So, today i have been doing a little reminiscing of the last few monts slash the school year. On the annoying and mostly negative side the food here SUCKS. it really does. On the less negative side, moving towards positive, is that only one or two classes sucked. I am actually really surpirsed that i haven't failed any papers, except i have failed alot of tests. So on the in between stage of good and bad, is the classes, as there have been the classes which have been amazingly challenging, but the mournings kinda do me in, and i get really grumpy, yea the sleeping rage came back a little bit.
This semester alone, i have done tons of traveling, willams lake, the island, surrey for a youth specialties conference which was amazing, i took more notes in that day then in some classes. I have been to the wonderful island, which is always loaded with good times, oh yea go yassar runs.
I also got eh visit from my sister from saskatchawan, who was kind enough to hang out with me the most, it was pretty loaded with good times as well, OH, i also got a visit from my little sis from the island, we went for tim hortons, and i guessed her color and style of her grad dress, woot. That same weekend, great friends of mine, werner, josh, and james. josh and werner stayed in my room, man what eh party.. i got barely any sleep that weekend due to all the fun and games.. and me and cronk still have a flippin pepper on our desk. yeaup!
Oh.. i read tons of books it comes at a price, as i tired out my eye alittle bit.. and my eyesight in one eye gets alittle fuzzed reading stuff.. err, but i read tons of books and looking back they had a huge theme of faith. And i am looking forward to my next year as it is going to become my prep for living off of faith. i don't know what it looks like exactly, but iam sure God does..
so thats abit of my year.. in a glimse..
silly itunes
I have become addicted, addicted to sermons, poetry, music, at the click of a finger, lightly its been the poetry, that has caught my eye. I usually not a fan of poetry, mainly because i think of English class, sitting there going this so un-shway. These poems are different, the Authors read them aloud, and i mean loud. tis the out-loud poetry style. Yeup something new its cool.. or should i say shway.
What have we lost?
So the last little while i have been pondering, alot of the info that is being taught in my history of the pentecostal Church. From about 1900 to about 1930's there was a wave of healings, speaking in tounges, and massive amounts of people coming to know Christ, and the list goes on. There were conferences where the the building was packed just to hear someone speak about Christ. In 1923 a man named Charles price spoke in Victoria, they had to switch venues to the Memorial arena because they had over 3000 people in attendance, they had numbers up around the figures of 6000. Alot of these people wanting to be healed, and to be touched by God. Theres tons of names that i could drop from this era, who had ministries similar, and or even bigger ministries... People where changed because the Spirit moved...
What changed?
Why don't we see these numbers coming to Christ anymore?, why do we need to specialize how evangelize to this culture? are we missing something? have we lost our reliance on the Holy Spirit?
what are your thoughts?
What changed?
Why don't we see these numbers coming to Christ anymore?, why do we need to specialize how evangelize to this culture? are we missing something? have we lost our reliance on the Holy Spirit?
what are your thoughts?
quoute from my sis..
My sister from the land of the living skies, came into town and we are chatting about life and such, and in the midst of our convo she stated 'the times that i have cried the most have been way more exciting than the times where i have not cried." Very interesting..
Robot Ethics
For all you terminator/robotics fans out there might find this amuzing and interesting at the same time, i know i did when i first read the article in the National Post, Heres a link from the same article just done by BBC ROBOT ETHICS. The code is quite interesting... what do you think of the ethics?
Rant.. about papers/tests/marks
This one isn't a hundred percent pointed at bible school but at schools in general. My rant is at the fact that i can spend weeks on a paper, and just do alright. Doing just alright is ok, is fine to me i put the effort in i studied my back side off. I understand for the most part of why i don't do so good mainly because my lack of writing skills, and on written anything, the best illustration of this is when i was at Camosun taking my first year of carpentry, when it came to the final there were two parts a written and a practical portion of test, so i failed the written portion not by much but i did. The practical i aced, i didn't do a hundred percent, having small problems drawing lines.
