in light of tonight's message

Check out this post by Perry Noble (Pastor at Newspring Church). I welled up a little bit... and I don't well up....


LOVE....

Im justa luv addict
Matt<><

The Checklist

I am starting my busiest time of year... summertime. Just typing that word excites me. Summertime is a time of great anticipation but also a time of paradox. I am spending an increasing amount of time planning for the biggest district event of the year (youth camp)... its the most fun thing we do and its the event with the most spiriual "return", so I am busting my hump to make it the best experience every year and I find that it can be one of the driest times I have for myself. Its hard enough to make time for God now but during the summer (esp @ camp) its next to impossible. Prayer is something that I have journeyed to understand... a personal mission, so within that mission I am going to make all aspects of my involvment with summertime activities a spiritual act. If its filling up water ballons on Wed, then I want it be a time that I am thanking God for fun and reflecting on ways I can use that time to reach/teach. If its leading a small group than its time for me to shut up and be a microphone for God. Whatever it is.... great or small I'm going to work unto the Lord.

Matt<><

A Good Day

The beginning of the end of a journey is represented by this check... a long journey. Today D and I wrote this check and took it to the business office to pay off the balance of my school bill. This was the last thing standing in my way to go back to school and finish what I started a long time ago. God has called me to HIS ministry and HE has made a way for that to happen. Let me just say that I have to most amazing wife in the whole world. Its because of her sacrifice that this was possible. Babe, I love you so much and every life that God allows me to touch will be because you were faithful to Him. So today I praise Him... I am actually giddy!

Is there really a difference between ADD and ADHD... I call them KWNBD... Kids Who Need A Beat Down

I know my posts have been kinda all over the place here lately and I didn't post anything for quite sometime. Here is why:

18 "Forget the former things;

do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the desert

and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 43:18-19

I think God is doing a new thing. The funny thing about the word thing is that its so obscure. What "thing" is God doing? That "thing" is happening to me and I don't know anything about the "thing". What I have learned about my relationship with God is I don't have to know, I have to obey. Thats what I am called to do, God doesn't benefit from my knowledge on a situation, He wants me to act on a situation. I haven't posted because I've been in a fuzzy place, a place of uncertainty. So what has changed, has the fog lifted? Nope I still have no clue what the "thing" is but I know God wants me to proclaim Him no matter if I have no clue what He's doing. Look out for a "mockers post" revisit... I think I have some issues I want to work out from that line of thought.

Also... D and I are going to Newport News, VA this weekend (whoop whoop!!) so after tomorrow I prob won't post but look for a post about what we did.

Matt<><

How do they put light in a can?

Going to pick it up today! I am really excited, not because its a really sweet lighting system, not because I've put a lot of hours into research and stuff to get it approved. I am excited because even though its just a bunch of lights it represents the fact that God wants to do a new things at HIS youth camps this year, and the districts desire to change the culture.

"Turn your ear to Heaven and here the noise inside"

"O' Praise Him"

on a lighter note

I know its been several days since I last posted but that last post was a big chunk of me and I feel really strongly about it. So I'd end this week with more funny pics.

Whenever I see something like this I can't help but to think of Bradford.

Ghetto in every sense of the word...

Ewwww...

Thats just shear desperation in anger.

I'm not ready to be a dad.

And that leads is to our:

"Where the heck our their parents" Section

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Matt<><