I am beginning a new site. This one will be easier to use and more fun in general.  

Check it out:

http://web.mac.com/jmromas/Site/About_Me.html

 

If you have a chance too, do me a favor and click on one of the two adds (or both of them) and let me know if they do not work as far as taking you to another site.  I would appreciate that help, immensely.

thanks.

Joe

P.S.  Quote of the day coming soon hopefully.  Busy Busy!!

“This is the verdict: light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.  Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light, for fear that his deeds will be exposed.  But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.” (John 3:19-21).  ~The Bible

P.S.  Do YOU have someone you need to go and tell the truth to after reading this post?

Have a great Tuesday

HELP!!!  I have sooooo many old photos from my old computer without captions/names/etc. on them.  I have iPhoto as I have JUST purchased a new MacBook which is awesome by the way.  But, I am struggling with how to organize my old pics.  I have taken photos on dates that exceed way over 50 or 100 events/dates/etc.   If any of you have any suggestions, PLEASE I beg you to share them with me on this site.  Just leave a comment for me, it would be greatly appreciated.  I am thinking iPhoto will do the trick, but I have very little experience using this program.  Any advice that may save me some time here? 

-J

“What God does in us while we wait is as important as what it is we are waiting for…”

~John Ortberg (From the book “If You Want to Walk on Water You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat.”

Talking in reference to when you start pursuing your goals/dreams….

“And I want to make it quite clear that what we find out on our own steam is something that gives us a shock.”  ~CS Lewis (Mere Christianity)

this is a quote from the book I am currently reading.  CS is saying that anything you discover for yourself is a shock as opposed to someone just telling you something and saying, “Follow this” or “Do that.” 

Good stuff.  This book is an amazing read.  Tough, but amazing nonetheless.

 

“True affluence is not needing anything.”  ~Gary Snyder

Just a side note: Affluence means: wealth, profusion, or influx.

Does anyone know where or who might be selling a good used car?  I am looking in Southeast Texas in the $3,000-$9,000 price range.  Let me know if you know of anyone selling.  Thanks.

-J

“And obviously a word which we can never apply is not going to be a very useful word.”

~CS Lewis (from Mere Christianity)

 

Last week Tuesday was the worst day ever.  I know I have not written for a while, but when I get the chance, I am going to have to vent somewhere, so why not let it be my blog site?

-J

Hope you guys are doing well!  Come back in the near future for more information.  Also, if you know me personally, standby for an email about my future w/ the Navy.

