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Looking Forward To The Main Event

James — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:32:09 +0000

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!

James — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:14:20 +0000

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

James — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:11:25 +0000

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?

James — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:40:59 +0000

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

James — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:54:48 +0000

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

New Site Function

James — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:49:15 +0000

so i’m pretty sure you immediately will notice that the picture at the top of the page is different. every time you go from page to page or refresh the page you are on you will see a random pictures some cooler than others. there are about a dozen in all so take some time and refresh the pages or move between links on the site and check out all twelve, then let me know which one is you favorite. i’m kinda partial to the macbook.

Couple’s Conference

James — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:31:27 +0000

Friday night and Saturday morning of last week was a couple’s conference that Renae and I attended. The conference was directed toward married couples, however it was open to soon-to-be married couples, as well. The conference was being hosted and ran by Renae’s church, Lighthouse Baptist Church. It was really encouraging and challenging to myself. In just a little under 4 months Renae and I will be getting married. I think this conference and the pre-marital counseling that we will be starting today will be a useful tool as we start our new lives together. One of the sessions I had was on the leadership role of the husband, and how he is to be the spiritual leader of the home, and enable the wife and the rest of the family to follow his leadership. Thank you to all the people how help put the conference together.

An Update on Life

James — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:55:44 +0000

Well, Things are going better with Renae’s feet, she has a post on her blog www.unlinkedmedia.com/wedding that talks about her latest update, so if you want to be filled in, that would be the place to go. I’m trying to post a little more often to keep all of you faithful readers up-to-date with things going on in my life.

Renae and I have recently purchased and received our wedding invitations and last night started to assemble them. Renae has been looking for a bakery to do the cake, and a florist to do the flowers.

I’m taking some 15 hours of classes this semester at Pacific Baptist College. School’s been going good, I’m enjoying my classes looking forward to graduating in about 78 days. My classes are fairly practical and I’m able to implement these each week in my ministries at Bethel.

I’m working 35 hours a week for Enterprise, I really enjoy my job, and have been working there for two years. My job requires me to drive a lot. I’ll drive cars to the car wash, drive to other branches to pick-up cars, and other things like that. I end up being on the road probably 60 to 75 percent of my work day.

Thanks for visiting the site, I would like it if all of you readers would comment on my posts. It’s nice to who has read my posts.

Ice Skating

James — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:53:09 +0000

Some pictures from an ice-skating activity with Lighthouse Baptist Church.

Check it out here pictures.

One Week Down, What a Week!

James — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:56:52 +0000

Well, Monday I started back up my final semester at Pacific Baptist College. While I was at work Monday evening I got a phone call from Renae, she had her wallet and laptop stolen from her while she was at work. I took off from work to go be with her, she was pretty distraught. The Police have not found anything yet. Early Wednesday morning I woke up with something unusual inside my mouth. It was a piece of my tooth, well I guess they belong in my mouth, but not broken. My filling from some 12 years ago fell out, (the dentist was surprised that it lasted that long.) Fortunately I did not have class on Wednesday so I spent the morning in the dentist office. Other than those things it was a really good week. All in all we can see God working in our lives and preparing us for our future ministry.

media

James — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:27:06 +0000

media is a variation on the word medium which in the context which i am using is a means of taking information from one place to another. hence things like news media the go find the news and report it to you and me. the news media goes to great lengths to make sure that they convey facts and not hearsay although it does sometimes happens that rumors and even lies come out. media should strive to convey truth. all truth no matter where we find it is God’s truth. He is the absolute truth.

unlinked

James — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:59:59 +0000

for so long i have seen people use media to entertain. media is such a powerful tool. it can be used to affect so many people both positively and negatively. one of my central goals is to always use media to influence others for good. media that is unlinked from a positive influence will help no one. it is my purpose that unlinkedmedia will be a positive influence towards truth.

TRASH

James — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:58:00 +0000

Nobody likes it! It Stinks! I’m sitting by a trash can right now, in it are leftovers from three weeks ago that I threw away, some empty bags that food once held, an egg carton, some papers, junk mail, etc. The mere fact that there is a place to put trash means that we do not just want it lying around that house. You do not put trash in the microwave, or in the bath tub, our on top of the dvd player in the living room. Trash is put into the trash can. Once the trash can in full, or starts to smell; you take it out to the big trash can outside, and typically once a week the trash truck comes and empties you big trash can and takes it to the dump.
I remember as a kid I never liked taking out the trash. Every thursday night after dinner I would take all the trash from the house and put them in the big trash bins and move them to the street. It was not hard I just did not like doing it.
We have a set system to handle the trash in our house. But we choose to fill our lives with trash! So what do I mean filling our lives with trash. Well we fill our lives with things that do not matter, with things that are useless. The have no spiritual value, monetary value sure, well maybe. We captivate ourselves in sin- jealousy, hatred, lust, profanity, addictions, anything, you name it. IT IS TRASH! but we live in it, and get this we like it. We like living in figurative mounds of leftover dinner. It stinks, its rotten, and we don’t care.
My advice is get it out. I am sure you are asking how do we do that? We its not like we have a system of putting our trash into a bin and take it to the street and there is goes. But is it that easy? I John says “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Confession is kind of like taking out the trash. It is asking God to forgive us of our sins. Once we begin to realize what that trash in doing in our lives and how it is affecting others we have to make a decision to either take out the trash or live in it.
When we confess our sins God does forgive us. But sin does not magically go away. We will have time when sin enters our life, when we commit sin willingly. This puts the trash back into our lives. We have to remember to take the time in our days to confess our sins to take out the trash, to lay aside the weights that hold us back.
My prayer is that every Christian does not live in their trash. That we all can conquer the sin that is keeping us from having a relationship with God that is vibrant and growing.