Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Please pray for the friend of the Bowmans, who have a friend who had a major anurism while hunt outside of Colo Springs
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Fw: Jeffco Schools - President's Address to Students
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
The September I always wanted...
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Broncos are awful, could be a long season. But CO Rapids won today - I luv futbol
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Rereading 7 Habits of Effective People
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Top row!!! We can see Heaven from here
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Time to buy donuts and coffee for the stony creek painters-showing our local school some love today
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Check out this chpt on YouVersion.com
To: post posterous
Subject: Check out this chpt on YouVersion.com
Sent: Aug 20, 2009 10:57 PM I thought you might need a reminder to read Proverbs chpt 20 today. See it at YouVersion.com: http://www.youversion.com/reader.php?startverse=Prov.20.029&version=asv Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Total personal incomes of Cities in the US in 2008 (from Denver Business Journal)
The following are the 72 markets with 2008 TPI of more than $25 billion:
- New York City, $1.031 trillion
- Los Angeles, $552.5 billion
- Chicago, $433.8 billion
- Washington, $302.8 billion
- Houston, $276.4 billion
- Philadelphia, $274.1 billion
- Dallas-Fort Worth, $267.1 billion
- San Francisco-Oakland, $263.9 billion
- Boston, $248.9 billion
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale, $236.7 billion
- Atlanta, $202.4 billion
- Detroit, $176.1 billion
- Seattle, $168.8 billion
- Minneapolis-St. Paul, $154.6 billion
- Phoenix, $148.5 billion
- San Diego, $136.5 billion
- Baltimore, $126.2 billion
- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., $119.4 billion
- Denver, $119.1 billion
- St. Louis, $116.4 billion
- San Jose, $107.0 billion
- Tampa-St. Petersburg, $100.9 billion
- Pittsburgh, $100.7 billion
- Portland, Ore., $87.1 billion
- Cincinnati, $83.5 billion
- Cleveland, $83.2 billion
- Sacramento, $82.3 billion
- Kansas City, $80.8 billion
- Bridgeport-Stamford, Conn., $73.6 billion
- Las Vegas, $73.3 billion
- Orlando, $71.4 billion
- San Antonio, $70.8 billion
- Columbus, $67.6 billion
- Indianapolis, $67.4 billion
- Milwaukee, $66.7 billion
- Charlotte, $66.3 billion
- Providence, $64.7 billion
- Virginia Beach-Norfolk, $63.2 billion
- Austin, $62.5 billion
- Nashville, $61.0 billion
- Hartford, $58.5 billion
- Jacksonville, $51.6 billion
- Richmond, $50.3 billion
- New Orleans, $50.1 billion
- Oklahoma City, $49.4 billion
- Memphis, $48.6 billion
- Louisville, $47.4 billion
- Birmingham, $45.1 billion
- Raleigh, $42.7 billion
- Buffalo, $40.9 billion
- Salt Lake City, $40.5 billion
- Tulsa, $39.7 billion
- Rochester, N.Y., $39.5 billion
- Honolulu, $39.4 billion
- New Haven, Conn., $38.3 billion
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, Calif., $36.4 billion
- Omaha, $35.8 billion
- Albany, $34.9 billion
- Worcester, Mass., $33.5 billion
- Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., $33.4 billion
- Tucson, $33.0 billion
- Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa., $30.6 billion
- Dayton, $29.0 billion
- Albuquerque, $29.0 billion
- Baton Rouge, La., $27.6 billion
- Grand Rapids, $26.9 billion
- Akron, Ohio, $26.2 billion
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y., $26.1 billion
- Fresno, Calif., $26.0 billion
- Little Rock, Ark., $25.8 billion
- Springfield, Mass., $25.5 billion
- Columbia, S.C., $25.2 billion
Mark
Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday after sunday
time. They did well. Busy week ahead - youth group on Tuesday, worship team practice on Wed. And painting Stony Creek elementary on SAT Morning (8-12).
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Fw: Rockies vs Cubs
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Subject: Rockies vs Cubs
Sent: Aug 10, 2009 6:59 PM
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Monday after Sunday
Saturday, August 08, 2009
CS Lewis quote "the divine mind
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Join our Proverbs challenge - one chapter a day - today is chpt 4
Monday, August 03, 2009
Celebrating 18 years with Heidi. Leaving chico hot springs pool.
Norseman quartet families are gathering at the Johnstad B and B in Emigrant, MT
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Sitting in DIA, flight delayed an hour...blue skies, beautiful outside, DELAY???
