Time... Where are you?

I'm currently at the library because that is one of the few places you can find free internet that works these days. I feel as if this month has completely flown by. Between classes, practices, and everything else. We have Pastor's School coming up in February, which is this huge pastor convention thing down in Phoenix. Which yes, that does mean I get to ride on a lovely cramped bus all the way there. Anyway the Movement puts on performences there, and I'm part of the rifle team. It's pretty legit... Hmmm what else... I miss home. It was rainy here for like a week straight. Reminded me of drizzly Washington. It's pretty after it rains though, you can see everything... Well I think my time is up and my friends are waiting to go...

Fundraiser

Hey everyone it's Pastor Matthew's 36 birthday. In honor of his birthday he is asking that anyone and everyone who can should donate $36 to the Dream Center. To pledge $36 you can text bday 36 to 27138. It won't come out of your cell phone bill. You will get three calls and you'll pay with your credit card. You can also e-mail the donations by going on to www.dreamcenter.org. You can also donate $10 by texting DREAM to 85944. That one will come out of your cell phone bill just so y'all know.
If you want to learn more about the dream center check out the promo video on YouTube. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh7RsZi1nRE
BTW I haven't posted in forever cuz lovely Blogger is blocked here now :(

Where The Wild Things Are...

Simply amazing, it is seriously pure genius. No, there aren't really any happy parts. Yes, it is dark, but I love it. That's how the book is, it doesn't get happy until the end. I can now appreciate the sound track. My roommate saw the movie and bought it, and then came back and made us listen to it... a lot... Maybe it'll be better now... Although children singing is just creepy.

Christmas Eve.. day...

I can't believe it's already Christmas Eve. Well, day anyway. I'm so stoked, but I must admit it doesn't feel like Christmas. I've only been home for like three days. Hmm...

Happy Christmas all, may you enjoy your family and friends. Have fun ripping through wrapping paper. Have a plentiful, wondrous, feast. Make good choices ;P

Home sweet home...

I'm back in Seattle for the holidays. I know it's been a while, but I have been terribly busy and the internet was down for like a week.

The 20th (which was last Sunday) the Dream Center had this HUGE event at the Sports Arena in LA. They gave away over 20,000 presents and 8,000 bikes. It was incredible. I must admit I found myself sitting in the nose bleed section looking out at the great expanse of people and tearing up at the thought of how amazing it was that we could bless all of them. Like the magnitude of it all got to me. It was truly a beautiful thing. Even blessing one family would be incredible, but this was, wow just marvelous.

That's about all I have to say atm.

Rainy Days

Mmm rainy days in Los Ageles don't occur very often. But I quite enjoyed today's rainy day. Not that much has really happened today. I swear I had this really awesome thought I wanted to write about but I can't remember what the heck it was. I am not going to lie to you. Well I have to go... Sorry that was so horribly boring and uninformative...

Hmmm

Sorry about my atrocious grammer in the last blog. Thank you to someone very close and dear to me for pointing that out... I shall now check and re-check them before I post.
In my own defense though, I was in a hurry. There were small children running around the halls and didn't feel like getting trampled or having the laptop getting damaged.
Tonight whilst at church I had someone steal gum from me. Well not directly. I had bought gum, and given it to Brittany to hold, she actually has a purse... So she pulled out the gum and goes to get a piece. This random guy, neither of us has ever seen him before, reaches over her shoulder and helps himself to two pieces... Who does that??
The message was really good though. He was talking about the names of God.
He was talking about how Moses asks God who he should tell the people of Isreal had sent him. God answers I Am. The original word is Yahweh. In the Hebrew it means I am redeemer, delieverer, and savior. I know crazy right. No, it gets better. The Hebrew language is symbols, so there's two meanings. There's the meaning of the word, and there's the meaning or picture that the symbols make. The picture meaning of Yahweh is the hand of grace, pierced by grace. Just keep reading this gets better. Yahweh in the Greek and throughout the New Testament means there's always been the one and there's no other. Yeah, just let that soak in.
Here's another random thought for you. When Moses was on the mountain talking to God and asked to see his face, God covered his face with his hand while he passed over him and showed him his back. The word in the Hebrew for his hand was Yahweh; the hand of grace, pierced by grace. Then the word back from the Hebrew in this context translates to where God was. So God passed over Moses, covered him with his hand of grace so he wouldn't die from seeing God's face, and showed him where he was. Imagine how great it will be when we get to heaven and can see the full glory of God, not just where he was. Now chew on that for a while...