It's Official

No more Brooks...here I come CC!!!

For those of you that don't know, I wasn't sure if I was gonna stay at Brooks or not. Well I've been praying a lot, and the Lord is pulling me out of Brooks. I have complete peace about it, and I know that the Lord has awesome plans for my life no matter where I go. Apparently the Lord all ready used me at Brooks, and now is moving on. It would be super awesome if you guys could just pray for the transition, and stuff. Thanks.

On Repeat right now..

When Silence Falls
Tim Hughes

I've had questions, without answers
I've known sorrow, i have known pain
but theres one thing, that i'll cling to
you are faithful, Jesus your true
when hope is lost, i'll call you saviour
when pain surrounds, i'll call you healer
when silence falls, you'll be the song within my heart
in the lone hour, of my sorrow
through the darkest night of my soul
you surround me, and sustain me
my defender, forever more
when hope is lost, i'll call you saviour
when pain surrounds, i'll call you healer
when silence falls, you'll be the song within my heart

enough said..

but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this name...therefore, those also who suffer according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.

1 Peter 4: 16,19

Sucks

So today I was in an accident. I am fine, i think, but my car not so much. It was a tough one to call, so it was faulted as mine. A car two in front of me hit the car infront of them, so everybody slammed on their brakes, but I just couldn't make it in time. So i made the whole thing worse. Yes this is my first accident, i pray it's my last too. Nobody was hurt Thank you Lord! One good thing may come out of this, and that is i may finally get a new car! The bad thing is my insurance is going to go up, which sucks really bad. I'm really shaken up right now, but besides that I'm fine.

session 2

102!!! all ready? what? yes time for session 2!!!

gonna be gnarly, but the Lord got my back man!

goals for this session:

1. pass the class

2. talk to atleast 2 people about Jesus (preferably more)

3. get deeper in the word

4. get a job


So much to do and so little time who knows how i'm gonna get through it. The Lord does though. I completely trust that everything that goes down this session will be totally the Lords will. And if it's His will, i'm fine by that (or atleast gonna try to be fine with it)

p.s. to all you ppl out there, the Lord really is faithful. i promise. we just need to look past what our plan for our lives are and see what the Lord has for us. cuz if we do it ourselves all we gonna get is messes. when we trust the lord with these things it works out perfect. yes we screw up, yes we think we have a better plan, but no we don't and the Lord will forgive us when we do.

peace brada God bless

Amazing..

You know those days where you have just too much to do? Where you can't sleep the night before because you just want to get stuff done but there isn't really anything you can do about it, where in the morning you just want to sleep until the day is over, or when you just have no idea how any person could actually do all of this stuff. Today was one of those days for me...

But it's funny, because with everything I had to do today, things all went super smoothly. This morning I was just asking the Lord to just help me with my day because I had no idea what was going to happen. I had to get drop off film to get it developed, go get a paper signed for registration, turn in some shots, register, study some more for my final, pick up film, go to class, take the final, go to my other class, come home and shoot some more, and then Anna's birthday party.

I dropped off my film, turned in my shots, and went to register. After I went to Finestra to study for my final, but was super over it, so I just went to work on final portfolio stuff. One of my new friends offered to get my film for me, because I found out that I forgot to label the shots I allready turned in correctly. She blessed me by even buying it for me. The final was super easy! After class, my teacher called me up to him, and he said that my Picture Story was the best in the class, and he showed the other classes. This was something I definately needed to hear. Then I went to Cota street for my english class, only to find out it was CANCELLED!!! Now I'm getting ready to shoot again...but I am not worried one bit. The Lord has been sooooo rad today. When you let Jesus steer your whole boat, not just part of it, the Lord truely blesses, and helps you. Today was such an overwhelming day, I didn't even want to get out of bed. But right now I couldn't be happier. I love Jesus so much. Thank You Lord for blessing my day, I pray that you bless everybody else's day just as much.

Tears of the Saints-Project for 101

Well, my project looks WAY better in quicktime than it does on youtube. I dont know why, but it didnt put the transitions in, and the pictures are a little behind the music, oh well. if you wanna see the real one let me know. but otherwise, enjoy.

7 Randoms

1. I participated in the spelling bee every year between first grade and sixth grade- i even have trophies
2. I almost became a black belt in Tae Kwon Do (only one belt off) but i quit because my instructor moved. But i am still technically a legal red belt and can throw somebody up to 300 pounds (yes i have done it)
3.When i was a little kid my favorite things to do were catch frogs, and build forts
4. I collect monkey stuffed animals
5. When i watch a movie, or read a book, or meet a person and there is a name that I like, i write it on my mirror (mostly guy names) i have over twenty written on my mirror right now
6. For my birthday every year, my grandma gives me a music box. I have 18 different, random ones.
7. Every year from sixth grade up until my junior year at high school, somebody i knew died (and in a tragic way)

I'm not tagging anybody because I am pretty sure everybody I know has all ready been taged.

hey look what i found!

