Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Are we going to fry?
I'll let you decide for yourself, but be warned...there is many hours of video to watch here.
An Inconvenient Truth
an inconvenient truth...or convenient fiction
An Inconvenient Truth
an inconvenient truth...or convenient fiction
Monday, March 29, 2010
My hope is in Christ!
This is an email that I sent to my discipleship team and thought I would put it on here to and I hope you may be encouraged by it as well.
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Hey friends, can I just tell you how good our God is? Today, I have just been overwhelmed with how much our God loves us. He has taken all of our sin upon himself and taken it away from us. All of our past sin, all of our present sin, and any sin in the future. We suck and can't do be righteous in ourselves (Romans 3:9-20), but Christ died for us and God see us as righteous (Romans 3:21-31). There is nothing that you can do to gain life (Romans 3:23). To have life, we have to put our hope in Christ (Psalm 33, my favorite psalm). What are you living for? Is your hope in Christ today?
Something else that I have been thinking about lately is the shortest verse in the Bible. Do you know it? It's John 11:35, 'Jesus wept.' There are many times where we can see Jesus weeping. This got me to thinking, what do I weep about? It has not been easy and I told God that I wanted to weep and God does answer prayers. What do you weep about? Do you even weep?
Encouraged,
Zach
Something else that I have been thinking about lately is the shortest verse in the Bible. Do you know it? It's John 11:35, 'Jesus wept.' There are many times where we can see Jesus weeping. This got me to thinking, what do I weep about? It has not been easy and I told God that I wanted to weep and God does answer prayers. What do you weep about? Do you even weep?
Encouraged,
Zach
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
God's Sovereignty
Let me tell you about a little story that happened to me recently. I was heading to a friends house to go walk the dogs as the place where they live is a bit sketch and for safety reasons I go over to help out. I came to a red light and stopped and waited for the green. When I got the green, I started to move through the intersection when all of a sudden I found myself going in the direction of the street I was crossing. I was hit by a vehicle that ran the red in the front left corner. My car is totaled and I'm not sure about the other persons vehicle but I don't imagine it is too good. I am fine, I was just a little bit shaken up and got a scratch and a bump on my lower leg. The person in the other vehicle has taken to the E.R. by an ambulance because her chest and neck hurt.
Now let me explain to you how all the dots connected for me to realize and understand God's sovereignty so much. During the summer, my car died and I was out of a car to use as my own. Then during winter break, my dad and I flew to Seattle to see my sister and pick up a car from my sister and her husband that they didn't want anymore. We fixed it up and drove it home where I was able to use it as a car of my own. This was the car that was in the accident.
Now I was probably about 5 feet away from death. If I had taken off any faster, I probably would have been hit in the driver door, therefore hitting me. The person was going at a pretty fast speed when I got hit and only God know what would have happened if I would have been hit on the side. I can see why my car died over the summer, although it was my stupidity in why it died. I can see why I got this car from my sister, as if I had my old car, the damage to me and to my old car probably would have been greater. I say this because the vehicle that hit me was old, and in those days they were built like tanks. I bet if I was in my old car, their vehicle would have sustained minimal damages. My acceleration speed in my old car was much better than this one and if I was in it, I probably would have been hit in the side. The most I can say is that as much as I would rather be up in heaven right now with God, he is not done with me here on Earth yet.
I can see how God knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. I didn't know that I was going to be in this accident, but he did. I didn't know that this vehicle probably saved my life, be he did. I never thought that running home to grab my winter jacket would keep me warm while outside dealing with police, but he did. There are so many more dots that I could make out if I thought about it longer.
Another thing that I have been thinking a lot about since then is how close to death I was. I literally was probably about 5 feet away from it. Ephesians 5:15-16 says, "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil." So we are told to use our time wisely as the days are evil. Why should we choose to use out time wisely? We can see why in the parable of the talents. The wicked and slothful servant did not know when his master was coming back and did nothing with what was entrusted to him. With what you have been entrusted with, have you spent the time you have been given in a way that will be counted worthy? We don't know when Jesus is coming back and I sure do hope it is soon. Nor do we know when God will snatch us up to be with him, that is if you know Christ and I get to stay here for now because God isn't done using me here on earth yet which I am okay with for now. And if you don't know Christ, I would suggest you find out where you stand with him. Because driving a car is not as safe as you may think it is.
