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10:37am: Video of the NOW! Episode #16

3:27pm: theology

I recently did a huge personal study on eschatology, and with the help of the holy spirit, conquer all the questions I had regarding it. I learned that the doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture originated in the 1830s with a vision from a teenage girl, Darby took this vision and misinterpreted scripture to support it. We are supposed to read scripture first and form our beliefs thereafter. Not form beliefs and try to use scripture to back it up.

I think it's awesome that the church used to take joy in suffering for Christ through tribulation. It was an honor, like dieing for a lover. I want that joy, I'm seeking it. The church in the last 200 years has sought to bring about this easy does it method where we are going to be delivered from trials and tribulation. I think this way of thinking is quite foolish. We all suffer, for anyone to be so arrogant to think that they shouldn't have to suffer saddens me. It's how we suffer that is important, we as Christians are to find great joy in suffering, knowing that through our suffering the most this world can take from us is our flesh but never our souls. So awesome.

I find myself having to know everything. Most of the time this folly causes me to turn from the Lord. I begin to doubt the Lord and don't except his mysteries. I'm learning to except some things and understand that if I could explain God in full or define him completely, he wouldn't be worth worshiping because he would be very minimal in holiness.

On that note, I am beginning the task of studying the doctrines of Pelagianism, Arminianism, and Calvinism for the sole purpose of finding truth behind predestination. What I have found so far is quite hard to swallow, but I always strive to remember that God's plan is continuously perfect and loving and who am I to question and counsel God. (Romans 9:20)

Mark Twain said, "It's not the things I don't understand in the Bible that bother me, it's the things I do understand!"

It takes a regenerated heart to want to swallow any of this. And even after regeneration, with continuous attacks from the enemy, I sit there and doubt all of it sometimes. I went through a few years of determination to prove it all wrong, I couldn't. The grace of God always pulls me back. Amen.

1:41pm: Don't settle for happiness, aim for joy.
Joy comes from within; joy is not dependent upon the people in your life, or the possessions you accumulate or what happening to you right now.

God says I'll find joy, when you I trust that he's in control and working to use the good - and the bad - of my life for a greater purpose.

This I need to remember, everyday.

I hope you all had a great holiday, love you guys.

1:58am: ughh
sometimes i just don't know

3:04pm: Respects last night I bought the last two PBRs in the joint!


Went to respects last night for yet another Sam Celebration of Birth lol. Had a PBR. Did some dancin'. And tonight we are having a classy Christmas party/birthday party for Jesus and Sam. The dishes are all italian and Sam's mom and I have prepared quite a delectable baked ziti. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

3:46pm: Song of the NOW!
Found this on an old Coldplay EP called Mince Spies super rare cause I'm sooner than now.

11:51am: Animations of the NOW!

11:26am: 2008 survey
1.What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
-started loving Christ back
-started dating someone I am equally yolked with
-began caring how my words and actions effected those around me
-stopped finding it so hilarious to be an a-hole
-moved back in with parents(never thought i would do that) to go back to school
-changed my mind about my dream job

2.Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i didn't make a new years resolution...I KNOW! is that bad?

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
my old roommate...we lived together for like a year so i guess that close enough

4.Did anyone close to you die?
No

5.What countries did you visit?
I'm in college. I dont have money to travel

6.What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Less rebellion, more organization and motivation. ALLOW Christ to draw me nearer.

7.What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
may 19th

8.What was your biggest achievement of the year?
staying true to not all but more commitments

9.What was your biggest failure?
the commitments i broke

10.Did you suffer illness or injury?
no, the Lord has blessed me with a very good immune system

11.What was the best thing you bought?
I bought a couple of really awesome books on eschatology

12.Whose behavior merited celebration?
Your mom

13.Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
id rather not speak ill of them

14.Where did most of your money go?
Food, Gas

15.What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Dates with Samantha

16.What song will always remind you of 2008?
-some song by the Jealous Sound

17.What was your best memory of 2008?
-My abandonment of rebellion...again.
-My breakup
-Falling in love with Samantha
-Discovering Mars Hill Church
-OC Marathons
-Trip to the keys with Samantha

