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Looking Forward To The Main Event

Tomorrow is Bethel’s annual Main Event.  Our youth staff has been preparing for this for nearly a month.  Main Event has always been a activity where the spiritual tone for the year is set, and life-altering decisions are made.  We have fun watching the game but right in the middle we take about an hour and have our service.  Matt for the first time has not planned the entire service, which with as much responsibilities he has this year it’s not a surprise. However Trey, Spencer, Luis, Eric, and I have jumped right in at assisted Matt, thus allowing him to focus on the message that he is going to bring to us.  So if you happen to read this post before the end of the game, pray that everything would go well and God would work in the lives of the youth who come.

hold nothing back

28 Straight and Feeling Great!

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Yesterday happened to be a long day. I’ll give you a recap.

05:00 am – wake up
05:10 am – showering
05:30 am – breakfast (cup of coffee)
05:45 am – various other preparatory activities
06:40 am – leave for school
07:05 am – yearbook fundraiser
08:15 am – school start
03:15 pm – end of school
03:30 pm – leave school
04:00 pm – go watch warrior girls beat pioneer in volleyball 3 games to 1
05:40 pm – head home
06:00 pm – arrive at home, change, eat dinner, and relax for a few minutes
07:05 pm – drive back to church to meet spencer to fix bethel’s laptops
09:30 pm – run to tim w’s house to pick up a firewire cable
09:40 pm – back to fixing computers
11:40 pm – 7-Eleven (a slurpie and twizzlers)
12:00 pm – maybe have 10 of the 24 computers finished…
02:00 am – or maybe it was 2:30 it’s all a blur now, 6 straight computer failed on the installs
05:00 am – been up twenty four hours (with the exception of the 20 minutes or so when i dozed off)
06:15 am – admire the sunrise
07:00 am – last computers all almost finished
07:50 am – move a printer and either net cable into next room
08:00 am – all computers finished install, need printer drivers put on
08:35 am – grab a breakfast burrito from the men’s fellowship breakfast
09:00 am – 28 straight and feeling great
09:25 am – head home
09:45 am – go to sleep

going to the beach

well today renae, john, mary, melissa, and i are going to go to the beach. i’m pretty sure renae has the camera so i’ll have to post some pictures when we get back.   john and i will be boogie boarding so there may be some good pictures of us eating it.  or not.  well that’s the update.

hold nothing back

satisfied with failure?

when was the last time you settled for something that was not best.  or even for something that was wrong.  you know you want to do what’s right but instead you are satisfied with failure.

in high school i play on several teams that were not very good,  few wins many losses.  we knew we weren’t very good; and some games it seemed like we didn’t care that we lost. we were satisfied with failure.

in our spiritual life we know what’s right to do, we know what we are supposed to do. so many times however we choose not to do what’s right.  we think that thought, says those words, go to the that place, whatever it is; we just don’t care at the time, we become satisfied with failure.

what’s keeping you back?

are you settling for second best, or worse?

are you satisfied with failure?

God wants so much more than that for us.  that’s why he says greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.  let’s stop relying on ourselves  and our own strength.  we need to trust in God’s strength and power to overcome our faults and sins.

Spring Break

well this week is spring break.  i have tomorrow of which we will be going to disneyland with my parents who are down here visiting for the week.  it will definitely be a nice break from school and work.  i’ll have some pictures in up in a few days. only 36 more days until i graduate and 81 days until i get married i’ll have more news soon