolent to us. Riot Student Ministries is going great and kids lives are being altered now and for eternity...The kids are just blowing me away by how faithful they are to things up here and to a new life of discipleship. Grace is beautiful and healthy, and my biggest nephew just made it through a big medical scare and is ok and kept firm in the hand of God. The Lord has also been kind enough lately to show me just how powerfully He'll move through prayer if we'll just believe. I hope all is well with all, and the Ags will pull through against the pokes. Gig'em and God Bless!

I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry...

I know I've broken some cosmic rule about posting or whatever, but if you still care, here's what has been up in the hood, so to speak...

Summer of fun with Grace has been fun, but as of last week all the Ferrells in this house are back in school. Flo is back at Eustace & has a good class with no Psychos and lots of work to do because of a short year. Grace is back with her old buddies (minus surfer-boy {Jordan}) and only bawled her eyes out the first time I dropped her off. And, alas, my degree from A&M is not even framed and I have survived two whole weeks of the masters program at Criswell College in Dallas. Now I'll be having my assistant write the rest of this blog as I've already used up my 2 minutes a day that I don't have to spend reading...


Things are really going great at FBC Malakoff for all of us and you should definetly check out my blog to that effect at riotnews.blogspot.com. Also, I will be assaulting the mountain country of Texas this January again, so if your interested in joining me drop a line.


Finally, a good friend of ours Jared (Aggie Class of '01) is leaving on Sun. for Iraq as a Marine Aviator. Jared is my hero and is also the hero of Christina (tsip) his wife who will be delivering their beautiful baby girl while Jared is away. I am immensly proud of them, proud of Jared, and proud to call them our friends. Truly, freedom isn't free and I consider it a personal honor to get to pray for them while Jareds over there, go and do likewise.