Amazing Juggler

This is a great video... it is about 4 minutes long, but worth the time.

This guy named Chris Bliss is an amazing juggler.
He juggles in sync with the beat of the song. And he really gets going during the drum solo's.

Make sure you have VOLUME UP

Click on this link for video.

Those Christians - A letter written in.....

"...For Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language or customs; you see, they do not live in cities of their own, or speak some strange dialect, or have some peculiar lifestyle.

This teaching of theirs has not been contrived by the invention and speculation of inquisitive men; nor are they propagating mere human teaching as some people do. They live in both Greek and foreign cities, wherever they chance has put them. They follow local customs in clothing, food and other aspects of life. But at the same time, they demonstrate to us the wonderful and certainly unusual form of their own citizenship.

They live in their own native lands, but as aliens; as citizens they share all things with others; but like aliens, suffer all things. Every foreign country is to them as their native country, and every native land as a foreign country.

They marry and have children just like everyone else; but they do not kill unwanted babies. They offer a shared table, but not a shared bed. They are present 'in the flesh' but they do not live 'according to the flesh'. They are passing their days on earth, but are citizens of heaven. They obey the appointed laws, and go beyond the laws in their own lives.

They love every one, but are persecuted by all. They are unknown and condemned; they are put to death and gain life. They are poor and yet make many rich. They are short of everything and yet have plenty of all things. They are dishonoured and yet gain glory through dishonour.

Their names are blackened and they are cleared. They are mocked and bless in return. They are treated outrageously and behave respectfully to others. When they do good, they are punished as evildoers; when punished, they rejoice as if being given new life. They are attacked by Jews as aliens, and are persecuted by Greeks; yet those who hate them cannot give any reason for their hostility.

To put it simply - the soul is to the body as Christians are to the world. The soul is spread through all parts of the body and Christians through all the cities of the world. The soul is in the body but is not of the body; Christians are in the world but not of the world."

From an anonymous letter to Diognetus, possible dating from the second century ad.

I'll tell you what. I felt both convicted and inspired at the same time.
I think it would be hard to find a letter like that written today.

You Take Me Back.

Just discovered the talent of Jeremy Camp and have been listening to him the last two days. His songs have really encouraged me. Sung to the one who accepts us, loves us, died for us...and forgives us.
When we repent he takes us back. We are restored.
If only I grasped the vastness and deepness of that restoration each moment of each day. If only I embraced what He did for me each day. Imagine how I could live?
I could praise God all day...accept that I am sinful all day but that just as sinful as I am that God restores me all the more. Shouldn't this make me want to obey him more? Out of love. Not working out my own salvation but accepting His.
Why do I try to save myself?
Lord thank you. My finite, tiny, little mind, heart and soul longs for something so big and all too often I fall for those tiny finite things on earth rather than falling on my knees before you. Yet these words comfort me.
Grace. Unmerited Favor. Your faithfulness. Your truth. Beautiful.

The reason why I stand
The answer lies in you
You hung to make me strong
Though my praise was few
When I fall I bring your name down
But I have found in you
A heart that bleeds forgiveness
replacing all these thoughts of painful memories
But I know that your response will always be

I'll take you back always
Even when your fight is over now
I'll take you back always
Even when the pain is coming through
I'll take you back

You satisfy this cry
Of what I'm looking for
And I'll take all I can
And lay it down before
The throne of endless grace now that radiates what's true
I'm in the only place that
erases all these faults
That have over taken me
But I know that your response will always be

I'll take you back always
Even when your fight is over now
I'll take you back always
Even when the pain is coming through
I'll take you back

I can only speak with a grateful heart
As I'm pierced by this gift of your love
I will always bring an offering
I can never thank you enough

You take me back always
Even when my fight is over now
You take me back always
Even when my pain is coming through
You take me back

A poema pro meus diligo.

A poem written to my soon to be wife....

Ah beauty too wonderful to behold.
Your smile is a dagger to my heart.
On your eyes I float, descend, rise and fold.
I hang on every word you impart.
A fullness dwells within
more than words can say
and I am left here with a grin
thinking of you this day.
tomorrow is too far away
turning twisting like a knife
mocking my internal strife
missing you is my bane
i hung my head in the rain
then the thought of you
like a shooting star
shot across my heart
an image, a dream
and it was clear as a mountain stream
there you were standing next to me
your eyes shining as the dawn
and the touch of your hands on mine
made the galaxies come ablaze
a brilliant shining spinning ecstasy
a rhapsody between you and me
and the enchantment of the world
bred upon the tender touch
of you and me.

Did we really need further proof Hollywood is full of kooks?

Scientology and Tom Cruise “believes modern psychiatric medicine derives from an ancient alien civilization’s plot to drug and enslave humanity.”



Read this short article on MSN. After this article I can never take Tom Cruise serious again.
Scientology foes blast Cruise.

5 interesting facts about Scientology.