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
GodSightings: The Plight of Homeless Christians, by EC Scott: 7/31/09
From: Eugene C. Scott
To: Mark Kraakevik
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:41:16 AM
Subject: GodSightings: The Plight of Homeless Christians, by EC Scott: 7/31/09
The Plight of Homeless Christians
By Eugene C. Scott
In 1977 I was homeless. So, disgusted with city-life, I high-tailed it for the mountains and pitched my tiny orange tent in Cottonwood Lake Campground. I dropped out and spent my days hiking, trout fishing, and reading Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” Waking as the tent heated from the morning sun and falling asleep with a billion stars shining as my nightlight was freedom defined.
Occasionally my camp-mate and I drove his Plymouth Belvedere to my cousin’s house on Trout Creek. There we sat in stiff wooden chairs around her kitchen table and ate and talked and laughed with incense burning and Pink Floyd playing in the background. Inside her walls lived a different kind of freedom: the freedom of belonging. Her screen door slammed shut on a fearsome loneliness. The summer wore on. We visited my cousin’s home, our home away from homelessness, more frequently.
I was a young, immature, follower of Christ in 1977. I knew less than nothing about God and life. I had no idea that what we were doing around my cousin’s kitchen table was oddly church-like. We sang no hymns, passed no offering plate, and followed no liturgy. We broke bread; we gave thanks; we encouraged one another; we loved one another. We had a sacred fellowship. And God was there, though not invoked, yet gentle, invisible, insistent. God surfaced in nearly every conversation, hung around in every corner.
Everyone needs a place to belong: a community to talk, laugh, cry, and encounter God with.
In 2008 I became a homeless Christian, without a gathered Christian community to encounter God with. At first, like in the summer of 1977, the freedom was exhilarating. Did you know people sleep in, read the comics, and freely hang out in coffee shops on Sunday mornings? Suddenly Sundays became Sabbath, relaxed and unpressurized.
Eventually though, reading the funnies, or even the Bible, in my boxers lost its appeal. I missed the intellectual, social, and spiritual stimulation present in a gathered Christian community. I yearned for encountering God in music, sermons, ancient and modern rites, and most of all, other people. I did not miss, however, the politics, the griping, or the massive weight of trying to speak honestly for God.
While homeless, my spiritual life resembled a slowly receding tide, leaving bleached, empty shells of faith on the beach. My faith became a distant, powerless belief system rather than a vibrant way of life. Now months later, surrounded by a grace-filled Christian community, God is rebuilding my soul.
I am not the only one to experience spiritual homelessness. Disgusted with the real and perceived hypocrisy, ritual, dogma, judgementalism, and general irrelevance of what we now call church, many followers of Christ have dropped out and pitched a tent in their own backyards hoping for the best. Researchers claim only about 20% of Americans attend church. While three quarters of American adults call themselves Christian.
A sizable majority of Christians are homeless, without a gathered community to belong to. You may be one.
The problem is God designed life to be lived with-in a caring, serving, worshiping community called church. Unlike bowling, Christianity is not an individualistic sport. God most often shows up in the spaces (interactions) between people and the more distant those spaces the smaller the interaction and the easier it is to lose sight of God. God loves us as individuals but calls us to live in community. “Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging one another, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on . . . .” Hebrews 10:24-25, The Message.
This question is not whether one “can be a Christian while never ‘going’ to church.” Church is a family, if often a dysfunctional one. You may go to your family’s house, but you don’t “go to” family. You are family. You are the church. In Christ we have been adopted and are a part of a family whether we are estranged—homeless—or not. And just as being estranged from our biological families has far-reaching effects, so too, does being estranged from our spiritual families. The plight of homeless Christians is serious and debilitating to us as individuals and to us as the church.
Often it is not laziness or apostasy that keeps us homeless. Very real fear, pain, and past disappointments keep many of us from belonging to a faith family. Jesus knows our pain and estrangement. The Prodigal Son is not just a story about forgiveness, but also about coming home to God and family, pouty older brother and all. Reconnecting is a fearful prospect, I know. But know also that God is waiting for your return and will kill the fatted calf when you do. We might even put on some Pink Floyd.
GodSightings are an uncommon view of God from a common point of view written by Dr. Eugene C. Scott. Reach him at ecscott@tnc3.org. If you wish to be discontinued from this list, please reply with Unsubscribe in the subject line.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Status?? A study in introspection - what an extrovert does when left alone
The bizarre part is God is intimately connected with all of the above details. They all matter, and yet his love for me is not based on any of this indicators.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The movie Watchmen
Rented it from Redbox last night.
Definitely a good superhero movie.
Like all good superhero movies it wrestles with identity, and purpose, and justice and the frailty of human live.
I didn't like the existentialism of the film. It kept saying, "If God does exist, he must not care very much about humans."
The quote that has me thinking is a dialogue between two heroes. One says "What happened to the American Dream?" and the other one says, "It came true!" That is crazy. So much of the American dream was about consumerism, and now we have it all, but are not happy.
