Connecting God’s Truth to Real Life
February 16th, 2008
The Blazing Center Highlight Reel is a feature of this blog that lets you explore previous posts that you might not have read. Each of these posts is designed to encourage your faith and point you to the Lord, so if you haven’t read these, check them out.
How To Survive An Elephant Stampede
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February 9th, 2008
The Blazing Center Highlight Reel gives you a chance to read old posts that you might have missed. Each post is designed to point your heart to God, so check these posts out if you haven’t read them before.
What To Do When You Cast Out A Demon
I Thought My Bladder Might Explode
The Secret That Will Change Your Life
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December 29th, 2007
This is a public service announcement, informing you of several changes to The Blazing Center.
_Our web address has officially been changed to www.theblazingcenter.com. For those of you who have linked to us using our old address of http://blazingcenter.blogspot.com, DO NOT BE ALARMED. The old link will work as well.
_We’ve added a Blazing Center highlight reel to our sidebar. Each week the highlight reel will feature five past posts. This will allow you to find older posts that might encourage you in your faith.
Thank you for your time. This has been a public service announcement.
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December 26th, 2007
What happens during the Altrogge family Christmas? Here’s the inside scoop, including exclusive photos. We’ll start on Christmas Eve and make our way to Christmas day.
Christmas Eve
_Jen and I woke up at the leisurely hour of 8:00 am. I, of course, immediately began making industrial strength coffee.
_While drinking our coffee, we read Psalm 103 together, which helped us to remember God’s extraordinary kindness to us. We then spent time thanking God for all the ways He’s blessed us.
_After devotional time was Boggle time. Jen and I love playing Boggle against each other on the computer. In one 3 minute round I set a world record, finding 48 words. I’m considering going pro. If you would like to sponsor me please email me.
_At one o’clock in the afternoon we went and saw a movie with my family, which is a longstanding Altrogge tradition. We saw the movie ‘National Treasure 2: The Book of Secrets’. If you liked the first one, you might like this one, because they’re exactly the same. Nicholas Cage solves more historical puzzles, gets chased by more blood-thirsty bad-guys, finds another really big treasure, and delivers his lines with all the personality of a piece of bark.
_Christmas Eve dinner was at my parents house, and let me say, it was one for the ages. We went a little non-traditional this year and had steak. Best decision my parents ever made. It might have been my favorite Christmas Eve dinner ever (except for the one we ate at McDonald’s)
_Presents were exchanged between Altrogge family members. Jen and I made out like bandits. Highlight of the night: when my younger brother Jonny gave us his really nice digital camera.
Christmas Day:
_Woke at 8 am, made coffee. Instead of filling each other’s stockings with candy, Jen and I gave each other letters this year.
_After the letters we moved in on the presents. Jen gave me a suh-weet hat that has lumberjack written all over it. She also gave me a book, a small accessory for my XBox, and a beautiful calendar filled with pictures she had taken of our family over the past year. I gave her some slippers, a Starbuck’s mug, a new bag, and a Willow Tree figure. It was a great Christmas.
_We went over to Jen’s parents for a fantabulous (a word meaning both fantastic and fabulous simultaneously) Christmas lunch, and some more wonderful gifts from her parents. Both of us have such generous parents!
All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas. Here’s some pictures:
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December 19th, 2007
Yesterday we gave away a free scripture song as a tool for memorizing scripture. The link to this free song will be available in the links section of the site. Look for more of these free giveaways in the upcoming weeks.
If you are interested in getting the CD that this song came from, you can go to www.ForeverGratefulMusic.com
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December 12th, 2007
Special thanks to my brother David for designing the new header for our blog. David is an excellent graphic designer, and runs his own business, Vinegar Hill Pictures. Check out his website by clicking here.
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November 17th, 2007
My dad and my daughter. Melts your heart, don’t it?
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November 14th, 2007
Here are some things I’ve learned about babies since becoming a dad two months ago. I’m writing these as I look at my baby girl.
I love my family!
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November 10th, 2007
For those of you interested in the more personal aspects of the “young” Altrogge family, you can visit the brand new Altrogge Family Blog at http://altroggefam.blogspot.com
You won’t be able to resist “oooing” and “aaahhhing” over the pictures of my little girl.
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November 3rd, 2007
For you Chronicles of Narnia fans, here’s a preview of the upcoming Prince Caspian movie. Click here to watch the preview.
(HT: Justin Taylor)
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