Wal-Mart is rolling back prices

My friend Mitchell took this pic, while he was looking for a tv.



Digg it

Camp. Light Painting.

How to light paint.
Thanks for the idea Los

Help! I need a name.

Tomorrow I'm teaching in Kids Factory at First Assembly.
And I need a name for my character.


Comment now.

Saw Scott Adsit Today

I'm at some meetings at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield and I saw Scott Adsit come out of the bar tonight.



Scott Adsit
Plays Pete Hornberger on 30 Rock

The Orange VW

I love being part of staff that works hard and plays hard.

Pictured going clockwise starting at bottom left.
Me
Erik
Travis
Pastor Van

This was a picture taken right before The Orange Conference started.

Where is your Orange VW picture?

It wasn't no perfect storm

My car is sick so I'm down to just my scooter.
And mother nature decided to rain this morning.

8:53am


After a 2.4mile scooter ride thru a little wind and rain

9:04am

More posing

Brian Miller

More of YOU doing "The Pose"

Two weeks ago, I posted "The Pose".
And then I turned it over to the world, to send me a pic of them doing "The Pose".
Many of you sent photos, but some sent them after the deadline.
So this is theirs'.

Me

Pat Dryburgh

Ronni Hall


Pose on world. Pose on.

My new band.

yep. im the hot one.

face in the hole

The Other Price Paid In Iraq

Yesterday, I stopped by the Circle K to get a 32oz Polar Ice for my marathon of meetings that some call Monday. At the register, I saw the cover story on the Journal Gazette. I noticed the cover photo...

...and i got a sick feeling in my stomach.
The caption under the photo says the soldier puts the cross in the window of his Humvee before going on patrol.

This wasn't the real punch in the gut for me.
I could look past that.

The title above the photo said "The Other Price Paid in Iraq", I was excited.
Thinking Finally, someone is going to publish not just American & Coalition deaths, but Iraqi soldiers, insurgents, and civilian casualties.

So I quickly flipped past the fold and doh! Its not about casualties, but $$.
Disappointing.
Here's the AP article: Studies: Iraq War Will Cost $12 Billion a Month in 2008

I am looking forward to reading the book I just received in the mail today.

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne



And yes.
I got a hair cut.

You doing The Pose.

Last week, I posted "The Pose".
And then I turned it over to the world, to send me a pic of them doing "The Pose".
Here are the results.
If you didn't get yours sent to me. Do it now. What are you waiting for.
Email to ecourtney at hotmail dot com
Thanks world


Me

Luke Greer

Eli Courtney

Skylar Farris

Russell Hawkins

David Meacham

Rachael Atchison

Jim Hall

Nathan Hall

Matt Redboy Edwards

Thom Allen

Victoria Greer

Paul Fowler

Travis Spencer

Elgin Combs

Contributing instead of Consuming

Yesterday at First Assembly & The Pipeline we talked about the need to get people to serve.

So, last night at The Pipeline we did a Double Cheeseburger eating contest, to see who could consume the most in 2 minutes.

Then we talked about the need for us to be contributors instead of consumers.

Here are a couple statements made.

• You were put on earth to make a contribution.
• Whenever you serve others in anyway, you are actually serving God and fulfilling one of your purposes to live.
• Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your calling.
• Jesus says your attitude must be like my own, for I didn’t come to be serve, but to serve and to give my life.

In 60 seconds

I think i need a haircut.

What style should I go for?

The Pose. It's your turn.

Last week I posted a picture of what I was wearing that day, and sat on the couch in my office.
So my brother and a couple of friends posted and sent me photos of them doing "The Pose"

So world, it's your turn.

• Email me a photo of you doing "The Pose" to ecourtney at hotmail dot com
• In your email to me, include your website, so i can link to you.
  
• Post your pic of you doing "The Pose" on your blog, and link here. Comment here, so I know you posted it.
  
• Monday I will post all photos i have received in a post called "The Pose"

Here is "The Pose"


Happy posing!

The original "The Pose"
My brother taunting me with "The Pose"

Ever have a bad hair day?

I think my brother is taunting me

My brother


Me


check out my brother blog's here.
he has some sweet video editing skills

Tom Hanks' hands

Taken in 2002, outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater

Some Tom Hanks trivia

• Dislocated his shoulder when he fell through a rotting floor in a building in Germany while scouting locations with Steven Spielberg for the HBO series "Band of Brothers"
  
• Was asked to play the title role in Jerry Maguire 
  
• Has another brother who is a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL
  
• Gained and later lost 50 lbs. for his role in Cast Away
  
• Was considered for the role of Peter Banning (Peter Pan) in Hook
  
• He is an environmental conservationist and often advocates and supports natural causes.
  
• Sold popcorn and peanuts as a teenager at the Oakland Coliseum.
  

My Fav 5 Tom Hanks movies

1. Saving Private Ryan
   
2. Terminal
   
3. The "burbs"
   
4. Big
   
5. Cast Away
   

I think Saving Private Ryan has one of the greatest movie endings of all time.

But some think is should have ended different. {Video Embed}


What's your fav Tom Hanks movie?

Stormtrooper

Welp. My iBook went down for the count today. So I have to sent it off for repair. Gulp.
So that means that i will be without the following for almost 2 weeks.
Photoshop. Final Cut Pro. Dreamweaver. InDesign. iLife. iWork. Office.
My Music. My Photos. My Contacts. My Life.

So my blog posts will be a little different including this one. So, here goes.



I found this picture today, and facts about it.
Taken in 2002.
Taken outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Day after Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones premiere.
The only Star Wars movie i've seen is Empire Strikes Back.
I'm wearing a borrowed Illinois sweatshirt. If you know anything about me, you know it had to be cold for me to wear that.
Photo was taken by Jon Keck.
I spent a week in southern california for a Purpose Driven Church conference.
Taken a less then month before I got married.
Directly after this picture was taken, i gave the stormtrooper a knee to the crotch.

Snow Day!

Katie and had snow day today. So I decided to work from home, that and our shared driveway/alley with the apartments next door is crazy messy.