REMEMBER!!!!!!

So since I have a car with no cd player, and no ipod to put on my car since it got stolen, I listen to the radio. I actually like this because I am not listening to the same old songs over and over. Well today I was listening to 93.3 (KLOVE for those who don't know it), and this song came on the radio...

It's crowded in worship today
As she slips in trying to fade into the faces
The girls teasing laughter is
carrying farther than they know
Farther than they know
But if we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching?
Why aren't His hands healing?
Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way
A traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgmental glances
Tells him that his chances are better out on the road
Jesus paid much too high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the body of Christ
Jesus is the way

It asks the question why arn't his arms reaching, his hands healing, his words teaching, and his feet going? It's funny how true this is. We are the body and we should be doing so much than we are. I hate that our flesh and satan gets in the way. The Lord's so good to change that though, all we have to do is pray. It also says that Jesus paid much too high a price for us to pick and choose who should come. Isn't it true that we do pick and choose. If there is somebody you don't get along with at work, school or anywhere, you're least likely to avoid or not even thinking about talking to them about Jesus. Ha what's one person or a class of people making fun of us for like what a week, when we get to spend ETERNITY in heaven. If you didn't know this, eternity is FOREVER!!!! The way Josh Kahler puts it, if a snale was to go around the world over and over, shaving down the world until it was the size of a marble, that would be less than a day in eternity. Do you know how crazy that is???!?!?!?!?!? Ahhh why is our flesh so stupid to "pick and choose"? I read this quote (on myspace) haha it said "I would rather offend mankind in preaching Jesus than offend Jesus in denying Him" Isn't this how we should live our lives?

Today I tried giving out Avo Fest fliers. I gave a coulple, but kept chickening out. It's just a flier not even tlaking to people about Jesus. Anyways instead of doing that, I just dropped them in random places, and set them on tables and stuff. There were some in the mat room all ready so it looks like somebody had the same idea as me. Anyways pray for those few fliers I gave to people and the few fliers I dropped on the ground, that somebody would pick them up and just have it in their heart that this is a good thing to go to. Tomorrow I am going to try again to give fliers. Pray for me too!

Jason Morant- Open

This CD is seriously amazing. This guys worship is soooo freakin awesome. I think Everybody should get this CD. If you want it ask me I will 100% burn it for you because it is so awesome!!!

I don't know how many people read my blog, but everybody should see this.

I can't stinking wait for this day! It's gonna be so freaking awesome!!!

I can't stop listening to this song, maybe because I also can't stop looking foward to this day. He is coming back!

Holy
Jason Morant

There's a place where the angels are dancing like children

And it's calling me
And all the saints with joyful hearts are joining in
They're dancing in the streets
They move with beauty they move with grace
As they celebrate the coming day
When the lost will be found
When every knee will hit the ground
And we'll sing
Holy holy is the Lord
Holy holy is the Lord
There’s a place where the children are singing like angels
And it’s calling me
And all the saints with outstretched arms are joining in
In the melody
With hearts aflame and voices raised
They will celebrate the day when we’ll sing
Holy holy is the Lord
Together with one voice
Holy holy is the Lord
Let all the earth rejoice
Holy there’s no one like You Lord
Magnificent You are
Holy holy is the Lord
All the walls will crumble down
And we will at last be one
As we join the saints and we join the angels
Around the throne we’ll cast our crowns and sing
Holy holy is the Lord
Together with one voice
Holy holy is the Lord
Let all the earth rejoice
there’s no one like You Lord
Magnificent You are
Holy holy is the Lord

The Lord is Good!!!

So this weekend I went to Stockton, Ca. For those of you who don't know, there is now a REALITY in Stockton that started today.

This trip was super gnarly. It was a huge boost in my faith. The Lord is so stinkin' awesome and moved so much in Stockton. I didn't get to experience the whole thing from Wednsday since we drove up on Friday, but what I did experience was incredible. On Saturday we went to a marina in Stockton and passed out flyers for the concert, and ended up talking to this guy and his son. We didn't talk to him about Jesus, but we talked to him about dreadlocks and other things. We didn't really think he would come to the concert, but he showed up with his son. (WHAT?!?!) Oh wait...it gets better. HE AND HIS SON GOT SAVED!!!!!!! Oh man it was seriously the coolest thing I have experienced. It was seriously amazing! The Lord is amazing!!!

