Check out the new music video that friend Aaron Ivey just released. The song was written about his son Amos who is still in Haiti. Please continue to pray for Haiti as well as Amos.
January 15, 2010
Help Haiti Shirts!
Go check out HelpHaitiShirt.com ! Order shirts and all profit goes to Haiti relief! This is something that is simple and can begin to affect the lives of others in need. Be an answered prayer to a person in need in Haiti. Continue to pray that the Lords name will be lifted and an awakening to the country of Haiti will take place! Go buy shirts!
January 13, 2010
Haiti Relief
Here are a couple links that you can donate to that will go directly towards Haiti relief. Please continue to pray for Haiti.
Purchase “Help Haiti” shirts and all profit goes towards Haiti Relief.
Real Hope for Haiti Scroll to bottom to donate.
January 5, 2010
Re-learning Community
Since I have been back from Brazil I have noticed the radical change in my life regarding community. You see in Brazil I was surrounded with the a few of the most Godly people I have ever met. Everyday I was surrounded by a community of people who showed love, hope, trust, and justice in every aspect of their being. A community I was so proud to be serving with.
Since I have been in the U.S. I have lost that community. I know it exists because I see it in the life of people like Steven Bush and Aaron Ivey. But it is something I have lost. How do you rebuild a community of believers that you can love, trust, encourage and live life with? How do you do this starting from scratch? I have seen true community in ways I will never understand. But this is something I have yet to see in my life now that I am in the U.S. I strive for community. I strive for a people group that promote radicalism. I strive to be a part of a people that all radically live out the Gospel every minute of every hour.
Without community I have noticed myself losing passion and love for people. I have become bitter. I have become angry at the American church. I have become something that I don’t agree with. I believe the loss of community is the root of this problem.
So teach me. What does a true community that promotes the very essence of Christ look like? How do you attain that?
December 24, 2009
why no blog?
So I have not been doing much writing lately.. Hopefully as the new year comes around I will get back in to some reading and writing. Hope you all have happy holidays.
October 29, 2009
Hillary
I was able to take a few pictures for Hillary today before we were rained out. Here’s a few I liked.
October 19, 2009
I’m venting.
One of the things I struggle with is ministering to other believers. What is it about other believers who think you are trying to “judge” them when you have noticed they are struggling in their walk with the Lord? Why is there a need to hurry and point the finger back at the other person? I am not one to try to say I am better then the other. I also never want people to assume that.
I guess what I’m getting at is one question. How do you react to people who come back at you like that? How do you do that in humility without getting angry that someone is coming back at you in anger? What is your opinion?
October 7, 2009
Renovation
Super excited to start working on the garage this week! We’re going to renovate the garage into a new room for me to stay in. It will be somewhere for me to stay until I move in the spring. It’s going to be a cool deal. Will be sure to post pictures of before and after once we get everything going.
Also, I am still taking donations to help get Brazilian missionaries to the States for a couple weeks! Let me know if you can help out!
September 25, 2009
Encouragement
Encouragement. One word, yet so many meanings. I think encouragement is something our world is lacking.
When you look back at your walk with Christ, what are the times you feel so pumped for the cause of Christ? I know if it’s anything like mine it’s the times when you are submersed in people believing in you. Why is it that people only believe they can change the world when someone at a camp or revival says they can? What would the Christian society look like to the lost world if we lived every day believing that we can make change?
Encouragement. Love. Faith.
Combine these actions. Christians, if God is doing a work in your life tell others. Let other people know how God is working in your life. Tell others the things that God is showing you. If you have seen God do something amazing, tell others. If you know God is making change in your community tell others. People need to hear the things that Christ is doing. When we hear that Christ is at work everyone else wants to join in. Everyone wants to be a part of it. It’s a contagious feeling.
I encourage you to encourage. Let people know how much you love them. Let people know that God is still moving and can move through them. Because YOU are the way the world can change. But you have to open up your life to letting God do it through you.
September 24, 2009
Doesn’t make sense.
Something that I have never understood is how someone who has claimed to know the Lord at one point in their life can run so far away from him. I know so many people that I have seen chase after God in an intimate way at certain points of life but then today see them not caring at all. It is something I can’t wrap my mind around. Does it make any sense to you?
I know everyone sins and can mess up. But what I don’t understand is people who sin and don’t care to repent. People who know what is right and know what the word says yet deliberately ignore it to do what they seek. This is one reason I think we are to fear the Lord. I am so scared to run away from following Gods plan in my life because I know without him I am lost. I am worth absolutely nothing without the Father.
What do you say to these people? What do you say to a person who knows scripture and knows they are in a life of sin yet continues to live that life without repent?
