A Lesson

Well, I haven't posted in a while, and I don't know what to post, so I'll just put a quote from my Bible curriculum on here.

"Timothy, a deacon of Mauritania, and Maura his wife, had not been married three weeks, when they were separated from each other by the persecution. Timothy was carried before Arrianus, the governor of Thebais, who did all in his power to induce him to embrace the pagan superstition. Perceiving his endeavors vain, and knowing that Timothy had the keeping of the Scriptures, the governor commanded him to deliver them up, that they might be burnt: to which Timothy answered, 'Had I children, I would sooner deliver them up to be sacrificed, than part with the Word of God.' The governor, incensed at this reply, ordered his eyes to be put out with hot irons, saying, 'The books shall at least be useless to you, for you shall not see to read them.' He endured the punishment with such patience, that the governor was the more exasperated, and ordered him to be hung up by the feet, with a weight tied about his neck, and a gag in his mouth. This treatment he bore with the greatest courage, when some person acquainted the governor that he had been but newly married to a wife of whom he was extremely fond. Arrianus accordingly ordered Maura to be sent for, and promised a handsome reward, with the life of her husband, if she would prevail upon him to sacrifice to the idols. Maura, wavering in her faith, and impelled by affection for her husband, undertook the impious affair. When conducted to him, she assailed his constancy with all the language of affection. when the gag was taken out of his mouth, he blamed her mistaken love, and declared his resolution of dying for the faith. Maura repeated her importunities, till her husband reproved her so strongly, that she returned to his way of thinking. The governor ordered her to be tortured, which was executed with great severity; and after this Timothy and Maura were crucified near each other, AD 304"
~John Fox

Wow... What a powerful testament to what we can endure if God gives us the strength! How many of us would do the same thing Timothy did when he was put through all that? I hope that all of us would! Stories like this one give me strength to go on, fighting all the way to the end!

~Jay

CFA!

Well, I decided I'd take the time to put a couple pictures on here.  :)  A couple of the exciting things that have happened recently are - 1. I got a cool haircut (it doesn't happen often to me. ;) and 2. I started working at Chick-fil-A!  :)  So here's a pic for each of those 2 things -

 

Me and my new haircut...  I like it because it's short and professional looking.  It's also easy to take care of.  :)

 

 And here is a picture of me in my Chick-fil-A uniform...  :)  I'm working the front-counter right now, but I'm not sure how long I'll be working that part of the restaurant.  I think I'll be working "boards" (the kitchen) sometime in the future.

So that's that!  :)  Btw, I really like working at CFA!  The people there are really nice and kind, plus the customers have been understanding.  :)  Which is really nice when you're the new guy!

~Jay

Frisbeeman? ...Frisbeeman?!

YES!  I'm okay!  I haven't died, gotten ill, or gone on vacation...  :)

The reason I haven't posted in a while is that the regular school year is here, I joined a new running club, and I'm now employed at Chick-fil-A!  :)

So...  While I would love to post a lot on here about what I'm doing, I just don't have the time to do it.

I will try to keep up this blog for my good readers (thanks for not going away!  I haven't posted since the 21st of July!), and I will also try to get some pics up...  I know a picture can tell way more than I can write, so that's what I'll try and do.

Thanks for understanding!  I'll definitely post about Frisbee tips, and Frisbee stuff in general, and maybe I'll put in a movie review or two.  And then there's always my other nickname - Theologyman.  ;)

Whew!  Now, in posting this, I've just reminded myself that I will keep posting - maybe once a week, maybe once a fortnight, but I WILL post!  :)

Have a good day,
Frisbeeman

July Frisbee Tip

Well... I'm having trouble with Blogger... I can't seem to figure out all this picture sizing detail. :P But here it is! You didn't think I'd forget to give you a tip, right?! But I had to put my thougths into a picture somehow, so I used "Paint" which is a free Windows thing where you can draw stuff.

