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Name: Sam
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 9/7/1969
Gender: Male
Expertise: Teaching people stuff.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
1/24/2003
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| How's everyone doing? My family is doing well. I'm ok, but I kind of miss preaching. I don't get to preach much at all now days. Well, I'm learning to preach to creation (Mark 16) but I kind of miss preaching to humans...
take care,
Sam
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From now on, I'm journaling at:
http://samklee.blogspot.com/
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| Ok, i just sorted out my pens for trading and in one hour i will
head out the door for the SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATION PEN SHOW...
my third sf pen show. i've decided to bring my 1918 white john
holland to show off and see if there any hard core john holland
collectors that will offer me $1,500 in pens for it. that would
be fun. and i still don't know if i would trade it. i'll
know more after i talk to roger cromwell. he has the only other
known white ivorine john holland west of the mississippi.
wanna hear something funny? well, it turns out i'm beginning to
get a reputation, albeit a small one. i got an email requesting
to smooth out a nib on a pen from a guy that will be coming to the show
from sacramento. i'm am not up to par in repairs with a great
majority of the fountain pen repairing geeks out there, but i OWN when
it comes to micro tweaking the nib for smoothness. the nib is the
tip of the fountain pen that releases the ink to the paper. i use
an unique technique that involves varying grades of ceramic rods and
pieces of hard leather.
ok this is more than you will ever hear about pre 1960s fountain pens. heahe
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| we have not because we ask not...
I remember sitting at the Crusade table at the beginning of the
year. As I sat there, I kept praying that someone would come to
Christ that day. I prayed that prayer everyday that week.
Then I stopped.
I remember sitting at one of our first leadership meetings and shared
that while I was praying that day, I truly wondered if anyone else on
the core team was praying that someone would come to the table and
receive Christ. It turned out that no one prayed in that
manner.
Well today, as I was walking the campus, I asked God that someone would
come to Christ. I didn't have that privilege, but maybe that
prayer helped someone else lead another person into salvation.
I wonder what would happen if every Christian in California prayed
everyday without ceasing for revival to explode in this state. If
that happened, we would see hundreds come to Christ by the hour.
But here's the thing: Just because the entire state might not experience
that kind of prayer mobilization, should we behave differently? I
believe God is pleased when his children cry out for rain, even when the
heavens are shut. As long as I have breath, my plea will be "God
forgive.... bring rain to our land."
On a different note. I'll be taking a trip up to SF tomorrow and
hit two birds with one stone. I like it when I can do that.
fun. I'll be meeting with the Bay Area CCC leadership and make
sure they are on track with my vision for SJSU. My second
meeting with be to intercede for Jaeson as he speaks at SFSU, Malcom X
Plaza at noon. If you read this before then, lift a prayer that
people will come to Christ at SF State. I'll keep you posted.
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| interesting... this thursday i'm going to be preaching on "the
immutable character of God." it was a request from one of the
core leaders. i don't know what to do. i'm so used to
working through chunks of scripture. we'll see what happens.
on a side note. it's been a battle carving out time at the foot
of the throne. today i realized something. just cause you
don't feel God, doesn't mean he's not with you. every prayer
counts. every thought raised to heaven is noticed. i was
praying at one of the tables outside the student union. that was
a tough time of prayer. i was just lifing up stuff to God, not
really doing a good job of listening to him. at that moment i was
interrupted by a SJSU student, manly (that's his first name), who
doubles up as a worship pastor for his church. this guy leads
some hard core worship. he asked me what i was thinking
about. as we were talking i felt God enter our presence. **argh
... my kids are beating each other up... hold on**
**ok, i'm back**
continuing with the story. i started to share with him that we
need worship. we need to get the christian groups togther at san
jose state and reclaim the campus as a place of God's presence.
as we were brain-storming he's all, "dude, i see the annointing!"
i'm all... umm... ok.
**doh. my wife is here... i have to give her a kiss... brb
actually, i'll finish this tomorrow morning..... good night.
remind me to write about how God told me to sit and wait in a
starbucks. in that meeting i got hooked up with the world's
leading expert in church state issues. he heads up an
international organization that defends the cause of Christ
worldwide. this dood won an 8-1 U.S.
Supreme Court decision upholding the 1988(?) Equal Access Act he put
together with a team of lawyers. I started praying for a
church/state lawyer in June. Praise God... maybe. don't
know yet if he will meet with me ever. we'll see.
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