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Name: Chris
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Interests: Music of all sorts including Classical, Jazz, Punk Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Latin, Celtic....Movies are a big one, PAINTBALL! Swimming, Ultimate frisbee, Double Dave's Pizza, and Chili's Chicken Crispers.
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Expertise: Computer specialist, History, Literature, Creation Science, and a smattering of other things I do to occupy my time....
Occupation: Executive
Industry: Other
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AIM:  Thereverand42
Member Since:
3/2/2004
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| I think I have add. I keep starting posts, then walking away.....
However, I've only had two views, and I think they are both me. Therefore, I think I'm the only one who knows I lied about being back....=P
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| For those of you who read this, I have recently found myself with actual time on my hands. I've been spending time in the word and reading books more often again. It's been great!
I'll update with a real posting soon!
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| I am fully aware of my epic failure to blog.
Life is...shall we say, busy. I will update eventually.
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| Some of you just got here because you clicked on my name on the C-AMPED Blog! Click the Facebook link to learn more about me!
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| I've restarted this blog at least 10 times. I have so much to say, and yet how can my mere words possibly relate what God did to a group of 200 students and 40 adult leaders last week? His love and mercy is so awesomely powerful. God took a group of kids and showed them what happens when He just opens a trickle of His spirit into their lives....
For those of you unaware, MOR senior high youth took a group of students down to Mustang Island for the week. I was blessed in that they asked me to go down with them again this year as a leader. The first day started out like any other trip to camp. The general confusion of where luggage went, who was on what bus with who...etc... What struck me though, is for the first time at any youth event, I felt a sense of camaraderie the people there. Like I didn't have to put on any pretense of anything. It was just 200 of my closest friends about to get on a bus with me and take a road trip. It was almost....surreal. The trip down was great. I met a bunch of cool people, and just chilled with the kids. The highlight of the whole trip was this right here. I got to spend all week hanging with teenagers. God brought the perfect group of guys into my room this year.
All I can really say about this weekend, is that God MOVED. I am a firm believer that there is a revival coming, where an entire generation of kids is going to stand up and declare that they are sick of the moral degradation that is destroying the people of this world. Those kids will draw the moral line in the sand and declare that wrong is wrong. They will understand that there is a world out there with standards that are wholly different from the standards of the Father that loves them more than anything else in the universe. As the week went on I got to spend all my time doing the very thing I love doing more than anything else in the world. I got to hang with teenagers, pray with them, have fun with them, and speak life into them. I wish for two or three more weeks of the camp I just went to. Talking to kids about God, about the spiritual realm around us, about ways we can see those we love come closer to God, about how passionately God loves us....I got to chat about girls, guys, movies, science, history, politics, economics, culture, high society, slums, literature, Star Wars....
We had kids get healed emotionally and physically, we experienced supernatural unity, kids get set free from bondage, fires ignited, souls refreshed, life-long friendships established...I could go on for days. All I can say that if you want to tell me God isn't real, you spend five minutes seeing the lives changed this week and you'll know something is wrong with your thinking. And if you want to tell me the Holy Spirit doesn't work today, well I've got 250 people who just experienced a face to face interaction with Heaven and the Holy Spirit. Power was brought to the Earth this week. Glory shined upon the faces of those kids this week as they worshiped with the passion of broken men and women. Men and women who have been brought from a pit of destruction and have seen the love of a God that cares about the most intimate details of their lives.
Coming home from camp is not the end of something, but merely the beginning. We went and met with God, now we returned to become closer to Him. To live life pursuing Him, and living a life that glorifies Him while bringing others to Him. Daily will we thank Him for His grace and everlasting mercy. Daily will we learn to lean further into His grace. Daily will we walk by His side, just to catch a fleeting glimpse into His eyes. This is only the beginning. The beginning of a heavenly invasion that will take this world by storm. Remember, the things of this world will soon pass away. Our focus must remain in Heaven. This world cannot matter, for it will soon be gone. While the desire to escape this world and fly with God above the storms of this thing we call "reality" may be strong, we have to remember that we are here. We are heavenly visitors in this place, put here for a time to leave our mark and make this place better. Be in the world, but not of it. This world has nothing for us. For me, my heart is with the Father. To live is Christ, but to die is gain. I may long to be with the father, for truly to be with Him is the most glorious thing I could hope for, but He has ordained this time for me to be here. And it is better for this world that I am here. So for my time here I shall stand firm in the boldness that is the gospel of Christ. I will daily declare His name. I will shout for joy at the saved and cry for the lost. A Christ emulator and a God chaser. I will make mistakes, but I will have grace. I will struggle, but I already have victory. The beginning is here, but the end is written.
Strength and Honor.
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