It has Been a Long While

It has been a long time since I lasted posted. A lot has happen since I posted the lyrics of Christ the Lord is Risen, Today. Since I lasted post, I was accepted into Liberty University residential program and will be moving to Lynchburg, VA. I am currently waiting to be approved to work for the 459th ARW out of Andrews AFB, MD. I am ending my Air Force AD run. I am will excited to move on towards my next stage of life. I am hoping that the sovereign God will bless me with a wife.

During this little hiatus from blogging, I had a birthday. According to everyone at church I am 17 but I am actually 23. The Saturday after my birthday, a friend organized a dinner at Teri Aki in Cambridge. I went there after a day on the street in the market area of Cambridge. It was a good time. I was happened to more civilized then some of the other adults (not naming names Joe and Kori).

What made that day special was the fact someone cared enough to celebrate my birthday. I tried to celebrate my birthday in college but I had to make it happen. When I got into the military, I still did not celebrate my birthday. I would eat my mom's angel food cake and tell everyone. I think we had a Bible Study birthday party because Joe (a different one then called out earlier), Asher, and myself (April 17, 21, 19 respectfully). It was not anything special.

This dinner was a simple but profound. There was not present besides that I did not have to pay for my meal. I guess it shows how the body of Christ is to act.

Anyways, I need to study and get ready for my family to come to England. Later,

Solus Christus!!

Christ The Lord has Risen Today.

Enjoy these 6 verses from Charles Wesley "Christ the Lord has Risen Today."

1. Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! 
 Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia! 
 Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! 
 Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia! 

2. Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia! 
 Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! 
 Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! 
 Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia! 

3. Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! 
 Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia! 
 Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia! 
 Where's thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia! 

4. Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! 
 Following our exalted Head, Alleluia! 
 Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia! 
 Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia! 

5. Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia! 
 Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia! 
 Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia! 
 Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia! 

6. King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia! 
 Everlasting life is this, Alleluia! 
 Thee to know, thy power to prove, Alleluia! 
 Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia!

First Witness Encounter Every!

This beautiful, yet cloudy rainy, English Saturday, I went with other Christians to Cambridge, England. This has been the first time I was able to go out with the group since I have been back from my deployment. This Saturday, I wanted to step out beyond handing out tracts but do a 1-on-1. I got my 1-on-3. I handed a 1 million pound sterling gospel tract and these young men asked what they were. I told them that it was a gospel tract. I started to talk to them for a little bit. I used the law, they questions side track me a little, but once I got back on topic I presented to good news. It was a tough first encounter but I learned a little, like stop following rabbit trails. This encounter was different from my encounters on Facebook with false converts. Since they got see my facial expressions, they knew that I was not there to discriminate against them. Although at time for me, I might have seemed a little holier-than-thou. That is a problem that I will need to work on. Anyways, it was a comfortable first time; it was not a scary as handing out tracts for the first time.

Vlog 3 Maybe 4

I decided to use my great Mac to film yet another vlog aka video Web log. You are going to need and stop the music that is at the bottom of the page. There is a giant pause button so you need to click on it.

"Be still, and know that I am God

The Psalmist wrote in Chapter 46 verse 10, "Be still, and know that I am God." This was a verse I read today in my quiet time. So I was still and look at the nature around me. I watched and thought about how God causes the waves to crash against the shore and at the same time he causes me to breath. Nothing happens without God causing it. It is the same that only God can cause someone to come unto him. I have been thinking about the predestination of people to Heaven or Hell. Since God is not bounded by time and the fact that he knows everything. He knows everyone that will be saved. Although we have free will, God's knows every decision that can be made and knows the outcome.

But more than that God has already predestine people, he is still in control of everything and it is when we are still among our life and focus on what he has done for us. This is when we know that he is God.

SO be still and know that God is in control about everything.

Grace Gem

Here is a Grace Gem from 2 Mar. You can get Grace Gems at GraceGems.org

The chief danger attending a state of prosperity, is that it strongly exposes us to the temptation of becoming "lovers of pleasures, more than lovers of God," 2 Timothy 3:4. This danger is considerably increased, when people have been introduced into mirthful and fashionable circles. People in such circumstances may be said to stand on the brink of a dangerous precipice. They run the greatest risk of being drawn into a vortex of folly and dissipation, in which all sense of piety is likely to be swallowed up.

The Last Couple of Posts, Gone into Draft Status.

After reading a post about discernment on James McDonald's Blog (read it here). I decided to remove the last couple of posts. After thinking about why I wrote them (I still think that they are correct), it was not in the interested of the spirit but because of my human sin. I still think that Christian music has gone astray but my post would more on the lines of dividing and not a solution for the problem. The lent post is again about the a problem I think exist in the church and again it was because of my own sinful nature that the post was not in good taste to edify the church. Sorry about creating division.