Collada Contest

Here’s a way for you to earn a cool 5k and show off your Mad Skilz in 3d

www.colladacontest.com

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Sunday Morning Inspiration

This is an amazing video of a mans love for his son, and the testimony that we can do all things through Jesus.

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Doing the 45 strutt

Well here I am in outdoor world trying to find my youth and manlyhood. There is something about Bass Pro Shop that is magical and well almost holy

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Big Buck Bunny - must watch!

Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.

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Thanksgiving

So today is Thanksgiving and maybe like me you have been dealing with some heavy things over the last few days, weeks, months and even Years and you don’t think you have anything to be thankful for. Maybe the problem your having is the same one I’ve been having; Contentment. Are you measuring your satisfaction, stature and meaning using the worlds measuring stick? I know I sure have a big problem with doing that. Its hard not to do that, our world culture says we have to have X, Y, and Z and thats the only way to success.

There is another measuring stick that God provides; Jesus. When we measure ourselves against Him its all about how much we have been changed into his likeness, not based on anything we have to do, or if we can gather a bunch of junk together to WIN. Its all based on one thing, contentment in him. Being still is the key to understanding. We think we can “do” things to please God. But we tend to prun ourselves the wrong way or to much. We need to yield to God and let him lovingly cut back the areas needed to make us change into the likeness of Jesus.

God wants to bless us all, He causes the “Rain to fall on the Just and the Unjust” the rain is a blessing, He like the rain wants to cause increase in the garden of our lives. But we have to be content, we have to tend to the garden walking with Jesus side by side (reading the bible, spending time in prayer and yielding to God). Sure wild plants produce fruit but they tend to have blemishes, are much smaller in size and rot right in place and are never enjoyed. They have no one to tend to their real needs, no one to remove the weeds that are destroying them, mostly because they don’t know they are weeds until its too late. But they have no idea that they are suffering. Real abundance comes when proper pruning has been done and the rain falls on a garden that is not choked out with thorns and thistle but has been prepared by the vinedresser to receive the blessing. Spending time in Gods word, on our faces in prayer and in fellowship, causes us to be pruned, ready to receive the blessings of God that will cause us to produce fruit that He can use to increase His kingdom.

This Thanksgiving, be still, know he is God and allow his pruning to produce the abundant life you long for.

Peace and Grace

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Being the Church

Once again I have been hearing from God in my hectic crazy quiet time with Him. This time its been what are you going to do? I know what you want, I know what you think you need He says to me. But what is it your going to do? When are you going to be My church, My hands, My feet, My voice to this generation? I don’t know about you but thats a heavy question.

We all spend our week running around working, going to school, running kids from here to there. We thank God for our food, jobs and spend a little devotion time everyday maybe even attend a bible study and teach a Sunday school class. But is that what we are called to do? I mean is that all?

We like going to church, but were not really being the church, we are spending our time going to church. But were not really being the church or what it was meant to be and do. Now don’t get me wrong I am not trying to throw a guilt trip on anyone. I for one am just as guilty of this as the next guy. However I think this was brought to my attention to share and provoke thought.

Think about the last time you saw someone who was homeless sitting or even pan handling for cash. Did you just walk by, or did you just look through them? hoping to not have to reach from some change. How about the gay guy at work who your afraid to share the love of Jesus with because you might be taken wrong or ridiculed by the rest of the guys. Or how about that old friend of yours that is the greatest guy you know and would take the shirt off his back for anyone but doesn’t believe in God. You dont want to offend him so you don’t talk about “that” subject around him. These are the stereo types that we all think of that “need Jesus” now for the fact of the matter, I’ll let you in on a little secret we as disciples of Jesus are called to share the good news with… the next person you see and meet. . .

We are called, commissioned, to share the love of Jesus with everyone. But we lavish a lot of time on ourselves, our families and internal church activities. Our prayers focus on what effects us. Prayer is our chance to stand in the gap and intercede for others. To tune into Gods spirit and ask Him to move on behalf of others. Of course we need to talk to Him about our needs but he already knows that. For the most part I fear we have nothing much in common with the way that Jesus and the disciples would have done things. We have seeker sensitive programs that soften the gospel and skirt sin to avoid making people feel bad. The church is acting like a club and “Jesus” is the secret word to get in the door. We have music, dancing, the works, two floor shows every Sunday.

