Monday, July 27, 2009
Son Rock Kids Camp
Wow! We just had a great week of V.B.S. I don't think I have EVER yelled that much in my life for one straight week! I was on a teaching team that was basically a drama team. I played the part of someone who yelled everyday. We repeat each skit 5 times a day. So 20x I was an idiot - all for the sake of Jesus. Many would say I have played that part everyday of my life - I'll take that - proudly. We also raised money for a sponsor child through Compassion. Our goal was $500 and we raised $750. It was a competition of boys vs. girls. Guess who was the sponsor for the boys!!! (I will try to get a picture of the pie in the face I took when on the last day the grand total was boys - $349.?? while the girls raised $400.??) The pie was not tasty since it was made of whipped cream mustard and relish (I hate relish and mustard - why relish and mustard.) But the deed is done! Praise God for opportunities to live for HIM in the most unlikely thought of ways!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Rescued!!!
Okay, here's my question...have you ever been rescued? I have needed to be rescued 3 times in my life!
One time was back around 1998-1999? I was at a hotel in Stillwater, OK for a O.C.Y.C. (Oklahoma Christian Youth Convention). My buddy and I were about to get on the elevator when we noticed the sign read "MAXIMUM OCCUPANCY 16". When we were about number 18 & 19 we asked ourselves the question...Should we wait for the elevator to come back? Naaaauuuuggghhhh!!! So we jumped on! Full of teens and us the elevator door closed and started to slowly move (and I mean slowly!) up. It reached about half-way to the second floor and stopped while a siren went off (signaling to the manager the elevator was stuck). We needed rescued in a very humorous way!!1
The next time I needed to be rescued was in August of 2001! I was traveling through the town of Parsons, KS and we had stopped at a convenience store for a bthroom break and drink! I went to the bathroom and locked the door (it was a 'one-at-a-time' bathroom) When it was time to open the door and walk out, the door was stuck!!! I was in a panicky need of being rescued!
But the first time I needed rescued was the day I was brought in to this world. NO, there is no tragic story of how I almost died because of delivery complications. But this is the story of how I almost died and spent eternity in the wrong place had I not been rescued! The weird thing is that I was rescued before I was ever born! (Figure that out!) God knew my state before I was in it! God sent the Rescuer - Jesus Christ to reach down (from the cross) and pick me up from the sesspool I was in. The sesspool known as this 'present evil age'! (Check out Galatians 1:4!)
Praise, Glory and Honor to the King at rescuing people!
One time was back around 1998-1999? I was at a hotel in Stillwater, OK for a O.C.Y.C. (Oklahoma Christian Youth Convention). My buddy and I were about to get on the elevator when we noticed the sign read "MAXIMUM OCCUPANCY 16". When we were about number 18 & 19 we asked ourselves the question...Should we wait for the elevator to come back? Naaaauuuuggghhhh!!! So we jumped on! Full of teens and us the elevator door closed and started to slowly move (and I mean slowly!) up. It reached about half-way to the second floor and stopped while a siren went off (signaling to the manager the elevator was stuck). We needed rescued in a very humorous way!!1
The next time I needed to be rescued was in August of 2001! I was traveling through the town of Parsons, KS and we had stopped at a convenience store for a bthroom break and drink! I went to the bathroom and locked the door (it was a 'one-at-a-time' bathroom) When it was time to open the door and walk out, the door was stuck!!! I was in a panicky need of being rescued!
But the first time I needed rescued was the day I was brought in to this world. NO, there is no tragic story of how I almost died because of delivery complications. But this is the story of how I almost died and spent eternity in the wrong place had I not been rescued! The weird thing is that I was rescued before I was ever born! (Figure that out!) God knew my state before I was in it! God sent the Rescuer - Jesus Christ to reach down (from the cross) and pick me up from the sesspool I was in. The sesspool known as this 'present evil age'! (Check out Galatians 1:4!)
Praise, Glory and Honor to the King at rescuing people!
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