18.What do you wish you'd done more of?
school

19.What do you wish you'd done less of?
bein' a hater

20.How will you be spending Christmas?
home in martin

21.Did you fall in love in 2008?
yes, for the first time

22.What was your favorite TV program?
Heroes

23.Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
i dont actually hate anyone, sometimes i dont know how to watch my mouth and i get a hatin' lol

24.What was the best book you read in 08?
The Incredible Cover Up-McPherson (exposes all the lies behind the Pre-Trip Rapture)

25.What was your greatest musical discovery?
I finally got a really old Coldplay EP demo tape that I have wanted since like '99

26.What did you want and get?
-More Jesus
-More real friends

27.What did you want and not get?
-nothing

28.What was your favorite film of this year?
-i loved the dark knight

29.What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
-surprise party by Samantha. 22

30.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
a mission trip. im just broke and cant go anywhere

31.How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
i got through clean cut stages, and then get really dirty all the sudden

32.What kept you sane?
Bible studies, prayer walks, Gods reassurance of salvation

33.Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
im not very much into celebs

34.What political issue stirred you the most?
I think you all know how I feel about this one.

35.Who did you miss?
everyone is pretty much here besides J. Thad.

36.Who was the best new person you met?
I met some cool people in g-ville, and theres some new people at captivate that intrigue me.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
-rebellion only leads to sin and sin leads to suffering always. Whether that suffering is just you or others around you doesn't matter.
-You will suffer, how you suffer is what matters. Will you suffer joyfully?
-Take joy in everything.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Oh Christ when You're ready to come back
I think I'm ready for You to come back
But if You want to stay wherever exactly it is You are,
That's okay too - it's really none of my business.
If I didn't have You as my guide I'd still be wandering lost in Sinai
Or down by the tracks watching trains go by to remind me:
There are places that aren't here.
I had a well but all the water left
So I'll ask Your forgiveness with every breath,
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long, dear.

9:34am: Video of the NOW! Episode #15

12:22pm: I had to the sudden appetite to look through the photos. I guess I needed to remember you with her. Just a nostalgic moment. As I stared at the numerous stills of your perfection together, absent of polarity, I realized the damaging element of your tattered soul.
You're still in love with her, and can not convince yourself it will ever be any different.
I imagine I would be a wretch too.

9:38am: Video of the NOW! Snowboarding Edition


Also, in light of the recent post:

12:43am: Video of the NOW! Episode #13

Don't worry all you sensitive people, its just magic, it was on t.v.

4:43pm: taking a break from your usual programming


All atheists posit what's called a universal negative. A universal negative requires absolute knowledge (omniscience) whereas a universal positive may not require that.

For instance, let's say I am in a building with 4 rooms, and I have only been in 1 room. In order to say that every room is empty, I would have to have knowledge of all 4 rooms. I would need to know the entirety of what I am claiming to know.

However, to state the opposite, that the building is not empty, I would at the very least only need to know about one room.

So, in essence, any time an atheist claims that there is absolutely no God, they are claiming absolute and full knowledge of the universe (omniscience). If they are not claiming absolute knowledge, than they are going off of faith, but in fact, since they could never EVER know for sure that universal negative, then they are requiring much more faith than a person who claims there is a God (because finding out if there is a God may not require absolute knowledge).

But hey, I don't need to say it, it was written quite a long time ago "the fool says in his heart 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1)

11:55am: GREAT hot sauce or GREATEST hot sauce?!?

9:29am: Video of the NOW! Episode SANTA!
AMAZING...you have to watch this one.

8:06am: Video of the NOW! Episode #11
i know some Gastons.

3:23pm: From my pastors blog
“Only in fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to be rightly in fellowship.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer (who was murdered by the Nazis)

But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places . . .
–Luke 5:16

Just thought that was inspiring.

9:00am: Video of the NOW! Episode #10
credits to Jay for this one!

9:17am: Video of the NOW! Episode #9
I have no idea!

9:01am: Video of the NOW! Episode #8

8:51am: Video of the NOW! Episode #8
The Matrix - The Indian Cut
I hope you all are enjoying these as much as I am.

9:00am: Picture of the NOW!
Anyone else ever expect bacon when using one of those "hand dryers"

8:32am: Video Of The NOW! Episode #7

9:00am: Video of the NOW! Episode #6

Oh that Bill Cosby....

What would Monday be without a little politics?

10:16am: Picture of the NOW! SPECIAL THANKSGIVING EDITION