The Lord's Prayer

"Dear Father always near us,
may your name be treasured and loved,
may your rule be completed in us-
may your will be done here on earth
in just the way it is done in heaven.
Give us today the things we need today,
and forgive us our sins and impositions on you
as we are forgiving all who in any way offend us.
Please don't put us through trials,
but deliver us from everything bad.
Because you are the one in charge,
and you have all the power,
and the glory too is all yours-forever-
which is just the way we want it!"

A Hole in the World

Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.

2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.

3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW STUPID IT SOUNDS.

4. Tag 10 friends.

5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.

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IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
As the Ruin Falls

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Super Stars

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Let us at Last Praise the Colonizers Of Dreams

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
It's Going Down

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Dead Man's Chest

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Blaze It

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Burn the Fleet

WHAT DO YOU PARENTS THINK OF YOU
A Light at the End of Tunnel

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Scars of Tomorrow

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Bad Dream :-(

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Sleepwalking

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Insult to Injury

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Cellar Door

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
100 Suns

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
For a Friend

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST??
New Room

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR??
Shell of a Man

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Erole Attack

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Just a Memory

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Deceived

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
A Hole in the World

25, because I want to be cool too

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. If I tagged you in this note then you're one my favorite people right now, or you're Jeremiah, but if I didn't, don't worry, I still love you <3

2. I always thought I couldn't do music, until I started playing the drums on rock band (I will rock your world on expert).

3. I will soon be playing the drums in an electrocore band and I can't freakin wait.

4. I work as an artist, but I can't draw for the life of me

5. is my favorite number

6. My boss' initials are F.U. and mine are J.K., seriously

7. I've had multiple odd jobs in my life including making boxes, installing car stereos, putting up christmas lights for rich people and being a telemarketer.

8. I love color so much, because of this I don't have a favorite color, it all depends on what the color is going to be on.

9. Deep down inside, I really think Money is scared.

10. I was the smelly kid in middle school.

11. I automatically lean towards being nocturnal, give me two weeks off and I'll be sleeping the day away and enjoying the night

12. I love cultural restaurants, I can take you around the world in a day.

13. If you ever see a trash can in my hand, it might look like I was throwing up, but in reality I was munchin on some sunflower seeds.

14. I lead a discipleship group and it's a blessing to see these guys grow in God. The whole thing has taught me so much.

15. I am also honored to take part in a the sweetest life group on earth.

16. That's right I said it, and I won't take it back either

17. I often come off as smug and I hate it

18. I love reading, I usually read three or four books at a time, one fiction, one non-fiction, one theological and the Bible which I've read the Bible six times in three different translations.

19. I've paid over 2 grand worth of parking tickets and tow truck fees, but I've never had a moving violation.

20. I don't judge, unless you've given me permission to do so

21. My eyes are my favorite physical trait

22. Hookah has a special place in my heart, I always hated smoking until I tried hookah, now I'm in love.

23. I love meeting people that love God so much they make me ashamed to call myself a Christian.

24. I go out of my way to stand out and be unique. I think it's because I tried so hard to fit in before I became a Christian, then God gave me a sense of self.

25. I want to change the world

For Every Person

I thought this was cool, so I wanted to share it with everyone. Also, I know it's been a while since I posted on here, but I might start up a little personal bible study/devotional. I want to start off with the topic of love, because I went so long misunderstanding what it meant. I want to study it a little more and teach it, so expect to see that coming up soon.

Jung Typology Test

So I took this psychology test for the hell of it and this is what came out, what do you guys think, does this sound like me?

Idealist Portrait of the Healer (INFP)

Healers present a calm and serene face to the world, and can seem shy, even distant around others. But inside they're anything but serene, having a capacity for personal caring rarely found in the other types. Healers care deeply about the inner life of a few special persons, or about a favorite cause in the world at large. And their great passion is to heal the conflicts that trouble individuals, or that divide groups, and thus to bring wholeness, or health, to themselves, their loved ones, and their community.

Healers have a profound sense of idealism that comes from a strong personal sense of right and wrong. They conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place, full of wondrous possibilities and potential goods. In fact, to understand Healers, we must understand that their deep commitment to the positive and the good is almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. Set off from the rest of humanity by their privacy and scarcity (around one percent of the population), Healers can feel even more isolated in the purity of their idealism.

Also, Healers might well feel a sense of separation because of their often misunderstood childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood-they are the prince or princess of fairy tales-an attitude which, sadly, is frowned upon, or even punished, by many parents. With parents who want them to get their head out of the clouds, Healers begin to believe they are bad to be so fanciful, so dreamy, and can come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. In truth, they are quite OK just as they are, only different from most others-swans reared in a family of ducks.

