Casting Crowns - Does Anybody Hear Her
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We have a responsibility more than that, no more than that a duty as a church. When I say Church that does not allow for a cop out that allows it to be all of us so if I'm not comfortable we are in it together so some one ells can pick up the slack. Every single one of has a personal responsibility to reach out and not let those individuals that are lost just slip through the cracks.
This hits me right in between the eyes and maybe any one ells who reads this.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Casting Crowns - American Dream
Casting Crowns - American Dream
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How many of us in this country get caught up in this in some way shape or form. It's what makes America one of the greatest places in the world to live because of the freedom but if we miss place our priorities we run the risk of falling into the trap this video speaks to.
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How many of us in this country get caught up in this in some way shape or form. It's what makes America one of the greatest places in the world to live because of the freedom but if we miss place our priorities we run the risk of falling into the trap this video speaks to.
It's not a religion but a relationship
Christianity is not a religion in the way most of us define religion. There is a set of principles to live by. A place to gather and worship. And a level of organization that would seem to make it no different than any other religion in the world just another sistems of beliefs that are blindly followed by the masses that proffess to be Christains.
The reality is that at the core of christianity is not a building or a coad of conduct or even the bible itself, it is a relationship with the one true God that lasts on into eternity and at it's very best that relationship defines all that one who claims to be a Christain is. All the rest is an outward exspretion of that relationship and any thing short of that is simply not Christainity.
The most unsetleing thing about this reality is that most of those who gather on Sunday or atleast from my exspierence miss the true reason that the church they worship in even exists in the first place or even the point of the bible itself. The bible itself is not the core but the guild and all that the Lord put into our hands as suficent as to know Him. The bible is not to be worshiped but studied so that the relationship can grow in depth through understanding.
Christianity is not at all a religion but a relationship any other description misses the point to the detriment of both the one holding the belife and any it is shared with.
The reality is that at the core of christianity is not a building or a coad of conduct or even the bible itself, it is a relationship with the one true God that lasts on into eternity and at it's very best that relationship defines all that one who claims to be a Christain is. All the rest is an outward exspretion of that relationship and any thing short of that is simply not Christainity.
The most unsetleing thing about this reality is that most of those who gather on Sunday or atleast from my exspierence miss the true reason that the church they worship in even exists in the first place or even the point of the bible itself. The bible itself is not the core but the guild and all that the Lord put into our hands as suficent as to know Him. The bible is not to be worshiped but studied so that the relationship can grow in depth through understanding.
Christianity is not at all a religion but a relationship any other description misses the point to the detriment of both the one holding the belife and any it is shared with.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The what freedoms lost? It's what libertisy lavished!
Too many people some how believe that you some how give up your freedom to follow Christ. The very thought is insane. So you give up some thing like drunken sex but you gain freedom from those demons that have been holding you back. Let me be totally transparent I was heavy into porn before I got saved and just dropped it like the bad habit that it was and never looked back until the last few years pride slipped in and I fell and fell hard and for so long I struggled in my own strength to climb that slippery slope swearing every time that it was the last and feeling like every time I was letting God down. Just recently I came to understand I wasn't letting God down by falling back into sin I was missing the power of His grace and I found that freedom all over again. You don't loose freedom you gain liberty. All that is impossible with man is possible with God and there is nothing beyond where He can take you and nothing beyond the strength that is never your own. So drugs and drunken sex is out the door but being always and for ever more unconditionally loved with a peace that surpasses all understanding is more than a trade off. You don't give up your freedom you gain liberty. freedom to do what for liberty from everything.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
http://www.forerunnersgeneration.org/
This Forson Swanzy who has been my friend for a mear 3 months but a brother for than 6 1/2 years now. He is a gift minister and the web sight that is the title is one of the most dynamic you will ever see. You may suffer over to check it out and spend an hour or two time well invested and may just be life changing. He is a persons faith runs deeper than any one I know and every thing you will read about him is no exaggeration. I pray that you will take the time to see what this ministry is all about.
God Bless
The Evolution of Me
If you click on this one it may be a little hard to follow but I was very in general and had to say something to get my emotions on paper so my faith with attitude came out. That's what I do emotions raw and really capturing the moment in time that's what I do and how the why I am a poet. So click and read if it works for you and see if you can follow.
Honestly I don't know what I would do if some one took the pen out of pen because I pray for myself and others on paper with most intensity. I would loose it with out poetry and a journal. My relationship is not dependent on the pen but it is how I talk the most personally it seems. I do hit my knees from time to time but I fight my battles with pen in hand.