1. L Ron Hubbard is the person who created this cult. He was a science fiction writer born in 1911 and died in 1986.
2. According to Hubbard and Scientology, millions of years ago, an intergalactic ruler called Xenu rounded up the populations of 76 planets and sent them to Earth where their bodies were dropped in volcanoes and vapourised with nuclear bombs. Their spirits now cling to human beings, causing all mental traumas.
And it is the belief in that that drives the sects millions [ 100,000 at most world-wide] of members.
3. Hubbards academic background.
Although he claimed to have graduated in civil engineering from George Washington University as a nuclear physicist, university records show that he attended for only two years, was on academic probation, failed in physics, and dropped out in 1931. It is also claimed that he obtained his Ph.D from Sequoia University in California, which was later exposed as a mail-order diploma mill
4. Scientology started as a fake "self-help" psychiatric sham in the 1950s called "Dianetics" by the convicted felon L. Ron Hubbard. When profit from Hubbard's "Dianetic clinics" fell drastically after the initial fad waned, L. Ron Hubbard pursued what he called "The religion angle" and turned his fake medical practice into a fake "religion."
5. L. Ron Hubbard at first insisted his new business was not a religion. "Scientology has opened the gates to a better world. It is not a psycho-therapy nor a religion," he wrote. The United States Internal Revenue Service agreed with him for over 30 years, denying the business tax-exemption status, after Hubbard sought protection against medical malpractice under the pretense of being a "religion." The United States Supreme Court agreed with the IRS; several courts throughout the USA and the world have also ruled, as a matter of law, that Scientology is not a religion nor a church

Key Celebrities of that follow this cult.
1. Tom Cruise
2. John Travolta
3. Jenna Elfman from Darma and Greg
4. Leah Remini from King of Queens
5. Catherine Bell from Jag
6. Isaac Hayes Blues singer
7. Giovanni Ribisi Actor
8. Greta Van Susteren Fox News Channel
9. Jason Lee from My name is Earl.
10. Kelly Preston Actress
11. Lisa Marie and Priscella Presley daugher and wife of Elvis and Actresses
12. Kristie Alley from Cheers

Plus many others.

V is for Vendetta and for Voluptuously Vainly Leftist Propaganda

Unmasking the Real Vendetta.

This movie is blatantly and unabashadly anti-Bush, anti-conservative, anti-American, anti-absolutes, anti-Christian.

I am almost walked out of the movie.

If you don't believe me, the below link is further proof of how bad this movie is. This article is not biased, simple truth about actual facts within the movie.
Check out this article.


DO NOT waste your time on V for Vendetta.
The one thing the movie had right was that morals have declined in America.
If you really want to waste your money then put 7 dollars in an envelope and send me the money.
(If you really want to do this then I will provide my address at your request)
Thanks.

By the way, the original writer of the comic book, disowned the movie writers and wanted nothing to do with the movie.
Kudos to him.

Jessica is Baltimore Bound

Jessica will be arriving at BWI in less than 2 hours!!
She gets to stay for about 9 days!
So tired of 4 and 5 day visits. This is definately a blessing.
We already have a lot planned for the next week....so we should have fun.
So for that reason, my posts will not be as consistent as the last week.....
Chow....

Random Quotes

"Best sermon you will ever preach is your life."

"The greatest need of the church is not to teach the gospel but to live it."

"Now because of Jesus I see the truth. He is not the object, he is the glasses."

"Spread the Gospel wherever you are, and when necessary use words."

Jesus- the Ultimate Counselor.

In response to the blog entry from: http://kathrynthomas.org/musings/
I really liked the below quote, although found it funny which colors you tagged for Christian and pagan.

"life is not black (i'm a christian) or white (i'm a pagan); life is messy and dirty. we need the freedom and security to fall down sometimes."

Yeah, as a kid growing up it seems like a black and white world. But now as I've grown up I've realized its much more convoluted than that. Life is complex. Yes, there are absolutes but as fallen people trying to emulate Christ we cannot live absolutely perfect in our relationship with Christ. Trying to live as if were perfect before each other and before non-believers is where we come up short, where we are labeled hypocrites.
We should feel free to embrace our failures and use them as an instrument to point to Christ's amazing grace in our life. Our sin should be a testimony for our need for Christ.
So the issue at hand is that as Christians we aren't doing the best job relating our relationship with Christ to those around us.
All too often we look like everyone else around us. I am so guilty of this.
So how do I deal with others in a way that allows me to be salt and light?
The amazing thing about Jesus is that he entered into everyone's world. He met people where they were. He sat down for dinner with the prostitutes while the disciples raised their eyebrows outside. He befriended the despised tax collectors and Samaritans.
He comforted Martha and Mary in different ways when Lazarus died. He wept with Mary and spoke about spiritual truths with Martha. They needed to be comforted in different ways and Jesus knew that. He is the ultimate counselor and should be a wonderful model for us. When it came down to it he dealt with people with authenticity and love.
There is the connection we all seek. We all want authenticity and love. Operating from this perspective would set us apart.
Meeting the people around us where their at shows genuine care and love.

"The question is not where are the Christians, but what are the Christians "where they are." - Os Guinness