Sleep? Whats that??

So, I've been very busy....

Christmas was great, was nice to be able to spoil the kids once again and get spoiled by friends and family. I got some great gifts this year. I'm not very big on Christmas, I'm not a 100% why but I'm not. I'm learning to be for my kids sake. So they get to have all the fun with it when the get old ;-)

Work has been crazy busy lately its hard to keep up, I'm not complaining at all just very busy. It's been great cause after the Euro-can announcement things seemed to really grind to a halt for about a month or so. So we were and are able to catch up on things that got missed and didn't have to skimp out over the holidays. Granted we didn't go nearly as crazy as we did last year but we still spent to much money :-P

Things don't show any sign of slowing anytime soon either so thats cool. I'm gonna have to take to napping when I can so I can get some sorta sleep happening. New Years is quickly approaching and I'll be DJ'ing again this year, HUGE party its actually a lot of fun to DJ. Anyways I figured since I haven't updated for a little while I better, not like anyone would notice it seems none of you are updating either. Wednesday were having dinner guests, and I offered to cook for it so I'll be making a dish I made actually quite sometime ago now but here's the rough recipe;

**1 Onion ~ diced
**Couple of garlic cloves crushed
some oil in the pan to saute the garlic and onion
**Lots fresh mushrooms sliced and sauted then added to the onions and garlic
**9 boneless chicken breasts. (First I'll bbq'd them with sweet chilli sauce, seasoning salt, coarse pepper.) Then I'll cut them into bite sized pieces.
**Red and Yellow and Orange peppers diced up. Then I added the chicken and peppers to the pan and **Cream then some **Dry white wine
Then I'll add some more of the **Sweet chili sauce to the mix and let simmer for about 15 mins or more

Christy will be making a fresh green salad to go with it and we'll be having fresh Brownies and Ice Cream for desert.

So ya, looking forward to that we have some friends in for out of town that we want to hang out with so we figured after the great meal they fed us when we visited them in Vancouver that we would do the same here :-D

G'nite all I'm off to bed before midnight lol

Blessings

Christmas is coming...

So Christmas is coming, I haven't done any shopping which is TOTALLY normal haha. I did get a the new iPhone even though Steph didn't give me any inside advice :-P It should be here any day HOPEFULLY... My phone died like I said in my previous post so I need something to fill that void.

Work has been ok, not great but good enough. I need to get more sleep but that's totally self inflicted.. I was pretty excited to start blogging again but I seem to have lost that motivation, it comes and goes I suppose.. Like most of you though I have noticed that it's been dead around the land of Blog.

Anyone have exciting Christmas plans or are you guys just staying home??

Does anyone leave Christmas shopping till Christmas eve like me?

Anyways I'm still DJ'ing lots this season and Jenny was the only one who thought of a DJ name for me, so you win the prize! Pick some tunes I'll rip you a good disc.

Ok well I'm out for now later!

I need a new phone...

To iPhone or not to iPhone...

I could just get a new blackberry..

My current phone is broken :( The mobile network turns itself off, the battery drains instead of charges when plugged in...

I'm Back!

Hey everyone, sorry to leave you hanging for so long I had other things to do that required I pay full attention to them. Long week, or two whatever it's been.. I really felt God calling me to share the word on a Sunday morning and with Mike&Moe being away I offered to fill a need if one should arise. Turned out there was a spot that I could be used so I got to my studying, I had already felt the Spirit leading me in a direction so I just spent some time in prayer and hit the books.

Well Sunday's gone and past and God showed up thankfully, cause if I had it would've been terrible haha. I just wanted to share a little of what I shared on Sunday here for my friends and blog fans.

Matthew 22:37-39
“And he said to him, “You should love the Lord your God with all your heart (kardia – inner self)and with all your soul (psyche – your animate self) and with all your mind (dianoia – understanding). This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

Let’s take a deeper look at what Jesus is saying; each one of these overlaps the other, even in the Greek; the Kardia, Psyche and Dianoia all reflect one another. It’s with all of your heart, all of your soul and all of your mind. There is no exclusivity here; were to love God with all of our being our whole person, with everything that we are. Together these three demand our love for God to come from our whole person. It’s his first and greatest commandment. It requires us to lay down our selfishness, our motives and to give it all to him! I love how Deuteronomy says it

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Isn’t that so incredible, WITH ALL YOUR HEART, ALL YOUR SOUL and ALL YOUR MIGHT! It’s so important that we need to always keep these words on our heart; we need to teach them to our kids and meditate on them day and night, to bind them to our hands a reminder like a sticky note on your fridge or mirror in your bathroom, and it needs to be always on our mind. Were to love God with everything we are. With all our might!

