Ken Copeland

Getting the bike ready for spring

2009-03-01T15:31:00.000-08:00

I am starting to get all my bikes ready for spring. I put some new front brakes and brake levers on my kona stuff. They are working really good. I am now working on my kona kula. It won't need much work. Just some maintenance. Last week I got a stand for the front of my ninja. Yesterday I removed the front wheel and replaced the tire. I also build a bracket for the license plate. Hopefully it won't be long before I have it out.

Thoughts

2009-02-22T18:58:00.000-08:00

There have been many discussions in the past discussing whether or not one can lose there salvation. When discussing this topic I always think of the older brother in the story of the prodigal son. When the younger brother returns home the father celebrates and the older brother is upset. He is upset that his younger brother who turned away gets a party when he who worked hard all his years did not. I think that the "faithful" christian sees that they have not turned away and doesn't think the christian who turned away should be rewarded the same and they won't but it does not affect their salvation. The bible does not support the idea of saved by grace but kept saved by works. Our performance for good or for bad does not affect our salvation. A while ago Mr.Green gave me a daily devotional book and told me to read Nov 6 and Nov 7. Nov 7 in particular got my attention and I wanted to share some of the thoughts expressed. It talks about confidence. How we can be confident in our salvation. Phil 1:6 "He that began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." If we start focusing on ourselves and our performance there will certainly be need for worry and wondering it we can lose our salvation but if we focus on Christ we see that it is His work and He is faithful. He never starts a work He will not finish. If we believe that salvation can be lost we open ourselves to tremendous doubt. Every time we do something wrong we wonder about our salvation. A christian will be crippled greatly from the thought that salvation can be lost. We must be confident in what we believe. We must have confidence in the Lords death on the cross to pay for our sins and nothing of ourselves.

New York

2009-01-25T09:47:00.000-08:00

I haven't added anything on here in a while. I will have some pictures to add in a couple of weeks. I am going on a skiing trip to New York. I am staying in Lake Placid and skiing at White Face. It looks like a nice hill. I will see how it compares to Mt. Tremblant and Mt Sainte Anne. I got some new ski boots for the trip. My old boots have done well but it is time to retire them. I used my new boots at blue last week and they are really nice. Hopefully they keep me warm. My friend Brendan is going with me. We are taking the good old super chevy(94 chev pickup) which has been great for many adventures already. I am doing some work on it this week to get it ready for the trip. I also got a new computer this week. I am going to take it with me. It seems to work good so far. I also got my brothers old video camera so that we can get some footage of this great adventure. I will put up some videos later as well.

New Toy

2008-09-09T15:47:00.000-07:00

Last night Bendan and I went for a trip in the super chevy to go look at a kawasaki ninja ZX9R. It has 18,000 kilometers on it. It is in very good condition. I ended up buying it. I have never owned a motorcycle before. I am not sure if I am going to ride it this year or not. I might wait until next year. Time will tell. I am going to take it to the track sooner or later to see what it will do in a quarter mile. Hopefully low 11's or into the 10's.

Busy long Weekend

2008-09-01T16:42:00.000-07:00

I had a really good but really busy long weekend. It all started off with a 200 kilometer bike ride to raise money to get Norm and Debra's belongings to Africa. It was a bigger challenge that I thought it would be but Brendan and I got all 200 kilometers done. At the half way point we were not feeling that great. We stopped for some lunch and prayed that God would give us strength to continue and He did. Looking back it was a lot of fun. On Sunday afternoon I got a chance to do some body work on the neon. It is looking a lot better. I still have to some paint work and a rust spot that was underneath the trim to fix. Today I got up at a good time and got working on the camaro. I am putting some lowering springs in it. I almost got that done and then I needed a strut mount that I did not have. So I will have to finish that tomorrow. Then I got home and helped with some lawn cutting. The guys at work tell me that I get so much done on the weekend because I am still single. Maybe that is true. I don't really know.

Ouch!

2008-08-27T17:38:00.001-07:00

Today I was waiting at a stop sign behind another car when a lady in an envoy started backing out of a parking lot in the direction of my car. It started to get close so I used my horn to notify her but she continued to back up anyway and now there is a massive dent in the side of my beautiful neon. The amazing part is that the truck bed liner didn't even come off. It is truly amazing stuff. There is 1000 dollars damage done to my neon. So sad.

