tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61376362011-08-10T18:54:06.523-05:00Bloggification at its PenultimatistI'd rather be a prisoner of your love than the champion of my doubt - Rich MullinsJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1166718619789196412006-12-21T09:48:00.000-06:002006-12-21T10:30:19.843-06:00The Usual Suspects: This picture is for any of you who might be wondering just exactly how long the Hellmuths and the Reynolds have been friends! Man what a bunch of hooligans.Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1163452765644368392006-11-13T15:07:00.000-06:002006-11-13T16:39:30.313-06:00Well folks, I didn't want to post anything, because it bumps the picture of my beautiful boy further down the page, and I want EVERYBODY to see him! =) But, alas, I know I can't hold out forever, and besides, this is important. Check out the link below; I had no idea this was so rampant, but if it really is (and I believe it is) then we should be aware.free the slavesOh, and here's another pic ofJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1161783518490870262006-10-25T08:34:00.000-05:002006-10-25T14:34:50.016-05:00I don't know if I've ever felt more scared, elated, in love and ALIVE then Monday night, when I watched my son and first child come into the world.His name's Conlan Janes Hellmuth! He's 6lbs 4oz, 18in, and is second ONLY to my wife in beautifulness. =)Father God, I know now the weight of these words:"For God so loved the world that He gave His only son"Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1161288395311244932006-10-19T14:59:00.000-05:002006-10-19T15:06:35.336-05:00Hey guys! I haven't written much in the way of music lately, but I just finished some lyrics today, and it just so happens that I haven't posted anything in a while either, so here you go. This song talks about our tendancy to settle for what's just 'good enough', instead of what's best. It was very much inspired by these words from G.K. Chesterton: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1159981002765545512006-10-04T11:47:00.000-05:002006-10-04T12:01:32.276-05:00For any of you that think you're a procrastinator, check this out:I was just informed about 30 minutes ago by my pastor that I will be preaching the message at Crossroads this Sunday. Talk about last minute, huh? I mean, we've been talking about me doing this for a while, but 3 days notice is a little last minute! Good thing I'm mostly prepared.Anybody that wants to come, it's 10:30AM this Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1158941688883259202006-09-22T11:09:00.000-05:002006-09-22T11:16:00.830-05:00 Fresh ground pepper. (hehe)Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1158763856963951432006-09-20T09:33:00.000-05:002006-09-20T09:50:56.983-05:00Yesterday was my birthday. I'm now 25! That's a quarter of a century. Birthdays always have a way of bringing to light the things you have or haven't accomplished in life; kind of like a second new year's eve, complete with sincere but unrealistic promises to improve. I personally would love to spend my life in worship and teaching ministry. I can't say there is anything I enjoy more in this lifeJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1157743067471784512006-09-08T14:14:00.000-05:002006-09-08T14:20:28.936-05:00I had a hamburger in my mouth when I saw this, and it's really a miracle that my keyboard is still relatively hamurger-free. I mean, I would say that stranger things have happened, but...???Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1157490418119422092006-09-05T15:54:00.000-05:002006-09-06T08:34:32.490-05:00I'm not going to spoil the amazing words that follow with much of an intro, but let me say this: The song below illustrates very well these words coined by Clive Staples Louis: "Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God."Folks, with minimal further ado, Keith Green:Make My Life a PrayerMake my life a prayer to YouI wanna do what You want me toNo empty words, and no Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1156530296489677252006-08-25T13:18:00.000-05:002006-08-25T13:24:56.500-05:00I think this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. For those of you parents with little kids running around, they use the word Hell inappropriately once, and the alternate way to say "donkey" is in there once as well. Enjoy! I Feel Great!!Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1156425958602376692006-08-24T08:16:00.000-05:002006-08-24T08:25:58.603-05:00Ok, I'm only a father TO BE, so I can't exactly offer parenting advice from the depths of my wealth of experience, but I've been thinking about this a lot, and so I'm going to post it. Have you ever noticed how scripture never talks down to children? Or how it offers "little children" advice that we would probably reserve for teenagers? And let's not forget that a child was considered to be an Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1155141161552801542006-08-09T11:28:00.000-05:002006-08-09T12:37:48.416-05:00German 101 -Farfignuggen is literally translated as,"The exact warm & fuzzy feeling you get when driving a Volkswagon that you don't get driving a Chevy."Krabbe (as you may have guessed) is translated as crab, but can also mean shrimp, or even prawns. This could get a Bavarian in real trouble if he agrees to put a krabbe down his lederhosen.For a change, the english word Flounder can be Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1155135615027486462006-08-09T09:02:00.000-05:002006-08-09T10:00:15.043-05:00"But the brother in humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away." -James 1:9-10Man, this is bad news for some of us. God ALSO gives grace to the humble and opposes the proud. If you noticeJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1155070806549802782006-08-08T15:58:00.000-05:002006-08-08T16:00:06.550-05:00Since I haven't posted in eons, I decided to make up for it by misspelling words and posting really old pictures of me and my loverly wife!! She wasn't my wife when these pictures were taken, but she hasn't really changed much. Oh, except she's PREGNANT NOW!!!! HAHA!! I'm going to be a father on October 27th!! His name is (or will be) Conlan Janes Hellmuth. Man, that's so cool.Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1155070100889609942006-08-08T15:46:00.000-05:002006-08-08T15:48:20.890-05:00Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1077664704685745662004-02-24T17:18:00.000-06:002004-02-24T17:21:12.950-06:00So today has been an incredibly crappy day. You know, one of those days where your deepest faults are shoved in your face; where your incompetence is evidenced all to plainly by your bumbling actions. Everybody fights an eternal battle of their own. A battle they will never win; a battle that, to some degree, you will never stop fighting; it's a wound that will never quite heal. Some of us Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1076391474721142122004-02-09T23:37:00.000-06:002004-02-09T23:40:22.403-06:00Do you live? I mean, do you REALLY live? What is life, you ask? Well, at the risk of sounding like a Hallmark card or a brochure for some lame wildlife retreat in Nova Scotia, I would define life as jumping in the pond behind your grandpa's barn in the middle of January. Life is holding your first child in your arms (haven't been there yet) and realizing that a human being has just been Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1074283121411671232004-01-16T13:58:00.000-06:002004-01-16T14:00:35.296-06:00You know, I don't know if anybody ever even reads this stuff, but it's good to get it all off my chest anyway. I think writing is very therepeutic for me (or however you spell that). I mean, there's something just RIGHT about writing out exactly what you feel and think. I think it allows you to organize and give structure to your thoughts; I know I tend to come to a lot of startling and new Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1071605091788725122003-12-16T14:04:00.000-06:002004-02-09T23:40:55.496-06:00I think America (and probably western society in general) has just about the worst method for paying your average, run of the mill worker that I have ever seen. I'm simply referring to the way in which an hourly wage is the standard form of payment for your lower-earning bracket, and how our upper earning bracket is (for the most part) paid a fixed monthly salary, irregardless of how hard they Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1070413889932640272003-12-02T19:11:00.000-06:002003-12-02T19:11:40.350-06:00This is an excerpt from a paper I had to write for my business ethics class; we're required to write reflections papers about different events and readings, and this is one issue that is very near and dear to my heart, so I figgered I'd post it. If you can spare the five to ten minutes it'll take to read through the whole thing, I think you'll enjoy it. Thanks!
Mr. Dancer spoke in one of our Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137636.post-1069950397265098612003-11-27T10:26:00.000-06:002003-11-27T10:26:46.173-06:00So, my first blog post ever, huh? Wow, this is strange; I mean, I've avoided doing a blog for soooooo long, just because it was the "thing to do", you know? So here I am, blogging away, like a good little blogging blogger with his blog....honestly, to tell ya'll the truth, I just needed a way to record and remember some of the crazy stuff that pops into my head all day long. I think of all Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491167023706876941noreply@blogger.com0