At work, Healers are adaptable, welcome new ideas and new information, are patient with complicated situations, but impatient with routine details. Healers are keenly aware of people and their feelings, and relate well with most others. Because of their deep-seated reserve, however, they can work quite happily alone. When making decisions, Healers follow their heart not their head, which means they can make errors of fact, but seldom of feeling. They have a natural interest in scholarly activities and demonstrate, like the other Idealists, a remarkable facility with language. They have a gift for interpreting stories, as well as for creating them, and thus often write in lyric, poetic fashion. Frequently they hear a call to go forth into the world and help others, a call they seem ready to answer, even if they must sacrifice their own comfort.

Princess Diana, Richard Gere, Audrey Hephurn, Albert Schweiter, George Orwell, Karen Armstrong, Aldous Huxley, Mia Farrow", and Isabel Meyers are examples of a Healer Idealists.

Here's a link if you want to take it:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

The Christian Copyright Infringement

http://store.digitalpraise.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=135

They have to be joking. Why is it that Christians need their own version of everything? Actually I probably wouldn't even mind that, but it's always a crappy knock off. If you're going to make a Christian game, make a good game that's innovative and fun, don't steal other people's ideas. Do people really think the kingdom of God will be furthered through stuff like this?

Taking America Back for God?

I recently finished listening to a message serious titled The Cross and the Sword by Greg Boyd of Woodland Hills church. This sermon series has forever changed my views of the role of the church in culture, politics and everything else related to this world. The audio files are available below if you want to check them out, but I've taken some notes to explain the things that stood out to me the most, it's a little scattered right now, but I'm putting it up anyway.

http://www.whchurch.org/content/page_722.htm
http://www.whchurch.org/content/page_726.htm

The overall message was that we need to take back America by going to the cross, not by forcing people to change their actions. "Don't ever think you can take the murdering out of the murderer's heart by passing a law". Jesus came into this world to change people's hearts, not to stop people from committing abortions, to ban homosexual marriage, or to win over congress for Christ. Our goal is to change people's heart and the way to do that is not through force, but through love.

You might say to yourself "But we as Christians know what's best for the people, because God has told us, so shouldn't we vote for laws that follow the morals laid out by God?" We can vote for these things, but they have no impact on the kingdom of God, and this thought process is a little off. When we tell people what's best for them we take the morally superior ground. We come in from above, with guilt, shame and force to tell the world how to live their lives. This is exactly the opposite of Christ did. He saw a need, he met a need and he proclaimed the kingdom of God is at hand. He came in from under people and lifted them up with love, sacrifice and serving. We as church are coming across as prideful know-it-all's instead of being humble servants. "Aren't we called to stand against sin? Jesus took a stand against sin by going to the cross and dying for sinners. We need to take a stand by loving sinners."

God never said America was a theocracy, America was founded on people escaping theocracies. Israel's theocracy was temporary and conditional, it was made to reach the whole world. God's kingdom is identitcal to Christ, wherever there are people acting like Christ, there is the kingdom of God, not based on any social status, nation or ethnicity. America is not the hope of the world. The reputation of the church is not we're morally superior, it will be these are the most self-defacing, humble people on the planet. We're not gonna throw stones, because we're the chiefest of sinners.

So what we need to do is, "Take a stand against sin in your own life, treat it as a tree trunk, everyone else's sin is a speck of dust. Hold one another accountable if someone has asked for your help, that's how they did it biblically. Nowhere in the NT do you find the church as a whole holding the culture accountable."

John 18:36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." It is not our place to fight against this world through military or political force, but through love and grace. A person's politics have nothing to do with the kingdom of God, that's why Simon the Zealot and Matthew the Tax Collector were able to both be disciples of Christ. It says more about Jesus' views that no words are stated about their political views, because it does not matter to the kingdom of God! How someone believes a country should be run can be completely contrary to how they believe the kingdom of God should be furthered.

I leave you with a quote from C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters about patriotism being confused with furthering the kingdom of God. We can turn our cause into religion and believe that it's what God wants to achieve.

"Your best plan, in that case, would be to attempt a sudden, confused, emotional crisis from which he might emerge as an uneasy convert to patriotism. Such things can often be managed. But if he is the man I take him to be, try Pacifism. Whichever he adopts, your main task will be the same. Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the "cause", in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce in favour of the British war-effort or of Pacifism. The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience. Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours—and the more "religious" (on those terms) the more securely ours."