That wasn't the entire message but was definitely one of the key points. I also wanted to tell you all that the book I finished by Timothy Keller - The Reason For God. IS A MUST READ Seriously hands down one of the best books I've read this year (aside from my bible, which I'm currently reading Hebrews right now goooooood stuff!)
Anyways thanks for reading, thanks for your comments and know that I pray for you!

Blessings!

Robin Mark - Fortress

Verse 1

I have found a Fortress in the Living God
I have made the Sov'reign Lord my refuge
And my voice will tell of all His saving grace
Though the depths of which
No man could measure
In the days of plenty in the days of want
I will put my trust in You alone
For there's no heart greater than the Father's heart
And there's no love sweeter than the Son's

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah to my King
Hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ my ev'rything
(REPEAT)

Verse 2

That this love pursued us is a mystery
For the heart is base and You are holy
Yet the streams of mercy that flow over me
Will afford me grace to stand in glory
Where with men and angels
Where with slaves and kings
I will sing my praise to You alone
For there's no heart greater than the Father's heart
And there's no love sweeter than the Son's

So it Begins!

Well the season is finally upon me where I burn the candle at both ends... Why you ask well I DJ on the side for fun.. I've always loved music and what better job then getting paid to do what you love. It's a great gig I don't have to book, I don't really have to deal with the clients AND I don't have to chase people down to pay me. Sight&Sound does it all for me and drops a nice chunk of change in my pocket.


No I don't use turn tables although I'd love to give it a try and see how it is. I just thought it was a cool pic. So here's the catch I don't have a DJ name and I figure that every DJ needs a "DJ name" right? Apparently according to some of my friends who've heard me DJ I do have a DJ voice ha-ha whatever that is. So anyways fire me some thoughts all will be considered and maybe there will even be a cool prize or something.

Prize ideas? I've got TONNES of music I could rip you a couple discs.

Motivation...

I'm having a really hard time getting motivated for work lately, usually a sign that I need a day off but I dunno I think its more than that. Not sure what but something. I totally still love what I do and where/how I'm doing it but I just dunno... Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep. I'm going to try and go to bed earlier. That's hard though cause I'm a night owl by nature, I love the peacefulness of the night... Everyone's asleep the phone (usually) doesn't ring and I can just chill out. Problem is I usually end up working :P

Blessings!

Great Time!

Tonight we had some friends over for dinner and had a great time my darling wife made another incredible meal. Was just a great night over all. Now I've got an uber full belly and will just chill-ax for the rest of the night.

Thanks for coming to dinner Kroeker's - Blessings to your family!!!

On the menu;
Butter Chicken
Garlic Nan
Steamed Broccoli
Veggie platter
&
Banana splits

Life on Mars

OK, I don't normally post this kinda thing... I guess I don't normally post any normal thing haha...

I just finished watching a TV series called Life on Mars... Seemed different, caught my interest and was a sufficient time waster for when I just needed background noise during work stuffs. Well I'm thinking I want to talk about it but I don't want to wreck it for anyone else that is watching it. Let's just say I had no clue where it was going or what was going to happen...

If nobody is reading this is watching the show. OR if you are reading this and you have seen it, I'll take it from there.

ha-ha cheesy post :P

Philippians 4:13

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" NKJ

Grandparents

My Grandparents are visiting right now, which is great. I love spending time with them and it seems we don't get to do it very often, even though we live way closer then we used to we still only see them every couple months or so. When I was a kid I lived in the same town as them practically, I would go out to their farm with my Mom and hang out with them it was a blast. My Grandma always tells stories of how I'd come over and take her out on dates to McDonalds or something like that. Or going on road trips thats where I gave her the nick name Nana-Rap cause every time I had club or rap music on when she was driving she would tap her gas foot. The cool thing too is that they really love the grandkids, and my kids really love them. It's awesome to have great grandparents around. They are a huge blessing. This year they asked me if I would like to marry them when they renew their vows, of course I said yes I'd be honored but it doesn't look like its going to happen now we were going to try and get my Dad's side of the family all up in this area so we could do it but Grandma hasn't been doing so good heath wise. I think they just want to do a little thing now but we'll see.

