9.) “I lost my phone number. Maybe through a purposeful relationship, we can find out if I’m supposed to have yours.”
8.) “Your Bible…. or mine?”
7.) “We’re perfect for each other. Our parents have so much in common!”
6.) This one comes right from the book Song of Solomon, “You’re so, so, how can I say this biblical? Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing… your hair is like a herd of goats running down a mountain.”
5.) “Do your feet hurt? ‘Cause you’ve been running through God’s plans for me all your life.”
4.) “Let’s get our siblings together and go out sometime.”
3.) “I can’t wait to see what you look like at 50.”
2.) “My parents are back in town. Wanna come over?”
so here we have a moment in my day……so i decided to share with you some random thoughts, as i do happen to be a random person.
coffee (made possible by a huge chicago-themed starbucks mug) and my camera (which i’ve been snap-happy with). in 2005, i basically bought every t-shirt my missions organization had to offer, but unknown to me, this was actually a girls shirt! it had alittle flower on it…which you can tell i tried to peel off. i finally gave up on that though, as you can see.
on my bed, i’ve got the manual for my yamaha s-80 keyboard (i’ve been studying for some upcoming recording) as well as a new dress shirt to wear for work at the radio station.
on the back wall, i’ve got two old pictures….one of confederate general robert e. lee and his staff (including the great stonewall jackson), and a picture of downtown charleston from the 1800’s. i am a history neeeeeeeeerd….anything old and ancient, i like!
more randomness is sure to come…..until then….later!
“God is With You” recorded two weeks ago at my church. The guitarist who is playing with me is Atsen Murry, an amazing guy from India. He plays the guitar like he built it!
So, this girl doesn’t even know that I’m posting this. In fact, I’m on the phone with her right now, and I’m not telling her that I’m putting this up here.
I needed a test post for uploading pictures. so I figured this would be pretty good
so yesterday i got a new camera! so hopefully i will be blogging more regularly about things…….when i used to have a camera a few years back, i snapped pictures of everything that moved, so we’ll see how this goes
So, most of you know that I write songs, and play occasionally. I’ll be posting a few of them on this blog, so for now, here’s two that I wrote (Not Back Down and All That I Have), and one Chris Tomlin song that I covered (How Can I Keep From Singing).
Today, I caught a taste of the amazing feeling it is to be a sinner saved by grace.Today I was able to share with some friends about some of the very things that I had so many times hurt my Savior with.But isn’t our God so much like that?He was under no obligation to redeem us.He had no one telling Him to do so.“But God demonstrated His own love towards us, that while we were still sinners – Christ died for us.”“And when we were dead in trespasses, and in the deadness of our flesh, He made us alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.Isn’t that amazing?!I have heard that verse probably thousands of times, but have only recently come to love it.Only in these last few months have I learned what loving God really is, and how much greater the words of Scripture I’ve known mean now that they are being written in my heart.And you know the greater thing still?Not only did He save us from our sin, but He has called us, He has chosen us, to carry the Message of Him – of His life, death, and resurrection to the world in which we were saved from!How amazing that God would entrust to us this message of life!Let us never lose the wonder of who God is!
October 26, 2007, 3:20 pm
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Notice the church of today. We worship unashamed in the buildings we have built for God, but when we get out into the body He has built for us, we quickly retreat, calling worship a song, when in fact it is meant to be a lifestyle. The Bible gives us an example of this in the form of Peter. Whenever He was with Jesus, he had the boldness to say and do some absurb things, like chopping off an important guy’s ear in front of a few hundred of the best trained soldiers in the world. But when he was distanced from Jesus, he did some equally ashaming things, like denying his Lord three times, in the middle of Jesus’ hardest time. Like Peter, we tend to do things we’d never believe we’d ever do apart from God. But there is more to Peter’s story that we should see. After Jesus died, Peter threw in the towel. He told his fellow disciples “I’m going fishing.” If there was ever a case of correct vocation, and incorrect location, this was it! Jesus met Peter beside that lake though, because you see, Jesus is never seperated from our circumstances. He’s always right there with us! Jesus asked Peter three times (which in that culture was a very deep and heartwrenching thing) if he loved Him. And then Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” A simple command see, because God never places on us more than we can bear. Now, fast forward a few weeks: Peter preaches in Jerusalem, and thousands come to know Christ as Savior. The Jewish officials complained about Peter and the disciples, saying that they filled the entire city with the teaching of Jesus, which was no small feat. The Bible even records that people sat in the streets, hoping Peter’s shadow would touch them. Peter knew it wasn’t his shadow doing miracles and saving people. Peter had already shown us what happens when he ran the show. Peter couldn’t be this stable with Jesus…and we know that by this time Jesus had ascended into heaven. See, Peter found Jesus in his heart, and out of that came his lifestyle of worship in which people couldn’t help but be changed. When Peter allowed Jesus to take root, home, and all of his heart, great things happened, and guys, get this: he was married too! Who do you want to be? The Peter away from Christ, or the Pete whose life couldn’t be explained except through Christ?
