I can not believe…

I cannot believe how long it has been. We have missed so much and so have you. Oliver was born an is now over 7 mos old.
I will be updating more often now since I got this free iPhone application for wordpress. Yay!

Valentines Day Wreck @ Around 6:37am

Ouch,

So I got in a car wreck today and am very sore. Left lane + 45-50mph + snow/ice + crx + lane change + 360 spin + staring down two semi trucks and a 4×4 + right lane cement barrier (passenger rear) + 180 + cement barrier (driver side front) + 180 + cement barrier (driver side rear) + 180 (facing in the right direction again) = one thankful Michael. I’m just glad I’m still here and have no more than a hurt back, neck, shoulder, leg and ankle, plus no one else got hurt. I was really worried that someone else would spin out as well, but no one did, thank God. No one stopped though. I waited like 15 mins and then got the car off the freeway and drove myself to the hospital. I want my 4 wheel drive car back and want the state to start plowing the streets like they used to. I know we need budget cuts but come on, there have been over 4 deaths this week from lack of plowed roads. I just thank God that I wasn’t the 5th. When I went to the ER they said I would be okay but if I had an airbag I probably would have a broken nose and if the seat belt were not on the rotator section of my shoulder I probably would have broke my clavicle. But hey…

Happy Valentines Day!!!

I’m Okay!!!

Late Night Highlights : Crossroads p. 106

From the book Crossroads by Colin Creel (p. 106):

Dallas Willard says that the loneliest of moments is the time of decision. It is there that the weight of our future life clamps down on our hearts, that whatever comes will now be our responsibility. There are the second thoughts-and the third and fourth. Did I do the good and wise thing? Will others think I am a fool? What sort of path will this be? But in the midst of these anxious thoughts, there is forever a point of clarity. When you hear the call, you must go.

Standing Together Utah

So as I have been searching for jobs I have come across but one good local resource for ministry in the area and it is called Standing Together. Standing Together (ST) is an organization in the northern Utah area that seeks to be a catalyst for evangelical fellowship. So far it looks it is he most organized community of believers in the area outside of the regular para-church communities such as Youth For Christ, Inter Varsity Fellowship, and Campus Crusades for Christ. But what is a little more unique about ST is that it partners with churches all across the Wasatch Front to create an interwoven network of communities where pastors can have semi-regular meetings and where college age peeps, like myself, can fellowship together with people outside of their regular church community. I look forward to finding out more about the organization and hope that I might be able to get involved in what they are doing in the area. It is so nice to see believers working together to forward the gospel despite denominational differences

Oh yeah there is also a seminary that just became ATS accredited here. It is none other than Salt Lake Theological Seminary. You should check it out if you are looking to move into the area to do ministry or are just looking for a seminary in the Inter Mountain West.

Books Are A Candy Store, I’m The Faux Boss Around Here, Please Do Not Throw Up On Me

I would like to start by saying I have finally started my first class, “Using the Bible” at Spurgeon’s College today. I had to order my books today as well, and when I was looking for them online I stumbled across Westminster Theological Seminary’s bookstore. A very nice resource if I do say so myself. I am really excited to read all of the books, most of which have been on my “to read list” for some time now. It’s like I am a boy in a candy store with a list from mom and dad to get all my favorite treats.

In other news I have become the faux manager at my job by default, leave it be, it is not based on my competencies so far as I can see, it’s just that the other employees are either leaving or have recently got themselves fired. I’m not to sure this is the sort of place for me. Based on some difference in how I believe employees should be treated I may be leaving as soon as I get someone else trained on the press and in Illustrator, since I am the only one left in the department as a whole. I am going to put my resume out there on some church/ministry job sites but if you know of anyone who needs an assistant, particularly some one in ministry I feel I might be of some value, so feel free to drop me a line if you got a lead.

And last off, the pregnancy is getting harder on my wife day by day and the weather change does not seem to be helping. It’s hard on me to go from 90 degrees to 60 degrees in a day, so I could only imagine how it would be to have the added bonus of a baby growing inside of me pushing everything around and all the other things it causes the body to do not to mention secondary bonus of nausea. I pray she starts to feel better for her sake and ours. ~m.moore

New Blog, New Mission | Reaching the Intermountain West with the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Back in the beginning of 2006 just before my second son Ian was born, I quit my job as a Creative Director / Graphics Manger, started going to college, quit playing in bands so I could do more of my solo stuff, and moved for the 4^th time since we had come to Utah, my blog was drawing near to its peak, with little under 500 views within a given month. That may not seem like a lot compared to some out there but it was good seeing as how I had just moved it over from Blogspot and a year or two before that from LiveJournal. Anyways what I am trying to say is I like to start things… Especially new things…. Creating things from the ground up is probably the funnest thing I can think of outside of spending time with God, being with my wife, and playing with my kids. So, that being said., I like to start blogs over. And maybe I do that a little too much, but hey if you can’t do that than why even have one.

Just so you know.., my life changes a lot. Not as much as it did before I got married and had kids, but ever since that awesome day back in 2004, things have been getting more regular and stable for me. Since I am going to be starting my first class in the major I had always wanted (theology / divinity), I think it is about time to get serious about writing again and get this thing going (again). A lot of my views have changed over the past few years and that is why I have decided that I think I will give this one a fresh kick and clean her up a bit. Kind of like how I like to shave my head when it gets to a certain length so I can do the whole beard matching the length of my hair thing. So here I go again. Clippers are on and this time I’m going to take down to 0..

Last off, with my start of school at Spurgeon’s College I have decided, after much prayer, to start the gathering phase for my core group that will, one day, God willing, become His church plant here (or there) or wherever he leads. If there is one thing these Northern Utah towns need it is Christ, as well as in every other town in the Intermountain West. This Region is one of the most densely populated Mormon areas in all of the U.S. with, I believe, one if not the lowest percentage of evangelicals anywhere in the nation. If the demographics I got from NAMB are right we are at less than a percent in most northern cities like Bountiful and it gets even lower the further you go to the north until you hit Ogden and then we start to register on the map a little bit, but by no more than 2%. In Farmington, the city where I live, it is 0 Christian churches vs. at least 1 LDS ward building, housing at least 3 services, every quarter to half mile, thru the whole of our city. If that is not ripe planting ground I don’t know what is. Most of these wonderful people have no clue what it means to know the God of the Bible and need to be shown Jesus. I just hope God will send a few (if not a lot of) good people with a heart for God and the Gospel of Jesus the Christ to this area to do ministry with me or anyone else that has a heart for families and the peoples in these areas. Keep us all in your prayers.