Random Questions:
1) Who likes pudding?
2) Do you eat/like peanut butter and banana sandwiches?
3) Do you like my new header?
4) Are you wearing pants right now?
Mood: Inquisitive 
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Tying Up Loose Ends
Ok… so I think I have this whole guest list fiasco solved now. (I say “think” because when dealing with women there is no “know.” )
I received some counsel from some friends of mine, and came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t worth fighting over with my mother and Tom. If they weren’t going to budge on the issue then I certainly didn’t want to bring Sarah into the family with that kind of argument.
Kathy Shortridge (My Best Man’s mom… like a second mother to me 
) told Sarah and I tonight that her opinion was that we be the bigger people and give in. She pointed out Paul’s words for us, “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” (Romans 12:18) She, like Luke said that she doesn’t for a minute think we are wrong in wanting to KNOW our guests at the wedding, but this isn’t worth bringing up such a rift in our relationships.
So we decided to go ahead and let my mom invite the 24 other guests to the wedding. Sarah was really hurt and upset that my parents are being so stubborn on the issue… and she really wants our wedding to be a room of people who know and love us and wish to see us grow together for the rest of our lives… not 1 out of every 5 people being someone we don’t know at all! But she was willing to give in this time.
Well, to make a long story … uhhh…. less long… Sarah and I agreed reluctantly and I talked to my mom tonight. I explained to her that we were going to obey Paul’s command and give in. But I also explained that it was Sarah’s dream to have her one and only wedding day be spent with people who know us and support us… more than just a free party… I told my mom that I don’t think it’s such a great way to invite her into the family by telling her how her wedding day has to happen… But that ultimately the decision was hers (my mom’s).
About 20 minutes later my mom returned (she had went to talk to Tom) and said that at this point she doesn’t want to invite her friends if she knows that we don’t want them there… That it’s not just an issue of money, but that they’re not welcome… She’s not happy and thinks that we’re being selfish still, but she’s telling us to not invite them unless we want them. I told her I’m not asking her to agree with us or our reasoning, but just to support us and be happy for us. She said ok.
I spent the next 20 minutes talking to my mom to make sure she knew what she was saying and to make sure she wouldn’t let this be stored up as bitterness and resentment towards Sarah and I in the future. She says that she’s upset now, but won’t let this get in the way of her relationship with Sarah in the future…. so HOPEFULLY… she’s telling the truth… (they’re women… women bring up issues 8 years later…. who knows!)
She also said that she’s not telling her co-workers yet in case Sarah has a “change of heart”… I told her to not count on it, but I’ll stick with that plan. Then when time gets short and if the decision is still where it is, she’ll tell her co-workers that we wanted a smaller wedding with just family and a few friends. (That’s actually true! We expect over 200 people, but that’s REALLY small for us! Only 100 per side! If we added everyone we knew to it, we’d have over 500 invited!) I showed my mom the actual guest list and explained WHO we were inviting so that she can see it’s actually kind of small. Then I thanked her for giving in and stuff…
SO… Sarah’ll be happy if she reads this before I talk to her. I didn’t call her since she has to work in 7 hours and is sleeping… and then I was downstairs and I apologized to Tom for blowing up the other day. We shook hands and I think we’re cool now… (not positive… can’t read him too well….) But I did my part.
OH THE PROMISES OF TOMORROW! So many more details to work out… so many more fights to come… Hopefully this was the biggest/worst it’ll get.
Mood: Relieved ::sigh:: 
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What the?
It’s funny cuz…. I look and dress like this guy too!
You are a Minister. You know the Bible in and
out…back and forth. Consider putting the
title “Reverend” in front of your
name because you got most if not all of them
right!
How Bible-versed are you?
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Anyway, I gotta go work the Lucas County Fair today. CedarCreek has a booth set up that is giving away stuff (Stuff = balloons, air fresheners, etc…) and Sarah’s working that right now. I gotta bring her food then go work some nerd magic for the band which is playing tonight. I’m setting up and running the multimedia shin-dig.
OK! Gotta splitzski.
Mood: GOOD!
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The Passing of a Spiritual Legend
Wow…. totally shocker to me at 2:30am… I just found out that on July 19th Bill Bright died! Bill was the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ over 50 years ago. This man did a TON for the cause of Christ and his work has revolutionized the world!
