Ipod uPdate

I am a man of many thoughts. I am updating this blog from my iPod touch. I am tired. That is all. I am basically updating to check out my new wordpress app. I wonder why they decided to realese a seperate app instead of updating the old one. Oh
Well.

Dorm Life…

So…. I am living back on campus. I am in my Fifth year of college. I have lived off campus for 2 years, and, through a series of events, I am living on campus, in Cone Residence Hall in fact, the very same place that I lived my Freshmen year. Its been an experience.

First, I am living with people 3,4, sometimes 5(!!!) years younger than me. Its a weird place sometimes. I really like these kids. I have been able to build good relationships with some of these guys, and the girls on the hall are really fun. Rooming with Ben is fun too. He is a pretty awesome roommate. So its been fun, hard getting used to living in a very noise environment.

Second, its really cool to be on campus. Its been great hanging out with alot of the guys from Cru. I love getting to see them. It’s fun, good times. I am getting alot out of this experience, especially considering its more than likely the last time I will live in a dorm like setting.(never say never, but more than likely).

Thrid, Xbox 360 is awesome. So is Facebook and Twitter. So is Zombieland.

Fourth, the gospel is challenging me in new ways everyday. Sometimes subtly, sometimes very very in my face, me staring in the face of my sin.

Relief…

I want you guys to know how much relief i am enjoying right now.

That is all.

Up-date me, when September ends

OH NO! It is September. And I haven’t blogged since June!!! or July? It’s been awhile to say the least. So this will be the usual update post.

First off, I am living on campus at UNCG. Not only that, I am living with one Ben Tietje in Cone 414. It has been awesome, building relationships with students in the freshmen dorm.  It has been a great chance to share my faith as well. I really hope for some divine appointments, and most importantly, for me not to make projects out of people. I can’t save anybody. Only Christ can. So I just need to live a righteous life, share my testimony, and trust God to do the rest!

Cru has been going AMAZING! we have had over 160 people 2 weeks in a row! what a tremendous blessing! Right now we currently have some issues with the rooming situation. but whatever. it’ll get worked out.

Bible Study has been encouraging as well! We have had guys coming out and wanting to be a part of the group! and the study has been going great. All the leaders have been taking turns. It’s going to be m turn this week!

Alssssoooo I am seeing someone now. Yeah, its been that long since I’ve updated. Shes an awesome girl though and I am really excited about this relationship.

Another random note, my parents have a cat now. I think this is how they are dealing with Empty nest syndrome.

That is all folks!

Friday Ramblings

So I wanted to write but I don’t have a point to my writing or anything on my mind. But maybe thats my point. Maybe we always feel like we have to have a purpose to do something? Maybe I just wanted to flippin write. GET OFF MY BACK!

Anyway some rndom tidbits for you guys.

You guys who know me know I love Comic books. I don’t really collect, I just love to read them. I love the medium, love the stories, the whole superhero mythology. It’s just great fro me. So I want to share in this with you, go find a comic book shop and read Flash:Rebirth, Grean Lantern, Invincible, Batman and Robin, and Ultimate Spider-man. You will not be disappointed with these books. Great storytelling.

Another note. UNCG is doing alot of construction. Again. And they are replacing my favorite parking lot with a new education building. Really? I mean, what have teachers done for society? (note: I’m being sarcastic, I’m ok with it, just a little annoyed that my lot is gone).

I’m really enjoying my job at DQ. The kids are so fun. It can get a little tiring, both physically and mentally. But not at all Spirtually. I am really enjoying the ministry at DQ. These are some good kids. Funny little jokers.

I noticed Mike kinda gave up on his blog. I’m gonna bug him to read this tonight just so he gets annoyed with me.

I like wireless internet.

Prayer Requests, the June Edition

You ever have that feeling that everything is going to be ok? You ever not have that feeling? I ask this because I have that feeling right now. It’s cool to see God working in so many ways around me. All the money has been raised for UNCG Cru to do the freshmen stuff next year. I didn’t even have to help ha ha. My finances have been in the hole since like the begining of May, but God continues to provide. I haven’t starved yet. My Anxiety is much much better than it was a few months ago. I can eat too, all be it really slow. It’s hard to trust in the Lord sometimes. It really is. But he always provides. I’m writing this cause I think I need to hear it myself.

I think I just need to give over everything to God. It’s so hard but I think I do. I still feel like I am holding back from God some things. Which sounds weird, because God is God, and knows those things, and he knows I am holding back, and he knows why I am holding back, probably even better than I do. But still I have to commit these things to the Lord. Sooooooooo, I have some more Prayer Requests, and Praises, for you guys!

• Pray that I humbly submit to God and be renewed  with a fire and passion to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone God puts in my life.
• Pray that I am an honest and good employee at Discovery Quest, that I am a servant and am able to witness to the kids.
• Pray for my family. They need it. Like always.
• Pray for my rooming situation over the summer.
• Pray for a couple area of my life that I don’t really want to put on a blog for all to see, BUT, I would like prayer in these areas. Pray that God gives me patience, and wisdom, and dealing with these things, and that I will be Christ-like in my actions and thoughts and reasoning.
• Pray for everybody that is going all over the place this summer. I have peeps going to Africa, Middle East, East Asia, Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, NYC, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Russia, and Argentina! It’s great to see the Great Commission in action! And great to see that I am in a body of believers who’s hearts are to spread the Gospel!
• Also pray for the guys and gals here in the States working in camps, sharing and building relationships with kids all across the country. Pray for wisdom, encouragement, and Patience, lots and lots of patience!
• Pray for Lawndale Baptist, Grace Community, The Patio, Rolling Roads Baptist  and Hope Chapel. All of these Churches are doing great things! Pray that God continues to use these churches in mighty ways!
• Pray the Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ @ UNCG) will be a huge success this year, that we will make a HUGE impact on the UNCG community and the love of Jesus Christ will be shared with many college students.
• And also pray for prayer. I know that sounds weird but the heart of any monistry or movement is prayer. Pray that prayer warriors raise up and lead the way in praying for UNCG, Cru, the Churches, and the Greensboro community in general. Pray for prayer. Pray for a revival.

