GodTube

I found this website called "Godtube"(click here), which is like Youtube but about God obviously. I found on it on an advert in facebook, and it's so great! there's all kinds of videos, funny, inspirational,etc. I love it, I could spend hours on it. I really like the idea of it. I like the idea that they have, taking the positive things about youtube and using it to help christians live with God and spread his Word better. maybe a lot of times we make it a choice of  either staying away from non-christian things or tolerating them. we make it black or white. but maybe that's not the way it should be. maybe we don't have to abandon "worldly" things but we can take them and show the world: here's another way to use this; you dont have to abandon this but you can use it for God in his way.I really like that idea. taking the positive things in the world and using them for God, instead of just abandoning them because they don't alighn with christianity.
I found this article on USA today about this website(click HERE to read it). it talks about this website and the company and CEO of it. I do think that the people that aren't crazy about this website do have a point. I think that we shouldn't just abandon the world and make a christian version of everything. still, I think that it's also important that we don't just stop going to the websites, or movies that we dont believe are christian enough but show the world another way that doesnt include giving them up, if that makes sense.

the article also mentions how there is a jewtube.com(click here) and a islamictube(click here). i also love this idea because it's a good way for us to learn about other religions. to learn the positives that other religions have and they can learn the positives in us. we can go to these websites and see what these religions are like, what its believers believe, etc.

Crazy Thought

"Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you" Acts 3:6

I am taking a Book of Acts class this semester, and am actually liking it. it's a bit of overload sometimes, but I like that am learning about the book of Acts. anyway, this verse jumped out at me. it was said by Peter at the temple when he healed the lame man. the lame man asked for money, he was a beggar, and this is what Peter said. it really jumped out at me because Peter didnt say: i have no gold or silver, but i'll pray for you." or "i have no money or silver, sorry." He didn't have gold or silver, but he gave the lame man what he had. granted, peter had the power to heal in the name of Jesus, but it really stuck out to me.
I often feel I don't have anything to give people. Brent has his bible knowledge, his joy, his many talents, etc. Abigail has her extravertness and her happy sunny personality. Anne has her dedication to God. what does Millie have? in my mind, nothing. I don't have those things; I don't have gold or silver to give to them. but maybe, I've been focusing on the first part too much, on what I don't have to give, and not enough on what I do have to give. I don't know what it is, at all, but for some reason, this verse really...helps for lack of a better word.
I also think it's a good lesson in  general. you might not have something fancy to give them. I'll never be like Brent. I'll never be able to go to translate the  bible in Papua New Guinea, or do a hospital ministry, or teach with my extensive bible knowledge, or have a million different talents. and I'll never be like Abigail, with her flirty-ness, outgoing, and happy and sunny. and I'll never be as serious and dedicated as Anne. but maybe, just maybe...I have something to give too. something just as important as what they have. crazy thought.

Christian Lady

This past Tuesday(February 8, 2011)  we watched this video in foreign Language Departmental chapel. I've kinda heard the story behind this song before but I've never really known the entire story. I just knew that the guy wrote this song after his son died or something like that. however, watching this video was...out of this world for lack of a better word. It seemed like...like a cartoon or a comedy where one bad thing after another happens to the character, you know? but in comedies we laugh at that, but in this video, I just kept thinking: "something else happened to this poor man?!" it almost seemed like a joke, unreal. and the song is playing as they are telling/showing what happened in his life, and it makes the whole thing so much more powerful because it's crazy to think that someone who have all that happened to him, and write those lyrics and MEAN THEM completely. I would love to be able to say or think that I would be able to react like that, but the truth is, I don't know for sure. but I want to. I want to be that kind of person, I want to love God that much.I want to be like that, that no matter what happens in my life, I always trust and love God, and I still look and feel the same way towards Him as when all things are going my way.

 

I know this will be a stretch, but I love this song( "she's a lady" by Tom Jones). for lots of reasons but mainly because I aspire, I want to be a lady like in that song. I know these two things do not seem related but I guess I want to be a Christian Lady, if that makes sense. I want to love God always, no matter how harsh the winds blow or how soft and breezy the wind blow, and I want to be...dignified and...steady in my life with God. that make sense? I also want to be like the girl he's describing in the song. I want a guy to hear this song and think of me, that that's a good description of me. the kind of person I want to be, can be described and understood in these two songs. 
I've always wanted to be a lady like in this song. maybe not always, but for awhile, ever since I first heard this song. and the song "all is well" is something else that I want to be. so like I said before, I want to be both of these things. as stated earlier, a Christian Lady.