Hello all my feeders (all two of you) I am showing the youth pastor the wonders of wordpress. We might be moving our church’s website over to wordpress.
For the interested, you can check out The Fong’s (think The Fonz) myspace page by following this link: http://www.myspace.com/jacksonfong
And here’s a picture of the studly youth pastor… 
oh, and a video for jackson…
I am a believer in Jesus the Christ of Nazareth. He is the only begotten son of the one true God and is God in the flesh. I write this with deep conviction. I cannot deny the lover of my soul, the one who has given me hope, power, and joy.
I need him. I cannot do life on my own and hope to succeed eternally. When I try to live like I don’t need him the worst of human qualities takes over. I become prideful. Pride manifests itself in many ways: self promotion, selfishness, arrogance, cruelty, and many more. Pride manifests itself in such ways because the victim of pride begins to think that they are the master of their destiny and that they are more important than anyone else. The result of pride is a great fall with extraordinarily destructive results.
Paul the apostle of Jesus wrote, “You have been saved through faith {in Jesus}, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast {in their own ability}.” Mankind has foolishly been deceived into thinking that they can save themselves. This was the lie in the Garden of Eden. This was the lie told to and taught by Buddha. I came across this quote of the Buddha, “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” The divergence in viewpoints is huge. One is dependent on God’s power and grace and the other is dependent on one’s own limited powerless humanity. One takes away our sin from us while the other tries to master and conquer sin resulting in the pride of accomplishment leading to… sin.
Buddha sought enlightenment which is a true and noble goal. True enlightenment is when we come to the end of ourselves and realize that God is calling us to Himself through Jesus in a small still voice. And when we listen to that call it will say, “I am the Road{path}, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me.” Yes, Jesus is talking to you, inviting you to walk with Him through life to the gates of Heaven. And on that journey….
…May you be covered in the dust of the Rabbi Jesus
I promise to write more. Really I do. Last week was Fair Week and that meant that I was busy with Youth Group Taco Booth and my wife was busy with Ticket Sales at the gate. It was busy.
Despite all that (eating indian tacos with fry bread, all those other ‘once a year’ fair goodies) I have good news:
Weight: 304 (got on and off that scale three times just to be sure) Chest: 54 in Waist: 51 in Hips 48.5
I think I see the demise of the 300 lb monster that has been eyeballing me. I am so hopefull that I will make my goal. Sub 300 lb by August 1st.
A funny story about my run this morning. I downloaded the podrunner pod cast for week 4. Good beat. I did my best to keep my feet pounding to the beat. So I am in the last 90 second walk before the last 5 minute run. The beat is bumpin’ then nuthin’. The battery died. So I looked at the watch and started running. I was gonna finish that workout.
May you be covered in the dust of the Rabbi Jesus.
Yeah Baby!!! Let the numbers speak…
Weight: 308lb (got on & off the scale 4 times), Chest: 54in, Waist: 52in, Hips 49in.
I’m down 4 lbs, an inch on both my chest and waist. This is good. I hope to see similar numbers next week. I will be hitting the streets running on Wed and Friday, getting into the gym on Tues and Thurs, and hopefully putting some miles on the bike this week.
This week I was the story teller for the Vacation Bible School (VBS) at church. We were talking about Jesus giving us power to be brave, thankful, helpful, to live forever, and to tell others about God. It was a good week. I am glad to have done it. I am also glad to be done with it.
My wife volunteered me to make a media presentation for church. I finished it today. I have given it to the worship leader for tomorrow, but decided to try posting it to youtube. It worked! and here it is…
Hey there all, well 4am rolled around (it does that everyday, didn’t you know) and I got my booty out of bed to go exercise/train. As I had mentioned earlier my wife had suggested the Eagle Lake 5K walk/run. So I was off to C25K.com to get a training schedule. Since I know that I have been working out I dared to jump ahead of the training schedule to put me closer to my goal.
I chose week 3: 2 cycles of 90 Sec of Jogging, 90 Sec of Walking, 3 Min of Jogging, 3 Minutes of Walking, and 5 minutes each of a brisk walk warm up/cool down. I lived! I did it. So next week I’ll follow that regimen. It is my hope that my body will respond and I will see a weight loss and increased stamina/endurance.
