Sunday, April 30, 2006

Children are like dogs, if you hit them enough there going to think they did something to deserve it.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Death strikes again

There are very few things that absolutley infuriate me and one of those things is death. My roommate used to work at Taylor University, in the cafeteria and five students have died and four of my roommates co-workers ended up in intensive care in the hospital because they got into a car wreck last night.

Well one of my roomies co-workers actually died this morning. I hate what death does to the human soul and how it tries to tear apart what God originally put together. Its hard because i love my roommate a lot and there has only been two other moments where i have really cried because of the hurt that another person is going through. I had my third experience like that tonight with my roommate.

Death sucks. I hate it.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Stupid Christianity

Yap, that's right...Have you ever run into one of these? Every church has one or more if they are lucky. Stupid Christians. I use this term fluently in saying that there are certain Christians who are sadly stupid. In a specific way...

These are the kind of people who know the message and hear God's voice and blantanly ignore Him. Christians who are making poor decisions, and who are justifying those poor decisions with the idea that Jesus loves them, and that people should love them just as they are.

News FLASH- Christ calls us to himself. Christ states that we are called to be mature in the faith, so that we can know what is right and so we can grow eating the solid food Christ gives us. We are called to know the difference between what is right and what is wrong, and we are also called to know that if we do not do the right thing, we are sinning.

I just find Christians who are consciously sinning to be stupid. The whole idea that we can continue to consciously sin and hear God clearly enough to follow his spirit is full of blatant stupidity.

Mockers grow up. You know the Truth, so start living it out.

Friday, April 21, 2006

WalMart

Isn't it intresting how our environment can shape our ideas.

I recently got an email to be a rep. for WalMart, and the first thought I had was No. The reason being is that they are not unized and they also treat their employees with disrespect. The reason I stick by the union thing is because my mom is part of a union and when they go on strike they are told not to go to WalMart because it would be misrepresenting what the union idea stands for.

I just thought it was something to quickly write about so I can enhance the idea later in life.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

shocked

Naperville woman, friend tangle with wrong 'victim'
Sharp-eyed, 88-year-old widow foils purse snatching
By
Bill Bird
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STAFF WRITERST. CHARLES She was supposed to have been their "pigeon." She turned out to be more like an eagle-eyed raptor.
Despite suffering a fractured left knee and head bruises after being flung to the sidewalk, an 88-year-old woman managed to turn the tables on two purse snatchers, giving police a detailed description of her attackers and the license plate number of their getaway car.
That enabled police to arrest a man and a woman on felony charges of robbery and aggravated battery in the case, said Paul McCurtain, public information officer for the St. Charles Police Department.

Bond was set Tuesday at $50,000 for Alise L. Hockett, 20, of 7S428 Plainfield-Naperville Road in the unincorporated Green Acres neighborhood near Naperville's west side; and at $75,000 for Marcus A. Montgomery, 30, of 39W791 Dairy Herd Lane, St. Charles.
McCurtain said the trouble began at 10:22 a.m. Monday on the 300 block of Oak Street in St. Charles, just west of the city's downtown area. The victim, a widow from Geneva, had come to town for an appointment with a professional tax preparer, McCurtain said.
Hockett allegedly walked up to the woman and distracted her while Montgomery approached her unseen, McCurtain said. A scuffle ensued after Montgomery grabbed the victim's purse and she resisted him.

McCurtain said the woman was pushed to the ground with enough force that she fractured her left knee and sustained bruising to the left side of her head.
Hockett and Montgomery took the purse and fled in a vehicle as the victim lay on the sidewalk, McCurtain said. Despite her injuries, the woman "was able to provide police with a description of the offenders, as well as the license plate of (their) vehicle," he said.
An emergency radio broadcast concerning the crime was heard by Geneva police, who curbed the vehicle just after 11 a.m. near a strip mall, McCurtain said.

Montgomery and Hockett were taken to the St. Charles police station for questioning. The victim was released from Delnor-Community Hospital in Geneva after undergoing treatment there for her injuries.

McCurtain praised the woman for remaining calm and alert during her ordeal, calling her "a very, very sharp witness."

Hockett and Montgomery are charged with robbery of a person over the age of 60, aggravated battery of a senior citizen and aggravated battery on a public way, all felonies. They are scheduled to be arraigned April 13 in Kane County Circuit Court in Yorkville.