Anyways I guess this post is just to honor them. To let them know that I love them both very much and am Thankful for the role they've played in mine and my family's lives. Thanks for being you Grandma and Grandpa!! Love ya!

Ghost Blog

So did I pick the wrong time to come back to the "Land of Blog" cause nobody seems to update anymore, commenting is scarce :P You'd think if I was blogging the rest of the blogging population would follow suit haha.


Hello-------------------------------------------------------------------->Hello

Crotch Rocket now or Harley later?

I had intentionally asked my wife in the beginning years of our marriage if I could buy a motorcycle. Knowing that she wouldn't go for it I said OK well either I buy a Crotch-Rocket now OR a Harley Davidson "later" Of course she said Harley later and I don't know if you noticed or not but I'm not exactly a little bike kinda guy ha-ha. So every so ofter I gently remind her that I'm getting my Harley.

Well being the big kid that I so can be, I decided to stop by the Harley shop in Smithers. Turns out I happen to know a few of the guys that work there (from drag racing) One of them says to me you should sit on them get a feel.... I respond with a "no thanks, to tempting" and then tell him about the deal I struck with the wife. He then says "It's OK you won't break nothing then you get to feel them out" So I think to my self no harm in sitting on one right...... WRONG :P I jumped on a couple bikes and could tell they weren't for me right away, something just wasn't right didn't feel right.... Then finally I sit on one and the guy being the great sales man that he is says "thats the one isn't it" and I had to agree, I say to him "with some minor tweaks it definitely could be" so I sit on it a little longer and feel it out a bit more.. Sure did feel great.

Anyways it made me want to speed up this process of Harley later. I've got a buddy who is willing to sell an old bike that he's not riding anymore so I can get licensed and then I want to start saving some pennies and start that process all over again.

Here's a pic of the bike that I really liked.... :D

Ludwig Van Beethoven

I wish I could play this... Amazing and its not even his best, I could listen to this for hours. Something about it calms me, I love it... music is such an amazing thing.

Romans 5: 1-2

"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God"

Justify or Justified or Justification ; God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God

Grace ; The free and unmerited favor or beneficence (gift) of God

Obtained ; To gain possession of

Unmerited ; Not deserved

We have been given this free gift by the sacrifice Jesus made, willingly laying down his life to pay for our sins. Romans 5:8 says "while we were still sinners" He - JESUS laid down his life so that his blood would blot out our transgressions (sin) being reconciled (having our sins paid for) unto God.

I'd say that give us MUCH to be thankful for! What about you?

"Today"

Today I choose to follow You
Today I choose to give my 'yes' to You
Today I choose to hear your voice and live
Today I choose to follow You

As for me and my house we will serve You
As for me and my house we will spend our lives on You

Today I choose to follow You
Today I choose to give my 'yes' to You
Today I choose to hear your voice and live
Today I choose to follow You

Wonderful counselor, everlasting father
Eternal King, Lord of Hosts, willingly we follow...
Today : Brian Doerksen
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We did that song at church today and its been on my heart all day, great song! We choose to follow, choose to give our "yes" choose to hear and live!! I love that its all choice, not a "have" to We sure do serve an awesome God. As for me and my house <-- That's a cry of my heart for sure!!

I'm thankful for my family, amazing wife who yearns after the heart of God, wants so badly to be in the presence of our Lord. Two precious gifts from God, that I will continually lay down at the feet of Jesus and stand in the gap for, and the rest of the family who covers us with prayer and love. Also all my friends who help keep me in check and push me to be a better person!

Blessings!!

Psalm 18:2

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;
my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
He is my shield, the power that saves me,
and my place of safety.

A New Look

Hey everyone just a quick post for the new look let me know what you think!

I've added a few of the blogs I follow. Please don't be offended if I didn't add yours I just added some of the ones I remembered off the top of my head. If you'd like me to link your blog post a comment or just become a follower.

I was reading in Galatians 5 today and thought I'd post something fun.