Web 2.scary!

So I just got a blip. I guess thats what it should be called.
It’s like twitter, but centered around music.

But get this, I update it, Blip updates my twitter, then twitter updates my facebook status. So people on Facebook can know what music I like. I guess.

It’s very easy to stalk me. I told you guys I am embracing Web 2.0!

Internet games!

So today, I have been playing around on the computer alot (ahhh the freedom of summer), and I have discover several games. These games are amazing and I highly recommend playing them.

First off is this guy. Offroad Veliciraptor Safari. You ride around in a jeep and hit dinosaurs. What is NOT TO LIKE?!?

Another one, Peggle, is mighty fun. It’s very simple, but very cool. There’s another game on that site which, so far is my favorite game I have played today, called Plants vs. Zombies. It is just… awesome. It’s a lite RTS (real time strategy, a kind of video game) and its just, its just awesome.

And because I am lazy, and this is crucial, this link will redirect you to 1up’s awesome collection of the best free games on the web. there are 101 of them. 404 if you look at the past lists. You won’t just kill a day with this, you’ll kill a month.

Isaiah 42:20

Isaiah 42:20  “You have seen many things, but have paid no attantion; your ears are open, but you hear nothing.”

How sadly true this verse is. How I go through my days and completly ignore God in everything that I do. I do not acknowledge him, or any of his wondorous attributes. I do not see the beauty in creation. Whether it is the beautiful foothills here in Mount Airy, or the complexity of creation back in Greensboro. Whether it is the patiance from my parents, to the love my sister showed me by skipping school ( ha ha ) to hang out with me, her big brother. From the joy of hanging out friends, to the honesty in sharing one’s life with somebody you barely know. Even the dogs and trees and ants crawling on the porch reflect God.

I usually don’t post my quiet time thoughts on here, but I felt, that to be better able to understand what it is I just read, than having a place to write out everything wouldn’t be a bad idea. Maybe I can even encourage someone along the way.

I read Isaiah 38-47 today, and in it I relized how God is always reaching out to us. Even though he doesn’t have to, he does, because he loves us!

Isaiah 42:7 “to open the eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dugeon those who sit in darkness.”

Isaiah 41:20 “so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

God is always trying to reveal himself to us! And in all honesty everything is a reflection of God! (well, not sin, but y’know what I mean). God loves us, and wants us to know him, as he knows us! We will never know God completely, at least not in this lifetime, but we CAN know God. And I do not mean know OF God. But personally KNOW God. As  a friend, as a savior, and as our heavenly father.

I think as Christians, we ignore God way to much in our life. We have other idols that take up our time. For me those idols include school, internet (I know I’m blogging, ignore that fact), other people ( I don’t mean worshipping others, I mean spending more time and thought with other people than God), and a bunch of other stuff. I could go on and on honestly. You can too probably.

As Christians, I think we are called to many things. Believe, live up to a higher standard of living, be more Christ-like, etc etc., but I think we sometimes forget about God. I mean that we focus so much on what WE are doing that we lose sight of God and what HE has DONE.

5 times in Isaiah 45 & 46, it says “I am the LORD, and there is no other”. 5 times. It’s like we keep forgetting. Why else would God keep repeating it to us? Not only is it truth, but it is a truth that we keep forgetting. During the entire scripture I read today, God kept showing us that He was God by doing things.

Isaiah 44: 24b “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone has stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself”

Isaiah 45:12a “It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it”

Why is God repeating this to us? Well, probably because we forget. We hear many things, and see many things, but do we really see? Do we really hear? God doesn’t have to repeat himself. He doesn’t even have to reach out to us. BUT HE DOES!

And as Christians, we are called to be his witnesses, to help others see, and others hear, what we have seen and heard. And to do this, we must remember, and never forget!

Isaiah 43:10 ” You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.”

Isaiah 43:18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.”

Isaiah 43:25 “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.”

As Christians we are called to remember was what was done. What God has done for us, through Jesus Christ, his only Son! Not only are our sins forgiven! But God doesn’t even remember them! It is no more, as it never happened. We don’t even see this! But we are called to see and hear these things, so that we can be witnesses of God!

American Idol is insane

You heard me. A glorifed singing competition, and the whole world goes crazy! It was cool though I guess. Kris Allen was apparently an upset. If that is possible in this kind of thing. It’s cool though, I thought he was more talented than the Adam guy. I would have voted for Kris.

But man, all the commercial craziness, all the celebrity appearances (really KISS, really?) made for corporate insanity. Oh well. It sells, and thats not a bad thing. My Mom was flipping out about the show.

But I only watched the season finale and tonight’s episode. So maybe I’m judgemental. I only kept up with the show waaaaaay back in season 2, when it was Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard. Maybe I’m just bitter.