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Does Anybody Hear Her- Casting Crowns

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You may not know this about me but I run a ministry called “Christian Guys Ministries“. This video is the heart and soul of why I started it. It breaks my heart to know that we as Christians are allowing guys and girls to come into our churches hear our sermons and then leave with no follow up, no discipleship, no training and we sit in our pews judging them for not “looking right” or for not standing up or sitting down in the right spots. We have gotten so pompous in our walk with God that we are no better than the Pharasies that Jesus condemned. Christian Guys is about helping guys bridge the gap between being a teenager and becoming a man of God. We cant help guys become men of God if we, those that are already in the faith, are not willing to look past all the “stuff” and see that these guys are hurting inside, lost, not part of our “system”.

I was at church a few weeks back on a Wednesday night and I sat in youth group, being a former youth pastor I love to sit in youth services, they had a guest speaker that night and to make a long story short at the beginning of the service there was the traditional youth worship band and the guy sitting next to me was raising his hand during the song and as we would say “really pressing in to worshiping God”, then as the music ended the guest speaker was introduced, as he spoke he began to speak of issues of anger and then finally he dropped the bomb, he said that God was leading him to the issue of “sexual integrity”. He said that God had placed on his heart that there were some here that were dealing with issues of sex. Well… if you have ever been in a room of Christian teenagers, especially guys, then you know that no one moved a muscle and it was as quite as can be. Then with a bit more prodding from the speaker simply saying that he knew that someone here needed this time with God, and finally one guy stepped out and of course then all the guys and gals started poring to the alter. Well right as the alter time was ending I saw the guy next to me ask his friend to “go down there with me”. He need prayer for issues of sexual integrity. So you are saying “Whats your point?” My point is this… we are not doing a good job of helping those in our church already with issues and pain, we have kids in our youth group having to navigate the waters of “youthful desires” but oh no we cant talk about that, “there parents will do it” well guess what folks, many of these kids dont have parents. It is our job, to “train up the child”. When one of our own kids is dealing with issues of pornography, promiscuity, and the like it is up to us to help him or her in a loving gentle way.

I guess I am saying that we need to open our eyes church! Stop ignoring the problem and hope it will go away because guess what! It is going away but it is taking our youth with it. We want to have a “church of tomorrow” we have to cultivate it today. That means being there for our children and youth, that means opening our churches and homes to non-believers and helping them navigate the early walk with God. That means leaving our homes and stepping out into the city, country, or suburb and sharing our faith with others.

I leave you with this. When it was finally time for Jesus to leave this planet for the last time. He went up to the mountain side and just before he ascended into heaven he said:

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
(Matthew 28:19-20)

Baby Got Book

A Great parody on “Baby Got Back”.

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A deaf mother heard God’s miracle voice Video

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HOW TO WRITE A TERM PAPER

1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well-lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
2. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it.
3. Walk down to the vending machines and buy some coffee to help you concentrate.
4. Stop off at another floor on the way back and visit with your friend from class. If your friend hasn’t started the paper yet either, you can both walk to McDonalds and buy a hamburger to help you concentrate. If your friend shows you his paper, typed, double-spaced, and bound in one of those irritating see-through plastic folders, drop him.
5. When you get back to your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well-lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
6. Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it.
7. You know, you haven’t written to that kid you met at camp since fourth grade. You’d better write that letter now, that ways you can concentrate.
8. Go look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror.
9. Listen to one side of your favorite tape and that’s it, I really mean it, as soon as it’s over you are going to start that ~~
10. Listen to the other side.
11. Rearrange all of your CDs into alphabetical order.
12. Phone your friend on the other floor and ask if he’s started writing yet. Exchange derogatory remarks about your teacher, the course, the university, and the world at large.
13. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well-lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
14. Read over the assignment again; roll the words across your tongue; savor its special flavor.
15. Check the TV Guide to make sure you aren’t missing something truly worthwhile on TV (like Monday Night Football). NOTE: When you have a paper due in less than 12 hours, anything on TV from Masterpiece Theater to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, is truly worthwhile, with these exceptions:
    1. Pro Bowler’s Tour
    2. Any movie starring Don Ameche.
16. Catch the last hour of Soul Brother of Kung Fu on channel 26.
17. Phone your friend on the third floor to see if he was watching. Discuss the finer points of the plot, even if he wasn’t watching.
18. Go look at your tongue in the bathroom mirror.
19. Look through your roommate’s book of pictures from home. Ask who everyone is.
20. Sit down and do some serious thinking about your plans for the future.
21. Open your door and check to see if there are any mysterious, trench-coated strangers lurking in the hall.
22. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well-lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
23. Read over the assignment one more time, just for the heck of it.
24. Scoot your chair across the room to the window and watch the sunrise.
25. Lie face down on the floor and moan.
26. Leap up and write the paper.
27. Type the paper in your computer. Spell check.
28. Complain to everyone that you didn’t get any sleep because you had to write that stupid term paper.

Frozen in Grand Central Station

This is sooooo awesome. I would love to be able to pull this off.

Are you ready?

I think that this is a very powerful video. It makes you think about if you are really ready for the return of Christ!

Jim Carrey doing David Caruso on David Letterman

I love CSI and I am a big Jim Carrey fan. So when I found this I had to post it.

Up in Smoke!

A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case of rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against … get this … fire.

Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars, and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars in “a series of small fires.”

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion. The man sued and won!

In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that since the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable, and also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against fire, without defining what it considered to be “unacceptable fire,” it was obligated to compensate the insured for his loss.

Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the judge’s ruling and paid the man 15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in “the fires.” After the man cashed his check, however, the insurance company had him arrested … on 24 counts of arson!

With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to 24 consecutive one year terms!

No pun intended!

1. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft it sank-proving once and for all that you can’t have your kayak and heat it, too.
2. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.
3. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He sidles up to the bar and announces: “I’m looking for the man who shot my paw.”
   
4. A neutron goes into a bar and asks the bartender, “How much for a beer?” The bartender replies, “For you, no charge.”
5. Two atoms are walking down the street and they run in to each other. One says to the other, “Are you all right?” “No, I lost an electron!” “Are you sure?” “Yeah, I’m positive!”
6. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist’s Novocain during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication!
7. A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. “But why?”, they asked, as they moved off. “Because,” he said, “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”
8. A doctor made it his regular habit to stop off at a bar for a hazelnut daiquiri on his way home. The bartender knew of his habit, and would always have the drink waiting at precisely 5:03 p.m. One afternoon, as the end of the work day approached, the bartender was dismayed to find that he was out of hazelnut extract. Thinking quickly, he threw
   together a daiquiri made with hickory nuts and set it on the bar. The doctor came in at his regular time, took one sip of the drink and exclaimed, “This isn’t a hazelnut daiquiri!” “No, I’m sorry”, replied the bartender, “it’s a hickory daiquiri, Doc.”
9. A hungry lion was roaming through the jungle looking for something to eat. He came across two men. One was sitting under a tree and reading a book; the other was typing away on his typewriter. The lion quickly pounced on the man reading the book and devoured him. Even the king of the jungle knows that readers digest and writers cramp.
10. There was a man who entered a local paper’s pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.