What are you proud of?

I was thinking about this today and I came up with the thought, what if Christians were as proud of Jesus as everyone else is of their own sins? This might sound weird but, think about it. You look at on people's facebook pictures or their status or just general conversation that people have. What are they talking about? " oh I got so trashed, it was awesome" "I'm hooking up with this girl, it's so sweet" " I cheated my way through class, now I'm getting an A" It's like people are so proud of what they are doing wrong, that they put it on display? Seriously there is nothing respectable about putting pictures online of living a complete life of sin. It's like hey I'm being foolish, come join me in my demise... now on to the flip side..

What if Christians were so in love with Jesus and so honored to be considered God's children that we made the effort to share God's word all over the place? I'm not saying we have to cram it down people's throats, but how about thanking God for a beautiful day or giving glory to God for the fact that he has saved us from an eternity in hell. I say if anything, Christians should be blasting praises to God all over the place, because we have so much to be thankful for. There is no honor in living in sin, Jesus died so he could save us from that life.

Final thought.. Jesus loves you so much that he died for you. Satan hates you and wants you to die. Who's side do you want to be on in the end?

The Experience

I'm convinced that sometimes isn't always about just the music. I go to a lot of concerts and see a lot of talented, and not so talented bands play music. I heard a band tonight that at first I was kind of like what the heck, then I really started to like what they had going. These dudes had energy, a really solid drummer and their music was fun to rock out to. For these guys I felt like they really sold their music to the crowd and the crowd got into it. What I'm getting at is, it seems like some bands might not be as good as others, but they are a lot better at getting a crowd into it, so for that I say props to them! I honestly don't "discover" much new music from opening acts, but some bands are just that good at getting my attention that I look into what they have going on and just might get their cd and see them in the future.

randomness

As a kid I always thought fast cars and motorcycles were really cool and I would imagine how life would be with them. Well I have both now and I'm not going to lie, it's pretty sweet. I strongly believe that these things are not the source of my joy, happiness or any of that. But they are a lot of fun. I did a somewhat crazy thing today and I had fun with it. No big story, just full admittance that having cool stuff is fun and I'm glad that God has blessed me with it.

I really don't get it

After watching the Truth Project at bible study I keep thinking about how people try so hard to discredit God for basically everything. It's going so far as back to how the earth begin. It seems like Darwin and his followers have tried so hard to come up with a theory about creation, just so they can say there is no God. Ok now on the the next step, if there is no God then there is no heaven and no hell, so what we do on earth has no eternal consuquences. Now if there was no God, what would be the point in having self control or doing the right thing other than maybe the fact that we don't want to get arrested and go to jail. I understand that part of it.. people don't want to answer to God, because they want to do whatever they want.

Now here is the part I DO NOT GET... for the most part, most American's have some sort of belief that there is a God and quite a few people have heard the gospel message.. now why would people try so hard NOT to give God credit when, he created the earth, man sinned and in order to fix the mess up by MAN.. God sent his SON to die on the cross, for us! Call me crazy, but anyone who does that kind of thing for me is worth worshipping. God could have easily said, "forget you Adam and Eve, you messed up now you will die and I won't create any more people because of your sin." I just don't see how after all that God has done for the people of this earth, that so many people refuse to have anything to do with him.

something to think about

how much better would the world be if people who claimed to be Christians actually lived their life for the glory and honor of Christ and not just for the fulfillment of their own personal aspirations?

An introduction

I decided to start a blog because sometimes I have conversations or even just thoughts that I think I could share that would be of some benefit to other people. I don't claim to be a wise person, but I'd like to think I can offer some good advice from time to time. Don't read this blog and expect some sort of wise entry all the time. This is my blog, therefore it will be random. Somedays I might just have a sentence or phrase that I want to share and other days I might just have something funny to tell. I will never use this blog as place to vent or open up to readers who might not even know me. I'm not about to pour my heart out over the internet. so here goes with this blogging action!!