-He started what is now the worlds largest college ministry.
-He wrote a booklet called “The Four Spiritual Laws” explaining salvation that has been distributed to more than 2.5 BILLION people (making it the most widely spread religious booklet in history).
-He commissioned the “JESUS” film, a feature-length documentary on the life of Christ, which has since been viewed by more than 5.1 BILLION people in 234 countries and has become the most widely viewed, as well as most widely translated, film in history (786 languages).
-In 1996 Bright was presented with the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, worth more than $1 million. The Templeton Prize is the world’s largest financial annual award. Bright donated all of his prize money to causes promoting the spiritual benefits of fasting and prayer.
That man was an awesome servant of Christ dedicated to reaching the world with the Gospel… He died at the age of 81 after a 3 year battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Man I bet Christ is going to tell him those words I hope to hear, “Well done my good and faithful servant… Well done.”
Mood: Eh… alright. (There’s no “alright” face though…)
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The vow of silence…
So today was interesting… I slept until just before noon, got up, showered, and talked to my mom about the whole situation last night. I finally got to explain my position to someone! WOOT! (Tom was at work.) She understood but was so depressed that her husband and her son weren’t getting along that she stayed home from work today. … … Now if you know my mom, you’ll know that she plays off the guilt trip card quite a bit, but I think that the staying home dealio was more of a “I didn’t sleep last night and didn’t feel like getting up at 5am for work” thing than a “I’m so depressed that I called in sick” thing. Although she claimed the latter.
At least I got to apologize to my mom for last night and explain how frustrated I get when attempting to talk to Tom. She said that she understood and could see that, but also said that I wasn’t listening to him either. Now normally I’m all about listening to my faults, but I don’t believe this is one that “accidently” happened on my part last night. I CHOSE not to listen to him and walked away due to him forcefully over powering anything I had to say. So I didn’t apologize for that, and I’d do it again.
In the end I decided that the approach I will take is as follows: I will discuss, negotiate, compromise with my mother as much as she desires. I will discuss with Tom ONLY if he agrees to not interrupt me at ANY POINT! If he does, I’ll explain to him prior that I will raise my hand as a signal as to what happened, and I will walk away. I refuse to let myself get that frustrated again. Not for this… not with him…
So apparently now he’s taken up the silent treatment to me. He DID say “hey” when he walked in from work, and “oh” when I said that I went shopping for lightbulbs for the basement today. But other than that he’s avoided me and I’ve done the same to him… At one point I was standing in the kitchen and he walked in through the outside door carrying a tub of equipment from work. He then yelled for my mom and asked her to come close the door… …. … I was standing 8 feet from the door. She was not even in the same room. Real mature.
My mom is concerned he’ll not want to pay for the rehearsal dinner now… He’s really mad that we’re not wanting to invite 1/10 of our guest list as “People we don’t have a clue who they are” and spend 380 some bucks on em… Just becuase they invited my mom to their kids’ weddings… I asked her if they were the mother’s of the brides (thus meaning THEY were paying for it) and she said yes they all were except one who was the mother of the groom but she wasn’t invited to that one because it was so far away… So the point being that they made the conscious choice to pay for her. My mom is trying to make the choice for Sarah’s parents to pay for them all…. that’s not right either… and it’s not right to make us fit that into our previously set budget!
So my theory is this:
Tom wants to be in control of the situation. He may say that if we don’t invite them, that he’ll not pay for the rehearsal dinner. Fine. If he doesn’t do that, we cut him, all my mom’s work buddies, and all of his family from the guest list… We add the rehearsal dinner cost into our budget, and in the end we SAVE MONEY! He WILL NOT control OUR wedding… This is crazy! I just can’t stand watching a grown man act like a 5 year old and hold grudges. If he wants to whine, I’ll just cut him out of it all!
Grrr… I’m still frustrated (as you can tell), and it’s not right that I have to fight tooth-and-nail for my own freaking wedding day… This reception is a party that is supposed to be a joyous occassion where we celebrate that Sarah and I are married… not a social event for all the work buddies of my mom who we have never even MET!
In the end, I offerred a compromise. We’ll accept 3-4 of her friends with their spouse or a guest. This is 6-8 people of the 24 originally desired. That will fill a full table of people we don’t know, who don’t know us either. That I can live with. I CAN’T allow 3 full tables of “who are you?” to happen. Especially when she’s not paying for a lick of that night!