Blessings!

Time For a Life Change!!!!

Well yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life. My wife and I keep talkin about diets and getting healthy... I've never been one to diet, never really needed to (you'll understand in a min)

I'm not a huge eater, I enjoy food but don't need it I know its hard to believe cause I'm a "large" man :P but I've always been big when I was 17 I weighed 220lbs I know I'll probably always be big but I don't care about that. What I want to be is healthy. I don't care about the weight, I know that will come with being healthy. For a long time I've been dealing with different injuries that have been some what dehabilitating a few years ago after I broke my arm I tore and ripped and broke everything in my left ankle except for the bone, the doctor said it would have been better to break the ankle then I could have casted it up and been on my marry way. Last year 7years after the first time it happened. Yes it happened a few times, once you do it, apparently it will never be the same. Anyways last year just before the winter I believe God supernaturally healed my ankle, infact yesterday I remembered that, and we were out the family and I and Tom tossing a football all afternoon and then we went for a walk I in my sandhals, this is something that COULD not happen my ankle would swell up and kill me within the first 5 mins but we walked for about 30 mins with the kids and NO PAIN. Anyways now there`s nothing holding me back!!! Praise the Lord.

So I`m making a life change. I want to be healthy I want to encourage my family to be healthy and stay active, I`ve ALWAYS loved the outdoors and hiking and tossin the pig skin around or playing some baseball or BEACH VOLLEYBALL :D thats what I`m going to be doing, maybe head back into the gym and everything.. I deffinatley want to spend more time outside though. Anyways your encouragement is appreciated. Your prayers are needed. If you want to join Christy or I for a walk or hike or something let us know, I know we`ll need that push sometimes cause its kicking the lazy habit thats the hardest.

Anyways are you shocked I`m updating haha

Blessings

One of the Most Exciting Days of my Life

OK so there's been a few days in my life that I'll never forget. First the day I gave my life to the Lord (I'll share that story another time) Second the Day I got married. My wife is incredible and the perfect choice for me, I'm so thankful to God for choosing her. Third and Fourth in no particular order, the days my children were born. Apr 4th and Feb 23. AND

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!


TODAY FEBRUARY 26th 2009 (NO Christy is not pregnant)

Tristan gave his life to the Lord today "Daddy guess what... what bud?... I asked Jesus to be in my heart today" and then he tells the story about when he did it and why. We've been teaching them about God and living our lives while trying to be an example to our children but never pushed the issue with him. I've asked him about it before once or twice but he wasn't ready and today all by himself he did it. I explained some things about it for him and he was excited.

So excited man I can't even handle it right now!! God is SO GOOD.
Something I've proclaimed over my home for my family from day 1. Joshua 24:15b "As for me and my household we will serve the Lord" !!

I'll let Christy post the rest of the story on her blog cause I know she's dying to do it too haha

Thank you everyone for praying for my family and we love you all


Blessings!

My First Interview ~ Maybe more to come!

Thanks to Jenny for the questions!


1. You've just been told you have 6 months to live, what would you do? Places you visit....
I've been told I have 6months to live, I'd make absolutely sure that my family had everything they needed to not have to worry about "life" things and then I would probably do something cheesey like record a tonne of videos for my wife and children with little messages and being sure they knew I loved them completly. I'd also like to do some major travelling, and some of the things I've always dreamed of doing I.E Sky Diving, Bungee Jumping, Scuba Trip... Stuff like that. A Joe Vs. the Volcano sorta thing comes to mind.


2. Do you love your career...what would be something else you would like to do for a career? What stops you from doing it?
Do I love my career, I deffinately love what I'm doing. I've often said I don't ever want to live to work, I only want to work so I can live freely it's important to me to be able to spend whatever time I want to with my family and also to be able to give to the body of Christ whenever I can. I don't think at present moment I can see myself doing anything else, I've always wanted to be a Pastor and to be able to give in that sense but I don't see why I'd have to stop having fun with computers. There really isn't anything stopping me, I guess I'm on the path that I believe God has me on!! Nothing should hold us back from doing what we want.


