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Name: The
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Birthday: 8/7/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: I like Kevin Max, he rocks! (he was the talent of DC Talk.... The famous christian band that hit it big in the early nineties) I also like kittens.
Expertise: I know every way there is to flush a toilet!
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
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Member Since:
11/22/2004
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| well, one more day of school (with only one class!) until thanksgiving break. i have finished my last civ paper for this semester, and it feels good to be done with that crap! I can see why they assign them though, they are great at teaching, they tought me to hate life!
this year we are staying home for thanksgiving and my grandmother and her husband harold(they got married a few years ago, and we just call him harold, theres no need for concern here.) and my sister kelly and her husband nathan are all coming to our house. i will get to see my nephew for the first time since summer, and im excited about that. I hear he is walking now, and that he can say a few words! he should be really fun now! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and that is of course because of all the great food! i love stuffing smothered in hot turkey gravy, and yams marinated in brown sugar and marshmellow. oh man i am excited! i want an i pod nano for christmas, but it costs way more than my parents spend on me. i figure if i just ask for money from them, and from my grandma, and anybody else willing to give me any, and then i find some way to make even more money, i might be able to eventually buy one! the only reason im considering not doing this is because it would make christmas kinda boring for me. i know that i am supposed to get the real joy from giving gifts, but come on.... lets be serious here. besides, for the rest of my adulthood i will be pretty much only giving, and not recieving, especially when i get kids.
ps. even if you don't read all my ramblings in the above paragraph, please help me with something. I need to start thinking about what to get lauren for christmas. Please if anyone has any good ideas... i would love to hear them. (she never reads xanga.) | | |
| so, this week is incredibly busy. Jazz band performs at the m&ms concert on thursday and friday night, also we are doing two greek lessons this week because kelly missed last week! Last night we watched Luther to go along with our civ readings. I have a great respect for Luther, as if he were my hero. Unfortunately he has one major flaw that prevents me from admiring him too much. He hates Jews, as did almost all of the early church. Sometimes, because of facts like that i get almost embaraced to call myself a Christian. I myself have a huge respect for Jewish people, in fact, i wish i had some Jewish friends. I think it would be kinda cool to be a Jew (i myself would be a Christian jew) because it would be fun to claim that i was one of God's chosen people. The thing that seperates the Jews from us Christians is that they don't believe that Jesus was God's son, and that he raised from the dead to save us. If you research their history, and their worldviews at the time of Christ, it does make sense why they don't believe it. I don't know why the early church hated them more than any other non-Christain. Since i am talking about Jewish people, i want to mention how much i like the Prince of Egypt movie made by disney( this sentence i think may make me look shallow all the sudden, oops!)
How many times do we forget the greatest commandment God gave us? You know, the one that is above all others, Love the Lord your God with all your heart soul and mind. Why does Oklahoma Baptist University often remind me of the church in Ephesis as described in Revelation ch.2? If you are somebody who is actually reading this post, please take the time to read those few verses, and let me know if you agree with me, or maybe let me know if you feel like the church in Ephesis yourself. You have almost mastered every commandment, but in doing so youve began to fail at the very greatest one. Often times i am ephesis, and when i realize this i look for somebody around me to inspire me to love him again, but it seems so hard to find somebody genuinely in complete love with God anymore. | | |
| well, my great fall break has now come to a close. if i said that i was not at all depressed about that, i would be absolutely lying! It was a wonderfull break, and i hate to see it go. As all earthly things pass away due to the existence of time my spring break did not come as an exception. If you were to ask me if i got much of my homework done, i would have to say no, for i am commanded not to lie and i try to be an obedient creation. Not that i have myself thinking about that, my thoughts lead me in a new direction. How come so many people twist God's word? God's word is not something that is different to different people. some think it applies to them differently than everybody else. Talk about pushing my buttons! I can't stand it when people put words in God's mouth. There is a faction of "believers" in existence today that believe things like hurricane katrina are sent here by God to punish the Gays. Not only are they putting words in God's mouth, but they are destroying our mission to the world. If they really are christians, than the easiest way i can explain this is: The harvest is plentifull, but the workers are few, and some of the few are poisoning the crops! We should show love, espesially instead of hate, to every sinner, despite the sin. This leads sufficiently into my next point, there are many gay Christains out there, yes Christians, who are claiming that it is not a sin, and that things are different now days and the Bible doesn't necessarily apply. In some parts of this country there are churches that are predominantly gay! They are putting words in God's mouth as well. My friends this should not be! These are but a few examples. How many of us are guilty of this nauseating act of Changing God's words to fit our beliefs? Maybe you have ever claimed this about one of God's commands, "It may have applied to that church back then to those specific people, but God wouldn't command that of US". Its a claim i think i shall never make, because i believe God has always been in control of the creation of his word into our modern day canon. I am not trying to throw a huge downer upon anybody's lap here; i am just making an attempt to encourage fellow believers to try their hardest to share the word of God with the lost, and be able to claim that man does not have authority to change it to suit them. I hope at least some of this made sense, for i hope not to waste your time that could probably be best suited spent towards the fullfillment of the great commission. Goodnight, i hope to see you around. Bye friends, for tomorrow is school. | | |
| This entry is for my two faithful viewers.(ashley and sarah) I thank you for taking the time to read what i write, and i wanted to let you know that i got my civ paper done and i turned it in. I think i did pretty well too! anyway, that means life is good again! | | |
| The day my civ paper is due grows ever closer. I try my hardest to devote time to it, but i seem to only be able to get a few minutes in here and there. You must understand that when i say "a few minutes", i mean it as literally as possible. I would say my paper is about 1% completed, due to the fact that i haven't even nailed down a debatable topic. I would give just about anything to have a good thesis to work with. Basically all i have is an extremely broad topic, which would be something about constantine the great. I have checked out four books on him from, of course, the library, which would definately be a tremendous plus. . . . . as you guys can see, this paper is greatly affecting me; i can't ever seem to stop thinking that i am utterly screwed. I beg anyone who reads this, which might come to the grand total of maybe 2 people, to pray hard for me and my paper. Pray that i not only get it done, but that i do it well. In fact, it would be wonderfull if you would pray that i actually enjoy it, and gain from it. It would be unimaginably terrific if through this paper i somehow brought glory to God, which i also would like to appeal to you to pray for. To anybody who may read this, which in repitition i must admit will probably be an extreme few, i greatly thank you, and would like to admit how weird this entry must seem with it just being about an eight page research paper. But this is definately what has been on my mind.
bye friends, and bye silent listeners. | | |
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