Identity

                           So this weekend, I had an amazing experience at the identity youth conference in Lethbridge! The main theme and focus was on today's youth culture. And how a lot of youth and people alike, have a two face. And it's especially hard if you are public schooled. You have your friends throughout the week, and you hang with them without them ever knowing that you're supposedly a believer and go to church and live for Christ. Than on the weekend...you go to church and have your Christian friends. But if you live like that...are you truly a Christian? Do you really have Christ? Me and my friends with our new associate pastor's wife, had an interesting discussion. When the time comes to face persecution...are we strong enough to perservere through it? Will we be strong enough to suffer as a soldier for Christ? Because in today's day and age, we have it all, video games, food, t.v. and e.t.c. We have become lazy since the pioneers. when we feel pain, we give up, rather than pushing onward. When we are tired, we sit down. Rather than looking at the reward. So when the time comes, will we be able to run in the front lines, of battle, to fight, bleed, suffer, and die for Christ...as He did for us, not so long ago? So my last question is simply this...
                                                      What is your Identity?

Christianity against Religion

                                            I'm stuck! I don't know what too write even though my mind is brimming with stories. I have an idea, but don't know how to relate that to you, or the bible for that matter. I've been stuck with everything thing lately, can't write, can't write music, can't really think either. The only thing moving right now is my job, and my quizzing,..so maybe, maybe I need to focus on something about my job, or quizzing that needs some attention. Like maybe I can't focus on anything else, because I'm missing something. You know my boss is a morman. and the one thing that fascinated him into hiring me, was my faith! He said that it is so good that I'm so stuck on my faith. Even though, I continually fall on my face, and trip over my sins...I know who I stnad with, and I keep picking myself off the ground, and keep stumbling forward! He says that it's rare to find young youth, who follow God. Which I found fascinating, because he's a mormon. So I guess we are both fascinated by eachother. Haha. Funny how that works, a morman and a christian getting along, side by side as boss and co-worker. So maybe the lesson today is simply this;

         Are we willing, to pick ourselves up off of the ground and keep moving forward..? Are we willing to get along with other religions, such as morman, islam, hindu, cathlic, e.t.c...in order to bring them to Christ?

         Maybe we need to find some common ground, and go from there, instead of jumping into arguement, that will get us nowhere! In my case at work. I need to find something in common with what we believe in...and build around that subject. We need to be calm, non-preasurring, compaaionate, loving, caring, and above all respectful. That they may see the love of God flowing out of us as believers in daily battle.   --1 Peter 2:12

Seven Week Healing Treatment

                          For all you hurting christians out there...this is for you! Again these are not my wiords, but I'm working on it!! Enjoy!

   "All Scripture is given by inspiration by God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." --2 Timothy 3:16

                 Memorize a Bible verse on Sunday. repeat that verse several times throughout the day for a week, so that by Saturday evening it's firmly planted in your mind. The next Sunday, read and memorize another Bible verse, and again repeat that everyday throughout that week. Do this every week for seven weeks. this treatment will fill your heart and mind with God's Word. When worry or evil tempt you, there will be not time or place for it. When anxious thoughts come, you can pull a verse of Scripture from your mind to replace them.

       The first week memorize Philipians 2:13. If Christ is within us, we want to please Him. The second week memorize Isaiah 26:3. He wants our perfect peace. The third week memorize 2 Peter 3:18. He wants our perfection-not only that we are kept from sin but that we grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord. The fourth week memorize Deuteronomy 31:6. It is the Lord who has keptus and will go with us. As He was with the Isrraelites, os He is till with us today. The fifth week memorize Lamentations 3:22. The loving kindness of God is unfailing. It is renewed daily. The sixth week memorize 1 John 1:9. Confession includes forsaking sin and growing in God's Word. The seventh week memorize Mathew 6:33. Seek God's kingdom first. The salvation of your soul and your eternal happiness is at stake.

    At the end of seven weeks, you should be able to easily say these verses by memory . More importantly, you should have a habit of turning God's Word in your anxius moments. Bible memorization is one way of taking charge of the contents of your conscious thoughts.     --Eli A. Yoder-Stuarts Draft, VA.

                      "Have a great day as you bask in God's GREAT love and protection for you!"

                                       Heaven is our end and holiness is our way.--Unknown.