So after all that this is what bugs me, is that i can put tons of work into my papers or written portion of tests and do just alright and even fail the test sometimes, where as some people spend a night writing a paper or spend 15 mins studying or doesn't study at all and ace a written exam. This really ticks me off..
I am also sick of stupid remarks on papers and tests. first of all i know i suck at writing, i slowly getting better i think.. so on a paper or test you don't have to point out every stupid mistake i made on the page. I think this is when i started hating school was in middle school and my english teacher asked me if i always had this problem with writing, i want to smack him over the head. Maybe i got the short end of the stick when it came to teachers and encourageing ones, but i think they all need to take a course in encouraging people. And to use constructive criticism because after awhile when i see red on every piece of the test i don't read them anymore.. and get bitter, and usely stop trying to good.. I have gotten better at the whole thing though, i have been continueing to try even though i have stupid teacher.. as a friend onece said " i will never let my education interfere with my education" (Reid).. yeup..
yeup i think thats good for this rant,
So after all that this is what bugs me, is that i can put tons of work into my papers or written portion of tests and do just alright and even fail the test sometimes, where as some people spend a night writing a paper or spend 15 mins studying or doesn't study at all and ace a written exam. This really ticks me off..
I am also sick of stupid remarks on papers and tests. first of all i know i suck at writing, i slowly getting better i think.. so on a paper or test you don't have to point out every stupid mistake i made on the page. I think this is when i started hating school was in middle school and my english teacher asked me if i always had this problem with writing, i want to smack him over the head. Maybe i got the short end of the stick when it came to teachers and encourageing ones, but i think they all need to take a course in encouraging people. And to use constructive criticism because after awhile when i see red on every piece of the test i don't read them anymore.. and get bitter, and usely stop trying to good.. I have gotten better at the whole thing though, i have been continueing to try even though i have stupid teacher.. as a friend onece said " i will never let my education interfere with my education" (Reid).. yeup..
yeup i think thats good for this rant,
books?!
So i have been on a major book reading binge, in the last week i have read multiple books, yay, haha, i might double or triple the books last year at this rate. But i am just wondering what you are reading? or have read? is there any stellar book out there that is really amazing to keep my book binge going?
So i have been denied in my quest to do a coffee shop outreach through the school, reason because tehres only 5 weeks left. if/when i come back next year they seem like they will allow me...
This is unfortenate for the main reasson of .. i will have to have two ministrys, or do i just have one ministry that i don't feel called to, and wait till the summer.. theres better coffee shops in the skid and vic anyways.. ..
theres the update on this topic.. not really sure what iam going to do, i might just read a ton of books which will help me in this quest and try afew things out with in the summer... in my time off..
This is unfortenate for the main reasson of .. i will have to have two ministrys, or do i just have one ministry that i don't feel called to, and wait till the summer.. theres better coffee shops in the skid and vic anyways.. ..
theres the update on this topic.. not really sure what iam going to do, i might just read a ton of books which will help me in this quest and try afew things out with in the summer... in my time off..
New ministry.. hopefully
So.. just after i came back from Willams lake.. my heart is over is over flowing again for building a church, and more and more i see it at a coffee shop. It also helps when i was in willams lake, randomly for four hours we held a very small group style church. It was flexible, no one is stapled to the there chairs, about 8 of us entered adn exited and re-entered conversation.. it was also apparent that there were a few people in this group who where not from summit and it just had a huge range of people sharing about Christ and his Kingdom. I might add that this was a public coffee shop, so as people entered the coffee shop and sat, you could tell there thoughts were some what eaze droping. So the whole time my mind went crazy.. pondering and adding questions and actually answering a few..
So here iam a week or so later, and i will be slowly stepping out of the church in mission and i will be starting a "coffee house church" somewhere in the city of abbotsford, or mission or i guess anywhere in a respectable driving distance. This is all still in limbo as i haven't fully talked to Mark Hawkes but i believe this is the direction i am sapose to take so it will work out.