Sadly I was in Baltimore last Friday night in Fells Point, an area known for its adult beverage establishments and a hub of local night life. We were walking around to see who we might be able to minister to. We simply were asking people if we could pray for them. No heavy guilt trips, no long argumentative confrontations, just sharing the love of Jesus and the gospel. If a conversation grew out of it we talked if not we just planted seed or watered. However if someone wanted to ask Jesus into their life we were ready to do that too. Now the sad part was not the people we met, They were great, but the churches in and around the area. They all were closed, doors locked, lights out not a single shred of evidence that they are active. Now the worst part, Big signs declaring Gods love with small signs that said “No Loitering” “keep at least 20 feet away from doors’ now were not talking about one church with these signs but more than a half dozen within two to three city blocks of one another, and smack dab in the middle of where all these people are. No wonder people want nothing to do with the church or God. What a greeting they declare in Gods name. Large segments of the church have lost its way and role, they have “missed the plot” and need to pick the book back up and rediscover the plot and end to the story.

We don’t need to be seeker sensitive we as the church need to be “Spirit Sensitive” aware of Gods presence seeking His face and walking according to His edicts, speaking His words to those we come in contact with because.. God has pre-ordained it to happen. We have been saved and sent out to share the good news with everyone God sends our way. Our success is not dependent on if people accept Jesus but if we did what we were called to do. Love people where they are at and let the Holy spirit convict them and woo them to himself. We can not save a single soul. All we can do is plant, water and harvest, but God causes all the increase.

But there can be no planting, there can be no watering and no harvest if we don’t go into the fields. The field is “ripe for the harvest” are we going to let the fields rot because of our self indulgence and sloth? I hope not and I know that God longs for us all to work in the field.

You say, how do you do this? what is the secret?

Share what you know, open yourself to the leading of the Holy Ghost, He will tell you what to say. People want to know and feel genuine love, they are looking for it in sex, drugs, booze, money, knowledge, power and a hundred other things, they know they have a empty spot but can never seem to fill it. Nothing canned will work they can see a phony a mile off, just be you. Take the chance and let God use you in His plan. Yield to God so God will cause you to Yield 10, 20 even 100 fold.

Be the Church!!

Grace and Peace

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Broken, Crushed and Pressed Down

Lately I have been asking God to bring me to a place of true brokenness. Where I can be useful, pliable and teachable. My wife and I went on a vacation to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary and I figured during that time perhaps I would hear from God about what it is he wants us to do and what it means to be broken and humble. Well the time in the mountains went quickly and there were a few “God” moments but nothing over this area that I have been praying about. And then…

I came home and the stress of living in Washington with its traffic and the demands of my Job came rushing back at me full force and a bit over whelming. I simply could not understand why I was having to deal with this stuff, why I was having to live and work in this situation, and not hearing from God was making me a little nuts over the situation. A few days passed and I was praying with some other guys for our church and revival, asking God to move in our city and county but beginning with us (me).

God spoke.

The Holy Ghost made this clear to me. We are all like grapes, little individual pieces of fruit, Saved sealed and part of the family of God, but grapes when harvested are broken, crushed and pressed down to transform them into the fruit of “new wine”. I am not saying that we have to find the “god in us” or that we become part of some “cosmic consciousness” but the old man is transformed, translated, changed into the likeness of Jesus. This is the activity of sanctification, in the end we are glorified!!

Its those trials of dealing with our normal world that God is actively transforming us from the individual image of ourselves to the image and likeness of his Son Jesus. He slowly and lovingly adds pressure and weight to crush us, to break us, to transform us. So the next time you have a situation that you just don’t understand or feel like your going to die, that’s just what you need to do. Die to yourself and let God transform you and the situation. Not that I have arrived but its his good pleasure and the work that he has begun will be completed! Grace and Peace

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jam&c=1&v=2&t=NKJV#comm/2

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