Now let me explain to you how all the dots connected for me to realize and understand God's sovereignty so much. During the summer, my car died and I was out of a car to use as my own. Then during winter break, my dad and I flew to Seattle to see my sister and pick up a car from my sister and her husband that they didn't want anymore. We fixed it up and drove it home where I was able to use it as a car of my own. This was the car that was in the accident.
Now I was probably about 5 feet away from death. If I had taken off any faster, I probably would have been hit in the driver door, therefore hitting me. The person was going at a pretty fast speed when I got hit and only God know what would have happened if I would have been hit on the side. I can see why my car died over the summer, although it was my stupidity in why it died. I can see why I got this car from my sister, as if I had my old car, the damage to me and to my old car probably would have been greater. I say this because the vehicle that hit me was old, and in those days they were built like tanks. I bet if I was in my old car, their vehicle would have sustained minimal damages. My acceleration speed in my old car was much better than this one and if I was in it, I probably would have been hit in the side. The most I can say is that as much as I would rather be up in heaven right now with God, he is not done with me here on Earth yet.
I can see how God knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. I didn't know that I was going to be in this accident, but he did. I didn't know that this vehicle probably saved my life, be he did. I never thought that running home to grab my winter jacket would keep me warm while outside dealing with police, but he did. There are so many more dots that I could make out if I thought about it longer.
Another thing that I have been thinking a lot about since then is how close to death I was. I literally was probably about 5 feet away from it. Ephesians 5:15-16 says, "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil." So we are told to use our time wisely as the days are evil. Why should we choose to use out time wisely? We can see why in the parable of the talents. The wicked and slothful servant did not know when his master was coming back and did nothing with what was entrusted to him. With what you have been entrusted with, have you spent the time you have been given in a way that will be counted worthy? We don't know when Jesus is coming back and I sure do hope it is soon. Nor do we know when God will snatch us up to be with him, that is if you know Christ and I get to stay here for now because God isn't done using me here on earth yet which I am okay with for now. And if you don't know Christ, I would suggest you find out where you stand with him. Because driving a car is not as safe as you may think it is.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Need something to listen to?
Monday, March 8, 2010
Awesome quotes
"I don't know what we're doing but I'm into it!"
-Random kid at the church building
-Random kid at the church building
"I miss daddy! When is he co...ooo a rubber band!"
-My nephew Bryce
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Question of the day
I was at work doing work as you should do when you are at work. I work at the church building as a facilities guy and so I get to fix a lot of things and it is much fun. There are some home school enrichment schools that meet here.
I was in the ceiling fixing some air ducts and some of the kids were going to recess and I overheard two of them talking and I quote, "I was so busy this morning, I had so much to do and this was all that I was able to bring." He was talking about the carrots that he had in bag for snack compared to the kid that was with him who had a large bag of pretzels.
I'm not concerned about what they had for snacks, although that could be another whole discussion, but the fact that the kid thought he was completely busy this morning. He may have said it because of the food that he had but I was surprised that a kid about the age of my nephews would think that he was busy. I couldn't understand it.
So here is my question, should we impose our busyness upon our kids? Now I don't have any of my own and I think that I can say that I am honestly busy. Because we can be busy with productive things or with silly things that really don't matter (I'll talk about this in about a week). But should my kids ever think that they are busy in their day? Should we, as adults, give our kids a lifestyle of busyness or a life style of leisure? Where is that middle ground?
I was in the ceiling fixing some air ducts and some of the kids were going to recess and I overheard two of them talking and I quote, "I was so busy this morning, I had so much to do and this was all that I was able to bring." He was talking about the carrots that he had in bag for snack compared to the kid that was with him who had a large bag of pretzels.
I'm not concerned about what they had for snacks, although that could be another whole discussion, but the fact that the kid thought he was completely busy this morning. He may have said it because of the food that he had but I was surprised that a kid about the age of my nephews would think that he was busy. I couldn't understand it.
So here is my question, should we impose our busyness upon our kids? Now I don't have any of my own and I think that I can say that I am honestly busy. Because we can be busy with productive things or with silly things that really don't matter (I'll talk about this in about a week). But should my kids ever think that they are busy in their day? Should we, as adults, give our kids a lifestyle of busyness or a life style of leisure? Where is that middle ground?
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