Sufficient.

sufficient- adequate, meeting the need of.

Your grace is sufficient for me. your strength is made perfect when I am weak all that i cling to i lay at your feet, your grace is suffiecient for me.
To see the Lord the promise land, where in all sins and pearly gates look bland, and what was once a pearl now sand, that blows away. In light of Him.

This simple little chorus has so much going on. first declaring the sufficiency of Gods grace, and then acknowledges that at our weakest His strengths is made perfect. Its actually always perfect, but we see its perfection when we are at our least. Then it talks about how it will be to see the Lord and how it will make everything, even the pearly gates that line Gods city, look bland. And the things we treasure will be just like sand that blows away. I don't know about you guys, but I am pumped about that.

Does Satan Exist.

When did truth, become known as truth to you?

I just got done, or rather just am finishing up watching a debate that was on ABC Nightline that was about Satans existence. It was a debate between Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll, a woman named Annie Lobert who was a prostitute and now is a believer and has a ministry to reach out to prostitutes. On the otherside there was a Philosopher named Deepak Chopra and the "Bishop" Carlton Pearson. Usually these dabates are just badly put together and when put on a show like this, typically they are unequally stacked against the "Christian" side. This time it was pretty even. Annie was very emotionally based, while Mark was surprisingly scholarly and intellectual. Deepak was clearly the smart guy on the other side, with the Bishop being the dumbest on stage by far, thats not just my opinion either, when people in the audience laugh at you, you are not doing so hot. The Bishop said some things that a 2nd grade student in a debate class could have tore down. He kept quoting the Bible, but believed that some of it was wrong and mythical. Um...? Don't think you can pick and choose bud, this isn't a buffet.

To be completely honest when I turned this on I did not have high hopes, I have read some of Driscolls books and did not see him being good in this role but he did do very well. Hit some out of the park actually. I found it very interesting that Deepak was pushing very hard that if it works for you thats fine, truth is what is truth to you, and so on. But when he was pushed, by Mark, he was very very opposed to Christianity, quoted scripture and really had a lot of questions about it. Mark answered every one of them and even corrected Deepak about Hebrew, which was great. Im also glad that Driscoll didn't sugar coat it, he said many times that Jesus was the only way, he's the only truth. Anyways, if you get some free time watch this video. Its good.

http://abcnews.go.com/nightline/faceoff

the getaway.

Well my wife went to Florida this past weekend to visit her family and surprise her best friend Emily. Emily is going to be teaching English for a year in Korea, so LaRae flew down to say goodbye. Here is a shout out to Emily in Korea...Holla.
Anyways, I was left alone, which was okay because March Madness is in full effect and I was ready to just sit and watch. So thats what I did for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday I led worship and had a meeting, but my bags were packed cause I was heading to Lynchburg after the meeting. Sunday night was good got to hang out with my best friends and met Joshs lady friend, who seems to be an awesome lady. Monday I got lunch with my old coworkers from Student Life and that was fun. And I spent the rest of the day at White Heart working on jank. Ryan Law, Matt Addington, John Wyche and some others all added up to an afternoon of good times. Miss all those guys. Anyways, did not do much that night besides go look at the new stuff on campus with Nick Kameno and stop at starbucks because 11pm seems so late to me now. Sad I know. We ended the night at mcdonalds, basically because there was nothing else open. Anyways the whole reason for this blog was to post this picture, he didnt have a car he just walked through the drive through. He also had a sweet "starter" jacket on and I complimented him on it, for which he was appreciative. Needless to say, it was a good trip. Thank you Liberty and Lynchburg for the memories.

Francis Chan

I don't think that I can say enough good things about Francis Chan. Yes he does look like an asian Montel Williams, which I find very cool. Anyways, every thing I see, read and hear that he is behind has been just right on the money. I am reading Crazy Love right now and to be honest Francis does not break new ground in this book, and frankly that was not what he was trying to do. The great thing about this book is the way he delivers the message. Through personal stories, a new angle at classic parables, and just good writing, he depicts just how crazy Gods love for us is.
All I am saying is pick it up and read it. Visit the site www.crazylovebook.com

Sorry.

This is by far the worst website to ever click on, but I believe your curiosity will take control of you. You have been warned.

http://smouch.net/lol/

Stronger. Trust me.

Want to waste your day. Here.

just click this, its amazing.

Lukewarm.

This is a topic that is really overlooked by Christians. My first guess would be because it is so easy to see that most, if not all, Christians have something about them that is lukewarm. Something that they hold back to keep them in that room temperature spot that we find the American Christian culture right now to be at.

I think that is what is special about mission trips. You go and are totally committed. You are doing things for Christ, and not for yourself at all. And you feel good because really that is how the Christian life should be lived everyday. But how quick and easily we forget when we are back inside our comfort zones. Maybe not right away, but soon we get back into "our" place and it then becomes the same struggle to live a Christ like life.