Still haven’t been writing much lately.  But, for some reason, I am up at 1:45 am and feeling compelled to write on my site.  It has been averaging somewhere between 15 and 20 people per day as of right now.  Pretty good considering I haven’t kept it up like I would have liked to in the recent past.  So, what have I been up to?  The answer is… Monday nights I have been going to Financial Peace University lead by Dave Ramsey.  Yea, he is the talk show radio host that you are thinking of and he is very popular nationally from what I hear.  He preaches and practices that you should only buy things that you have the cash for and that you ought to leverage nothing except for certain cases real estate.  Certain cases being that you don’t have the cash to fully fun your house buying opportunity.  I think it would take me a very long while to be able to get to the point where I am able to buy a house off of only cash, but hey, who knows what’ll happen right?  If you are interested in TOTALLY changing the way you or you and your spouse handle money, this course is a life changing event that I would not recommend missing out on.  I have ready many books on this subject (Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Millionaire Next Door, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, etc) and I feel that this is the best way to handle your finances, according to the teachings of the Bible.  Dave was a millionaire at age 24, and at age 26 he lost everything he had to foreclosures and the banks.  He apparently took the time to stop, think, and change the way he did business and now he has made his millions over and over again and he is passing this information on to those that are interested in taking it all in.  I am not selling anything for him, nor do I make a commission off anything that he sells.  However, I am going to be trying to teach one of his classes in the near future, because I believe in what he teaches really works.  I am seeing the power in my own life.  I hope you go to the site…. click on it in the right-hand column of my page and begin to see the power of it in your life.  I can only lead you to the water, you have to decide if you are going to take a drink from it.  On Wednesday nights I have been attending an in-depth  Bible study on the book of Romans.  Paul (formerly Saul) the author, is an amazing dude to learn from.  If you have a Bible, turn to Acts 9 (Acts, Chapter 9) to learn more about the famous “conversion” of Saul to the Way from his Jewish routes.  Romans is truly and amazing book.  He begins by leveling the playing field so to speak and points out that each and every person ever born (except Jesus Christ) is sinful and guilty of eternal damnation to hell.  He talks about the Jew/Pharisee, Gentile, moralist, religionist, and other groups of people that have the inherent need for a Messiah because “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Chapter 3:23).   My buddy Bryce is going to be teaching chapter 4 and I have chapter 5, so if anyone has any good teaching material for Romans 5, LET ME KNOW!!  I sure can use it.  Thursday nights have been packed up with my “Small Group” or “Hometeam” of which I am the current leader.  Hometeams are a bunch of people getting together to share life together.  We do things like Bible Study (though not strictly a Bible Study), socialize, and discuss personal and sociological problems occuring in our world today.  We have 9 people and are growing at a nice pace from the 4 people we started with.  If you are not involved in a group that meets every week or every other week to just do this kind of stuff with, I would highly encourage it.  Good stuff for the soul.  Weekends have been filled up with going to Bay Area Fellowship and running Open Arms Ministry.  Open Arms Ministry is a group of people (now a group of mostly people that attend Bay Area Fellowship) that go down to Corpus Christi, TX and feed the less fortunate of that area.  It has been great and the ministry is going strong.  We have been in operation now for almost a full year.  Hopefully, even after I leave TX, this will continue to be a blessing to all involved on the giving and receiving end of things.   Another weekend activity that has come into my life is horseback riding.   I used to be scared of horses for the most part, but after helping out around the stable, I am becoming more comfortable and learning to build a relationship of trust with the horses I am riding or am going to be riding in the future weeks ahead.  I am sure there is a ton of stuff I am leaving out here, but for now… time to run.  Hope you all are doing well.  If you get a chance, shoot me a comment and let me know what you think about the site.  And, if you know anything about web page design, please let me know.  I could use your help.  I am looking to expand on this site sometime in the near future.  I will definitely need help.  I am thinking about taking a course to do this some day.  Maybe one of those quick, expensive, make your own site in 5 days courses or something like that.

-J

“The only way to live, is to no longer fear death.” ~Pastor Bil Cornelius

For more of the sermon and to see it in video form, click on my link on the right www.bayareafellowship.com and go to message/music to hear the Easter message this came from. Very powerful stuff.

-J

“Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not
interested it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it
eating.” — Anonymous

-J

This is one of my FAVORITE quotes of all time!!

“Tell me, and I’ll forget.  Show me, and I may not remember.  Involve me, and I’ll understand.” ~Native American proverb

VERY VERY PROFOUND.   Have a good weekend.  If you can’t make it to church, www.bayareafellowship.com is the place to get an online dose!

“The direction you take today, will lead you to your direction tomorrow.” ~Jason Gertus (BAF student pastor)

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”  ~Henry Ford

 

“Almost any man knows how to make money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.” ~Henry David Thoreau

Have a good rest of the week!

If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
Ecclesiastes 4:10, NLT

Time to write on here.  I’ve been so busy with the air show in Kingsville, TX that I have not had time to write on my site in ages.   Standby for some writing hopefully soon.

J

“Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.”  ~M. Scott Peck

“The only way to live, is to no longer fear death.”  ~Pastor Bil Cornelius

For more of the sermon and to see it in video form, click on my link on the right www.bayareafellowship.com and go to message/music to hear the Easter message this came from.  Very powerful stuff.

-J

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

-J