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It means the Summer season is over and the fall time is here. I also love it when I look up at night and no longer see Scorpio’s tail in the heavens but Orion’s belt and sword in the east. It means the season has changed and winter is here. 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I turned 40 years old about 4 years</atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/11/allergy-attack.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-124717785417901163</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-11T10:10:18.869-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">opendoorexperience.com</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jesus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">names</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">children's church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">open door church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Garth Brooks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Johnny Paycheck</category><title>CHANGING NAMES</title><atom:summary>Several years ago, Leanna and I were working in children’s church.  One of my favorite places to be in ministry is messing with kids and when we do kids church we want it to be fun, full of life and generally a place where everybody knows Jesus is the coolest person in the universe...a lot like how I do the main service come to think of it. It was worship time and while the tapes were playing we </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/11/changing-names.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-7159367610481291732</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-05T10:29:49.606-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Acts13:22</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Black Friday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">open door church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sherlock Holmes</category><title>THE BIG SEARCH</title><atom:summary>I am not really a huge techno guy but I am just as addicted as anybody to email, the web, texting and basically anything Mac related. Don’t hate me if you are a PC guy and haven't left the dark side for Mac yet. Someday, you too will see the light. No, I am not a techno guy in the since that I understand how it all works, but my life requires that get a lot of mileage out of today’s gizmos and </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/11/big-search.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-8523069791127398841</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-04T08:51:11.059-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">november 21st</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Moving day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grand opening</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy  Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teacher. ephesians 3:20</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Joshua</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">open door church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the miracle mile</category><title>Moving Day</title><atom:summary>When I was a very little kid I lived in Alvarado. I spent a few of my single digits  in Burleson and then moved a few miles east of Joshua. That was about 35 years ago and I was not quite 9 years old. I have been here ever since. Being a speaker and a Teacher, I have had the privilege of visiting 31 nations throughout the world and nearly all of them multiple times but for me, Johnson County </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/11/moving-day-when-i-was-very-little-kid-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-3229745639986768032</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-04T08:45:19.310-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ben franklin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">romans 1:20</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">open door church</category><title>ARTFUL EXCUSES</title><atom:summary>Benjamin Franklin said a lot of things and one of the things he said was about the character of people. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” In seven years of writing this column I have very seldom missed my deadline. In fact, I think I can count on one hand how many times I failed to deliver my finely written masterpiece of opinion, muse, yarns and Kingdom </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/10/artful-excuses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-9050707545530951570</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-03T20:16:11.507-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">open door church</category><title>WALKING ON WATER</title><atom:summary>Ten years ago, Leanna and I decided to do something really radical. It seems silly to me now that it was so far out of our box back back then but we decided to host a ladies conference on a five day cruise in the Caribbean.  At that time we had never done the cruise thing and our Ladies meetings had been land locked.  I had only been on the ocean a couple of times to fish and although I had </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/10/walking-on-water.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-5113577231941620490</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-03T20:04:34.829-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">open door church</category><title>TO BE FREE AND KNOT TO BE</title><atom:summary>The ability to tie knots can be a really big deal. When I was a kid, I was always amazed at how my step dad could tie knots — which he learned how to do in the Navy. I also remember Julius Reinach, an old German immigrant, teaching us Cub Scouts how to tie a slipknot. What a hard job that brother had!I didn't learn how to tie my shoes until I was 34, so it took me a while to learn knots. I am </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/10/to-be-free-and-knot-to-be.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-3702591424041826836</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-01T12:29:06.027-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><title>THE ART OF CELEBRATION</title><atom:summary>Godly people celebrate things. The creation story of Genesis not only gives us a glimpse of how things got started, but also of the heart of the Creator Himself. At the end of every day, even though things were not finished being made, God celebrated each accomplishment. Without a group of friends and family to help Him, He still put on a little party hat, threw some confetti in the air, and said</atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/10/art-of-celebration.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-7108406093111172102</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-24T12:51:43.275-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><title>15 YEARS AND COUNTING</title><atom:summary>There are some strange traditions when it comes to anniversaries. Some traditional person, a mindful female who had her act together I’m sure, decided once and for all to put the order of required anniversary gifts into stone. Of course, this is a bane for those of us, especially men, who do not have our acts together.  I have no idea what the story is behind every year’s traditional anniversary </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/09/15-years-and-counting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-6093052404412917535</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-24T12:46:59.741-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><title>WE NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT OUT OF YOU</title><atom:summary>Fifteen years ago, when I was thinking about starting Open Door Ministries, my wife and I had a major disagreement. Oh, she was 100% supportive and on board with me starting the church, it was just that she didn't think she would be a very good Pastor’s wife.  “Why Not?”, I asked. “Your like the perfect Pastor’s wife. Heck, your the perfect any kind of wife.” “No I’m Not.”, she said with tears. “</atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/09/we-need-something-different-out-of-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-8289723604124033331</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-10T13:09:01.393-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><title>A SPECIAL GUEST FOR SUPPER</title><atom:summary>Near downtown Honolulu, Fritz Vincken owned a bakery and handed out a smile along with hot buns and fresh bread to his loyal customers. He has lived in the Hawaiian islands for many years, but he is not just famous for his bread. He tells a story from his childhood that has since been told around the world. December 1943 was a harsh winter in the Ardennes Forest near the German-Belgian border. </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/09/special-guest-for-supper.