So that brings me to my tip - Use the Cross Pass! It's amazing how people can get open from other people all because the Frisbee moved! See what I mean -

I don't know if you can see it well or not, but there's the yellow star (which we'll assume is you), black stars (on the opposite team - numbered 1,2,3), and white stars (your teammates - A,B,C). In this figure you can either throw it to C - a terribly hard throw, especially if you want to get it inside the cones... You'd have to worry about 3 blocking you immediately, and if it goes past... There's 2 just waiting to block it. (2 btw, is watching you to see if you're throwing it to B or C... 3's guarding you, 1's watching for A to break up the sidelines and into the end zone or across the field in front of you.) Soooo.... What's the best throw?

You just threw it to A... A didn't hardly have to move, while 1 couldn't get in front fast enough (as he was waiting for A to move somewhere else), so 1 is now guarding A... B & C are still splitting the end-zone, you moved a little closer to A (just in case any of the next throws won't work for some reason), 3 is making sure you don't go back into the end-zone past him - which leaves you open for a potential pass if A can't get it to someone else... 2 then moves into a position similar to the first one - although now that you've moved the field he can't get into as good of a position anywhere.

In this diagram, A should either throw it to B or C for the point! If let's say 2 is guarding C - then As best throw is to B (even if it's a hammer or curve shot). If 2 is guarding B - he should throw it to C as a floater just past him... Not too high as 2 can still come in to block it, but if you put it low, you might risk the chance of 3 coming and knocking it down.

The cross pass makes sure that the defenders see the field differently, and gives you the hope that they don't get into good positions fast enough. If there are more defenders than I put in my diagrams, you have to either work your way up the field (always threatening to go deep) with one or more other players, or try and get in a trick-shot! :) I've done those too many times - and given the defense reason to celebrate after most of those shots... although there is the occasional good shot that you'll get past the other team. It's almost worth the risk to make those shots. :)

Well... That was a long tip, but I wanted to illustrate a scenario I've seen a LOT over the years! Granted, some Frisbee groups play man-to-man, but for Friday Frisbee... This is one play I've seen a lot.

~Frisbeeman

FRISBEE CONTEST!

Hey readers of my blog!

Gene and I have come up with a contest!  There's no entry fee, but there are prizes!  the contest is to advertise Friday Frisbee!

~FRISBEE ADVERTISING CONTEST~

The object of this contest is for the contestants to make a 2min (max) commercial/advertisement for Ultimate Frisbee / Friday Frisbee!

~RULES~

1. You can only enter up to 3 different Frisbee commercials per family. There is no entry fee.
2. The ad can only be up to 2 minutes in length. There is no minimum time for the ad.
3. Please remember that this is a Christian Frisbee group, that doesn't mean that you have to pound Bible verses into your entry, but that you have to keep it clean. Your entry must have nothing in it that would make it questionable to watch.
4. Your entry/entries will be automatically disqualified if any of these rules are violated.

If you are interested in making an ad with people playing Ultimate and don't have the time/people/equipment to film it, email me (Leave a comment with your email if I don't have it already...  I'll delete your comment if you want to keep it private) and I'll send out some Friday Frisbee footage to those who enter the competition.

~PRIZES~

The first 3 places will get to have their commercial put on this blog.
Plus the 1st place winner will win a Wham-O Ultimate Frisbee disc.

~JUDGES~

We need some volunteer judges to judge the entries... If you're interested in doing that, please reply back and I'll set something up with you. The deadline to apply for a judge's spot will be on August 21st. We will send you an email soon after you reply, with instructions on scoring and everything else you'll need to know. We're hoping to get 5 judges, so HURRY UP and sign up to be a judge!

To be a judge, none of your immediate family can submit an entry to this competition. We would rather not put the temptation in front of the judges to pick one of their family's entries.

The criteria for judging entries will be different depending on the different likes/dislikes of the judges. They may (according to their fancy) choose the most funny, most professional, or whatever they like.

~EXTRA~

The deadline to submit your commercial will be on Saturday, August 28th at 12:00pm. You can email your submissions to me, give me or Gene a DVD at Frisbee, or otherwise get your ad to me/Gene... We will then make sure that the judges get it.

