What others say about Luis Fernando

I found this meme in Rick's blog - take your name and search on "Name is" (use quotes to keep the phrase together), and see what you find. So, here's "Luis Frnando is" to the rest of the world:

- Luis Fernando is his name and he took us to many
places we would not normally have gone due to ignorance,language,and fear! ... - Come and see the light!

- Luis Fernando is handsome, rich and accustomed to
getting his own way. When his best friend Ernesto steals one of his lovers, ... It was you Ernesto! I will kill you!

- Luis Fernando Is Credited On The Following CDs. Guitarristas "Guitarristas" Our Price: $14.50 (Price Includes US shipping) - I think this work was very fine, intimist but very sincere. May worth to check.

- Luis Fernando is an Associate. Professor of the Foreign Languages Department since 1995. He studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Pontificia ... - Many people were impressioned to see me as professor at 25s, very young, but I made it!

- Our new brother Luis Fernando is 38 years old, is a baker man and now a son
of God by His mercy and thanks to our work through the radio. ... - Yes! Listening to "how to bake" lessons in radio I am now a new man!

- My Brothers and Sister. Luis Fernando is the oldest. He is very intelligent, and he always make a very good job. - Thanks

- His wife, Maria del Socorro, also kidnapped by the ELN and released on June 15, said that "Luis Fernando is in great spiritual shape thanks to his faith Thanks again! Tuff times kidnapped.

Icons

My dougher seized the variety of post-its she got to draw our family and post them close to the computer: Pedro Henrique (pragnancy is going very well!), Dad (me), Maria Ester (her) and Mammy (my wife)

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This week I could finish my reading of the book of Judges, and it is finished with one of the most bizarres histories of the Bible, a levite travel with his concubine and in the middle of his travel stops for a rest. Some neighbors call the man that received them and asks for the visitors for an orgy, they give the concubine wich is violented by them until death. The levite send pieces of her body in order to all country reflect, but this reflection makes Israel go to Benjamin and almost destroy this tribe... Yes, it is disaster after disaster. This happened in a time when "there was no king in Israel and anybody acted like was good to themselves"
Israel could make it and live well without a King if they should follow God with all their hearts, God should be their King. But it seems it didn't work and each one followed their own heart and made what seemed right to them, by this way, even their reflections was disasterous
When I saw bombs from Al Qaeda again I thought in it, if Jesus is not present we will see bizarreous things, also the most people will reflect the most we will see other bizarreous things for this lack of wisdom.
Here in Brazil some are glad to know are not on Al Qaeda list but we are in the middle of scandals from people of government and these things have generated consequences as bizarres than those things: corruption and misery.
As what happened with the levite, who asked for a reflection after such disaster, what else we need to start to think?
Jesus Christ is the answer.

One year posting in English

There was so many things to do this month, that I skipped the blogversary of this blog. I started to post here translating some posts from my Brazilian Blog "Checklist para viver o Cristianismo Hoje", at that time, some people tried to read that blog with Alta Vista translating facilities. Though, sometimes I know that to be understood you need more than a word by word translation, you need also an explanation of what means some things I am telling there, that is why I started to post here specially in English.
It has been a nice year, I have got more friends and the conversation has been very fine. As long as I have received some comments and also links to this site, those things have making my days. It has making me feel inserted to a great blogging community, and I have been learning a lot with those, specially with the emerging churching bloggers. Though Emerging Church is far to emerge here in São Paulo, I can feel this taste with all of you, emerging church bloggers. From you I get so inspired to make this way here in my city.
I has been a hard work also, as many posts from my other blog are inspired of what I have found in my blogosphere, sometimes I think that those are not as relevant as to translate them here. So I have tried to post something really relevant to my international readers. Sorry if sometimes I am posting here fewer than I could!
Anyway I hope you are enjoying this as much as I.

Reading review

I found this meme at Rick's new blog and found it interesting to post here too:

Total books owned: Near 300.

Last books I bought: Seeing and savoring Jesus Christ, John Piper; Contemporary Christian Music, Sandro Baggio and NIV Bible at Chronological Order.

Last book I read: The Craft of Research, Booth, Colomb and Williams.

Five Books that mean a lot to me:
Community 101 - Gilbert Bilezichean
Jesus for a New Generation - Kevin G. Ford
Uprising - Erwin McManus
Divine Conspiration - Dallas Willard
Celebration of Discipline - Richard Foster

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Yes, something in the air

"If He was willing to turn Judaism upside down, don't think for amoment our institutions are safe from a divine revolt. I am convinced that even now there are multitudes of followers of Jesus Christ who are sick and tired of the church playing games and playing down the call of God. My travels only confirm that the murmurings of revolution are everywhere. I am convinced taht there is an uprising in the works and that no one less than God is behind it."

Erwin McManus, The Barbarian Way
I have read this quote some months ago, and with all are have been seeing, like the post of yesterday, I have been convinced and invited to this holy revolution.

Something in the air

I have been talked very much about our need for a renewal here in our brazilian church. This kind of conspiration has been more common as the time goes by. But I have found a poll that make this kind of conspiration more explicit.

Are you satisfied where you are and with what you have at your church?
739 Votes - 28.5%

Are you not standing go to church?
456 Votes - 17.6%

Did you stop going to church?
415 Votes - 16.0%

Do you think everything is wrong, but stay for guilt and fear?
167 Votes - 6.4%

Do you expect for something new inside evangelical church?
400 Votes - 15.4%

Do you expect for something new outside evangelical chuch?
170 Votes - 6.6%

Are you meeting informaly with other disciples?
246 Votes - 9.5%

Though the ministry of Pr. Caio Fábio calls for these kind of thoguhts (I can explain it later) and peolple that visit his site are more likely to search for something new at church, I feel surprised to see this kind of idea so explicit. And for this kind of renewal I am working and praying for.

Considerations after a great party

I am so happy yesterday we could celebrate the fifith birthday of my doughter, it was a great party! We spent some weeks waiting for these moments and it worthed to wait.
It is ironic that this is my first party we did which the majority was unchurched, we had just a couple from my former church, why it is so hard to maintain friendships even if you are not at the same church? Of course we had other people of faith with us, but our present community is spreaded among several churches.
Even with this consideration I am glad! We could share our happiness and our gratitude to God with everybody and all unchurched people felt touched. I told my wife that I feel we are more likely to impact people now, when we are among them.

A Boy!

As told in previous posts, Saturday we went to our second ultrasound exam, finally we found that the baby is a boy. I was expecting for it as long as the doctor hinted in the first exam.
We are happy, as happy as if the baby was a girl, but we will surely have a different adventure. A good thing for being a boy is that his name is already chosen: Pedro Henrique (it might be very hard for an english speaker to tell it), if the baby was a girl we would debate about a lot!

Corporative gifts

Talking yet about my birthday it was funny that the first call I received at my office was from my banking officer, in the morning yet, my insurance office secretary called me twice to congratulate me, off course at second time I have remembered her about it.
I received lots of e-mails from the sites I had registered, but there was a better mail from Blockbuster offering me a free DVD rental.
There was two gifts I was waiting for I used to receive every year, a 40% discount at a Christian bookseller and a meal at one expensive restaurant in Sao Paulo, this time I received just the first. We got disappointed to know that any of us will not receive a meal in our birthday, even after filling all forms in all times we went there to guarantee that.