Recently i have started reading the book "God's smuggler" by Brother Andrew.. iam about half way through and its amazing, after all the music i have deleted off my computer that was pirated and everything that is in Gods hands. After reading his biography i am realizeing the more i give to God and the more i leave to his hands is the right way to go. It seems like the more this guy Andrew was broken and had nothing left the more God did, the more God provided for his missions.
This book seems to be connected as I set out to spread Gods word somehow through coffee shops to people everywhere from multi age groups, to non christians and christians and differnt religons, The more i read, the more i go wow, this is going to have to be all God. As this guy brother Andrew sets out multipleble times to go beyond the wall of communists he brought Bibles and everytime gaurds let him by..
Your prayers will be most welcome as i try to prepare and learn how i can be most effective in this big missions field..
Look out starbucks.. and the other coffee shops here i come..
So here iam a week or so later, and i will be slowly stepping out of the church in mission and i will be starting a "coffee house church" somewhere in the city of abbotsford, or mission or i guess anywhere in a respectable driving distance. This is all still in limbo as i haven't fully talked to Mark Hawkes but i believe this is the direction i am sapose to take so it will work out.
Recently i have started reading the book "God's smuggler" by Brother Andrew.. iam about half way through and its amazing, after all the music i have deleted off my computer that was pirated and everything that is in Gods hands. After reading his biography i am realizeing the more i give to God and the more i leave to his hands is the right way to go. It seems like the more this guy Andrew was broken and had nothing left the more God did, the more God provided for his missions.
This book seems to be connected as I set out to spread Gods word somehow through coffee shops to people everywhere from multi age groups, to non christians and christians and differnt religons, The more i read, the more i go wow, this is going to have to be all God. As this guy brother Andrew sets out multipleble times to go beyond the wall of communists he brought Bibles and everytime gaurds let him by..
Your prayers will be most welcome as i try to prepare and learn how i can be most effective in this big missions field..
Look out starbucks.. and the other coffee shops here i come..
Everything ... without "caution"
So lightly i have been reading through Acts, well actually i just started again.. Bible school kinda takes out the fun of reading the bible.. unfortunately .. you have to press in harder to actually read the word of God. Recently i have been challenged in my life of things i don't need. Being a slave to the extra things, once by my sister who is also being challenged in the way of money and such.. and then once by cj block who spoke at a conference called sno-fear in willams lake.
But as i said i have been slowly going through Acts.. and in Acts 2:45, it talks of selling their possessions and giving the out come to people who need.. Some verses i have been reading are 2 corinthans 9:6-14, which takes also about giving generously..
question? how much of their possessions? are we suppose to sell everything we have? are we suppose live on faith alone? theres many examples of missionary's who have lived off of God, are we suppose to? do we ask for money and receive?
So heres what iam going to do, right now i am saying everything is in God's possession, So everything that i have bought out of my own hard work, with out passing it through GOd is now for sale! This includes everything from my stereo, camera, ipod, cds... From this moment the money that is in my hand is Gods, every purchase big or small has to pass by God..
My compy is in the list too, its just going to be hard to do homework and stay in touch with fellows back home if God takes it away from me..
So any thoughts? is this to rash?
But as i said i have been slowly going through Acts.. and in Acts 2:45, it talks of selling their possessions and giving the out come to people who need.. Some verses i have been reading are 2 corinthans 9:6-14, which takes also about giving generously..
question? how much of their possessions? are we suppose to sell everything we have? are we suppose live on faith alone? theres many examples of missionary's who have lived off of God, are we suppose to? do we ask for money and receive?
So heres what iam going to do, right now i am saying everything is in God's possession, So everything that i have bought out of my own hard work, with out passing it through GOd is now for sale! This includes everything from my stereo, camera, ipod, cds... From this moment the money that is in my hand is Gods, every purchase big or small has to pass by God..
My compy is in the list too, its just going to be hard to do homework and stay in touch with fellows back home if God takes it away from me..
So any thoughts? is this to rash?