I still have yet to hear a reply.
Mood: ::sigh:: Is it over yet? 
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Fathers do not exasperate your children…
I have NOT had a good past 2 days… I had a fight with one of my bosses at work that led to the threat of “big trouble” for me… I had a fight with my mom and Tom over the wedding guest list… and my stomach has been really bothering me lately…. probably due to stress…. BAH! WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STUPID!?!?!??!
Usually after a conflict, I sit back and reflect on how it went… what I did wrong (suprise, I’m not perfect), and what to do next in the Biblical way of conflict resolution… I think the most frustrating part of this is knowing that the person on the other end of the conflict (at least today) isn’t like that… They just vent and set themselves more in their position and are completely unwilling to talk AND THEN LISTEN!
My Step-dad frustrates me to no end. This man and I butt heads roughly once a month and it’s never pretty…. He can push my buttons SO FAST because he DOES NOT LISTEN. It’s not that I have a chance to speak and then he ignores me… no… I don’t even get the CHANCE to speak. In fact, tonight when we were arguing I was trying to tell him to stop interrupting me…. I was getting REALLY frustrated. As I was walking away I stopped (bad move) and tried to explain the reason I was walking away… I got out, “Tom, you don’t even listen to me… You always interrupt me without…” and he interrupted me again…. HAHAHA…. man… what can you do with that situation? If you wait longer, hear him rant, then try and say anything…. you just get interrupted again… I became even MORE frustrated and said, “YOU’RE INTERRUPTING ME AGAIN!” and pointed my finger at him… This ticked him off because now I’m apparently not respecting him again… I just walked away as he told my mom “this is bull****. I’m not gonna let him disrespect me like that…”
I’ve tried this theory of waiting with him… And this is NO exaggeration. I’ve sat for over half an hour listening to him tell me why I “have no respect” and why I “don’t appreciate” my mother… … … Yeah… right. So after 30-40 minutes of verbal slamming I usually resort to walking away while being yelled at for not having respect enough to stand and listen to him berate me… or for trying to talk back… I can’t deal with this man. As much as I’ve tried, I give up.
I love my mother dearly… and I don’t need a guy who just tried to throw me out of the house that I’ve lived in for the past 19 years to tell me that I don’t. Especially when he won’t listen to the reasoning behind my position…. what do I know… I’m just a disrespectful kid…. apparently I have no valuable thoughts or intellect to keep up with “the man.”
The kicker is that the whole thing is obsurd. It is a fight over letting my mother invite 24 guests to the wedding that she works with. I don’t know them, Sarah doesn’t know them, and they’ll cost over 380 bucks in food, drinks, and table space. That’s almost 1/15 of our entire budget! We just finished cutting names from the list and Sarah cut 14 of her guests that SHE KNEW GROWING UP! And on top of that my mom stated when we added her guests initially that “…if you have to cut people then you can cut them, but I just want you to put them on there because I’d like to invite them if possible.” Funny how it started out so nice and with permission to do what we did, but is now the end of the world… Tom says I’m “not looking at the big picture,” and that I’m being selfish and not thinking of my mother on my wedding day… Funny… I don’t remember being invited to their wedding… you know… the one with my mom in it… Yeah… they ran off to Virginia and got married without anyone… And now I’M THE SELFISH ONE! I see why some people just want to run off and elope… If it wasn’t for the ability to go live at college soon… I’d probably consider it more.
ACK! So I blew up at Tom after 5 minutes of his nonsense… (which I know was wrong) and he told me to get out…. I just walked upstairs and blew him off… Grrr… I’ve not been this upset in years.
I left my mother a note that read, “Mom, I love you and I’m more than willing to talk. But I can’t deal with Tom when he is demanding respect but won’t give me 3 seconds edgewise to say anything without interrupting me and not giving that same respect he desires, to me!” She read the note and has ignored it… go figure. I suppose she’ll sleep on it and bring it up later… once she builds up more “ammo.”