Any ways I hope you take the time to read this and other poetry and see what you think. Comment if you get the chance.
Friday, May 22, 2009
What About Scholarships
I mentioned not too long ago that with all the money that we are spending to save the economy that we were ignoring works such as infristucture and other pordgects to beter the contry as a whole. I still hold to that.
One of the reasons we are pouring so much money into Wallstreet is to get the credit flowing again and its not we have pour as last I checked almost 1 trilion dollors in and the credit still is follwing yet. That credit or lack there of is it's killing our biggest long term investments and that is bright collage educated young people who can meet the growing demand for highly educated profetionals so that we can stop out sorsing so many jobs for lack of the workers to fill the gap not that wages aren't playing a role. We have so many students who can't afford to go the collage for lack of funds since in the present economy you have to have near perfect credit to get a lone so how about directly moving those credit scores need for lones by giving grants and low intrest goverment lones to cover the tuision needs of those who will in the end make or break our contry's long term economical goals and that is technology like clean coal, cars that can out preform our over seas compition, in true advaces in alternative fuels and power plants. All of this takes well schooled and highly educated students the work force of tomarow to realy make this contry again the world leader in every major areas of industry and not compete on lower wages but on supior product and inovation alone so that out sorsing becomes a thing that is not only unesisary but that other country's can't keep up when it comes to inovation.
The last I check our school prefomance was not even in the top 20 nations in the world highschool through K. Why not education on the most basic level resiving more of that aid because who will go on to higher education if they are already behind when the get there in the first place. My mother is a teacher and they have to fight every year just to get the most basic needs for the schools needs covered and the school she teaches at is in a town that is well off and has a higher tax flow to work with. If we are all honest and my mother has made this clear to me that the no student left behind program did not push schools but criple them. Money will help with budgets but we need that money also put into vouchers and resurch into how to make our schools preform at a higher level than they presently are.
A good friend who is a grad student at LSU just informed me that they were slashing the schools budget. That would lead not only to a lower level of resourse avalible to students but a huge loss in high paying jobs that employ some of our countries best and britest commited to turning out the next crop to fill their shoes one day. How can we alow so many jobs to be lost when we are trying to creat them. Money to suport schools such as LSU a state school but still would not create new jobs but save good jobs that already agsist in the first place and that are there to meet the needs that is the point of this whole post in the first place.
So please while we save Wallstreet lets not bankrupt the needs of our nation in the prosses.
One of the reasons we are pouring so much money into Wallstreet is to get the credit flowing again and its not we have pour as last I checked almost 1 trilion dollors in and the credit still is follwing yet. That credit or lack there of is it's killing our biggest long term investments and that is bright collage educated young people who can meet the growing demand for highly educated profetionals so that we can stop out sorsing so many jobs for lack of the workers to fill the gap not that wages aren't playing a role. We have so many students who can't afford to go the collage for lack of funds since in the present economy you have to have near perfect credit to get a lone so how about directly moving those credit scores need for lones by giving grants and low intrest goverment lones to cover the tuision needs of those who will in the end make or break our contry's long term economical goals and that is technology like clean coal, cars that can out preform our over seas compition, in true advaces in alternative fuels and power plants. All of this takes well schooled and highly educated students the work force of tomarow to realy make this contry again the world leader in every major areas of industry and not compete on lower wages but on supior product and inovation alone so that out sorsing becomes a thing that is not only unesisary but that other country's can't keep up when it comes to inovation.
The last I check our school prefomance was not even in the top 20 nations in the world highschool through K. Why not education on the most basic level resiving more of that aid because who will go on to higher education if they are already behind when the get there in the first place. My mother is a teacher and they have to fight every year just to get the most basic needs for the schools needs covered and the school she teaches at is in a town that is well off and has a higher tax flow to work with. If we are all honest and my mother has made this clear to me that the no student left behind program did not push schools but criple them. Money will help with budgets but we need that money also put into vouchers and resurch into how to make our schools preform at a higher level than they presently are.
A good friend who is a grad student at LSU just informed me that they were slashing the schools budget. That would lead not only to a lower level of resourse avalible to students but a huge loss in high paying jobs that employ some of our countries best and britest commited to turning out the next crop to fill their shoes one day. How can we alow so many jobs to be lost when we are trying to creat them. Money to suport schools such as LSU a state school but still would not create new jobs but save good jobs that already agsist in the first place and that are there to meet the needs that is the point of this whole post in the first place.
So please while we save Wallstreet lets not bankrupt the needs of our nation in the prosses.
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