Sunday, October 24, 2010

Thanatopsis


Hmm... I can't begin to explain how amazing my life is right now.

Let's just say that... I am being paid to do what I love and what I want to do for my career while getting paid to help others do what I love...while learning what I love to learn about to get a degree so that I can do what I can to serve the God that I love for the rest of my life... I am rooming with one of my best friends... living near the girl that I love... she is living with other people that I love who happen to be some of my best friends.

God is so big. I can't believe that my life is this good.

I love it.

So many things to write about... maybe I'll make a collection of things and post em later.

Oh man.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Arguing with Idiots


Oh MAN. People really make me angry.

Ok... before I get ahead of myself... maybe I should explain.

Why am I a Christian? Honestly... because I was raised in a Christian home. I mean... I don't want this to change topics too quickly so I better keep myself on track. When I look back... it doesn't really matter how I came to God, as much as it matters that I am not a follower of Jesus and I am going to a real place called Heaven when I die. But let's face it: I have Christian world-view because I was born in a Christian home. Jesus did the saving, not my parents, or me, or anybody else. Christ did. But Hey, I am willing to admit that my environment was very influential on my current situation.

Fast forward 2o years....

In 2008 I watched the movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." And I loved it. Of course I did... because I don't believe in Evolution... but recently I came across a stupid website that personally attacks Ben Stein and his work... simply because they are Evolutionists and they don't want this movie to influence people for Creationism.

The website attacks Stein's movie saying all this stuff about how there is one instance of a Christian textbook that had the words Creationism changed to Intelligent design after the supreme court ruling and all this other stuff about how it's a propaganda movie that is trying to force people to believe in Creation.

FALSE. This movie was not about proving that God created the earth. It was about how the freedom if religion is being squelched by the system. In the secular world (Universities and Public Schools... or should I just say Government Schools) Evolution is proven to be a fact, and Creation is a stupid fairy tale. If you disagree then you are black-listed and considered to be unlearned and pathetic.

That is the point of the movie. Sure, he weaves some pro-creation elements in there, such as proving that Evolution isn't even a good theory... and so on. But that website totally missed the point. Stein isn't even a Christian! He is a Jew I think... but he is an American who is frustrated that Evolution is the supreme fact and there is no room to question it.

I say that Evolution takes JUST AS MUCH faith to believe as Creation. Evolution can't even be proven... and is more absurd to believe in my opinion.

Yeah I don't believe in Evolution because I was raised to be a Christian. But now I have taken Christianity and made it my own. Why do I choose to stay in my own Christian orientated world? Because my beliefs and opinions don't matter to my country. If evolution is going to be taught... they do not have any right to teach it as a fact... I don't see why they don't teach all ideas together and simply say, "This is what people believe"

The bottom line is that Evolutionists are just trying to avoid being held accountable to a God, so they came up with this wacked out idea that is apparently a fact now. And I love how our Bible has not changed EVER, yet their theories are allowed to change every few years. Google "how old is the earth" and you will see a long record of changes to this answer from our friends who believe evolution.

I loved Expelled because it brought to my attention the fact that Evolution is gaining speed and power. I only hope that others will realize the same thing soon.



I don't like blogging about opinions usually... because then this just becomes another forum on the internet... but that website really got me goin.

Monday, June 28, 2010

we are the music makers: we are the dreamers of dreams

I just finished reading "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which was fairly enjoyable. Wasn't a "page turner" so to speak, but I liked it. It kept my interest. It was a novella... which are really fun to read because they are usually less than 100 pages so they are somewhat quick and intense and full of action (like short stories) but are slightly more developed. I think he could have developed the characters wayyy more though. They are GREAT characters. Classic characters even. He could have made it a huge novel... but I liked it.

I figure, it's a good story if you know the plot and characters and haven't even read the book. If it's that influential, it must be good. I started Dante's Inferno... which is gonna be a beating probably... it looks pretty rough. But I know it's an important work so I should read it. I also have Huck Finn and Frankenstein on my docket for the summer... and maybe some H.G. Wells in addition.

Reading has become easier for me I think... I can now read with slight distractions... whereas before I had to have complete silence.

Anyways, life is great. I miss Jennifer like mad... but I will be seeing her in a few weeks as I trek down to the wasteland that is Alabama to spend a week(ish) with her at Camp Victory. I am sure it will be a week to remember. I hope God just shows me some awesome stuff as well. I haven't done many ministries as of late, so I think this could be a great time for me.

I am way behind on my devotions... I need to read super extra to catch up on my read-the-Bible-in-a-year thing. I want to finish it though... I have come half way... I don't want to give up. it is not quite as meaningful if you read to accomplish reading the whole thing... but it's just something I need to do.


anyway. Life is great... God is good. I am happy.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

22

Weird. It's my birthday. This year has been the year of Changes for me--for sure.
Sorry I haven't written in a while. Not really sure what happened... just didn't take the time.
So what has changed? Well...
*I am graduated.
*I have experience teaching 11th Grade History and English
*I have a girlfriend.
*Go ahead, read the above mentioned again. It's true.
*She is amazing...
*my family continues to be the source of many blessings from God
*Jones' still exists.
*Don't know much about Arnie Palmer; but I know he came up with a great beverage.
*I made plans for the next 2 years of my life... and after that. Who knows. Well... God does. I don't. I kinda like it that way.
*I have wayy too many books to read, wayy too much time to read them, and wayy too little ambition to read right now. that needs to change.
*I miss driking tea. I need to get back into that.
*So this list has just become a random catalog of stuff on my brain... not so much a "list of changes" but that's fine. I should really do some other things.
Anyway so sum things up:
I haven't been this happy since... ever. Well... not that I wasn't happy before. I guess I just became happier.