I don't understand
As this semester has started.. and i am about 2 weeks in, i have been everywhere in my studies, but I'm defiantly a little more focused for school, a little more able to concentrate in on reading and studying. But recently i have had a conversation with two great friends of mine, the convo was a along one reaching the early am, But we were discussing healing's, and in away spiritual gifts, and right now this is where i am struggling:
So pretty much I am struggling mainly in the area of "healing". I am sick of the television evangelism stuff, mainly because there is really no verification in the fact that if they were actually healings. I also I'm also tired in hearing of all these healing in missions or there was this guy who healed someone. I am tired of hearing story's that are so far off or don't seem to be real because there is no verification that it did actually happen. It also bugs me of how many sick people there are or how many people have illness and don't know what it is, or cancer, diabetes, i don't see these people getting healed, but dont' get me wrong i understand that we do need to go through trials, and that one day they will be healed in heaven, but it would be nice to see some really sick people healed.
This is even more annoying as i take a class about the history of the Pentecostal Church, and the teacher keeps referring to the "great" power of Holy Spirit, and this happen in the old days and this happened, and as i sit there listing to his thoughts, i think that all of these miracles happened 50 years before i was born. Where is it now?
I'am not very skeptical when it comes to God, but i do have my doubts, we all do. But i find myself struggling with the doubt that i haven't seen major healing or the Holy Spirit come down doing amazing things, But i have seen alot of small cases with afew people speaking in tongues. But i haven't even seen this in awhile. I try to be very open minded with God but i struggle when i don't see anyone doing any amazing things in the Glory of God. Why aren't we seeing people healed, why in our service time at church we aren't we seeing the move of the Holy Spirit, maybe its just me and i am missing something but worship service's seem dead and the messages are hit and miss. I do admit that my devo's are hit and miss also, but ive really tried this semester to give it my all, especially with in my papers i write, in away this has been my devotion as i sit and ponder of God's majesty. Example: The tabernacle wilderness is frickin amazing by the way.. haha.
So there we have it i am frustrated, I know that God is there and he is inside of me, but i don't understand his power? Is there any thoughts out there?
So pretty much I am struggling mainly in the area of "healing". I am sick of the television evangelism stuff, mainly because there is really no verification in the fact that if they were actually healings. I also I'm also tired in hearing of all these healing in missions or there was this guy who healed someone. I am tired of hearing story's that are so far off or don't seem to be real because there is no verification that it did actually happen. It also bugs me of how many sick people there are or how many people have illness and don't know what it is, or cancer, diabetes, i don't see these people getting healed, but dont' get me wrong i understand that we do need to go through trials, and that one day they will be healed in heaven, but it would be nice to see some really sick people healed.
This is even more annoying as i take a class about the history of the Pentecostal Church, and the teacher keeps referring to the "great" power of Holy Spirit, and this happen in the old days and this happened, and as i sit there listing to his thoughts, i think that all of these miracles happened 50 years before i was born. Where is it now?
I'am not very skeptical when it comes to God, but i do have my doubts, we all do. But i find myself struggling with the doubt that i haven't seen major healing or the Holy Spirit come down doing amazing things, But i have seen alot of small cases with afew people speaking in tongues. But i haven't even seen this in awhile. I try to be very open minded with God but i struggle when i don't see anyone doing any amazing things in the Glory of God. Why aren't we seeing people healed, why in our service time at church we aren't we seeing the move of the Holy Spirit, maybe its just me and i am missing something but worship service's seem dead and the messages are hit and miss. I do admit that my devo's are hit and miss also, but ive really tried this semester to give it my all, especially with in my papers i write, in away this has been my devotion as i sit and ponder of God's majesty. Example: The tabernacle wilderness is frickin amazing by the way.. haha.
So there we have it i am frustrated, I know that God is there and he is inside of me, but i don't understand his power? Is there any thoughts out there?
My old mans poems
As my dad has been wrighting a few poems now and again, i decided to help him out to show him this blogger thing, so hes started blogging his poems, check them out at ... http://godyouheardme.blogspot.com/
An ammusing quote
After being absoultely destroyed by ottawa, montreal's captain Saku koivu said this, "There's no explanation or reason for that. It's not a slap in the face. It's a punch in the face." I thought it was quite funny but true
Ponderings...