I wish she had more of a backbone… That she’d stand up for herself… But instead she lets Tom do it and he is the extreme opposite…. TOO MUCH force… That’s not only NOT productive, but counter productive. It builds resentment, anger, frustration, and walls are thrown up instead of torn down. We need one of those chess clocks that have the thing you hit… then I can talk, hit… he can talk, hit… Then we take turns like normal people… But if she had more of a backbone, then she’d not only stand up for herself and fight her own battles, but she’d stand up for ME in front of Tom… When they go off afterwards, instead of him venting to her forever, she’d have the guts to say, “But Tom, if you let him speak and listen to him, then there’d be a conversation and possibly compromise….” But no… he just stirs in his anger and she just listens… Then it all gets taken out on me…. Ah well… one more month here and I’m gone forever. Back to school, then married and away from this crap.
And in the end… I know one more thing to NOT do to my children.
Mood: Exasperated!
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Candles are flaming – Must be that time again…
Happy Birthday to me… happy…. hic……. hic…… ….. …. ::falls on floor::
ACTUALLY… I’m not planning on drinkin… … but it’s fun to finally not be limited by age anymore from the law OR high car insurance rates….
Mood: Fabsolutely Pine…. hic….
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The Last Days – Prewrath Rapture
So lately I’ve really been diggin this whole “end times” prophecy fulfillment stuff. I’ve been looking a lot at Anna’s blogs on the prophecies of Daniel and the current events in the world regarding the European Union forming the “one world” government… I’ve been researching quite a bit on my own on Paul’s prophecy in his letters to Thesolonica as well as looking deeper into a lot of what Revelations says regarding the signs of Christ’s return. I’ve talked to Steve Korn at CedarCreek (a man who dropped out of medical school where he was studying to be a doctor to go into ministry… THERE’S a pay cut…) who has almost 20 years experience studying the Bible EXTREMELY in depth… (He was gonna be a doctor afterall!) And I’ve been consumed with desire to know more! It’s crazy!
For the longest time I always thought… “Eh… end times probably won’t happen in MY lifetime… I’ll just leave the crazy visions to be deciphered by scholars who dig that stuff and I’ll focus on doing what a Christian does and has done for the last couple THOUSAND years… I’ll try my best to obey God’s teachings, love others, and share his message of redemption with the world.” THE END. But now I’m looking around and realizing that this could all very well happen within MY LIFETIME! And I’m PSYCHED!
So actually I just finished this book, “The Prewrath Rapture Position Explained” by Robert Van Kampen. This guy has written quite a few books regarding the end times and is the founder of “Sign Ministries” which is a ministry founded to answer questions regarding the end times. They are part of Sola Scriptura and can be found at this link which will only actually redirect you to here.
So anywho, this book TOTALLY changed my view on the end times rapture stance I held. I’d heard before about Pre-trib, Mid-trib, Post-trib theories that all were based on when the rapture occured. But the problem is in the fact that if the rapture is pre or mid tribulation… then the anti-christ can’t persecute and kill Christians as the Bible states in Matthew 24… So POST-trib had to be the answer right? Yet Post-trib views state that God would pour out his wrath on the earth THEN rapture us… and that’s not possible because God says that won’t happen! And logically why would we be punished by God if the whole POINT of Jesus is to spare us that punishment? ANYWHO… the only explanation that makes sense is as follows:
1) Scripture cannot contradict itself. If it appears to, look deeper and realize that until it all makes sense in one harmonious meaning, then you haven’t found the meaning yet.
2) The best source for understanding scripture IS scripture! Martin Luther founded those words… He was a smart man. LOOK AT THE CONTEXT!
3) Don’t look to man’s interpretations and dive in for DEEPER meanings all the time… Taking things at face value is usually the simplest explanation and more often than not, the most accurate.
