Billy is a poop head

I just wanted to say billy is a poop head but still a good friend. and my other friend and not yet a poop head cameron king just started a blog. Check it out at kingfriend.blogspot.com later

billy is a poopy head.

My first h2o sermon

This past sunday i was graced with the chance to speak to the h2o church. I got to speak on the last of the 7 deadly sins in our series "sloth" i was afforded this opportunity because of billy's sloth and having to go to amsterdam to do some missions trip which i hear was good stuff yay jesus. It was a good turn out for the fact that it was the first sunday after thanksgiving break. I think the talk went well and from those who said something said it was a good talk. I felt things went very well. I planned on talking and teaching on sloth. But as i was writing God layed out more of a preach. I really felt kind of off for the portion of the sloth talk were i spoke as an advacate of sloth. It is very hard to speak on something you do not grasp or believe in. To clearify i did the talk as duel persons one telling the "good life" of sloth and one speaking biblical truth on sloth. The second half was much easier. I just thought of something when i said it is hard to talk on something you dont grasp. So it makes me see how much when people talk about other religions or things how they can speak so truly because they think it is true and that is why we can speak as christian so strongly and passionately about Christ. So when you engage in conversation with nonbelievers or believers of other faiths realize that. Realize they believe just as strongly as you do but not in the Truth. So we need to be sensitive and allow the Spirit to lead the conversation because it takes only the work of God to change a heart. No matter how well we argue or lay out the vision. Just a tangent thought. But the talk went well and it was truly a blessing opened my eyes more clearly to my own sloth and hopefully i can fix that.

Been a while

It has been a while since i last posted but it has been holiday break for me so i took full advantage. I rarely have been even near a computer except to maybe check on my fantasy team. But i had a very good break and lots to report in future blogs. but the first weekend of break i had a great dinner with Tara and my family. It was kind of like my thanksgiving dinner since i had to work the real thanksgiving this year. But it was a great night of food friends and family. I had a blast and i believe everyone else did also. I am so blessed to have a wonderful family. My thanksgiving was pretty good even though i worked got to work with one Jimmy Shreeves very cool man of God and had some good conversations. I also got to preach at H2o this sunday but i will blog on that later. I have many more blogs swimming in my head but i am at work and better get back to it.

Hearing God

I was reminded by the lovely Beth today of something that I had in a way forgotten that the job I choose in not important morally to God. How I perform at that job is and what I do with it is because all is to be don't to the glory of God. But I felt the need to clarify one of my posts. It is not the job I am worried about. What ever pharmacy job I get I will do with the best of my ability to glorify God with all aspects of my life. But it is the not hearing God in where He wants me to do that job. I don't want to be Jonah and not listen to where God is sending me and be swallowed by a whale. And I don't want to leave anywhere because I want to leave I want to God because God is leading me away. I want my motives to be his motives I want my will to be his will in every aspect from the small to large I want to be in complete submission to his will. But praise God I believe God is leading us to Charlotte for the time being Tara received a 50% tuition reduction to go to the Charlotte campus. But prayer still needs to be done. But where ever God leads us I hope we go where he dictates not me or Tara dictates. Ive tried to boss god around before and it was not pretty and I expect the results to be similar if I tried again.

Jesus

I was thinking how can you not like Jesus. I can see not liking the church the church has done many things wrong due to imperfect man. Christianity in name has done horrible things because of imperfect man. But Jesus is so wonderfully perfect. He was the ideal human being. He was completely righteous. He cares and love us all so much that it is impossible for me to see how people can hate Him. I think that those who have truly experience Jesus can say with all honesty that it is truly different that Christianity or church. A relationship with Jesus is pure and not tained by the flawful man. Where the chruch has the weakness of flawful man Jesus does not but praise God Jesus is made perfect in our weakness. I just wonder if we would lose our bias to the chruch or the category of christianity and clung to Jesus what difference would there be. I challenge all those who use the example of the church as a reason not to believe to experience Christ and see if the results are the same. I imagine they wont be. They werent for me not even close. THe church jaded and hurt me but Jesus healed and saved me. Praise God he is made perfect in our weakness.

