Its not everyday you here of a spiritual war. Unless you go to church…. everyday….
The hardest I’ve ever fought to win someone to the light side… is now. I’m working my butt off. This fight is tough, rough, and out of control.
So the institute was tight this year, that is for sure. Anyone who didn’t go… missed out. Anyone who left early… missed out. Anyone who came late… missed out. And if you skipped out on Mark Mittleberg, then you definitely missed out big time. I liked both of Mark’s presentations. I will tell you one thing though, next year I will be taking advantage of the coffee. Every freaking summer institute I seem to dose off in the middle of a teaching here and there. Luckily this year I didn’t miss anything good, or at least that I am aware of. I got some good notes. Right now its been a few days since thin, and I don’t remember really getting any new convictions. Just a lot of aiding to my recent convictions.
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Last night we went to the bedford fireworks.
Fireworks are pretty cool, but last night was pretty crazy.
The display of lights was about 75% done when a fight broke out across the street at Chanel. This type of behavior was always going on in school, but now its everywhere in Bedford. Read the rest of this entry »
…Tell me if i should be confident in my grade, or embaressed.
The word faith has come up a lot in my life lately. I’ve been put in situations in which I have much more responsibility than ever before. But I know that anything the lord says or promises will come true, so putting faith in him is easy. All faith can only be had if, and only if facts exist. Otherwise you’re putting faith in superstition, speculation, or presumption. And what is the point of that? There is none. This takes me back to when I got saved. The only thing that had me thinking it would work was that the bible said Jesus dies for us. And it was true, because I feel it in my heart. This fact (that Jesus died for us) keeps us walking, standing, and living strong in Christ. Having dependence on God can only occur when we stop depending on ourselves, and let me tell you, I have had not to depend on myself many times, and still have to tell myself I need to depend on God. Having faith in God is necessary in every situation.
Time moves so fast its crazy. I remember when I was in kindergarten; the summer break seemed to last forever. As I get older, time seems to move faster, at an uncontrollable rate. I barely have time to do anything anymore. But as I realize how much I have grown in the past 6 years, I look to the next 6 and 7, and 8 years with excitement, knowing how amazingly I will grow in Christ. Developing our Christian life takes long, just look at Keith, he is still learning things about God and he’s 50+! When I first became a Christian, I looked at others that were able to turn right to passages, or talk about the stories of the Bible as if they were common knowledge, wondering why I could not do that. Also when I first got saved, I was mad excited about the Lord, and would stop at nothing to invite people to cell. But as I stuttered in my walk, my cell leader did too, and where healthy growth and maturity lacked, it was clear. So much time is involved in the act of growing spiritually, and becoming wise in the lo0rd, if I need to be 50+ to be as smart as Keith, so be it.
For a little while after I got saved, I pondered whether or not God fully accepted me, and why. But the bible told me in Romans 5:1 that threw Christ, God accepted me. God wanted to accept us, that why he sent his son for us, even though we were still sinner. The only thing he’s worried about when deciding whether or not to accept us, is if we accepted his son. That’s it, he won’t stop accepting us if we mess up, as long as we accept him, that’s there forever, and God doesn’t change. The only way we will stand strong in Christ, is if we are sure of where we stand on the topic of acceptance.
Our great ancestor Adam really messed it up for us. Life would be so perfect if he didn’t mess everything up, of course it was Satan’s fault though, since we come from Adam, we are like in many ways, I bet he would be a great friend, because we would be able to relate on our sinning ways. We would talk about how we are so evil, and in our hearts, no good exists. But once the lord came and died for us, we are able to turn away from our lame identity in Adam, and move on to our other identity. This is where we become complete in the lord. Without Jesus, Christian life would be impossible. When we get saved, we are born into Jesus, we are a “new creature in Christ” (2 core 5:17a).
Well like I said, since the Lord died, we are able to leave behind our old, lame Adamic identity. The lord put that identify in the same place he out our sins. This place I speak of is the cross, and the occurrence is when Jesus died on it. God didn’t just die for us, but we died with him. Everything Jesus has done , we also did, by being born unto his name, we inherited it all. HE died, so we died, he rose, so we rose, he went to heaven, and so will we.
Threw faith
We gain a new identity
In which god can finally accept us
We become complete in him
And over time we will grow in and with him
And eventually will die (or maybe not)
And got to heaven where
We will
Sit at the right
Hand
Of
GOD!
As we all know I have now began to lead Word Prayer Meeting. Ideas bounce around in my mind of what to do, what assignments to give people, and well, just what to say. I have found that I can, quite easily come up with pretty good ideas, (unless of course I’m not in a spiritual mood). Right now, here are some stats…
Now to smash the rumors real quick, my name is Bryan Bassett, not John Hilfreck, or Krondor the Great.
Okay, anyways, I seriously have been going through some major changes, and boy are they good.
Last serious blog I mentioned how I dropped a 2 ton boulder off of my shoulders. Well, I weighed that boulder, with like a scale, and it turned out it was only a quarter ton…
Those of you you haven’t seen Ironman, go see it! Its an amazing movie, with amazing special effects. Robert Downey Jr. is a beast! Seriously though he plays that part like a pro. I really don’t think anyone could have done it better. The following is an interpretation I came up with while watching Ironman the second time. Its not mad in depth or anything, but may contain some SPOILERS so there it is - SPOILER ALERT!!! If you continue reading you may find something out about the movie, and get really mad! Or, on the other hand, you could use this blog as a tool to see what I saw when you go and watch this movie.
Okay well this week in school, I have watched 2 movies. One was from Al Gore - “An Inconvenient Truth”. The other was called “Global Warming: Doomsday ?Something?“, I don’t remember what the last word was but whatever. Anyways you can watch it on youtube in parts (five 10 minute parts). I don’t know exactly where I stand on Global warming, but I do know my final conclusion - Why the F…. should be stop polluting the earth?
The school year is coming to an end, and I cant tell you how free I’m already feeling.
I’m not a senior, and I’ve come to the end of school years before.
Usually I feel a sense of worry.
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