October 2010
1 post
Woops
I didn’t realize all the post’s were working. Now I’ve got it figured out.
This is a great idea Jordan.
We are headed to Bellingham tomorrow for 8 days to do Mini Outreach. It is going to be a great time. We are connecting with the Mosaic church up there.
I day dream about about the WWS almost every day.
I’ll start some haiku’s soon.
-Firestorm
February 2009
1 post
August 2008
1 post
“Oh praise the one who paid my debt
and raised this life up from the dead!”
July 2008
4 posts
I hate everything about my ways, but you still tell me I’m okay.
June 2008
2 posts
please help me find you. please help me hear you. please let me see you. help me to feel you.
today, like many days, i feel that i have lost you, but you have not moved.
help me find you.
“I will follow”
“You missed the back two” he said at 1 a.m. as I pulled the tooth brush out of his mouth. I was still learning how to thoroughly clean someone else’s teeth. After rinsing his mouth, I stood at the side of his bed and pulled on the sheets to scoot his body towards me. Rolling his shoulder over, I tucked a pillow under his back to support him on his right side. With a pillow between his knees, I...
May 2008
1 post
Unsettled
What a place to be, caught somewhere between decisions and outcomes and life. But not stuck without hope or a light at the end of the tunnel. I begin to look for answers or comfort from things around me, anything to help me settle. My mind races and cannot be quiet despite my constant prayer and attempted focus on Christ. Like a rock in my shoe that I want to get rid of, but I forgot how to...
April 2008
9 posts
“where what is ideal is lacking, grace abounds”
holy spirit - embrace me. as i reach for you with nothing else to hold on to. catch me. please. i belong to you. you are my beloved, above all things that i love. sustain me! i don’t know where else to turn, and have no where to look to. i am overwhelmed, help bring clarity to my eyes. you are faithful. show me your face, do not be far from me. may i feel your presence beside me all day.
“we will worship for all of eternity, rather than become that which will be...”
Prayer: Selfish? Selfless? Shellfish? Shelfdish?...
This is something that I have been thinking about for the past 6+ months or so. I hope this does not come off as cynical or bitter - it is more a display of thoughts with hopes of probing and addressing the way that we pray and what we pray for. Why do we pray? Prayer is frequently used as a last resort. We are out of options, nowhere else to turn. We tried...
As I continue in my walk with Christ and grow in our relationship, new things are constantly coming to mind. I really do have to practice thinking of Him right when I wake up, choosing to pray on my way to work, choosing to remind myself of what He says and desires, choosing to read the bible, choosing to talk to people about Christ, and choosing to think about Him as I lay and rest, praying for...
Breaking point
You know that moment when you’re worshiping… that special moment… where it’s like something breaks and nothing else matters besides Christ and His love for you and your love for Him? I think some people know exactly what I am talking about, and maybe some others don’t, but that’s not my place to say. Its that place right before you lift your hands. The place right before the tears start falling....
there is a retreat coming up for another church, and to be honest i dont even know the name of the church or where it is. i have no idea what they do, where it is, nothing. but i heard about it, and have the oppertuinty to share it with a few people i met. one of them is Will, a friend i met at church last friday. he reminds me of my brother, in an almosts alarming sort of way. i dont understand...
oh, how He speaks to us
Will: so are you going to be able to make it this weekend?
Brian: no, unfortunatly i wont be able too. i have to pick a friend up at the airport on saturday
Will: well hopefully he has safe travels and makes it home alright
Brian: yeah, i hope so too
I feel like I’m constantly battling myself within myself. Like the Christ in me is fighting the sin that resides in my earthly body. not in some crazy kind of way where I’m constantly torn or talking to myself or something. It’s far different, and I think many people might be able to relate, while others would not understand. In reality - it’s nothing new. Paul writes about it in Romans. He does...
March 2008
2 posts
Lord, sustain me.
Lord, sustain me. I pray that you are beside me now as i question, as i doubt, and as I try and turn my face to you. forgive me for the sin’s that haunt me. help me run towards you. i cannot hide, i am ALWAYS found. God, my Strength, protect me. Jesus, standing as my Shield, defend me! Apart from You i can do nothing, and every day that becomes more apparent to me. forgive me for trying to...
February 2008
1 post
“Greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to be done in this city”
November 2007
5 posts
rob bell
the gods are not angry, what a cool seminar. we are surrounded and controled by things outside of our own control. seeing the balance between the gods, and how to sacrafice to them. when in wealth, give more to show you are thankful when poor, give more to show that you appreciate what you have been given, and that you need more when is enough? what is enough? the greater the sacrifice, the...
“The Joy of the Lord is my strength”
Following directions - but which direction?
God is so good. i want to live my life for nothing less than what he has for me. this conference has been such an amazing time, full of revolation from Christ, drawing nearer to him, and time learning about him. the worship has been incredable. there is so much freedom here to sing, dance, jump, yell, do what ever you want. its a beautiful thing. i pray that the freedom i experience here can be...
“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up...”
Who is Jesus to you?
that was the question tonight. who is Jesus in your life? about a year ago, i would have said any list of answers - he is my savior, he is my god, he does sweet stuff, he is why i am a Christian, and why i am saved. ever since i did my DTS, and spent time in YWAM, its a little different. i realize that now my heart is so much softer. when someone askes me who Jesus is in my life, its a little...
October 2007
10 posts
Jesus, i am so in love with you. i am alive in Christ, because of Christ. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face, and the things of the world, will grow strangly dim in the light of his glory and grace tonight you spoke to me. what a beautiful thing it was. just like you spoke to me before. “You know whats right”, and simply “you know”. i do know,...
speak - yell - pray
God, what are you showing me? where is it that you are pointing me, what is it that you want me to do? i am enjoying worshiping You, and experiencing You. prayer this morning was awesome. the whole conference prayed for trafficing around the world, and for those captives to be set free. the place was shaking, and Holy spirit really showed himself. it was truly amazing, and an awesome thing to...
a new week, an old call
go conference, let it begin. i am here in colorado at the ywam go conference. what a trip just getting here.
i slept the whole plain flight, i literally fell asleep before we took off, and woke up as we landed. missed every meal, drink, and snack. oh well.
met up with my good friend jessica, who i am so excited to see again!
then the baumaster himself, Dan Baumann picked her and i up at the...
its a frightening thing to call a generation into death
i dont miss highschool, but i miss the freedom and...
Sure, the race for grades and college is crazy, but people dont expect much else at all. You have the ever-ready and nearly unexhaustable excuse that im just a kid. Thats a pretty attractive thing once you dont have it any more
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make my life extraordinary for Your glory
What a scary thing to pray. I find that some days i can say it, and mean it, but otherdays i feel a little less nieve to the reality of that idea and a lot more timid. God calls us to something out of this world, we must therefore live for something out of this world. If he called us to any less, what would set us apart from the next guy? A better attitude about life and its sufferings? Being...
