It Is Finished

Disciple Now is over.  I will tell more about it later, but it was a great weekend.  Here is a video to prove it.

Camp and Dnow

Almost all camp Deposits are in!

We are going to Student life camp at Texas A&M Commerce this summer June 30-July 4 and I’m pretty excited

As of yesterday I had three kids signed up and was pretty frustrated.  However, their was a point in the day when I had to say “okay, that’s fine Lord”.

At this moment  I have 16 kids signed up and four more as potential goers.  I am pretty stoked. God did some work in the last 24 hours.

Dnow is less than two weeks away, and I have spent most of the day writing curriculum. It is rather difficult, but I love it.  I am expecting a good crowd for Disciple Now and am excited about the leaders that are coming.  They are all wonderful people of the Lord.

Please pray for these events, for the kids in Holland, and for my leadership

I’m Annoyed With Facebook

Day By Day

I haven’t written in a while so here’s an update

1. I am now a Youth Minister.  Yes , It’s weird.  I’m way out of my league.  Day by day i’m clueless on what to do.  I can’t lead myself so how am I suppose to lead a group of kids.  It’s been a scary ride so far, but it’s also been a wonderful-god-glorifying-wouldn’t trade it for anything ride.  We have disciple now coming up and tonight I met with the speaker and worship leader to discuss our plans for the event.  It was awesome, not even kidding.  It went from, “Well I want to do this, and this, and we should do this” to “this is what’s God doing in my life, and I’m struggling with this”.  It turned into a small group bible study basically.  I haven’t felt the Lord’s presence like that in a long time.  Felt that close to a group of guys in a while.  I love that feeling.  When you just KNOW it’s the Lord.  When you KNOW that you are his and all you WANT to be is his.  When everyone around you is screaming I WANT YOU LORD.  I’m excited about what the Lord is going to do not only through me in the next few weeks, but what he is going to do in me.  It’s a scary humbling feeling.

2.  I CANNOT STOP PLAYING MARIOKART on the wii.  It should be taken away.  No joke, I play at least two or three times a day.  It has come to the point where even when I am not around I am thinking about it.  On many occasions i’ve been stuck in traffic and i’ve thought “If I had a red shell right now all my problems would be solved”.  Oh, how simple life would be if the world we lived in was just like Mariokart, ha.

3. I HATE MATH.  That’s about all i’m going to say.  It’s stupid, pointless. End of that conversation.

A Nice Flashback

I came across this video today and it brought me back to the camp where I was saved at.  I still remember hearing the story of the woman at the well and watching this video.  It reminds of the day I gave my life to the Lord and the Love he has for an outcast like me.  Enjoy

I’m Whipped

I’ve been told I need to blog, so here ya go…

Top three animated movies.

3.  Lion King

2. Emperor’s New Groove

1. Aladin

Three places I want to visit before I die.

3.  Paris

2.  The holy lands

1.  The Northeast

Three people in history I want to meet.

3.  Jonathan Edwards

2.  C.S. Lewis

1. St. Augustine

Three things I want to do this year.

3.  Committ to pray and serve 3 people who don’t know the Lord

2. Study more

1. Run more

People who impacted me greatly this past year.

3.  staff at BCYC  (I know that’s more than 1)

2. Daniel, Tom, and Khandg

1.  Andy (boss from Montana)

That’s all folks!

My Own Screwtape Letter

I’ve been reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis lately and it has been captivating how our enemy works.  The details and thought he puts into influencing our fall.  He refers to our Lord as his enemy.  Eveerytime I hear God referred to as “enemy” in the book it makes chills go down my spine.  Anyways, as I began to reflect I thought about where I am now and where my enemy is hitting me the hardest so I wrote my own letter.

Dear Mr. Wormwood,

It is apparent that your patient is juggling many different activities right now, this can be used to our advantage.  His busyness will keep him from our enemy, for his enemy needs his time, and if we occupy that time with with everyday normal activities he will lose sight of our enenmy .  This will cause a deep need for satisfaction, and that is when we give him many options to disown our enemy.

Just as you have been doing, continue to attack his family.  He loves them and hates to see them on our side, continue to discourage him.  Their have been a few times when you have allowed our enemy to penetrate our patients families soul, but you have proved that you clean up your mistakes well.  Use the upcoming holidays to remind him of just how little hope there is for his family.  However, be aware that by doing this we could cause our patient to rely more on our enemy.  We know that He is powerful and is capable to use our tactics to for his benefit.  Oh, be very aware of that….

Use his friends.  If you have not noticed; your patient loves his friends.  He needs a community to encourage him.  If we attack his roommates and close friends then we may have a chance to inflict bitterness in him.  This will also cause him to feel alone, and when our patient feels alone he loses all communication with our enemy. Oh, this will be good! Loneliness , our patient will not be able to handle that.  Yes, attack his roommates, influence them not to be aware, not to care, and most of all not to love.

Have you ever wondered why your patient keeps retreating to our enemy when we attack?  Grace.  It is grace.  Our enemy loves to give it, and if you have not noticed our patient is drenched in it.  Make your patient feel as if he cannot accept that grace.  Fuel his pride.  Remind him that he can do it on his own, and that he must work out his own insufficiency’s.

It is also essential that you give your patient success.  Make it appear that he is wonderful, talented, and very much capable of individualism.  Build up his stubbornness, use this as an attempt to disconnect him from our enemy.  For his apathy toward the enemy will grow into individualism.

Your affectionate uncle,

Screwtape

Here is a quote from the book itself,

“We want the church to be small; not only that fewer men may know the enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a clique.  The Church herself is, of course, heavily defended and we have never yet quite succeeded in giving her all the characteristics of a faction; but subordinate faction within her have often produced admirable results, from the parties of Paul and of Apollos at Corinth down to the High and Low parties in the church of England”

Picked Last

Sometimes I forget how good the Lord is.  How simple his Love is.  How much he really really desires for my heart to be his.  How in his eyes I will never be picked last…..But by the Grace of God I am what I am  (1 Cor 15:10)

Today at work I began to organize a game of kickball to keep my kids busy.  I picked two captains and they began the process of picking their teams.  With each pick you could see the kids faces getting more and more worried that they would be the last pick.  With only two left standing their was a silence, and one of the captians pointed and said, “I guess I’ll take him”.  The sad boy just lowered his head and joined his team.  The other boy, eyes beginning to swell, simply looked down and said, “that’s okay I’m not going to play”.  He walked over to the corner, sat, and watched his friends.  I made my way over to him and sat in silence for a second.  Just long enough for him to feel awkward enough to wonder why I was just sitting with him instead of playing with the rest of the students.  We talked for a while and I eventually convinced the boy that we do not need to measure ourself on things like talent, smarts, athletics, and all those temporary things. I felt for the boy, it’s hard being picked last, feeling like you are alone, feeling like you are not appreciated, and sadly enough, not….wanted.

I am thankful that the Lord wants My Love, My Time, wants….Me.

Jon and Kate Plus 8

I don’t if anyone else watches this show but I love it!  I could watch it all day….

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Psalm 86

Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
Preserve my life, for I am godly;
save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.
Be gracious to me, O Lord,
for to you do I cry all the day.
Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer;
listen to my plea for grace.
In the day of my trouble I call upon you,
for you answer me. 8There is none like you among the gods, O Lord,
nor are there any works like yours.
All the nations you have made shall come
and worship before you, O Lord,
and shall glorify your name.
For you are great and do wondrous things;
you alone are God.
Teach me your way, O LORD,
that I may walk in your truth;
unite my heart to fear your name.
I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
and I will glorify your name forever.
For great is your steadfast love toward me;
you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol