Just a quick note.

This is just a quick one. Today as I sit in my heated and for the most part comfortable office I wonder about the people with no place to go. This morning I was writing some stuff for an upcoming teaching thinking about different things I could use as part of it. I played a fav. video of mine from youtube called That's My King. It's an old sermon adapted to video and its pretty cool and if you have a chance you should definitely check it out. But it talks all about Jesus and his different attributes, one of which is basically providing for every one's needs. Now not everyone knows they should be relying God for all their needs but I know he still provides for them anyways. But my point is on a day like today when its so cold out and people are starving, freezing, and homeless are we doing our part I know God has put his ordained moments in our lives and we've probably missed some. But think about the one's we've seen and just said no to what if saying yes would have meant someone would have been warm today instead of cold. I'm just saying to say yes to our God given opportunities I could mean some one's life.

24 Jack is Back!

I may have an healthy obsession with the show 24. I don't know why cause the situations they get into and the dumb ways the get out are pretty much not realistic. They really are for the most part impossible, but I love it and can't get enough. This like most things in life got me thinking....hmmmmmm impossible situations with impossible solutions, sounds familiar like I've heard this story before. Oh yeah that's right it's called the Bible. Now God isn't crawling his way through a heat duct and getting cell phone service even though I can't seem to get it in my office, but he does do some awesome stuff that is impossible.

First off he created everything in seven days. I consider myself to be a little on the creative side but i could not come up with half the stuff on this planet, not to mention all the other planets and solar systems. Have you ever watched the show Planet Earth? It's on the Discovery channel, 278 if you have Direct TV. Anyways they went all around the world filming everywhere from oceans, deserts, and caves. They came across some very specifically designed creatures living in some very impossible places to live. For example there's a cave I think it was in South America that has a steam of Hydrochloric acid flowing through it and there are these fish that live in it. They only life in this cave and can only survive under these conditions. I don't know about you but I would think it impossible for anything to survive in a river of acid but not God.

Second he always loves us no matter what. I don't know about you but people tend to annoy me on a daily basis. But not God no matter how many mistakes we make he forgives and loves us. He did this through sending his only son here to die on a cross to be the one sacrifice to forgive us all. Once again this is where God separates himself. I love and in fact like a whole bunch of people, but I wouldn't sacrifice my daughter for any of them or if your reading this you. Now I might sacrifice my own life but never my daughters. Here's why and this is what makes it so amazing. Take away the fact that God loves his son, he had to live like us go through the same things as us, die a painful death for the ones he loved, he also had to die that death for the ones who hated him, and the ones who would never believe in him. That's crazy death for people who will never care.

The third and final thing I'll talk about are the miracles he does. Whether it's healing a cancer patient that the doctors say has no chance to live, bring a baby back to life even though by all accounts it should be dead, or just providing food for a struggling family God does the impossible on a daily basis.

So go Jack Bauer, keep downloading the schematics to your pda in 3 seconds when i know there's no 3g network available. But more importantly go God the real Jack Bauer making the impossible possible.

Winter Storm Watch

Yes today there's a winter storm watch for where I live, and I'm pumped. I don't know about you but to me there's nothing better about winter than snow, let's face it it's going to be cold so we might as well have something to play in. For those of you who say humbug to that move to Florida and hangout with all the old gezzers. Or just wait till next week it will probably be like 85 that's just the way things are here. You know wait 15 minutes and things will change. Not so the case with God and I know I'm stating the obvious here but he never changes. The person who created and loves us will always love us. He never gives up on us he knows the big stuff about us, as well as the tiny things. He is all knowing all seeing and all awesome. Saying this brings me to my point I got an email forward the other day I probably get like 30-40 of these things a day from various people some I look at others go straight to the trash bin. Lets be honest if you want yours read you had better put a good title on it. I read one the other day that told about this social experiment put on by the New York Times. They put a world famous violin player in the subway during the busiest time of the day playing Bach and a violin worth $3.5 million to see how people reacted. Now I can't stand the violin or Bach for that matter but that's not the point. You see not many people paid much attention a hand full put money in the hat, but what they found was that the little kids seemed really interested. Two points came to me from this. 1. If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing because of our busy schedule? 2. The reason that little kids were interested is simple the world hasn't caused them to lose their imagination, or creativity. As adults our minds become consumed with paying bills, earning money, gaining status, or just stress so our brain shuts down the part that's creative cause it never gets used. You see I believe that hope lives within creativity, meaning when we were kids our dreams, creations, and imagination were our hope for the future. Now I know our true hope is in God, but when we begin to only see big things not the small I believe our hope dwindles. Then we begin to think that God is not listening to our prayers cause fire from heaven didn't drop down and save us from our current plite. But we are still breathing, living, whatever. What I'm saying is notice the small things God is doing for you and then maybe you'll realize God's in everything.

Rain Sleet and Even Snow...

No I'm not talking about the Post Office it's the weather in Ohio. Good grief this is crazy....why can't it just snow. But anyways I haven't done this for awhile cause of the holidays and what not but now I'm back.

Christmas is really a wonderful time of year to see friends, family, and celebrate the birth of Jesus. Although Jesus wasn't really born during December it's the thought that counts. Don't worry this isn't one of those you shouldn't have Christmas tree's speeches I just like Christmas and wanted to say mine was great.

I came back to the office after the holiday and got a message from a kid I met this summer. It's not important who, what, where, when, and how just met them. The message talked about some things they had been going through in life, rejection, loneliness, and being ignored by their youth pastor. These things all lead them down a road that should never be gone down, I'm not talking about suicide but it does involve pain. So I wrote them back, gave them some Bible verses, and an encouraging word. Not that I'm the end all be all of motivational speakers but it was the best thing I knew to do. The letter I got back said thank you for the support I really needed it I'm not sure why I told you those things but I needed to get them off my chest or something to that effect. This got me thinking what if I had not commented on their status, or returned the letter. Maybe they would have talked to someone else or just gotten over it. But there is the chance it would have gotten worse they could have stopped walking with the Lord or seriously hurt themselves, the what ifs are endless. The point is this was a God thing Myspace Status isn't something i look at very often, and I seldom comment on it. But from some reason that afternoon I logged on looked at status updates saw one that was strange for the person writing it and made a comment. All I'm saying is God was in it I may never hear from this person again or they could write me tomorrow but i know that I answered God's call that day to comment on a status. It wasn't hard at all in fact it took little effort on my part but it could have made all the difference in the world. I'm not writing this to puff myself up, instead all I'm saying is watch for the little things God has you to do they could make a world of difference.