I guess over the week over 70 people got saved. Shoot I think we would have been stoked if 1 person got saved but over 70??? What can I say it's the Lord. And He is good!!! All kinds of different people got saved...We went to this "Stockton Powwow," which was like an Indian gathering, to pass out flyers, (we got kicked out) but before that, Rizz and some other people started talking to a fully dressed indian, tomohawk and everything...Guess what! HE GOT SAVED TOO!!! Have I said that the Lord is good?

I really enjoyed fellowshipping with people I have never met before, even though they go to the same church as me. It was pretty sweet. I made some pretty cool friends, that I hope to get to know better! I had some awesome times with the Lord just reading and praying and worshipping. At the concert we danced with these sweet black girls who let me tell you, they are amazing dancers. All of them were saved except one, who gave her life to the Lord that night. (The Lord is good) They were soo cool because I can't really dance, and I was just skanking doing the same thing over and over, they were laughing at me but it's all good. They're gonna come visit Reality Carp.

I am so blessed to have been able to go to Stockton to do the Lord's work. For sure the Lord reigns in that city. Unfortunately so does stupid satan. So it would be super awesome if you guys would just continue to pray for the city of Stockton, and Reality Stockton. I made some pretty cool friends, that I hope to get to know better!

God of Justice, Savior to all

Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 30:18

Lets take after some of the great people of the world yes?

"Let me explain the problem science has with religion." The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand."You're a Christian, aren't you, son?""Yes sir," the student says."So you believe in God?""Absolutely.""Is God good?""Sure! God's good.""Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?""Yes.""Are you good or evil?""The Bible says I'm evil."The professor grins knowingly. "Aha! The Bible!" He considers for a moment. "Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?""Yes sir, I would.""So you're good...!""I wouldn't say that.""But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't."The student does not answer, so the professor continues. "He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"The student remains silent."No, you can't, can you?" the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax."Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?""Er...yes," the student says."Is Satan good?"The student doesn't hesitate on this one. "No.""Then where does Satan come from?"The student falters. "From God""That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?""Yes, sir.""Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?""Yes.""So who created evil?" The professor continued, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."Again, the student has no answer. "Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?"The student squirms on his feet. "Yes.""So who created them?"The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. "Who created them?" There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. "Tell me," he continues onto another student. "Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"The student's voice betrays him and cracks. "Yes, professor, I do."The old man stops pacing. "Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?""No sir. I've never seen Him.""Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?""No, sir, I have not.""Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?""No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.""Yet you still believe in him?""Yes.""According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?""Nothing," the student replies. "I only have my faith.""Yes, faith," the professor repeats. "And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith."The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own. "Professor, is there such thing as heat?""Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat.""And is there such a thing as cold?""Yes, son, there's cold too.""No sir, there isn't."The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. "You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees.""Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it."Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer."What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?""Yes," the professor replies without hesitation. "What is night if it isn't darkness?""You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word.""In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?"The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. "So what point are you making, young man?""Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed."The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. "Flawed? Can you explain how?""You are working on the premise of duality," the student explains. "You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought.""It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.""Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?""If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do.""Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed."Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?"The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided."To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean."The student looks around the room. "Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?" The class breaks out into laughter."Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.""So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?"Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable.Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. "I guess you'll have to take them on faith.""Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life," the student continues. "Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?"Now uncertain, the professor responds, "Of course, there is. We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."The professor sat down.This students statements are true, can you or can you not make night darker?Is it possible for it to get colder after absolute zero -458 degree's F.Can you feel,taste,see,hear,or smell your brain?

I read this at Spirit West Coast, and was totally stoked on it. What this article doesn't say about it though is that the student is Albert Einstein (found that out at SWC) If only everybody could believe this eh?

Not sure if this is true

I read somewhere that it is illegal in the state of Arizona to have more than one tooth missing at a time. So if this is true, how bored are these Arizonians? And who thinks of a law like this? And why can't there be laws that actually make sense? WOW

READ THIS

This book is amazing!

I love Jesus

My life is officially changing. Carp High starts in a week but I won't be going there. It's so weird. And college starts in two weeks. It's like really happening. Such a trip. The Lord is so faithful though. I had this opportunity to go to this Joshua Wilderness Institute. It was seriously like Bible boot camp, but for college students. It looked super cool, and I was contemplating going there, but it meant I would have had to give up Brooks. I prayed and prayed about it and asked the Lord to just make it so clear on what to do, because I was super confused myself. The next day I found out that Brooks wanted to give me a $7500 scholarship. That pretty much made it clear to me. Maybe in three years I'll go do that "Bible boot camp," but not now, the Lord has called me to stay right where I am.

