Matthew 7 : 3-5 / John 8:7

So I am in no way shy about my beliefs and my relationship with Christ. At work I am privileged to work with others that I can talk to about and share my experiences. Well yesterday at work one of my workers who is Catholic and a lesbian, she asked me what I thought about LAGC, I had no idea what it meant, she asked what my thoughts were on the Lesbian and Gay Community.  Something took over and I started quoting the bible the only way I know how, very poorly lol.

I explained to her that my wife has a gay friend and she is a big part of our family.  Talking to her it reminded me of one of my favorite passages, it comes from Matthew 7 : 3-5.

Matthew 7:3-5 NIV84

2 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

3 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

So I told her that scripture in my own words and explained, it is not my job to judge others, God is the ultimate judge. Peoples life choices are theirs, and it is not my responsibility to lecture or tell them their choices are wrong. My responsibility is to my wife and children, but ultimately I am responsibility is for me and my actions. I also brought up the part of the scripture where Jesus was teaching and there was a woman who came up to learn who was a known adulteress, the crowd told Jesus to give them permission to stone her, that her sins were worth her death, but Jesus said, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" (John 8:7) and slowly all of the crowd and pharasies left.


People are sinful.  Today in service my Pastor spoke about how Christianity is more than the Bible being a book of rules and guidelines, the real true purpose of Christianity is to give all to God, to accept him as your savior.  How I look at it is God is our Father, He sent his only Son, Jesus Christ to be one of us, to walk among us, so we can see His glory.  Jesus Christ died for our sins, it was His purpose, why He was created, He knew from day one.


It is hard for us to understand that we are sinful and any sin we do, as long as we confess and are truly sorry for it, we are forgiven.  About what was talked about earlier, my beliefs that it is not our job to judge others, and it is difficult, I catch myself all the time watching people, "Why are they wearing that?" We are very critical of others.  What I am trying to get out there is, worry about yourself, where are you with Christ, what is your relationship with Him, are you doing what is right in His eyes? So work on taking the plank out of your eye.

Let Go and Let God Part 2 / Be A Man

So, earthly bills are annoying. Just saying. Things are really up in the air with my job, and I complain too much, trying my best to just Let Go and Let God, just to have it set and know that God is in control.  Since I work through a temp agency at OSU, when the kids go on vacations, I go on vacation. It's a blessing in disguise, because our 4 kids have the time off too and I get to spend time with them and we don't have to pay a baby sitter, but that's also days I won't be getting paid.  Bills are getting slowly paid off but once I get close they tend to go back up, and my bank account keeps going into negative. Such is life though.  Compared to some peoples problems mine are nothing, I shouldn't complain, it is extremly hard to just Let Go and Let God, but even though I have trouble doing it, he still takes care of us. We have a roof over our head, food to feed our kids, a car to get around in, and believe me, if it wasn't for Him we would be in worse off condition.  I feel I have kept a pretty positive attitude, staying positive that even if I do lose my job, then it was meant to be and God will have the next thing lined up for me. I just need to pray and obey Him. Do you have problems Letting Go and Letting God? Do you do it easily? How so?

Moving on from my complain fest, what does it mean to be a Man? When did you first feel you were a Man? Was it the first time you had sex? First time you moved out? When you were finally old enough to drive, buy cigarettes or alcohol?  God has been doing a lot of work on me, my beliefs and how I really need to act.  A lot of it was sparked by the movie Courageous, but I feel He was shaping and changing my heart before that movie.  Even before I had seen the movie I felt I had to show it to my home church, night was a success by the way, over 100 people came.  Well, growing up, I never really had a person in my life that told me how a man should be, I just watched and learned from my dad, which isn't a bad thing, but I am now learning a lot more, being in the Word, reading the Bible, a few books, one called the Resolution For Men I am learning a lot.  I am learning it is my job to be the Spiritual Leader of the Household, and what it means to Lead My Family.  I know I can not do it without Him.  I have made a concious decision to be in His Word daily; Talk to Him daily, if not hourly; Read with my children His Word and teach them daily right from wrong; Show them how a man treats a woman, their elderly and others. Sure my children stumble, but so do I, DAILY. We are all human, it is our nature to Sin. Satan is always around, trying to pull us into his grasps, telling us we are not good enough, telling us bad things are good, corrupting our minds. It is all thanks to God that he sent his ONLY SON JESUS to die on the cross for our Sins.  I am just now reading through the bible, I have never really done it before, but reading through Exodus it explains what they used to have to do to attone or ask for forgiveness of their sins. I don't know about you but I feel a million times better knowing that I can just talk to God and Jesus and ask them to forgive me for my Sins because Jesus PAID THAT PRICE, instead of having to butcher and sacrifice cows and animals in His name.  Just know, when you are going down the right path, the path of Christ, the path to God, Satan is pissed and does not want you to, he will do everything in his POWER to pull you away. Just yell at him, let him know, "Satan, you have no POWER over me!" because he does not, because you are a child of Christ and God LOVES YOU! Yes YOU!

