Religious Views:

Some great Quotes from Sunday's sermon

2009-10-19T17:05:00.004-05:00

"We need a new lifestyle, we need a new culture......and you can't become a church who reaches out to its community, until you love God and you Go Love People."
-Collin Packer

"So often we want to separate these two commands (Love God and Love your neighbor) and we want to emphasize one more than the other. We hear so many people say 'I'm Spiritual, but I'm not Religious' and what they're trying to say is that it's a whole lot easier to follow God and I like this spiritual quest, but following with all these followers of Jesus, that's just too much work. ___ But you can't love God without loving others."
-Collin Packer

Littleton C o C Video Streaming

2009-09-10T12:49:00.001-05:00

My church now broadcasts Sunday Morning Services online. Times are Mountain Time @ 8:15 and 10:45am. Link can be found here at those times: Littleton Church Video Streaming

Give me your hand!

2008-11-21T02:43:00.000-05:00

The poke's how it started, which now seems so retarded; With a drunken text message, I see right through the presage.
A friendship so firm, but couldn't carry to term; The death of a life, no chance to ever strife.
For it's the decisions we make, in his forgetting name sake; those times we regret, and wonder why we're so wet.
It's the sweat we sit there in drenched, no satisfaction or thirst yet to be quenched.
We're always and forever searching for happy, but more often we sit and wonder why our lives are so crappy.
We can sit here in sorrow, thinking that there's always tomorrow; but it's when we put it off, we start with the cough.
It's when this cough takes us over, that our whole body falls ill; our hands with arthritis.
The pain we go through, is no match for the man; for Jesus is who gave us the slogan "yes we can."
It is the sacrifice that he made, that helps us to persevere; so we need to quit joking and get our lives in gear.
It's been a fun ride, chilling back for a while; but it's when we do right, that we make him smile.
For the favor is returned, each day of our lives; our father looks down; slapping with high fives!

2008-10-29T18:40:00.001-05:00

2008-03-10T23:42:00.003-05:00

It's the closer I get, when the harder I fall; I can't stop but to think, while I'm in the stall.
A new person comes, and a new person goes; It's life that goes on, wherever the river flows.
I spend time wondering, and fighting these forces of evil; learning how will I come, closer to upheaval.
It's the quiet time that's now, when I sit and just stare; wondering why you have come, and how do I care?
I care about the feelings, that all these people maintain; for I want to do them right, and not look at them in vain.
So I wonder to myself, as you are there listening; I want to be the one, there for the glistening.
It's the smiles that show, the happiness in time; but it's that which I wonder, if it's there just at the chime.
It's the sound of a bell, which can wake people up; but it's you who brings happiness, with the drink of a cup.
So what do I do, how do I be; for I know as it is, he rescued me.
The man on the stage, says to do it again; so I hold that dear, as I pursue this campaign.
It's the future that I look, as I go for change; and meet people of the world, as they see me as strange.
I push on forward, and not looking back; I strive to do right, and fight this attack.

Author

2008-02-01T01:42:00.000-05:00

There are a decent amount of times in my life when I want to sit down and type/write out every single thought & act that I've ever had or done before. There's so many books that I want to write and put out in the world for that one person's life that I can save and who will contact me later and tell me that it is because of my detailed life story that I decided to express to the world which made them explore the option and come to know Christ. I want to write books on every different topic that has made me who I am today and has forced me to grow because of it. There's other times when I know how overwhelming of a detailed process that it could be to carry out this book task and it is at these times when I may sit down to reach out to some personable individuals on the idea or to see if this process would be beneficial and bring in readers, but it is when I never get a response from people, a sign of disfriendship & personal attack of silence. It is when I sit down in this silence with myself, that I can't help but to let the tears flow; for it is because of the truth that I know in these silent of times that God and I are alone together. The all listening ear. It's silence of others and loudness of truth, that when we are alone, it's this reflection period that is shown. It's this tough love which we do receive in our youth that always has this effect of change and growth and the showing of that who is constant.

There are several types of books that I want to write. Feel free to approach me and see what some of these are. I think that these future books will be full text, different from that of "A Talk With God."

I've had the thought in the past where I could throw myself into a mission field and be comfortable there, but I'm not sure if this is a strong point in me or not....I would never truly know until I got out there and did it. I do know that I would have to be with the right positive force if I did however. I think that this is why I end up coming to writing. I feel that I need to do something more than I am and that maybe I will work magic in this aspect. The major fear of following through with this book task is one in which I witnessed so often growing up. You can spend a great deal of time creating something that you may feel is perfect, when if you never are able to receive this positive reinforcement or a response from the right person, it is then much more difficult to find the motivation to continue such a ministry. So many people have so many failures before they perfect a masterpiece. How in a ministry such as this can you maintain a positive attitude when.

So where do you start, what do you do, where do you go? Do you do it for you? Do it for Them? Do it for Him? How do you decide? Is it free will or his? In the end, I still come up feeling empty and not sure as to if a new road, one not yet fully explored and traveled by myself is a correct destination. It is a decision which will come one day on a whim, I just hope that day isn't too late.

Lamentations 3:21-23

2007-12-31T11:19:00.000-05:00

21 Yet this I call to mind  
and therefore I have hope:

22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,  
for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;  
great is your faithfulness.

(Really I like this entire poem, which is the whole third chapter.)

A Talk With God

2007-12-28T12:49:00.001-05:00

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Rob Bell

2007-03-16T22:51:00.000-05:00

So I guess that some of the Rob Bell Series has made its way onto the net. Here's the most popular one called rain:

Rain By Rob Bell

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Unity Sermons

2007-03-04T17:26:00.000-05:00

Check out 'Sermons Preached at the Church of Christ in Falls Church' on iTunes podcasting. The preacher there recently (feb 18) started a series on unity and I really recommend it!

In the beginning....

2007-01-29T14:43:00.001-05:00

Here are a few scriptures to kick off my religious blog:

1 Peter 2:23 - "When they hurled their insults at him, he did not hesitate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he enstrusted himself to him who judges justly."

Luke 9:57-62
...Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

Jeremiah 20:9
...his word is in my heart like a fire,
a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;
indeed, I cannot.