I’ll keep you posted.
May you be covered in the dust of the Rabbi Jesus.
Well faithful readers, I am so very glad (almost giddy) to report that I was wrong in my previous post. After reviewing the Couch to 5K plan over at Cool Runnings, I can do both. My thought that I needed to run every day was error. The plan is for three workouts every other day. So I can continue to hit the weights on Tues and Thursdays.
I was thinking about how building up my endurance and legs through running might benefit my bike riding. I have set a goal to ride to and from work by the end of August. The trip is right at a tick over 9 miles. I think it is a worthy goal. I want to eventually take the long way to work (14 miles) that climbs up the mountain and down the dirt road portion of Rice Canyon Road.
Finally, I thought about running and how the apostle Paul talked about setting aside every weight that hinders us in running the course. I guess in one physical sense, that is what I am doing. I am running, biking, skipping rope, and pumping iron to drop the pounds so that I am more efficient.
May you be covered in the dust of the Rabbi Jesus
The other day the wife mentioned that there is going to be a 5K walk/run at Eagle Lake next month. She threw out the idea, you can run/walk it and the kids & I will walk it, you can come back and join us after you are done. Sounds good.
But I have a routine. MWFS are cardio days, T/Th are resistance days.
The competitive nature in me wants to do well on the 5K. Do I really think I am going to run the whole way? Nahhh. Could I win? Not a snowballs chance! But I will know if I did my best and did I prepare the best.
So back to my routine. Do I just go to cardio with general calesthenics thrown in? So my new schedule would be M-S cardio with T/Th Calesthenics (pushups, squats, ab work, etc…) I really don’t know.
Also I am intrigued by the 100 Push up challenge I saw over on John is Fit and at Andrew is Getting Fit. So I am wondering if I should lay off the weights in favor of body weight exercise. Ahhhh! I hate it.
SO… I think I am off to Couch to 5k for a training program and to have a conversation with my awesome spouse about working out times.
Thanks for listening to my ramblings…
May you be covered in the dust of the rabbi Jesus
Hey all, well it was a busy week/weekend. Two birthdays, a holiday, in-laws coming, cleaning, etc… So I ate like crap and didn’t get to workout as I should have. I did fit in a 5 mile ride with a friend and it was awesome! So now that I have set it all up….
The measurements:
Chest: 55 Waist: 53 Hips: 49 Lbs: 312
So I lost a half inch off both my chest and my hips, but gained back 2 lbs. I’m putting it out there that my goal for the end of July is to be at 300 or less.
May you be covered in the dust of the Rabbi Jesus
Stacy, I am so lucky to have you as my wife. I appreciate you. I love you. Last year you got 35 reasons why I love you. Let’s see if I can come up with one more….
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU…
1) are intelligent. 2) have a different perspective from me. 3) want to follow God. 4) went to a small Baptist church in Ducor. 5) helped me see the larger picture. 6) have a wonderful laugh. 7) love to get away with me and only me. 
encourage me. 9) have beautiful blue eyes. 10) strive to be an excellent mother (and succeed). 11) rode from Devil’s Corral to Hobo Camp. 12) are a good friend. 13) have established healthy boundaries. 14) work to benefit our family. 15) accept me for who I am. 16) are cuddly. 17) and I can’t tell where we end and other begins when we touch. 18) are so important to me that I can’t imagine life without you. 19) are an excellent traveling buddy. 20) are an avid reader. 21) think I’m good looking. 22) gave me two wonderful kids. 23) allow me the freedom to be involved in ministry. 24) are ok with being a mini-van mom. 25) sew things to bless our children and to give a personal touch to gifts. 26) listen to me. 27) make me happy. 28) love to sleep in (and look so cute too!). 29) introduce me to new experiences. 30) answered me call and the rest was history. 31) pray for me. 32) have different love languages than me which helps me to grow and stretch as a person. 33) are the queen of everything and teaching our princess of quite-a-lot. 34) read to our children. 35) are playful. 36) said yes to me in 2001 and became my wife.
I love you babe. Happy Birthday.
May you, Stacy, be covered in the dust of your Rabbi