Let Go and Let God

Well I thought I could try to do this everyday, but between trying to get my college application in and hosting a showing of Courageous at my home church yesterday, as well as work, hasn't been working out too well, but I have had these thoughts collecting for the last few days. One of my biggest hurdles I have to get over, as many people do, is to Let Go and Let God. For a while I have had an idea for a tattoo that hopefully one day I will be able to get. It is a tattoo on my back I would like Gods hands, and in one hand it will say Let Go and the other will say Let God. Without any thought or noticing there have been many times He has helped me when I Let Go. A time that comes to mind is when our family car died, still don't know what is wrong with it, but it has issues. Well, without even prayer, without even thought, just knowing that God would figure something out for us, whether it be my wife getting rides to work, (I was not working at the time) or whatever, I just knew it would be taken care of. Well, no more than a few days later after posting on Facebook that our car had died, I got a call from my Dad, my Grandma, his mom, said she had an extra car because her friend had moved out of state, didn't want to take her car with her so she gave my Grandma the car, so, for completely free, not asking for anything, my Grandma gave us her old car. My wife says she prayed, but I will be honest, I did not, I just gave it to God to take care of.

Well, now is the time for the biggest test, I shouldn't say test, because we should never test God, it is not our job to test Him, I should say time for my biggest step, biggest leap of faith. In a previous blog I mentioned that one of the biggest moments that God had touched me was at Willamette Celebration, where I watched some skaters and bmxers that had given their life to Christ. Well, after a lot of praying, asking God for help to guide me into where he wants me to be, what he wants me to do, I have decided to try to go to a prominent Christian College in my state. I am excited, nervous and just humble that this is the way things are going. I have had my FAFSA for college help filled out for about 2 years now, and every time I go to sign up for a term at a close by community college to take some business and accounting classes, I keep missing the deadline, never have the money to pay for an application, missing certain things turned in, one after another reason it just was not working out. I felt after all that failure, at the start of this year and a little before while I was filing my FAFSA for this year that God was tugging on me to look into and put this Christian College as one of my options.

After talking it over with my wife, and discussing that was a huge leap and not really possible, I explained to her it would be maybe 5 years or so down the line, after I did a couple to a few years at the community college maybe then I would be ready for this Christian College. But after thought and prayer, and the dreams and premonitions God has been giving my wife, letting her know that we are not meant to be comfortable in life, and in ways preparing her for a huge move in her life, which ended up preparing me as well and helped us both decide as soon as we can maybe we should take the leap. I finally got my FAFSA approved for this year and it says I have been approved for the Fall term of 2012. A little discouraged because I had planned on going back in Summer term, but once I stopped and thought about it, if I start in Fall term and it does include a move away from our home, our kids would start a new school in a new school, and not maybe have to be moved in between a school year. Well, right now I am working on reaching out, I have made contact with the college, received a welcome packet, been emailing an Admissions Adviser back and forth, set up a date that I can go visit the college this month. I want to do this right. We can pray and ask for God to help us, but if we don't do any work then nothing will be done. He doesn't want us just to sit back and pray and ask for help, it helps, but unless you are in His Word, doing His will, not sitting back on your laurels, He will listen to you and Bless you, if it is in His Will.

So I kinda went off on a tangent, but my idea, well ideas, is I would like to open an indoor skate park, it will be a faith based establishment, where I plan to have possibly Sunday service, one or two day a week youth group/bible study, during the summer maybe like a camp kind of thing. I would also like to have my own Christian clothing line, and Christian record label. All of these things are just kind of bouncing around, it is my prayers that God will allow me to show the youth who He is through one or two if not all of these ways, but it is not up to me, He has a plan for me, and it is my job to listen and do His Will, for all I know, for all anyone knows, I may not even do any of these things. I hope you are all feeling Blessed and stay in His Word.