Whales and The Judgment

So lots of thought provoking things occurred this weekend.

First, the Chris Tomlin concert. One word. Powerful. I was reminded how powerful the human voice is when we allow our souls to open and freely flow and pore out cries of praise to our Almighty, All POWERFUL God. Christ mentioned that last night, we were one church, which I also felt powerful. He said we were "a mixture of flavors" all combining to be one powerful church in powerful worship. I liked that alot. Usually these days when someone asks what I am I simply say "a follower of Jesus Christ." then they say "no I mean what church do you do you go to?" and I say "well the church is the people, so I guess who ever I am with" which of course is not the answer they are wanting but it is true, isn't it? Growing up in a legalistic C.O.C. maybe I have a chip on my shoulder towards donminationalism. It erks me. but anyy whooo, that's a whole nother blog in and of it's self. Next key point of the Chris Tomlin Concert, Louie Giglio spoke. It was the first time I have had the privilege of hearing him speak and I could see what all the hype was about. He was really good at making his point and driving it home. He spoke of Psalm 148."Praise the Lord." and praising the Lord, all the star, animals, angels, creatures of the sea. It was very good and I had never really thought about that psalm much before. He played some radio frequencies from stars jillions of Miles away in outer space. SO COOL! I have always loved star gazing but never thought that a star might make a sound and the rotate eleven or a million times on its axis per second. It makes a sort of rhythm kind of sound. Then he played whale singing. I don't know if you have ever watched a video of whales singing, but whale quite frankly are very adorable when they sing. So he tried to give us a little Minuit glimpse of what all the heaven and earth praising the Creator might sound like. He got out his ipad(of course) and used a sound board ap to add them all together then slowly it started to sound like How Great is Our God and every one in the audience stood up and started singing along, POWERFUL. All in all I recommend every one go to a Chris Tomlin concert before they die=)

K, So church this morning. The topic was Reaching Out in Jesus. Telling people they are lost. It is an uncomfortable topic. I would imagine it is uncomfortable for most Christians. No one likes to think of Hell or people going to Hell, not just the bad guys but possibly friends, our first grade teacher, loved ones. Needless to say we were all squirming in our seat in the college class. Christ, however, in John chapter 4 cut right to the chase when he was talking with the Samaritan woman. His second sentence was about salvation. What if we all were like that? I feel it is on us when we allow those we know to be lost. To never mention our Savior to them. That is all on us and I don't want to face God one day and try to explain why I let those i care for go with out knowing the truth. The crazy lady I work with go with out hearing the good news. So what if we told EVERYONE! Would there be a difference in this world? CHYEAH! I would like to think so.

"If Christianity was only about finding a group of others to live life with, who shared openly their search for God and allowed any one regardless of behavior , to seek too, and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like heaven, would you be interested?"-Hugh Halter and Matt Snag, The Tangible Kingdom.

Food and Football

Ok. So now I know what to blog about=)

As I was sitting in my algebra class just a brief moment ago, a guy in my class (who just so happens to be on the A State football team) was talking very loud, as he normally does, about more funding for the football team. He was arguing with two other guys how they need new jerseys. How it is ridiculous that they have Adidas products, "what are we, in high school?!" this angered me. Is that wrong that it bothered me? In high school I too wanted better equipment for our basketball team, but it was all out of vanity. Not because it would improve our playing abilities. But now my world view has changed quite a bit and and I feel money spent on meaningless things is stupid when there are children starving.

So I asked him, "would new jerseys make you guys win ball games?" which the guys he was having a convo with found extremely funny. But honestly, if it is only for looks sake should our university spend money on it? Since they have scholarships and don't have to pay for their college should football players be expected to buy new jerseys if they want them so badly? The guy proceeded to answer my question"welll ummmm they are so big. If we had smaller tighter jerseys it might make us faster." Really? Seriously? Grrr what is wrong with our world. if we all lived with in our means and looked out for one another there would be less poverty. right? any ways that's whats on my mind=)

Finaly a Blogger

Ok. So I am not exactly sure what I should be doing with this. Several people have suggested I start a blog, so, here I am. Apparently I have much to say in a rather interesting and entertaining way. I guess that is up to whom ever decides to read this. I am not sure I want to reveal a lot about myself but that might be odd or creepy so I will just let myself come out in my writings. Deal? K  that sounds good to me=) any ways. OH! one final thought before I click "publish post" I am a follower of Christ, It is the most important roll I do and will ever play in my entire life. k=) Nos Vemos