Maybe it has something to do with suffering. The people that I have met with the strongest faith have always been people that have been challenged some way in their walk with Christ. America is free, which is awesome, but also takes a toll on our faith. I think there are so many people walking around saying they are Christians because they have no one threatening them for their beliefs. I mean to be uber dramatic, if it was against the law to claim Christ, there would be a lot less people saying that they were following his teachings.

I also found it interesting that when I googled lukewarm I got multiple things for Christians and Politicians. I found this funny at first but after looking more closely I realized that politics had so many hits was because they had more then likely took a "lukewarm" stance on some issue. The reason they took that lukewarm position is mostly for approval. I think you could say that is just like Christians. We want the approval of some people or some other thing more then sticking with Christ. Ah. Thats convicting just to type in here because I know I do it all the time.

Rev 3:15 says God spits out lukewarm people. I don't want to be one of those people, so instead of being comfortable I am going to try to put myself into situations and places where I have to be out of my comfort zone. I think that is the best solution to try to live out my Christian life as an actual "Christian."

25 random things, that are great, in my memory.

1. when driving down the road and you see someone jogging, and they just so happen to be jogging at the same beat as the music you are listening to. My most recent case of this, was when smack that" by Akon was on the radio and an 80 year old man was jogging, if you could call it that, and his arms were moving to the exact tempo of the song. And at the pace he was moving, which was obviously slow, it made it look like he was busting a move. I pulled over because I was laughing so hard.

2. Simply this website, Augmented Reality. Freaking cool. http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

3. The summer of 2000, driving around in my silver '87 dodge shadow, listening to southtown by POD very very loud.


4. Likewise, driving to fellowship league softball games with Josh and sometimes Brenner, blaring "higher" by creed to get us fake pumped and laugh.

5. The conversation I had with my wife on our first date. We talked about music and a tad about fashion, which I totally BS'ed because I liked her.

6. Knowing that my prayers, and of course the prayers of many others for my best friends Dad really really paid off.

7. The book CrazyLove. Read it.

8. The day I found my 2nd car, a banged up 98 eclipse. I was obsessed with that car, and got it for so cheap. I was pumped and a single tear fell.

9. Being able to introduce Family Force 5 at a concert as "fresh off of winning the World Championship of Rock and Roll Tournament." The was asked to dance with them on stage later in the show.

10. Old school Dc Talk. Such as...


11. Dressing up at Halloween as stuff that is very very politically incorrect.

12. Eating at the weeny stand in Lynchburg, Virginia. Then immediately leaving for a 5 hour road trip with CrossCulture. Never a good idea. Thanks Scott for driving around the gas station 2 times before stopping.

13. Everything about the movie Swingers.

14. Driving around with no purpose whatsoever with Nick Kameno my first year at Liberty.

15. Being able to judge people that wanted to be in CoffeeHouse at Liberty University. I miss that so terribly. Looking at Alese trying to keep a straight face is one of my fondest memories.

16. Being surprised with Coldplay tickets for my 22nd birthday by LaRae and then after waiting and building up the hype in my mind, the concert blew that out of the water. even with the crappy opener of Fiona Apple.

17. The program Photoshop. Thank you whoever wrote code for this. It helps pass time in a proactive sort of way.

18. Showing up at an open mic night contest to support someone that was supposed to sing, that person bailed and Jake Katterhenry wanted to do something so we did, and won. We got 50 bucks for the restaurant it was at. I ate lunch there the next day.

19. Helping my brother put together the youth group at a church in Louisville. Weird people, but there were some good laughs with Josh, Travis, Brenner and me.

20. The first weekend that Matt Shanlian visited Liberty before he transfered. It was a good weekend. Just a lot of laughs and Cedric got Danielle Macarthy to eat a dog treat, and cry because he convinced her she was a tad racist.

21. Rolling my window down and blaring music every time I cross the Ohio River. Only missed one time, because I couldn't find any music.

22. Cabo San Lucas Honeymoon. Being able to see the Pacific Ocean from the shower, kitchen, front door, etc...is pretty cool.

23. Before Josh transfered to Liberty he came and visited me. It was over valentines day and I was driving him around Lynchburg just showing him around. We came over the hill in downtown Lynchburg and there were at least 100 men dressed in red dresses. It was the annual "5k red drag race."

24. Mullet hunting with LaRae at the Wayne County Fair.

25. The third verse of. It Is Well, "My Sin O the bliss, of this glorious thought, my sin, not in part, but the whole. Was nailed to the cross, and I bare it no more. Praise the Lord praise the Lord o, my soul." well done Horatio Spafford

Sundays Comin'

If this doesn't get you excited about your Christ. Then thats sad. Sundays a comin'.