So knowing that… The Bible is quite clear about how this will all work out. The first step is the coming of the anti-christ. He will come and make a peace treaty with Israel. The world will be at peace more or less… But minor issues will still occur… (I say minor but they really aren’t minor… they just are in comparison to the second 3.5 years of the tribulation!) There will be famines, earthquakes… and maybe even some war. At the end of the first 42 months, the anti-christ reveals who he is and what his true intentions are. He tries to attack Israel but fails. Frustrated with his failure to crush the nation, he turns his wrath on those who uphold the testimony of Christ…. ::gulp:: that’s me…
Revelations talks about the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse being released… the first is the white horse with the rider wearing a crown… (The anti-christ). The second is the red horse with the rider carrying a sword… (symbolizing war on Christians). The third horse is the black horse with a rider carrying a scale and he is measuring out small amounts of food for a whole days wage… (symbolizing extreme famine) and the final horse is the ashen colored horse carrying a rider named “Death” and Hades follows him… (Satan… and torture for Christians). It states that 1/4 of the world’s population will be handed over to the ashen rider… to death. SIDENOTE: Just what is the current percent of population in the world for “christian” faiths??? ANY GUESSES??? 25%. So 1/4 of the world will die under the great tribulation of the anti-christ. That’s almost 3 BILLION people. Either by murder, starvation, or by diseases and pestilence… This will cause a great “apostasy” or “falling away” of believers… Many who had trusted christ will sell out and recieve the mark of the beast for the sake of being able to buy food… to not be murdered… little do they know they’ve just denied Christ not only outwardly, but have bought an eterenity away from him. Even some of the “elect” of Christ have the possibility of falling away… millions will be decieved.
So where’s the GOOD news, you ask? Jesus says he will “cut short” the reign of the anti-christ for the sake of the “elect believers.” Those who remain true despite the starvation and murder around them. Those who will more that likely be martyred if found. Those who’s families and other Christians haven’t ratted them out and turned them in to be killed yet… Once the whole world has had the chance to accept Christ, God interceeds and cuts the 3.5 final years of the anti-christ’s reign short. (Mark 13:20) How much? No clue. Does he kill us for a year? Two? Three? I don’t know. But don’t be fooled by the many “fake” saviors that Satan will throw out there… TONS of people will perform miracles and claim to be Jesus only to kill you when you come out of hiding… oh no… don’t be decieved… we’ll know the day before our redemption is coming by the following signs…
The sky will turn black. The sun will not shine. The stars will not shine and the moon will turn blood red… When these signs start to appear… LOOK UP… For our day of redemption is drawing near. The next day Christ is coming back in great power and glory in the heavens… in the clouds with lightning and power…. The angels are sent forth as the four winds of the earth to pick up God’s faithful ones… Those who have trusted in Jesus and didn’t take the mark of the beast… and we are raptured… Then …. Then God lays waste to this planet and all it’s corruption… Then we are in heaven… and the world is judged. Then it isn’t over…. no… it’s just beginning… an eternity with our creator… in perfect community…
Man I can’t wait…. Granted… I don’t want to watch my friends and family starve, or be murdered, or hunted down… but death at that point isn’t death… it isn’t the end… it’s just the beginning of a beautiful story… It’s the start of your redemption… Christ is gonna KICK SOME …. uhh… BOOTAY… and I’ll gladly choose Martyrdom over the alternative… Man… God… COME BACK SOON!!! Let’s get this party started!
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At least I’ll be rested in Heaven:
::sigh:: It’s 5:30am on Sunday morning… I can’t sleep. I don’t know why… I’ve sat tossing and turning in bed for at least an hour now… I slept for about 4 hours then have had a crappy time since then. What sucks is that I have to get up for work in 2 hours. So it looks like I’m gonna be dead tired today! On the plus side, Sarah is working with me this weekend at the Creek and decided for us to take a nap after church because she thinks she’ll be dead tired…. WOOT! I’m there! 
In other news, I just read this site that I found posted on Anna’s site… It reveals 101 prophecies that the Bible makes of the end times and then tells where the world stands on them now. Most of them (I’d say 80% or so) are dead on already, but a good 20% are still in the process and kinda vague… For example, the one is that there will be “signs in the sun” and they suggest that this could have something to do with the increase in sunspots and solar activity. However, if you follow astronomy at all, you know that the sun is on an extremely regular cycle of sunspot activity and it isn’t out of the ordinary as of yet… But as I said before, a good majority of these prophecies are either already fulfilled, or are on the verge of being filled. It’s really kinda creepy/cool to see it happening before our eyes. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not setting a date for the end, but I AM pointing out that the Bible gives us hundreds of warning signs… and we’re hitting them FAST!
Recently our small group finished the book, “Everybody’s Normal Till You Get To Know Them” by John Ortberg. There is a chapter about Heaven. It describes how we are often fearful of going to heaven because we don’t know what it’ll be like for sure. We worry that we won’t have experienced life fully down here yet… We worry that we’ll be missing out on life. We ALL want to go to heaven… just NOT NOW! Here’s an excerpt:
I believe one of the reasons many people don’t look forward to heaven is that we badly misunderstand what the Bible is saying about it. Lewis Smedes, an ethics teacher of mine in grad school, used to ask students if they wanted to go to heaven when they died. Everyone raised a hand. Then he asked, “Be honest now, who would like to go right now, today, before the sun goes down?”
