UPDATE: The Commercial Appeal today has a front-page feature of Andrea (Gentry) Perry's daughter (and Paul Gentry's niece), who is still in the running for American Idol. The article can be found online here: (click here). (Or today, just go to commercialappeal.com and the story starts on the front page). The article includes this: "And now Grace joins the 36 contestants entering the call-in voting portion of the popular talent search on Fox. On Tuesday night (Feb 17), she'll be among the first dozen performers to face the public." So, if you're watching and are able to call in a vote, here's your chance to support her quest and spread the word. If anyone else has bragging rights, send them in, or post them here in the Guestbook. Thanks, Andrea, for letting us know about Alexis. Go Warriors!

Larry Holder (1977)
February 14, 2009

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Alexis Grace (Middleton)
My daughter, Alexis Middleton auditioned for American Idol last Summer and did very well. She made it to the next round in Hollywood and has gotten a lot of positive feedback via internet, local news and national news. If there is a distribution list, I would like to send out a little something to everyone (who’s interested) to watch for her when Hollywood Week comes on. If there’s a newsletter that goes out, I think it would make a great personal interest section. We could add other things about all of our (and our children’s) accomplishments.

Andrea (Gentry) Perry (1977)
aperry at ahslink dot com
Memphis - January 26, 2009

Guestbook for Memphis Central High School Class of 1976, 1977, 1978

Keith and Kristyn Getty are at Immanuel Baptist in Richmond, VA today!

How you can pray for Gettymusic
5 points of prayer for the ministry of Keith and Kristyn Getty

1. For Keith & Kristyn Getty in their walk with God.

2. For the writing of great new hymns and songs that feed the global church. For writing inspiration as Keith and Kristyn work together and with Stuart Townend.

3. For Keith, Kristyn and their team as they travel to teach and perform the hymns.

4. For the distribution and availability of these and other hymns that teach the faith throughout the world. For all those people involved with Gettymusic and who work elsewhere to promote this.

5. For increasing vision in all of these areas.

We appreciate your prayers.

Getty Music - Insight

I am ready!

Today we welcome Keith and Kristyn Getty to Immanuel. As your pastor, this is the fulfillment of a dream and the culmination of countless hours of work and prayer. Since first meeting the Gettys a couple of years ago at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, my heart has been drawn to their passion for God and His truth. Kathy and I had several opportunities to witness their ministry in music at Parkside. I have always come away refreshed and renewed in God’s grace through lyrics that are anchored in His Word. Far from trite, their songs are informed by and enriched by the great doctrines of Scripture.

Immanuel Baptist Church - Today We Welcome Keith and Kristyn Getty to Immanuel

Because of the sheer volume of error and because of the importance of the doctrines reinvented by the author, I would encourage Christians, and especially young Christians, to decline this invitation to meet with God in The Shack. It is not worth reading for the story and certainly not worth reading for the theology.

"The Shack" by William P. Young :: books, emergent, reviews, theology :: A Reformed, Christian Blog

"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."

--The Problem of Pain

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."

--Till We Have Faces

"The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."

--Surprised by Joy

"All joy...emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings."

--from an unknown letter

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."

--Letters to Malcolm

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."

--The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."

--The Great Divorce

"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction."

--Surprised by Joy

"Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live."

--Transposition and Other Addresses

"The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost."

--Surprised by Joy

"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."

--Reflections on the Psalms

Quotes from http://www.comnett.net/~rex/cslewis.htm

But I entreat those who believe in and fear God, whoever deigns to examine or receive this document composed by the obviously unlearned sinner Patrick in Hibernia, that nobody shall ever ascribe to my ignorance any trivial thing that I achieved or may have expounded that was pleasing to God, but accept and truly believe that it would have been the gift of God. And this is my confession before I die.

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Wal-Mart plans to market digital health records system - International Herald Tribune

It seems many of my connections are always asking ‘How do I import my LinkedIN contacts to Twitter’. It is actually very possible and below I explain how….. (and I promise it will take under five minutes).

Alex’s Blog » How to add LinkedIN Contacts to Twitter