Hmmmm.....
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Tonight is the last street preaching night - I am going with Alex's group
of 8776 West Geddes Place, Littleton, CO 80128
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"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Untitled
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Lunch on Monday in Brasil
This is a ten minute video of me saying hello to a lot of people. In the middle we play the classic cup game, you may want to fast forward, and in the end we are playing dancing to someone singing a rap.
Video from last nights street presentation - Dance Troop
This was the group that performed before I got up to speak. They are from the local church.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Video report from this afternoon's home visits.
Sunday Morning
Just finished preaching on Genesis Chpt. 1. Focused on how God, the creator of the universe, created each of us with purpose. It was well received. I am posting on youtube.com/kraakerjack a short video from earlier this morning to show you what the worship its like. Its very hard to capture on video what is actually happening. God's presence was here.
Now they are going over how to make a home visit. This afternoon we will make our first home visits. This is all cold call visits, unlike the rest of the week, which will be follow up visits to those who attend the Jesus film/street preaching/patomime events in the evening.
To the parents: Alex and Ian are doing great. Both have already found friends and are injoying learning phrases in Portuguese.
Prayer request:
1) Pray for us as we make these visits this afternoon that they are well recieved and that people decide to come to the event in the park this evening.
2) Pray for our health, we are all tired. People were up till 1pm last night, and up at the school moving around at 6am this morning. We were to sleep from 11 to 7, but not many got to actually do that.
3) Pray for the new people here at Promife, the atmosphere of the week is shaped by how well the new students understand what we are doing. There are 116 people here, and about 40 -50 of them are new this year.
Gotta run,
Mark
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
On the ground in Houston. Taxi'ed past our plane to Sao Paulo - its huge
On the Continental flight listening to Rap music. Getting in touch with youth culture: Afroman?
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
I really feel blessed to have such great leaders at the EDGE. Monthly mtg tonight- prayer, buildings, bucks and big goals for the future and more prayer
The Kraakevik Summer chaos continues: on a Frontier prop plane from Bozeman to Den. Said good bye to family-never easy
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Final push from Billings to Bozeman
Monday, July 06, 2009
Half way through the vacation: Jefson Reunion was awesome
Sounds like church on Sunday went well. We raised another 500 towards the trip, so we are closing in on our financial goals. Grant preached, and I heard is was good. I hope someone podcaste the sermon, although it does not look like it has been posted yet.
Today we begin the trek to Montana.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
5 great from last years Brazil trip
To live is Christ, to die is gain.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Brazil Trip Info
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Arrived in Forest City-the cultural center of the universe.
Visas came! Brazil trip is a go, except for the 1000 bucks we still need.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Off to St. Joe Hospital to pray for a friend going into surgery
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
In and out of the DMV in less than 15 minutes. Its a miracle. I just bought 185 dollars of highway.
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Wow - so the Obama press conference yesterday set off a 50 comment thread on my facebook, can't wait to see where this goes. Remember people: lets keep a sense of humor about us. Lets look for assumptions being made: Heaven is boring?? And finally, remember we are talking to a board spectrum of people - how would you draw the "Heaven Map?"
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
B's best friend moved away today - so sad
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Mark Kraakevik
The EDGE Colorado - Live The Message
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720-308-4051
www.theedgecolorado.org
To live is Christ, to die is gain.
Is Converge Worldwide a movement or a denomination?
A year ago this week, we had the national meeting of the Baptist General Conference. At those meetings, the nickname of the voluntary Christian association to which the EDGE Colorado belongs became Converge Worldwide.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Untitled
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Note to self: staff mtg the day after summer kids program- not at 7am
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Vbs is over. Now its off to Transformers at West Bowles theatre.
Creating "Come As You Are Community" is really hard work - People long for friendship, but run from transparency
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Five Videos of Massacre at Baharestan Square (Warning: Graphic)
This is intense. Please Pray. Thanks @Zachshouse
ConvergeUSA Blog: Who is ConvergeUSA?
In light of the SBC annual mtg happening now, what is the difference between a movement and a denomination?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Colorado Rockies are 17-1 in their last 18 games and still 9 games behind the Dodgers
List of Birthday, Anniversaries and Deaths of people I know
Jonelle Stevens (heidi's family)
Travis Allen (youth group)
Erin Foster (youth pastor)
James Mills (emergent denver cohort)
Tony Ruppert (facebook friend)
Jennifer Calabrese (youth group)
Phillip Sorenson (youth group)
Anniversaries on this day
Vicki and Floyd Jefson (family)
Kim and Matt Jefson (family)
Deaths on this day
JoAnn Moberg 1999 (heidi's family)
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Posterous??
New thing called posterous.com that will post to my blog, twitter, facebook, etc all at once - This txt should light up my online presence