My SWC adventures

This was such an awesome experience. Thousands of people worshipping Jesus, what's so bad about that? Also I can honestly say atleast a thousand or more people got saved!!! We should seriously do this everyday!

TAKE A SHOWER

If shampoo is color in the bottle, why does it change to white when you start washing your hair?

Question

God created you to be you, and me to be me. If you are not you, and I am not me who will be us?

This is where I will be until either Saturday or Sunday...I am stoked beyond belief. Even though I am going with all Christians, I am excited to talk to them about Jesus, because I know a few of them are only going for the "social aspect" and are not really walking. But I think the Lord is going to do crazy things while I am there. I am so excited for Leeland, and Switchfoot more than all the other bands. It's going to be a sickkkkk week worshiping Jesus, my Lord and Savior. SO STOKED!!! Pray for me, and my peeps. And I will see everybody possibly Sunday!



Appearing at SWC-Monterey 2007


Switchfoot
tobyMac
Third Day
newsboys
David Crowder*Band
Kutless
BarlowGirl
Hawk Nelson
Seventh Day Slumber
Thousand Foot Krutch
Project 86
Todd Agnew
Disciple
Leeland
Building 429
Sanctus Real
DecembeRadio
downhere
Falling Up
Margaret Becker
Stellar Kart
Aaron Shust
Sweet Deliverance
Ayiesha Woods
The Myriad
Casting Pearls
Family Force 5
Fireflight
Esterlyn
Group 1 Crew
Red
From the Ashes
Britt Nicole
Wayne Watson
My Second Chance
PureNRG
Mouth
Lincoln Brewster
Worth Dying For
Phil Joel
Ever Stays Red
The Divine Romance
Manafest
MOI
Mainstay
Wavorly
High Flight Society
Our Hearts Hero
Until June
Olivia the Band
Radial Angel
Dizmas
The Send
Out of Ruin
Nate Huss
Brian Easter
Rick Mugrage
Procella

Ephesians 5:4

and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

We know things are wrong so we don't do them, or try not to do them...but for some reason joking about them seems okay. Haha why do we joke about things we are trying so hard not to be or do? It doesn't make sense...does anybody get it?

SO GOOD

Watch this...it's pretty gnarly. I don't even know how to describe it. But is amazing. Definately gives you a different view on things.

This is how i usesd to play soccer...i wish

Oh and this is really funny..

Count of Monte Cristo

Abbe Faria: God said "Vengeance is mine".
Edmond: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter. He believes in you.

Isn't it funny how matter what you are going through, God believes in you. This is something I learned yesterday, and again while I was watching the Count of Monte Cristo. In Matthew 14 when Jesus walks on water, Peter walks out on the water, but starts to sink, not because he doesn't have faith in Jesus, he knows Jesus can do it, but because he does not think he can do it. He didn't believe that God could do it through him. But when he said "Lord save me," Jesus said, "you of little faith why do you doubt?" Jesus believed He could do it, and knows he can do it. He believes in us. We just need to let ourselves believe that He can do things through us. Sometimes it is hard, especially if it is not a simple task. I know I need to trust that anything can happen if I trust the Lord. If the Lord our Savior, and King of kings believes in me, shouldn't that be all we need to trust Him. Why is it so difficult for us to trust Him with everything when we know He will always be there? I love learning new things about Jesus, it has become my new favorite thing in this world.

This is my new car...it was free, trust me if it wasn't i would never buy a car like this. I only have to drive it until I get some money, but I am going to drive it as little as possible. My mom said she would drive it some of the time so I can drive her car! Hopefully I can get a job so I can get a new one...SOON!

Collegeish?

It's weird the things that have to happen for you to finally realize things. For instance right now I am sitting in a coffee shop (Finestra to be exact) and I just feel so grown up. The whole idea of college hasn't really sunk in yet, but sitting here alone in a coffee shop alone is a weird feeling of independence. I know it's not much of anything, I go in coffee shops all the time, but it finally hit me that next year will not be the same routine I've been on for the last twelve years. Nobody will be forcing me to go to school (well besides my parents) and even though I am living at home, it's college. Completely different from anything I have ever experienced. I remember going into high school, I thought it was such a big deal, but college, man, that's another story. I am excited, but really nervous at the same time. I don't know what to expect. The one thing I do know is that I want everything to go according to the Lord's plan. I trust Him with this giant change this upcoming fall, and everything will be fine as long as I am trusting Him.

Never had a blog before...hopefully i will remember to post things.