Billy Finch’s Weblog

Bomb… uhhh ooops! Dumb stuff people do.

1 People who point at their wrist while asking for the time….. I know where my watch is pal, where the heck is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2 People who are willing to get off their butt to search the entire room for the T.V.. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manualy.

3 When people say ‘Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too’.

Dang right! What good is cake if you can’t eat it?

4 When people say ‘it’s always the last place you look’. Of course it is.

Why the heck would you keep looking after you’ve found it?

Do people do this? Who and where are they? I want names!

5 When people say while watching a film ‘did you see that?’.

No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the floor.

6 People who ask ‘Can I ask you a question?’…. Didn’t really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is ‘new and improved!’.

Which is it? If it’s new, then there it’s never been anything before it.

If it’s an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

8 When people say ‘life is short’. What the…?!

Life is the longest thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that’s longer?

9 When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks ‘Has the bus come yet?’.

If the bus came would I be standing here with you, ya big dummy?

10 When someone calls and says “where are you?”

Well, I’m right here where else would I be?!

~Billy

Victory is a wonderful thing.

~Billy

This weekend started with our Life Group Friday night, and it what an excellent time that was! We have 11 people not including Gail and I and we couldn’t be more exstatic to have all these folks in our home, what a really cool blessing. We have some really big expectations of where God is going to lead us through this experience. Also I’ve become a real Dave Ramsey fan, the guy has such a common sense approach and is not afraid to lay it on the line.

I spent most of the day Saturday studying for my Life, Health, and Variable Annuity class the next 2 weekends so I’ll miss all the goings on at LPC for a couple weeks. Again I’m expecting big things, really really big things from me (no really). I remember Travis saying he was in an interview one time and told his prospective boss (paraphrased) ” I want to make lots of money, and if I make lots of money you’ll make lots of money.” I plan to use that line myself one day, but the real goal for me is to be the boss.

Today at LPC we got some really massive, humongous, off the hook insane news. Did I mention this was huge? But first the rundown… when my daughter Nichole and I got there today things were moving but you could tell folks were dragging a little. We had some technical glitches that seemed to get ironed just in time. We played all 3 services and oddly enough I felt the first service went the best. In the second service “something” changed with the sound and it sounded like we were playing in the Carlsbad cavern, way too much reverb and the low end was really muddy. At least that’s the way it seemed to my ear, what do I know?

OK so what’s the big deal Travis was going on about this morning. Well first off he was finishing up a series on one of my favorite books in the bible Habakkuk (Hu-back-ick) and it was really excellent (no really). You can listen to it here, I’ll probably catch it again on the rerun and I sat through it twice. Really good stuff about trusting God and the timing couldn’t have been more perfect for the message with the stress of what the Washington pinheads (both sides if your keeping score) are doing with our money. OK I like soooo digress.

The big bruhaha and falderaux is over the fact that LPC now owns the Church of God on Plantation Key in Tavernier down in the fabuloso Fla Keys. Plus they threw in a house with the deal. Guess what LPC paid for it? Go ahead, I’ll wait.

NO you’re wrong… it was FREE!!! Now we’re going to have LPC 2.0 in the Keys!

I know this church fairly well because my band of brothers “The Messengers” have played there numerous times. It’s really a shame what happend to it. At one time it was one of the happening churches in the Keys but as we’ve seen many times there where leadership issues among other things that dragged it down. A former Pastor Nathan Webb was good friend to us, but alas ended up elsewhere like many of the good guys. My wifes family the Roberts were founding members of the original charter. Her own parents were founding members of First Baptist Church of Key Largo. Did I fail mention “Church” in the Keys is a little dysfunctional, till now.  Well… LPC’s coming to town and they’ve got a little different way of doing things (I didn’t want to use that tired ol’ ”new sheriff” line). We pursue taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses pretty serious and Travis and crew are just the ones to make it happen like nobody else in the Keys have been able to do. I know the dynamics of “church” in Keys really really really (no REALLY) well and let me tell you all this is going to be a difficult road but obviously God had a bigger idea.

As a side my wife Gail and I were living in Houston when revival broke out in the area. At that time we started praying that God would visit the Keys (our home) and then started praying for South Florida in general. As a matter of factuality I have prayed that prayer out loud in that very church. We’ve never given up on that prayer and I’m pretty excited to see how God is tilling the soil for a harvest. I’ve also thought that Homestead is simply ripe for a mega church, I still believe it and we may just be seeing the stirrings of such a move by God. South Miami and the Keys are overdue for His revival.

