This and That..

Every Friday and now sometimes Saturday I go to Starbucks in the morning and just study, I love it for many reasons. One is because I need noise around me to study, weird I know. I just cannot focus without other things going on around me. I can not write a new sermon with out it going on. Go ahead and go to web MD, and try to diagnose me but that is the deal.
Yesterday as I was sitting there, people at this table next to me were just talking about all the stuff that they had (house, car, girls, car, money, car, nav. in the car) and I was just blown away. I HOPE that I am not that way. I might be, what are you talking about to your friends, are you bragging on what you HAVE or are you content with where you are in life and just BEing. Again this goes back to our words. People are more impressed with what you don't have then what you have then what you have. We always want more and more, when is enough....ENOUGH!

Overflow of The Heart...

I am learning allot about the heart lately. It stinks when I say something and then go "where did that come from?" Maybe you have done the same thing, or maybe you are in the habit of just saying stupid things all the time or acting in a rude/mean way. Then people realize wow I am saying allot of things that are hurting others or hurting YOU. Because in the long run you really are not hurting anyone but yourself and your ministry. Ministry as in how people look at you, not like if you work in a church and have a ministry. We are all ministers if you are a Christian. What are people saying about you? It is easy to know if you just sit back and look at how you act or the words that you use. People are going to "know you by your actions or words."
Some will say, "no really it is not a big deal, how I act and the words I say don't matter its not a big deal."
I am learning that it is actually a HUGE deal... why? because


Luke 6.45 - "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."
You can not argue with that, this says that what comes out of your mouth and the actions that we take, all come from within our hearts. Period! This is the words of Christ! He was no dummy, He knew what He was talking about. So why? Why, are you saying the things you do? Where did it come from, because the things didn't just get there. It might have become a habit, and if it has it will take a habit to break a habit. So start a new habit of trying to speak and act only on the things that lift others up...

Day 4

Here is what I wrote every night as I laid in bed after each day. Followed by pics from each day.
Day 4
Today we woke up ate sausage and french toast and went and had devo at cave area today. Then did the rope ladder and some split to do power pole. But a ton of people got over heated with the sun bouncing off of mountain and so forth. So Claire Wasson went to nurse station then I went with her. Then left and went up and had a hamburger for lunch and then went to play in the water and had a challenge to get everyone over the dam they did it ten minutes faster than they were supposed to. Then played in the water and had fun, then ate a nice dinner of lasagna that they served us. Went and had a bible study at the out door amphitheater and then went and did zip line at night and then did build em up and now bed. Good night.

Beautiful and Creative

Day 3

Day 3
We woke up and had an amazing breakfast, then went and had an hour long quiet time. Tough for everyone, then went and repelled and rock climbed, came back for lunch and had frito chili pie. Went to the coffee house and hung there then did mud games, had a devo time of confession for all of the studends we all played in the mud so we were disqusting and then we sat for an hour and talked about the mud in our lives that slows us down, got in the water to rinse off "sin" came up to dinner had a great dinner and then dance party and now sleep, katie kinney broke her light and 11 people went to the nurse today.

Day 2 Camp Eagle

Day 2
We woke up and had dinner for breakfast, meaning we had grilled ckn,mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy. Had our Quiet time, then we went and did a spider web, and a mtn deal trying to get from platform to platform. From there hiked up and we ate "lunch" granola, crackers, then we played in the water and hiked to the power pole jump from platform to trapeze and others repelled. Then hiked up hill to the wind mill and swam and had a bible study and then ate pancakes. Josh got stung by a scorpion.

Day 1

Here is a daily journal of what we did every day, I would lay in bed after the day and write up everything that happened. Every day I will post the story and pics of what happened at camp eagle. So here is Day 1.

Day 1
We all got to camp at 6:00pm arrived played name games. We then went up and ate enchiladas for dinner, after that went and did a few more random games. Then went up and got hiking gear. Everyone got blind folds, and they asked me to lead them. So everyone was blindfolded and were holding onto everyone's shoulders. I was moved by it because God has placed me in charge of all of these students and staff. I have got to be in tune with Him so that I can see the path he has for us. If I'm not then I will stumble I will fall, I can not allow things to get in the way of leading the people God has put me in charge of. So when we got up the hill we sat around a fire and talked about what we would like to happen this week, you could only talk when you had the ball in your hand. Now laying in bed. Thank you for this day!

Day 5 Camp Eagle

Thursday 7/9/09
8am breakfast
Leave after breakfast L