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Today I read the first 16 chapter of Genesis. One verse that really stuck out,

“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” —Genesis 1:4

God separated the light from the dark. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? I’m simply reminded of the amazing power that my God has. A power so amazing that he can separate light from dark.

And that’s awesome.

A little later I read,

“Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.” —Genesis 15:6

The Lord credit Abram as being righteous for simply believing what he was told. Made me wonder if I truly believe the words that God has told me. Whether it’s words He places in my mind or words that I read in the Bible. Either way, do I really believe everything that He has promised me? Yes. Of course. But it’s hard for me to really comprehend that. God will never leave me or turn his back on me. He was always love me and pursue me even when I don’t pursue him. That he will forever stand at the door and knock in order to come in and sup with me.

Remember me talking about a fervent pursuit? Well, today I started Bible in 90.

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After I told the wifey, she had the GALL to say, “IN 90 DAYS! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!”

Thanks… Thanks a lot.

I know she was just kidding. I know it totally came out wrong. I know she just thought it was ridic to try and read it in 90 days. I just wanted to share the story ;)
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Well, a fervent pursuit is supposed to be INTENSE or FIERY or GREAT. So here I am.

One good thing, at least for me, is that it’s setup to send daily emails to people letting them know whether or not I completed that day’s reading. If you’d like to be apart of my accountability list, just get a free account on YouVersion and start “following me” (pretty much the same as Twitter following someone).

Small group tonight was pretty GREAT. I really enjoyed the time Amanda and I spent with the other people we do community with. We worshiped for a fair amount time, much more than normal, and then did a different spin on some lectio divina.

When asked to think about how I’m feeling lately: nervous.

To me, there are two way sto interpret someone that is nervous. One, a kind of happy and anxious nervous. Two, more of an uncomfortable, fearful nervous. Mine is the later. I feel a new season of life coming and it makes me uneasy. I don’t like saying that I feel uneasy about life. Why should I be? I have the God of the universe on my side. Nonetheless, I do.

While sharing a little bit about how I’m feeling, my buddy Joe mentioned that Jesus going to pray in the garden at Gethsemane popped into his head. I tried to look through the Gospels for scripture surrounding Jesus’ trip to The Mount of Olives that would speak to me about how I was feeling—I couldn’t really find anything. I started looking through 2 Timothy and found a verse in chapter 4:

Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.

I thought this verse was pretty spot on. What’s more is that I like it better read backwards with each semi-colon being a separate thought.

Anyway, after everyone shared and wrote down their verses we put all the verses in a bag and blindly picked out a card. Would God produce another verse for each person or help us see something else in another verse that we didn’t see in our own? I picked out Joe’s verse. Coincidence?

And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground. Luke 22:40

Joe’s complete passage was verses 40 through 46, but verse 44 was probably the one that stuck out the most. While being in agony, Jesus prayed fervently. Fervent—exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, or persistence.

My goal for the next day, or week, or month, or as long as I can: pursue fervently.

Introducing my new nephew Karson Avery Lunsford.

(for the entire set of pictures, click here)

Born on Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 7:43pm, weighing 7 pounds and 15.4oz, and laying 20.75” tall.

Congrats Anna and Kris!

I’ve been working on a new theme for my site for a while now and I finally finished implementing it into WordPress. Creating a theme for WordPress was a lot more difficult than I initially thought. I’ve been doing web development for a number of years now and I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on a lot of development and programming concepts, but while figuring out exactly what I should be doing with the WP Codex (aka API), I definitely ran into a few roadblocks along the way.

The first roadblock came when I tried to implement the “latest post” callout on the homepage. The function that loops through all the posts only does so much by default. Any modifications to the query that retrieves all the information you want creates a huge hassle for doing anything technical like pagination.

The second issue I had was just wrapping my head around each individual page I needed to create. Each theme has specific page names in the theme folder that WordPress looks for to do certain tasks. So I had to spend a lot of time figuring out exactly what to name my files to that I could overwrite the default behaviors that are programmed in.

Other than that, I really do think everything else was pretty straight forward. But even though it seemed to be pretty easy, it was definitely tedious. There was a long checklist that I combed over many times to make sure that I had covered all the bases as far as “theme development” does.

Anyway, with that being said, I hope you like it when I make it available for download. Please let me know if you see anything that looks out of place or completely broken. I tried to do as much testing as I could with what OS and browsers I have available to me at home.

I hope that this will open many doors for me as far as development goes. That was one of the biggest reasons I did this. And with THAT being said, I am now open for business doing WordPress themes.

Adios for real now.