Quick Update

I am procrastinating washing windows so I will update real quick, even though this whole staff blog thing seems to be a failed experiment. Oh well it was a nice idea. I am one day away from being done with my internship at Windy City. I have no idea what is next for me but I am excited to see what doors God opens for me. This is gonna be fun. For anyone who reads this, I want to leave you with this idea from scripture.
In Revelation 2 John writes to the church in Ephesus that they have forgotten their first love which is Christ. He tells them to get back to that point, this is what I challenge you to do. Remember how good it was when you got first saved, or those times in your life when you knew that everything you did everything you werer about was pointed to Christ. How good that was. Get back to that. More later hopefully.

Ooops

So I am supposed to be doing the devo blog this week. I totally forgot till just now. DANG! So this post is to say the following:

1. Cleveland= eh ok.
2. White Sox= In trouble
3. My cousin has a sweet house.
4. Long next few days, lots of window washing to do.
5. Big ups to Eric Fisher he is graduating in a few days
6. Big ups to Zach Pietrini who has a birthday coming up on Friday. WAHOO!

Gotta go post a devo for tomorrow morning. Dang I can't believe I forgot. Dang! Check out the devo tomorrow.

Love you guys.

Failure

Yes I know it's Thursday and I didn't post yesterday or the day before. I'm sorry. I can't apologize enough. Trust me I am as disappointed as you are. I wanna get regular with this. Which means there will be days when I post sillyness (see last post) and days when there is a little more substance hopefully. Today I want to share a passage that I read with Alex and Aaron when I met with them. It comes from Is 40:9-11
O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!" 10 Behold, the Lord GOD shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him. 11 He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, And carry them in His bosom, And gently lead those who are with young.

The point that I want to share with you has to do with the Lord's arm. Let's think for a minute about the fact that Jesus was a carpenter and so he was ripped. Moving on from that. It says that God's hand will be strong and will rule. Jesus is our King of Kings. Our ruler. The LORD! He is the one who will return to us on a white horse to judge.
At the same time He is our Shepherd. The GOOD shepherd. With that same arm that He will judge and rule He also gathers His flock to himself. He will carry his flock, that's us. He will carry us when we need to be carried. He will guide us. He will feed us. Our God is both an almighty King of Kings and justice right ruler, but He is also our tender shepherd who loves and cares and lays down His life for the sheep.
Jesus guide me. Lead me. Protect me.

Still goin.

Hi all. I am once again cuttin it really close by posting this at 11:13 in the pm. I will get better soon I promise. Sarah is here with me. There is a light on in the room and both my parents are here and all of our feet are on the floor so there is nothing shady going on here. We are going to watch a movie. Sarah hasn't seen many so any suggestions would be helpful. So if you read this in the next 5 min and have a suggestion call me.

Jesus really loves you. He died on the cross for your sins. He gave you a free gift of eternal life.

We are having a ________ cr______ fight tomorrow night. I'm excited.

Peace out.

Sunday

So today is the day that the Lord has made.
He is good and awesome. He totally showed up this morning and granted me with a peace beyond all understanding. MAN HE IS AWESOME!
WOW! So from now on I don't want to post on Sundays unless I have something really awesome to share. Sunday can be a crazy day. But I just wanted to thank everyone who prayed and encouraged me this week and today.

Sundays A Comin'

Welp, it's Saturday night. I'm preachin in the morning. Nothing more to do but pray and get some rest. THANKYOU for everyone who has been prayin for me this week, I really appreciate it.
Father use yoru servant. May it be your words and not mine. May it be you and not me. May you increase and I decrease. Lord give me peace that surpasese all understanding. At the end of the day, may you be glorified. AMEN!

Another Day Another Post

Back again. Just gettin this one in before the buzzer. Robert has yet to even think about responding to my challenge which is a pity. Today is Friday, I worked on my sermon after I preached or praught, (a past tense form of the word preach that my friend David Goetz made up.) for Steve and Adaline and Bob. After reworking it I feel like it is much cleaner and easier to follow. Today I preached again, this time only for Steve. He had more constuctive criticism for me. There are some things I am going to finish before I finally stop tinkering with it. Pastor Steve told me to just stop at some point. He has given me a lot of helpful tips for this Sunday. Though I'm not gonna lie I'm still kinda nervous.
So when I was younger I used to dress up and pretend to be Indiana Jones. I mention this because I am watching the first Indiana movie with Sarah. When we grow up we stop doing fun things like that. We stop using our brains for fun and fantasy. We start thinking critically and logically. Why? I'm not sure, but I do know that I didn't really ever hear of either of those words till school.
Try to think outside the box today. Try to let your imagination get the best of you. Don't think like a grown up, think like a kid. Have fun.