A few raised their hands slowly, giving what they thought must be the correct answer, looking around to see if they were the only ones. They were. Most people wanted a rain check. They were ready to die, but not today.
Then professor Smedes asked who would like to see the world we live in set straight on its hinges once and for all, tomorrow: “No more common colds, no more uncommon cancers. Everyone would have his day; there would be no second-class citizens. Prisoners and slaves would be free; hungry people would have plenty; no one would lift a finger to harm another; and we would all be at peace with everyone, even with ourselves. Anybody interested in that?”
There was a frenzy of hand-lifting. Smedes said that if a new world tomorrow is what you really want, you want to go to heaven.
Redemption is always the redemption of creation. God never creates something in order to destroy it; and if it goes wrong, he intends to redeem it. Smedes notes that sometime ago there was a book written about “the LATE great planet earth,” as if we were to look forward to God’s destroying what he had made. But Paul says that creation itself “waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.” Far from being burned up or destroyed, Paul says that creation “will be liberated from it’s bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.” God loves this world that he has made, and, as Smedes says, “he has no plans to preside over its demise. His plan is to make it right again.” If in your heart you want that, you want heaven.
After reading that I really looked at MY view on heaven. How do I feel about going today? Honestly… I initially had reservations. Much like the students in Smede’s class, I didn’t want to miss out on life. I want to experience things that I haven’t yet! I want to have sex! I want to raise a family! I want to be a husband and a father! But most of all… I want to have sex! (Hey, I’m still a 21 year old male after all. )
Then we were discussing this topic in our group and it was realized by me that God is not a God of teasing. God doesn’t show us something good and then give us soemthing crappy. God isn’t into dangling stuff in front of us like a cat pawing at a toy on a string. He doesn’t say, “Look what you COULD have… now here’s yours…” and hand us second-rate life. NO! Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” – John 10:10 TO THE FULL! So bearing that in mind, I know that I can take the best experience on earth… I can take the best 5 minutes of my life… and realize that that moment is a far cry from the WEAKEST moment of heaven. The WORST time I’ll have in heaven is going to be so much better than the BEST time on earth… At that point I realized that I was ready for heaven now. I trust God to have the best in mind for my life… AND my afterlife. A time is coming when I’ll be in true Biblical community with my very creator… and I can’t wait!
Mood: Awake… WHY!?!?!?!?
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Not much happening round here today… I DID finally beat that stinkin board on Worms Armageddon…. now the game is losing my interest pretty quick… it has been conquered and is no longer invading my mind and taunting me.
Today I went to a staff dinner at CedarCreek where they presented our projected plans to us for phase 2 of our building. It’s pretty crazy-go-nuts. I’m psyched about it though. A 350 seat chapel, 3,000 seat auditorium, possibly an outreach center with a single-mom’s care care clinic, three gymnasiums/multi-purpose rooms, more classrooms, and over 25 acres of PARKING! YEESH!
It’s really cool seeing what happens when God moves in such power in the lives of this church. Just 7 years ago CedarCreek consisted of 20 people… Now it’s hard to fit 4,000 in there! And hearing countless story after story of how people at CedarCreek have helped others… how they’ve loved each other… how they’ve supported each other… Man… I am the luckiest 20-year old college student to be on staff in the multimedia department of a church that is truly experiencing a pretty dang close representation of Acts chapter two…
I was looking back at our stats over the past 7 years and saw that we grew over 1,000 people in attendance from 1999-2000. That blows my mind… It’s not about the numbers for the sake of numbers… rather it’s knowing that each number is a person. A person who MATTERS TO GOD! And if we have just the smallest chance to impact their life for the better… it’s all worth it. From the 60-70 people baptism services to the 1,200 people worshipping at New Community services… God has blessed my life so richly for letting me not only be a part of CedarCreek… but to get paid for doing so. I am such a moron and don’t deserve this honor…
Ok.. well, on that note, after having randomly gotten in a good mood… I’m gonna go spend time with the big G and then get to sleep!
Mood: ::Grin::