3. What was your funnniest moment?
Hmm I'm not sure, there are tonnes of things that are my funniest momments and with two kids and a crazy wife I think they keep happening. I really dunno right now, If I think of something I'll come back and edit in a different color. Sorry

OH MY GOODNESS Thanks to Ruth for bringing back this dreadful but halarious moment of my life... Back when we were all younger ;) our youth group under my father-inlaw's leadership used to go to the old folks home and minister to the people there, singing songs, playing games and visiting with these people. Well one particular visit and MY LAST I might add I sat with a lady we called Grandma Katie... ... ... ... I wish I hadn't :P Let's just say the visit was great really I was having a great time, then all the sudden outta da blue she starts talking about my childhood and how I'm her grandson and going into details, she even told me my birth name (native name) I can't remember it, but then she says "You used to suck on my tits" I was so embarassed seriously I was a young Christian at this point and a teenager "trying to be the cool one" in front of all my friends and wow... ya it wasn't so funny back then but I can sure laugh about it now haha

4. Do you have any regrets in your life so far?
Turthfully I'd have to say my biggest regrets have been not being obedient to God, to his callings. Being selfish in my own life and doing what I've wanted instead of laying down my will and dying to self.


5. What is your biggest struggle with being a Christian?
My biggest struggle with being a Christian is my flesh... Like Paul said I do the things I don't want to do. My disobedience... I'm a weak man I often struggle with confidence in Christ, "did He really ask me to say that, am I really supposed to be doing this" sorta things. Wierd thing is I know that He has called me, I know His voice and when He's speaking to me, I just am a fool for listening to the voice of the enemy and allowing him to whisper lies to me. I also struggle with consistancy, sometimes I feel like I'm not praying enough or not reading my bible enough. I know I'm my own worst critic, and I also know these aren't requirments but I do struggle with them. Another thing I struggle with is wisdom, I guess this ties into the confidence thing though, I just don't feel smart enough, I feel like I never measure up.. It's very dumb I know... but for some reason I continually fall into that. I really just want to live a life that is truly tranparent with a passion for Jesus that results in a God honoring moral lifestyle so that my behavior follows my beliefs.


Well thanks Jenny for those questions, if anyone else has anything they want to ask me then fire away I may not answer all of them if there is lots I might pick a "best of" from the bunch or I might answer them all... who knows :P haha

Blessings to all my peeps thanks for reading. Drop a comment if you haven't for awhile!

I'm due I know...

I've thought of closing shop, but can never do it... I don't know why but I guess I'll listen to the inner thoughts and leave it be. You'll just have to put up with the randomness and long holidays. There is usually MUCH to say but I find myself holding back, or better yet never finding the right words to bring forth. More times then not I will have written a long post only to delete it. Not in fear of what people will think because anyone who really knows me knows that I don't often hold back I usually speak my mind. If I could organize my thoughts I would probably post a whole lot more.

I often pray for wisdom, not because I want to sound or be "smart" but that I might know my Father's heart. That I might retain his words, that they would resonate in my heart and mind. So I can walk in confidence and obedience with Him and for Him. That my footsteps would march a long side His. Most importantly that I would lead my family and my friends to Him, that through my life they would see the heart of the Father.

I am a simple man who desires to earnestly seek the heart of our Father, I fail often and continually fall short of that goal. Thankfully there is Grace, thankfully there is Love, thankfully his arms are MUCH stronger than mine. I am learning always to be a weak man. Not a weak man in the sense that I am a pushover or incapable of doing, but that I relinquish the reins of my own life and allow Him to take control. Of course being the gentleman that He is, He allows me free will and I keep making mistakes. Again thank you for Grace and Freedom in Your truth.
I'm not sure if I've ever shared this on my blog and few people do know but my favorite book of the bible is Philippians... if I could really pick a favorite, more specifically my favorite passages are;

Philippians 3:7-10 "7.But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith."

They speak in abundance to me, they are my life words. The primary focus of my life begins in Jesus, and knowing Him. My hearts desire is to be known as a man who passionately pursues the Father's heart. I may not always show it and for that I am truly sorry. If I could know the Father's heart and walk in unison with His heart beat.... One thing I hate is fake, and I never want to be or example that in my life. Ever. Please forgive me if I have, it has never been my intention.

WOW, that was honestly only going to be a prelude of things to come and maybe it will be.

Thank you for reading, my God touch your hearts and bless your socks off ;-)