Dallas.

When do you know you're no longer home, but in Dallas Texas? Here's the checklist:

1. Your roommates laugh at you for digging bottles out of the trash to recycle

2. Instead of enjoying the sun, you hide from it.

3. You have homework on Hong Kong Cinema

4. You spend $60 on protein bars at the store

5. A Bentley is not a boy-toy in the Bachelorette but an actual car

5. The temperature change between inside a building and outside is 50 degrees.

6. Your sleeping on an air mattress in someone's living room

7. You just learned there was such a thing as Hong Kong movies

8. E.T. by katy perry isn't played on the radio 500 billion times, instead it's country non-stop.

9. Trucks are more prominent on the road than Prius's

10. Football = life............ but you still find time to go to the club.

hebrews 4:15-16

"for we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.  let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and grace to help in time of need." (nkjv)

"we don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality.  He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin.  so let's walk up to Him and get what He is so ready to give.  take the mercy, accept the help." (message)

i love how bluntly the above verses state Christ's humanity.  Jesus experienced life just as we do but He avoided sin.  He was the same in every way except he did not sin. and because of this commonality, we can approach him as we would approach a friend who we need a favor from.  except the "favors" that Christ has offered us through His death include salvation by mercy and forgiveness by grace.  Christ died because he wants to give us these. why don't i want to accept them from Him 24/7?