Dean Nester: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

El Ultimo dia aqui en Madrid :)

Mira las picturas aqui mis amigos y familia.  La ciudad Madrid es mas viejo y bonita.  Aye De Mi!  

Some more photo's from today's run in Madrid. :)

 



To Put this into perspective...  When Christopher Columbus walked into this church it was already 400 years old.  Yeah.  That's mas viejo.

A Few shots from Olde Spain. (The lame phone pictures)

So Things are awesome in Olde Spain.  I've spent the last several days in the Sierra Nevada mountains.  (the first edition and not the compromised second draft found in the olde U.S.

So here's some things to peek at.  

I hate Pickles

So for those of you like me who hate pickles we are living in the pickle lovers world, and there's nothing we can do about it.  We ask and and ask for no pickles but they always end up on our plates.  

Please help us.

Dean

On Sunday we will be singing these tunes.

My buddy Blake said it would be a cool idea to post an audio playlist for everyone to hear the songs we will be worshiping with this Sunday.  Let me know if you like this post and listen and practice the new songs so we can sing them out loud together on Sunday.  Here's the link...

Listen Here to Next Sunday's Worship Set

This weeks sermon on "Worship". Jump, Jump.

So friends I must say that it's not un-common for worship leaders to be asked to teach on worship from time to time.  It's probably something that I've been asked to do a dozen times over the past many years of working for the church, but this one talk on worship has quickly become my favorite.

As many of you know, we've been in a series that surrounds the scene of Peter's walk on water.  And the point of worship that we'll look into is this worship that the disciples lavished upon Christ as he entered the boat and the waves and wind immediately calmed down. 

I love this scene of worship.  Sometimes it think it's those scenes in our lives when we are scared, wet, and have been recently saved by God himself that we find the most pure & meaningful.  Here's a copy of this weeks sermon text.  Feel free and print off a copy, bring it in and follow along.  If your too far away to make it in tomorrow, just use this as your devotions.  Find Park Chapel's podcast on itunes and let me know your thoughts on it all.

Thanks and below here is the link for downloading.
Peace  Dean.

Download Daring to Worship 

Here's the sermon for this up-coming Sunday

So as many of you know, I don't commonly have printed notes for the Sunday Morning Sermons.  I guess you could say that I've learned that it is the sermon that you usually preach to yourselves around what's actually being said that sometimes does the most teaching.  I love it when someone comes up to me and says: "It's just like you said in that sermon... "  And they follow that up with something that I, myself, never really said at all.  Most of the time it's something really cool that I wish I had said.  

So I guess use your blank spaces to write those cool things down on.  But if you'd like to have a manuscript of something that may be said on Sunday, well here's the sermon.  It's the one I typed, but may not be completely what's said on Sunday.  

I'll pray and we will see what God can do with this.  Just click this link to download a PDF copy of the talk.  Peace my friends.  

Download Using your gifts in love

Vacation in Tennessee :) Good Times

The 1st day of vacation this year was a blast.  The boys had so much fun on the boat and each of them took their turns learning how to drive the Jet Ski.  It's amazing how little you have to teach them.  To them the Jet Ski isn't as hard to ride as their dirt bike and it has softer wrecks.

Good times were had by all.
Peace

How nicely we fit Together (Today's Sermon)

Hey friends the teaching were fun today and a big thanks to all for listening.  The podcast should be up on ITunes soon so feel free and listen along and here's a copy of the notes.

If you had a chance to be here to day and hear the talk, feel free and ask some questions here if you have any, or make some comments.

Life is such blessing among the good folk like you
Dean

Download How nicely we fit together Here's the Sermon text my friends.

A little Spring is in the Air...

So a little "Spring" is in the air these days as the kids are out of school.  "Jack" the dog has a bit of life in his step as he tries to follow the boys around to their various adventures.  These boys of mine have been living it up since school has been out.  We've gone camping and they have slept a couple of nights out on the trampoline. 
     Steph has their homework all made into packets for the week and scripture memory verse for each week as well. 
     Times are good at the Nester home.  I've battled a bit of crab grass and came out victorious.  I can only hope some real grass grows back in its place. 
Peace my friends.   Dean