Roadtrip

2008-08-27T17:02:00.000-07:00

At the end of July my friend Graham and I went on a road trip to the states in search of some good mountain biking trails and we found them. We drove almost 4000 kilometers on our adventure. The best biking and driving was in west Virginia. It is an amazing state and I would love to go back some time. Maybe next year I will go again. We also found some interesting cars that caught our attention so I thought I would share them with you. We also went to Virginia beach and swam in the ocean which was fantastic. We had fun swimming in the ocean but we were informed that we were out to far by a ford expedition with a loud speaker and that we would be escorted by police if we did not come back in right away. So needless to say we went back to shore.

Field Car Adventures

2008-05-19T16:46:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been on lots of field car adventures with Brendan(more commonly know as big B). Today Graham came as well and things got a little more crazy then usual. We have been jumping a car that I got from a customer at work but now the fun has come to an end. The saturn is now leaking coolant and will not last for much longer. Check out the video below. Not the greatest quality but still fun to watch. I have also been doing some upgrades to the camaro. I put a new intake manifold and throttle body on it and I have an aluminum flywheel and twin disc clutch coming soon. I will post some pictures. We have also finished up how now shall we live and started the truth project with the college and careers group. It is really well done and I think everyone is excited about it.

Produced by FTR
Filmed by Graham
Stunt driver Ken

These jumps were performed by professionals. Reenactment of these events is not recommended

2007-02-27T16:14:00.000-08:00

Here are some picture of the upgrades I am doing to the camaro. Last year I took the front suspension apart and got the spindles and control arms coated and put new bushings in them. I also got some new rims off of a 2004 corvette. They are 18 on the back and 17 on the front. Last fall I decided that the camaro was lacking some power so I took the engine out to do some work to it. While I have it out it is a good time to clean up some parts like my drive shaft. It was looking a little dull so I polished it with some of dads polishing tools and it turned out really nice. I also have some pictures of the skiing trip to put on. I forgot my camera on the trip but we got some pictures with Adams camera. Hopefully I can get the pictures from him soon.

Truck Bed Liner Neon

2007-01-21T15:20:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of my car. I decided to repaint it on my Christmas holidays. I used truck bed liner to paint it about 5 years ago. This time I only rolled on some flat black and added some blue along the bottom. I will be going on my trip skiing soon so there will be some neat pictures coming up.

Tremblant

2006-12-12T17:42:00.000-08:00

I have wanted to go on a skiing trip for a while now. I have talked about it lots and now I will be finally going. Brendan and Adam are going with me. We are going to leave on wed january 31 and try to visit Laura Wright on the way there. We will ski for three days and come home on Sunday. Maybe next year I will make it out to Whistler. The top two pictures are of Whistler and the bottom one is Tremblant.

How Now Shall We Live

2006-11-16T08:32:00.001-08:00

I have been reading a very interesting book called "How now shall we live" by Charles Colson. He talks about worldviews. If you are a christian than that will change how you look at and view everything in this world. Whatever worldview you hold will change how you relate to people and how you are affected by things that happen in this world. He also talks about evolution and other veiws that are out their that differ from the what the bible says as true and shows how they are not true. He dosen't use the bible to show how these other views cannot be true because they would not be valid to somebody who dosen't believe the bible. I will probably be writing about this book more in the future. A group from my church are going to start reading through it together soon. I recommend reading this book.

2006-11-12T08:31:00.000-08:00

Here are some more pictures from Vegas. I went to Vegas to go see the APPEX and Sema show. Whey are both automotive shows. I also went to the Mirage Hotel for three days of automotive training classes on several different topics.

Vegas

2006-11-12T08:30:00.000-08:00

These pictures are from my trip to Vegas. Uncle Bill has some pictures from our off road adventure that I will post later. Hope you enjoy.

Tools of the Trade

2006-11-10T08:29:00.000-08:00

up and coming adventures

2006-10-09T08:28:00.000-07:00

stay tuned for some up and coming posts... we have been up to some interesting escapades, and will be updating soon.

Ken's Cloud Pictures

2006-10-01T07:42:00.000-07:00