I have been recently pondering of how i would describe God, and i was just wondering of how you would describe God? or what is your present view of God?
I am still thinking on the first question but the second question has been on my mind alot, and simply i would answer a Loving God.
I am still thinking on the first question but the second question has been on my mind alot, and simply i would answer a Loving God.
"empty handshakes"
Fot the last little while I have been getting frustrated. Frustrated in the area of empty greetings. Mainly at Churches, during the time where people are saposed to greet one another. I don't get it, how can the whole church greet everyone and all that genearly comes up is "hello, how are you" the person answers, "good, how are you". There are variants of this convo, but the end result is nothing. I am actually sick of the "empty handshakes" that go around. I almost want to give a ridicoulous answer to the next person who asks me "how it is goin" without acutally caring. So many people will shake your hand and blindly stare into the abyss, as they move on to the next "empty hanshake"
seriously check it out
Hey, I have been shown this by a good friend, and i thought they were very interesting, CHECKTHESEPICSOUT
let me know what you think,?
let me know what you think,?
Flowers for no appariant reason
So adding to the randomness of my blog, tonight i will give you some random and some en lighting thoughts about Flowers. Personally i am not a fan of flowers, they just smell way to much, they usely have a great look to them though, if kept in good condition, trimmed, watered daily, pretty much stuff i have never been able to accomplish when it comes to plant life. But i love a good flower painting, or a sketch. Just because of the detail in a flower, i could never really paint alot of detail, always got to bored and moved on. But as i learned in a few of my stagecraft class flowers have there place in symbolism, just as colors do. examples would be daisy's are innocences, mostly because of there white color, and the well know poppy a symbol of consolation. those are just of a few very well know symbols for flowers. Flowers, Flowers
Random post of time and super powers
I hate how time dissipates without any knowledge of it actually happeing. One second you are sitting in a Denny's downtown vic at three in the mourning, the next thing you know your sitting in a Ihop in abbotsford with no sleep. Too many many memories rarely thought about. For me i barely ever reminisce of the times that has gone by.
sometimes i think it would be sweet to be in a different century. To be in a time of where you learned to fight with a sword, a sword that has been past down through the family. A sword that would have protected your father and the father before him. To charge into a battle to fight. To see some hero's in the making....
or sometimes to be in a time where nothing has been invented yet. IT really sucks when you invent something but, it already has been invented by some guy afew years earlyer. I still have the best idea for a travel mug. which is probably one of the only inventions of mine t hat was not already invented.
IT would also be sweet to have super powers, i have always wanted to be a cross between wolverine and the beast with the finesse and all of batman's gadgets and such. I would be THE LITTLECHUBB. It would be amazing. I can't wait until i get to build myself a house, its going to have the sweetest underground living area/headquarters ever. I have an amazing plan in my head, Maybe i will up-grade the guns in my car too. or even set up a water canon or somethin from it. Oh yes caleb one day we will build the ultimate car....
yeup so there is the randomness of 1 in the mourninng
sometimes i think it would be sweet to be in a different century. To be in a time of where you learned to fight with a sword, a sword that has been past down through the family. A sword that would have protected your father and the father before him. To charge into a battle to fight. To see some hero's in the making....
or sometimes to be in a time where nothing has been invented yet. IT really sucks when you invent something but, it already has been invented by some guy afew years earlyer. I still have the best idea for a travel mug. which is probably one of the only inventions of mine t hat was not already invented.
IT would also be sweet to have super powers, i have always wanted to be a cross between wolverine and the beast with the finesse and all of batman's gadgets and such. I would be THE LITTLECHUBB. It would be amazing. I can't wait until i get to build myself a house, its going to have the sweetest underground living area/headquarters ever. I have an amazing plan in my head, Maybe i will up-grade the guns in my car too. or even set up a water canon or somethin from it. Oh yes caleb one day we will build the ultimate car....
yeup so there is the randomness of 1 in the mourninng
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