Step Down

Hello everyone,

Well, I have stepped down as the Media Director for the church I am currently a member of; this happened on May 25, 2008. I have also stepped down from the other areas I was serving in as well. It was not an easy thing to do though I do feel better after letting that responsibility go. Ya know? I will miss being part of the various teams and working with people that I've gotten to know over the years. That is where part of the pain and tears will/have come from. There will be more tears I'm sure later on down the line.

We'll just see where my path down this road of life takes me next.

Have a good one everyone. :)

Thoughts

Well, today's Family Worship service went well and everyone did a great job. Though, I wish I could say the same for the process church is going thorough at the present time. Once again there are people who are trying to stack the deck or impede the process any which way. To me: that is sickening and just not cool at all. I personally wish I had the power to fire the people who did not want to support the mediation process and give it their full 100% backing/"buy in" etc. We'll just have to see what happens and how stuff plays out.

Click

What comes to your mind when you see the word click? Various things and ideas I'm sure such as a seat belt, a gun out of ammo, or even a maybe even a recent movie titled Click. My thought here as nothing to do with that rather, gears turning and some insights.

I was reading in John chapter 4 using The Message yet, called Conversations with Eugene H. Peterson where he shares his insights and thoughts from time to time about the passage your reading. He was talking about how verses 43-54 link up with his first sign when he turned the water into wine specifically the man who asked Jesus to heal his son. Eugene stated that the father took Jesus simply at His word without any supercool sign or evidence his son was healed. Just his words (Jesus).

Now, I thought, that is what we have to take regarding Jesus. Some may say, well there is historical evidence that Jesus existed Jerusalem etc. Jesus raising from the dead was a miracle yet, in reality we have no evidence or super cool signs to back that up. One might ask, well then what do we have? Only the words found in Scripture specifically Jesus stating He would rise up again after 3 days. That's it. We weren't there to witness it or confirm it.

Words, yet what do we as believers do? We take Jesus at His word.


I may be taking it too far/a huge stretch yet, that's what clicked in my head. I take Jesus at His word i.e. raised up again & He's the truth and the light & He's my savior.

Hope that made sense to you all and have a good one! :)

Conflict

We all know what conflict is no doubt. There are times where it is good, bad, or ugly and we even may want to ditch and run far from it. I know, I've been there friends. Our church is in the situation of facing conflict head on, which is good yes though painful. That has been swirling around in the back of my head yet, what about internal conflict? Who will win inside of you today or tomorrow or the next day? Good or evil? Its something we all face whether we accept or deny it. I'm there friends, there are days where I'm cruising along just dandy and the next day I think to myself, "Holy crap, what happened?!" Ya know?

The key is whatever spot you're in with conflict be it at the workplace, home, or even online in a game is: talk to whoever and work through it. Granted it may not happen or even come out peachy keen. Just do your part whatever it may be and let God do the rest.

If I can make it, you can too friends. Have a good one. *waves* :)

Lessons & Seeing Things

Heyas all,

I know it has been awhile since my last post; I'll be making sure I keep this updated more often.


Today I was able to spend most of the day with a good, godly friend of mine. We discussed all the things going on at our current church particularly the bad/crappy stuff. Yet, throughout all of today I kept getting the same message/wanted to tell people that God/Jesus loves you! That's it/plain and simple. The real clincher is that I was heading home after getting gas for my car and I flipped on the radio and heard a song. Guess what it dealt with? Yup, L O V E

So today my message/info to you is simple: Jesus loves you, right where you're at in your life with whatever is going on. He loves you! I needed that today and if you did too, then I am happy and honored that God worked though me to tell ya that.

Have a good one everyone!

Song Link http://brownsfamily.imeem.com/music/rnY0nAgE/sanctus_real_the_face_of_love/

Good Friday and Easter

I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter. :)

I know that today is Good Friday and I am bummed for a few reasons:

1. is today being Christ's death (which is good/bad sorta thing)

2. the snow storm that has hit the Midwest area

3. not being able to attend the Good Friday Service at Willow Creek Community Church

I was able to go last year, yet the bad weather stopped me this time around. I just pray that the performers and all involved do well with their last run of it today plus get some rest this weekend too.


Have a good one everyone! :)

Something New/Cool

Hello all,

Below is a link to a new and cool program.
http://www.piclens.com

Now if you haven't been living under a rock (which the only person who is/does is Patrick the starfish i.e. SpongeBob SquarePants) the iPhone has been released. It (along with the other iPod products) has a thing called coverflow where you can flip through your albums by their cover. Now there is a technology that does the same sorta thing when you search for images using Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc. You can flip through the images in a 3D view (which is awesome) plus even click a button to go to the page where the image is located.

Enjoy everyone. :)