Ravings of a lunatic you say… I hope not.

p.s. as I write this my Redskins are krunking the hizzy and BEATING THE DALLAS COWGIRLS!!!!!!!!!!! (YO Major I’m starting to see the big dance in the picture here)

~Billy

’nuff said…

If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.” ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

~Billy

Back from the molten ashes my 2002 Sony VAIO…

IT’S ALIVE! IT’S ALIIIIIVE!!!!

~Billy

OK well it’s finally happened, my old 2002 dinosaur Sony VAIO computer has “almost” given up the ghost on Monday. Our best efforts to resuscitate it have us now praying for an 11^th hour miracle to bring it back from seeing the bright lights of the cyber after world. So I’m now having to blog from an undisclosed remote location (that sounds rather clandestine, but it’s just from my work computer which I try not to do). I’m taking it over to my buddy Terry’s tonight and we’re going to perform major surgery and all my email contacts and pic’s, and some other stuff will be lost since we’ll need to format the hard drive a reload the Winders XP. We’re one step away from it “going to be with Jesus” as my friend Rick Swentek would say.

Here’s a quote for the day… “Don’t be stupid like me, buy a jump drive, they’re cheap and well worth the effort!”

The reason I’m writing all this is because I’m losing A TON of email contacts and many of you read this blog, so email me at williamfinch@bellsouth.net and you’ll be added back on my Christmas e-card list. J

~Billy

Wow what a weekend! We missed the 2nd week of the Life Pointe Church’s going to 3 services and jammin’ with my crew this morning. Sounds like Jesse, Phil and associates rocked the hizzy and Travis delivered another scorcher of a sermon. Check out the sermon here when it comes up, I will be. Chris and Ritz Cracked has a pretty good take on things.

Sorry about winning the highly prized and coveted the EIB award again Chris (OK maybe not so much sorry!!

This weekend was filled with some up’s and downs and I feel like I haven’t posted anything in forever. Biggest thing was my brother in law and friend Kevin was very sick witha bug and score a night in the hospital so our prayers are going out to him for a speedy recovery. He is a pretty robust active guy and for him to have to slow down is kind of wierd. Most notably about Kevin is he rides one of these, yep gearheads it’s the real deal, and it’s REAL fast.

We got to go to the beach and hang out with my nephews Jeff, Josh, and Brandon, along with my brother Tom and his friend Deana and her son Jackson, and also my folks Bill and Jenny yesterday. We had a really good time and and since it’s was Josh and Jeff’s birthday Tuesday we had the celebration last night and their dad Kevin got home from the hospital last night so that was good. 

~Billy

One can not necessarily argue the logic:

~Billy

Ever so often someone dies that has an effect on you. Not necessarily because you know them personally but culturally the impact of their life’s work on your own life is so profound. Yesterday keyboard / pianist Richard (Rick) Wright of Pink Floyd passed away at age 65 from cancer. He was a founding and relatively constant member of the band, his contribution on the keys and as writer has been prolific. In rock and roll the keyboard player often times takes a backseat with the saxophonist, or back up singers, so a lot of folks would say something like “oh yeah that guy, I never knew his name but he’s awesome”. The chemical makeup is forever changed when someone like that leaves the band or dies.

I have pretty fond memories of the band because I had most of the early albums, and was able to score some really hot tickets many years ago and see them at RFK stadium. Everything you may have heard about a Pink Floyd concert is true and then some. Yes they did actually fly a 2 story sized pig over the crowd, and I’m not likely to ever forget that. Yes they did have a huge bed fly over the crowd and appear to crash into the stage. And yes they do have the largest disco ball in the world that opens up and floods the whole stadium with the most brilliant light. Oh yeah and they have some pretty good tune as well.

I remember reading about a huge concert they did somewhere and it went into the detail of how the sound system was so complex that there was a delay with the speakers that would allow the music to travel from the front of the stage to the back rows of speakers and it had to be timed so the crowd heard everything perfectly with no distortion or echo. This technology has become the norm in large venues nowadays and no big deal, but then things were vastly different in those days.

RIP Rick

~Billy

Looks like Washington D.C. is about to get whacked.

~Billy