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-3578101270322945817</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-10T13:07:06.857-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><title>RWANDA IS RED</title><atom:summary>Rwanda, East Africa is a place of mountains and red dirt roads. There is no way you can drive from one place to another without having a layer of red dust on you by the end of your journey. Even the dust in the air gets so red the moon, when it is full, looks red. I was in Rwanda last week and, during the full moon, I looked up — it was blood red. A blood moon over Rwanda. There is a lot of red </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/09/rwanda-is-red.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-5833301906252166542</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-10T13:04:54.649-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><title>We all need favor</title><atom:summary>In the early 1900s, a 16-year-old girl, named Mildred, from Alabama gave birth to a baby girl and named her Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner. As if all those names weren’t enough, she went by the nickname, “Judy.”Judy’s daddy, John Turner, was a hard working, and hard living, miner from Tennessee who had a knack for gambling. Hard times eventually forced the family to relocate to San Francisco, </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/08/we-all-need-favor.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-5660366315025691998</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-20T12:22:53.961-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spartans</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Texans</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Warrior</category><title>Spartans, Texans and Warrior Kings</title><atom:summary>Almost 500 years before Christ, a Spartan army of only 300 men stood against a million or so Persians at a place called Thermopylae. The Brewer isn’t a particularly a big fan of ancient Spartans — besides destroying the fair city my mama named me after with a stinking wooden horse, they were also known to be racist and pagans who had no mercy for anyone. With that said, the Texan in me can’t help</atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/08/spartans-texans-and-warrior-kings.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-3249236798780175169</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-13T14:16:31.681-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><title>FIGHTING BACK</title><atom:summary>We all know that in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But did you know that at the same time he was leaving Spain to find the new world, thousands of Jewish families were leaving Spain to save their lives? On March first 1492 they were kicked out by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain ordering the expulsion of everybody jewish from Spain and its territories by July 31st of that year. From </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/08/fighting-back.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-5167102900695528312</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-13T14:12:35.794-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><title>Eating Grass</title><atom:summary>WIDE LOADSome people have the gut of a Billy Goat. The Brewer has historically been one of those people. Besides being a highly caffeinated Christian, it is a fact that I tend to over eat. I am trying hard to loose weight these days but I am a long way from being able to wear a belt buckle. When I do, it tends to turn over and disappear between my bladder and kidneys. It’s sad because I have to </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/08/wide-load.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-4449004237139177335</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-30T09:51:21.880-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">England</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Peter Framton</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Beckenham</category><title>The High Way of His Way</title><atom:summary>The Influence that West Texas rocker Buddy Holly had on the world, really cant be measured. It wasn't just American kids singing “That’ll be the day”. Across the pond, kids in England were becoming mesmerized by the beats and rhythms and the personality of a skinny kid with big black glasses. British rock and roll culture was being lived out, really before anybody had an amplifier.

In Beckenham,</atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/07/high-way-of-his-way.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-5392761589772437175</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-28T08:47:32.539-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><title>The Air Up There</title><atom:summary>I have been doing a lot of traveling lately.  My wife and I set off on a high adventure for the nation of Guatemala last week.  I spoke at a conference, did a small TV show and also preached a couple of church services. While all of that is awesome, you have to be be willing to cram your great big hiney into a little bitty seat on a metal tube being thrown 31,000 feet high into the air at 500 </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/07/air-up-there.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-6418872682776063692</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-28T08:35:05.063-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marilyn Monroe</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Odd Observations</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Walt Disney</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Albert Eistein</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mel Blanc</category><title>ODD OBSERVATIONS</title><atom:summary>It is important for us to be aware our surroundings. It is also fun to know about the things going on around us. There are those among us who are such nerds, we actually accumulate knowledge and facts on subjects and people we probably should know nothing about.  As a highly caffeinated Christian, I tend to ponder and pick up things in a life of dedicated contemplation. This week’s sip from the </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/07/odd-observations.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-1248229020959620133</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-28T08:15:26.116-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Autobahn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patstor Troy Brewer</category><title>LESSONS FROM THE AUTOBAHN</title><atom:summary>I am world famous for having a lead foot. It has always been hard for me to drive slow. Driving in a single lane behind someone who only wants to do 40 miles an hour has always felt something like having a tooth pulled. Worse yet is when someone drives slow in the passing lane. A sense of injustice overwhelms me as if an innocent person has been executed or land has been taken away by the </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/07/lessons-from-autobahn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370189459073859383.post-257105855304272149</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-02T09:26:43.073-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pastor Troy Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Cowboy Tree</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Dueling Oak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Goose Island Oak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Open Door Ministries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fresh from the Brewer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sam houstons Oak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Philip Nolans Tree</category><title>Famous trees</title><atom:summary>Believe it or not there is a list of famous trees in Texas that some people, nerds like me, are willing to travel and to see firsthand. 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The book, something like a Texas version of Gone with the wind, is by all accounts an 843 page masterpiece. It seems to be loved by everybody, except for the guy who wrote it. More on that in a bit.   Well, believe it or not, it has been 25 years since the CBS mini series first hit the tube. This month, Texas Monthly is even doing a </atom:summary><link>http://freshfromthebrewer.blogspot.com/2010/06/lonesome-dove.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (troy brewer)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><language>en-us</language><media:rating>nonadult</media:rating></channel></rss>

