Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Monday, January 02, 2006
A New Year
Hey Everybody
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring%2
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring%2
New Year
Hey Everybody
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
New Year
Hey Everybody
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
A New Year
Hey Everybody
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
A New Year
Hey Everybody
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
A New Year
Hey Everybody
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
well my first semester is done of Millar College of the Bible and it has been really good. God has been doing some super neat things. We had a day of prayer were we spent a whole day in prayer in different ways and that really impacted me. It was incredible how the whole atmosphere of the school changed and my own outlook was so bright and hopefilled. Everything is so much more beautiful when you are close to God. It's crazy how easy it is for me to forget that then get caught up in life and forget about putting a lot of time toward my relationship with God.
The winter break was really fun, I got to hang out with so many great people. Jonathon Danyluk just encourages and inspires me so much. I love his passion and zeal for God so much even when he's not sure he just goes for what he thinks God wants. and from what I've seen he's usually right. Also Jeff Olson is super encouraging, I love hearing his heart and experiences. We stayed up until 4:30 in the morning at Dallas Valley just talking about a lot of different things. I love it when people have faith in God, when they hear stories of miracles or God doing something really amazing and their first inclination is not doubt and skepticism. Like really maybe there is a time to be careful about believing something before we know it's true but shouldn't we give God the benefit of the doubt? Isn't it better to give glory to God at the risk of being wrong instead of saying it's man making something up. Maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about but that's what I've really been thinking of lately. I know that there is so much more to christianity than what we are living in. We have accepted mediocrity too often and not lived at the standard that God has set.
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15
I believe that we have changed Jesus's word in our understanding to "Stay where you want to be and tell people about Jesus if they bring it up in conversation" Like 30 times weaker then the command of Jesus. or even read the next two verses and how many people don't follow God's calling because they are afraid to get hurt. I learned in bible college that the number one reason that people don't follow the missionary call is because of their family pressuring them to stay. Did Jesus not say "I tell you the truth anyone who has left father or mother or brother or sister or fields for my sake will not fail to recieve a hundred times as much" I'm sure he knew that this was going to happen and wanted to address the problem beforehand but we still have not heeded the call
For myself I have realized to how words are so cheap and until I start living like I believe nothing that I say matters. I think that God is burdened by our words sometimes. We sing in church "I Surrender All" and then go out and sin and are prideful and maybe even are thoughts are drifting during that very song. I heard Jason Upton say "Sometimes real worship comes when we start swearing" he then said now don't get religious on me I'm not advocating swearing in church or anywhere, but God knows exactly where our heart is at. He just wants us to be real and honest with him." Why do we think that we can trick God by saying things that make us look better before him. Just read Luke 18 I think about the pharisee and the tax collecter the pharisee said "Oh God I thank you that I am not like other men, I fast once a week and give a tithe of all that I get" or something like that. And God just wants us to be real and authentic with him, bare our soul to him even when it hurts and it brings us shame. Because God knows it all Anyways!! When were you last real with God?
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