The places of the contestants will be decided on by Saturday, September 11th at the latest. The top 3 placements will then be put on this Frisbee blog (probably one at a time) for your enjoyment! We will also try to make a website later for the entries that didn't place, so that you can view all of them if you wish.

~Frisbeeman

Braves... Etc.

Well, I forgot to take very many pictures over the weekend... I'm fighting a losing battle in that section. :) But I will try to get some of the not-so-exciting pics up that I did take.

Last Wednesday we got to go to a Braves game for Jo's B-day which they played against the Washington Nationals! Well, we'd been to 3 Braves games before and 3 Braves losses - 2 of them being skunks 9-0. :) So we just went to have fun... Well this time the Braves beat the Nats 4-1! :) It was pretty fun too. Dad even caught one of the practice balls that one of the Nats hit for a home-run!

~Here are some pictures from that event~

Jo the B-day girl

The Braves starting pitcher Jair Jurrjens (his first game after he injured his hamstring)

A pitcher for the Nationals warming up (it's Stephen Strasburg... He's supposed to be one of the best rookie pitchers ever)

Some of the Nationals' trainers in the outfield for pratice - I thought they looked funny just sitting there with their bats.

One of the Nationals' outfielders... He did well, and caught a couple balls that looked hard to catch.

After that, we took Jo up to Atlanta (again) on Friday to go shopping at one of the malls there (any girl's dream), and after that we stopped and ate dinner and dessert at the Cheesecake Factory... I had a hot-fudge sundae. :) I'm not a big fan of cheesecake, but all the rest of my family said that the cheesecake was really good! But I was the only one in my family (including dad, which was a surprise) who didn't take home a to-go box! :D

Then after all of that... We did several different things for the 3rd of July. :) First Frisbeegirl and Frisbeeman went to the PTC parade and saw several friends there and talked with them for a little bit, then we watched part of the parade, but we couldn't stay long because we had to leave to go to our church's picnic at 11:00. While we were there most of us played Softball for a couple hours until 2:00, while some of the others played Volleyball... I played Softball and it was really fun, that's when I got a burn from being in the sun. :) So after that we went to a party at another family's house, where there was a pool, so they had relays across it with a tournament with different teams competing. I didn't get in the pool, but I got to play some Volleyball and Bags there.

Then we went to a golf course to watch the PTC fireworks, and we played some Ultimate Frisbee there. My team won 14-13. :)

On the 4th we went to another friend's home to watch the Newnan fireworks, and ended up playing Bags and Football there.

So that's the end of that! I'm all tired out now... :P But I had a ton of fun!

I'd love to hear about what you did for this past weekend! Just leave a comment telling everyone how much fun you had and what you did!

~Frisbeeman

June Frisbee Tip

Well, I don't know how I'm going to think up all these tips, but it's always good to stick with what you first started out to do.

Soooo.... Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single thing to help anybody with! :{ So I guess I'm stuck just helping with one of the ideas of Frisbee.

Have fun!
If you think about it, you don't really remember if you won a ton of games last year, or if you caught the Frisbee a million times... You most likely remember if you had fun though! I've spent a lot of time thinking about how Frisbee is fun to different people, and you can have fun any way you want!

I know people who can only have fun if they're competitive, so we try and be kind of competitive for those kinds of people...

I know some people who have fun just getting to touch the Frisbee a couple times a game, so we throw it to them when we see that they're open....

I know people who have fun hanging out with their friends, so we try and talk with them and make them have a good time...

I know I like all of these things! I like being competitive, throwing/catching/and otherwise getting to touch the Frisbee, and seeing my friends there! That's what makes it fun for me, and what I hope makes it fun for you too!

See if you can think of a couple more ways you have fun playing Frisbee, and then post that in the comment box!

~Frisbeeman

PS... If you have something about Frisbee that you don't understand, or need help with, put a comment on here and I'll either reply to you or make it my next Frisbee Tip!
If you don't want anyone else to see it, make sure you say that in the comment so that I won't publish it.

Background: Decided!

The grass theme is back by popular demand! :)

I guess I'll just leave it that way, and then you won't have to worry about it changing on you all the time!

I'm thinking of a way to put pics/videos up here with a Frisbee tip (I'm getting late for June!)... It's kind of hard to think of ways you can show poeple stuff like this. Because, well, Frisbee is 90% mental and only 20% physical. (to quote some other smart guy ballplayer - probably the one who said "when you're coming to my house and you get to the fork in the road, take it!" ;)

So...  Off to see if I can find another aspect of Frisbee that I can try and help people with...

~Frisbeeman

Tools for the Objective

I've been thinking about things lately. Namely, what is everything here for? Why are cars, sports, politics, and all things here for?

I'd like to submit to you that all these physical things are tools. One way Webster defines tool is - Something "that aids in accomplishing a task." Okay. That means (if everything is only a tool) that there's a task that we are using these things for... That also means there's an objective - the end of the task.

Some people I talk to say things like "I want to get a job so that I can get a car." or, "I'm playing sports to build character."
But that just doesn't cut it... They think that the tools they want (cars, character) are the objective, when in reality, they're nothing but more tools.

Now, since we have (and can get more) tools, what's the objective that we should be using these tools for?

We should be using our tools for God's glory!
"Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" ~ 1 Corinthians 10:31

But sometimes we don't use the tools, that God has given us, for His glory. :(
"For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator..." ~ Romans 1:25a

If we aren't using our tools for God's glory, then we are believing in the lie that our tools are the objective, rather than being something to help reach the true objective.

There are people who believe this lie. They try to let things fill the spot that only God can fill.

So... What are some of the things we want? ...A new car? A light-up Frisbee? To work at Wendy's?
Well, if you look at it, these things are either tools that we can use to bring light into the darkness surrounding us, or we can just go blindly on, believing that these things are here for our enjoyment.

~Frisbeeman

How to Watch Movies: Part 2

...Why are films so powerful?

2. Peer Pressure.
How many of your friends do you know who've influenced you to at least consider watching a movie they've recommended? I know of a few of them...
Now, I'm not saying that that is wrong, but that's not the correct reason why we should choose to watch (and be influenced by watching) a movie.
In addition, people go around quoting movies all the time. It almost makes me want to go see something because all my friends are quoting it, regardless if it's a terrible movie.
Do you see (at least a little) how people can influence us to be influenced by bad influences?

But enough said about how powerful films are... We'll look at another question.

Where is God?

One thing I've recently learned at church is that God creates order from chaos. God wants there to be order in His creation, but the ever-watchful enemy wants there to be confusion.

So, in light of that, we can see that there's, almost always, order created out of confusion in almost every movie we watch!

To make a good, edge-of-your-seat movie, one of the first things you learn is that you have to have the main character in a low, chaotic state (mentally and/or physically) sort of at the end of the movie - right before the last battle, or the overthrow of the bad guy, right before the main guy is at the highest point of his life!

So... As you watch movies between now and my next post (which will probably be a while), be aware, towards the end of the movie, of when things get chaotic. And when they do get chaotic, look to see what creates order from that confused state. - I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't God doing that work.

Examples - Night at the Museum, 1&2.

The god who brought order to all the animals/manikins in "Night at the Museum" was (you've probably watched this movie, so remember with me) Akmenrah and his golden tablet! (Also remember the scene [towards the end] where Akmenrah utters some foreign stuff to the tablet and all the things that were outside of the building started to move inside)

And in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian", the god who creates order is... Drum roll... Abraham Lincoln! Look at the final, chaotic battle - Honest Abe comes in to send the evil bird-things back into the underworld, and then he leaves some of his wisdom with Larry, to help him finish off the battle and bring back order.

Those were just 2 examples... Hopefully, if you've seen those, you'll see them in a new light!

I hope that you'll watch out for who the god of the movie is.

~Frisbeeman