Well I figured something else out today. The fact that men need men out there in the world. That young men are being deprived from man love and guidance and the world kicks in and plays the role. The world, our society acts as the guiding light that they will follow. If you would like to see what they follow turn on MTV and watch the real world. Which really isn’t the “real world” but you get the idea. They follow after these ideas that scoring on women makes life better. That drugs, drinking and sex are the meaning to life. I hear countless accounts of mothers wanting their child to have the guidance of a man. Either their father does not interact as much as he should or many other reasons, but there is a need out there for young men in middle school and high school to be reached by other men who are capable of doing so. It’s weird cause I feel obligated to it. Even though I tell myself I can’t possibly help this guy, I got my own junk. But its so much deeper than myself. It goes further than anything I can come up with. That if I am lead by the Holy Spirit than WHOM SHALL STOP ME…
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March 25, 2008 • 12:17 pm
Well, I haven’t written on here for a while and figured out that sometimes I just am not very consistent with one thing. Hopefully I can get better. But I can’t expect to get better by just saying it and hoping that it will happen. I have to have action. Just like my relationship with Jesus, Immanuel. He is always with me and I sometimes stray so far, and when I notice it I can’t just say, “Well I hope I can get better with talking to Jesus” and not move a muscle or anything. I have to do something, set a reminder, ask my self how much do I love this person I want to be with? If I love them as much as I can profess, why am I not delighted to get close to them and listen and talk with them?
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Well it has been a while since I have posted something, been pretty busy/lazy the last couple of days. Alot has gone on and yet seems like so little. I recently watched a couple of high schoolers for the weekend…talk about alot of Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3. My brian was hurting becuase there was too much images going through my head at night. Just walking around I wanted to throw a gernade or something. Anyway, it was a great weekend and it let me relax a little bit. After I got home from the weekend on a monday I needed to cut my grass, so as usual I plugged in my iPod and put on my nasty shoes and hit the grass. I turned on a sermon I had from Rob Bell. I didn’t get a chance to finish the sermon but what I did catch was great. He talked about Jacob in Gensis 28 and his dream he had. It says this.” acob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway [d] resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it [e] stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” 16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”Jacob wakes up and he doesnt say that the Lord came to me in my dream. He stated that the Lord has been here and I didnt realize it. What a great statement. So many people will say something like “then God showed up”. How does that happen? Jacob awoke from his sleep physically and he awoke spritually. He became aware that the Lord was always around him. I even walk around not even conscious to the fact that Jesus is always around and even present right now when I am typing this and while you are reading this. I think the Lord rejoices when we are aware of His presence in our every day life and not just the times that are tough or joyful. He’s there. He’s been there. He’ll always be there.
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Well it has been a couple days three days since DN08 has finished and I pray that the kids who went take this relationship they have with Jesus a serious one. I know the devil is going to be trying to get at them as well as going after the leaders. This world can do so much damage to a person. I mean look at all the scandals on the TV. We become dumbed down by this world and think that some of the things we do are OK. If we are trying to live just like Jesus did, there are somethings that we do now a days that Jesus would not do. I could go on and on on this subject, but the main point is to pray for the kids who have a relationship with Jesus, that they find their strength in Him and turn from their sin and run toward Jesus.Also, starting a new book I have read before but wanted to give it another try since I am years older now. “Blue Like Jazz” Donald Miller.
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Well I just got done playing Rock Band for about 2 hours it seemed like. Man that game is the best. Its annoying because the songs you play are over and over, but it is addicting and I want to practice and get to hard on the drums but it will take a lot of dedication. Yikes.
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Disciple Now 08 Has just ended on Sunday afternoon. It was a three day crazy monster. But at the same time it was soo good. I know the kids enjoyed it and the Lord really moved in many people. But what the kids didn’t know is the hard stuff that went on before the weekend happened. We finally have a youth pastor and we never had someone who had all the details hammered out and know really what was going on. It was a draining weekend because of the fact I worried about so many things. But the Lord took over and everything went really perfect. I guess that is what student ministry is all about.
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We are going over Roman Christian Art in class and it takes place around 313 A.D. (the legalization of Christianity) to Byzantine period of 600 A.D. And we talked about mosaics and frescoes and we went over some specific mosaics that are in churches in Rome and reasons why they were there. We came across a beautiful mosaic in an apse of a church right above where the preacher preaches. It is amazing to sit and just look at the art and just how little pieces of glass together can make such an elaborate piece of beautifulness. This art was made in 401 A.D. to about 417 A.D. during this time in which Rome was getting invaded by the Barbarians and it was moved to Ravenna for more shelter. Christ is sitting on an Emperor throne and the apostles are gathered around. This mosaic is filled with many meanings. But one thing we talked about in class is some of the reasons you can’t see. The reason that in 402 Rome was moved and Barbarians were invading. Christ is seated as a ruler, which He came as a regular person and not as a huge emperor. Well the point is that they made this Mosaic because it puts the emperor on the same height of Jesus and they sold Jesus to the higher Romans. Jesus came as a regualr human who had to do chores and not an emperor with elaborate clothes. The Romans with the money did not want to worship a Jesus so they made Him someone they could worship. Propaganda. They sold the religion and possibly distorted the perception of the Jesus they were worshiping. Is that how Christianity flourished? Through the selling of it? Today do we try and turn the music that we listen to to Christian to attract more people? Is that what the Lord wants? Is it OK to do that?
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Well God has a crazy way of showing you what He wants you to do with your life threw Him. It was about a 6 months ago and I decided to try and get a spot in the Police academy. Just recently I figured out that I have to make a decision and it was either between full time student ministry and go in to the police force. I have always thought of going into ministry work and I have been doing it since I got out of high school (about 2 and a half years ago) and I knew God had put in these positions for a reason. But then police academy just came out of no where and I ran with it. I had my scales fall off my eyes (sound familiar?) and then I noticed the fork in the road. So yes, I had to make a decision and I made one. I am going to devote my life to the calling in which the Lord has given me. To share His Word and His love to middle schoolers, high schoolers. I’m not sure how He wants me to do it, or anything. But making the decision I think was half the battle. Probably.
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