Good Conversation

Well billy is back in town and me and ryan and billy just hung out tonight. I picked up a bottle of wine in parkersburg when i was visiting tara and we celebrated the return of our friend. We then went to Uno's to get some grub. While we were there we struck up a conversation with one of the waitresses working there. Racheal. She turned out ot be and english major so had a lot in common with billy. But it was cool to see as we had good convo how the walls we build around us to keep strangers out were breaking down. It was like we were all good freinds by the end of the night. Not that we all will become best friends but the conversation was great. And a bond was made between all of us the bond of being human and one of God's creations. Its interesting to see the things you have in common with people when you allow the walls of seperation to come down and enjoy conversation. A great night of conversation to welcome back a great friend.

Hello my new readers

It appears I have a few atheists and agnostics reading the blog now. Welcome. I hope that you find your stay here pleasant. I truly look forward to talking with you. I would appreciate if we could keep any correspondence civil and at some type of level as not to be offensive. Well keep on visiting and I will keep on writing. And who knows maybe we both will learn something.

Who

I was just checking my stat counter and see someone posted something under my name on another blog. I dont necessarily disagree with the general idea of the statement i am just curious who it was. Well if you know who you are let me know and if not i guess i will go on guessing, but please remember you are being a faker and my views may not agree with yours so faithful reader just keep that in mind if you read something crazy posted on other blogs in my name.

Dichotomy

Dichotomy of freedom of ideas and open mindedness. I get so frustrated with people who say they are open minded, but are completely close minded because they are only blinded by the idea of having an open mind. For example the person who says that I as a Christian should not push my beliefs on someone and I should be open minded and shut up. Well fact of the matter is that such a statmentis a very close minded. The fact that you ask me to leave you to your beliefs would mean that you also would leave me to mine thus we would both be open minded. And if my beliefs tell me that I should love you and tell you about Jesus then that is what an open minded person would allow me to do. Just as if I say that im not close minded I would listen to what you had to say also, even if it was calling me a stupid close minded Christian. Open mindedness in not agreeing with what is said but listening to what is said. Absurdity is agreeing with everything that is said. We all have an ethos and whatever it might be we should believe it and believe strongly in it. I believe that Jesus is Lord. That Jesus was the Truth and the Life. I believe this with all that I am. I am willing to listen to others, but from my experiences with Jesus I can never see me changing my point of view. That is how we are to live with an ethos or belief that it is true and that we believe it unless otherwise through our experience are shown otherwise. I respect any man who believes full in his ethos, but that does not mean I can not believe he is wrong. It is the man that believes in nothing and finds fault with all that I truly don't understand. One who is double minded and blow with the wind. But someone if you can explain to me how one can be open minded yet not allow a Christian to stand for what they believe I would love to hear it. Like I said I am willing to listen to you, and which in my understanding is what open mindedness is all about but please faithful reader correct me if I error.

What i cant hear you

Right now i am trying to hear God. I got my first job offer today for the DC area, but im not sure if God wants me there or in morgantown or in charlotte. I am try to listen to what God has to say but i just can not seem to get a clear utterance and maybe because i am not ready to hear what he has to say yet. I still have many offers to come probably and prayerfully. I right now feel as if God has elminated the DC area and it is down to morgantown and charlotte. I guess i will just keep praying and listening to hear what God is saying and just keep waiting to see what offers come and all that stuff. Well please pray i make the correct choice and i listen to where god is sending me.

The Fray

Another good buy. I have a habit of buying new artist when the CD is less than 10 bucks i picked up "The Fray" today and they are really good. THe first time i did this i picked up cold play and we all know they are awesome. Also i think "the fray" may be a group of believers. THe first person they thank is the creator. and their songs sound like they may know the father. SO that is really cool. But if you get a chance check them out the are pretty dern good.

Fantasy

Has anyone else been bitten by the fantasy football bug. I actually was cheering against my favorite team the steelers last week so i would win my fantasy game. There is something very wrong in that. I guess it just goes to show you are addictive nature and how easily we are pulled away from the important things. But at the same time it is a way that me and my buddies get to hang and talk about stupid things that at least hopefully will lead to more important matter but no the less its fun and sometimes that is all things need to be as long as they are not sinful and so far it has not been but then again my team is doing well. LOL.