Alise Hockett is a good friend of mine from highschool who actually attended my highschool small group. I think that God is moving through this situation though.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

The Beauty of Surrender

Take my heart and lay it down.
at the feet of you whose crowned
and take my life and letting go
I lift it up to you whose throwned.

And I will worshhip you Lord, only you Lord
And I will bow down, before you, only you Lord

Take my fret, take my fear, all I have im leaving here
Be all my hopes, be all my dreams
your my delight sweet my everthing

And I will worship you Lord only you Lord
And I will bow down, before you, Only you Lord

And its just you and me here now
Only you and me here now

And it's just you and me here now
Only you and me here now.....

Monday, April 17, 2006

words written.

I miss Kelso.

I remember at fusion last year when he kneeled down on shawn's shoes and pulled his pants up really high and mocked shawn. It was really funny. We played jenga and would think up funny things to say before we pulled out each block. I remember that Sunday he was going to each lunch with his grandparents and I remember the last look he gave me before he left.

I remember going on my first mission trip with him, and doing chicken wire the hard way.

I remember tag preaching my frist sermon with him.

I remember when he would teach me new games on wednesday nights and we played one that involved rock paper scissors.

I remember the time that he told me I could keep the video camera on, on the plane even though we were landing and all electronics needed to be turned off.

I remember getting excited about school with him.

I love the memories even the hard ones.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

hard day

us so i don't blog about my days specifically but i decided to do it today. I strangly had a hard day. I cleaned some and sat down with Ezekiel today and talked with him and at the end of the conversation I was blown away by the experiences that he has with God and after the first real experience he lands in a camp and it says he stays there-overwhelmed.

That's something i can relate to. The feeling of being overwhelmed, and i feel like that was my main feeling today. I sat down and read some of my books for class about Biblical interperatation which was half interesting and half overwhelming. What does the Truth really look like and who's right in interperating it? Which i know isn't even the right question to ask.

Then I entered into some pretty challenging conversations. Some questions that I came up against were questions I had no answers to. At least not at the moment.

I just feel like i have a lot of information and I don't have anything to do with it. It's like I am constantly sitting and listening to sermons about what I should do and how i should live but there is not application at the end of the message. I guesse that is what I have to get too.

I guesse that is where faith comes in...a lot of different ideas.

Friday, April 07, 2006

Reaching out

So I have recently discovered Henri Nouwen's book Reaching Out on my bookshelf and decided to pick it up.

He blew my mind.

This is an amazing statement that is just in the introduction.

"During our life we become more aware not only of our crying lonliness but also of our real desire for a solitude of the heart; we come to the painful realization not only of our cruel hostilities but also our hope to recieve our fellow humans with unconditional hospitality; and underneath all of this we discover not onlyl the endless illusions which make us act as if we are masters of our fate but also the precarious gift of prayer hidden in the depth of our innermost self."

I actually read the first chapter as well and encourage everyone to pick this book up.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

No Bounds


I was sitting on the train that was traveling from London to Nottingham with a team of ten college students and one professor. The students around me got into the a conversation of some sorts about how we should interact with non Christians. Those who find their value and worth in the empty things of this world. I sat there and listened to some of the things that were said but I had Death Cab for Cutie ringing in my ears. Which if you know me well you know that I am spiritually stimulated when I listen to music of any kind. So I let the conversation that was surrounding me and the music intermix and started thinking about how I would respond if I entered into the conversation.

Love them. That’s it. That’s all I would say. Don’t try and convert them in that moment, and don’t judge them...just love them. This thought I would have backed up by using the illustration of Christ’s life.

And then God threw a theological and emotional brick in my face, which usually happens when I think I am right.

Jesus did illustrate love with his life. And time and time again I will speak of how Jesus suffered for me. But during that train ride I realized I was the one spitting on him. I was the one flogging the man that I so called loved. Now let me bring it back into our world because over and over I have heard that example used in sermons to drive the emotion. But in my life I continually put up walls and boundaries around people. I use the excuse of "Im just being wise" but in reality I just don’t want to get hurt.

Christ never put boundaries up. He never reacted to a Roman guard spitting on him. He only acted on the fact that he was and is God, and God is love. Psychologically we continue to put walls up because we again know that if we don’t we will get walked all over. We will become a door mat. Makes sense.

I walk all over Jesus. You know what he does. He doesn’t put psychological walls up in a justification that it’s normal and right. He loves me.