Chuck Norris

in this post I will be talking about my dislike for chuck norris and all those jokes people make about him. People just make Chuck Norris seem like this all powerful guy. He is better than everyone, higher than anyone...including God. A joke I once heard at school was "When God and the Devil play football its so intense that they have to play on Chuck Norris' abs". People are making Chuck Norris into an idol. They probably dont realize it, but I strongly believe that's what he is to people.

I'd like to say right here what an idol is. An idol is something that you worship other than God. Its something that you place, and make higher than God. An example would be video games. If you spend a lot of time playing video games and a little bit of time with God, video games would be your idol. Chuck Norris has been placed way above God, people like to talk about him more than they do God.

After finally getting all of that out, I shall leave and allow people to comment.

christmas gifts

I'm going to be making a few posts this week, but just so you dont get disappointed I will warn you ahead of time. I'm not going to make long posts, they will be short. And on to my post.

This year for Christmas, I got three t-shirts (from my parents and older brother), pajama bottoms (from my aunt), a cell phone (from my parents), a file folder for debate (my parents), and a MacArthur study bible (also from my parents).

One of my t-shirts is a terminator salvation one, the second says "I pledge allegiance to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Revelation 19:16", and finally the third one says, "Global Warming, better not be there when it really heats up. 2 Peter 3:1o"

I think the cell phone is my favorite present, I've been using it a lot and figuring it out and stuff. The phone is a tracfone, pay as you go. I also have unlimited double minutes for it, so if I buy 60 minutes I get 120 and if I buy 120 then I get 240 and so on. It's so cool.

I really enjoy all the presents I got, but for now I'm signing off.

What I believe (Calvinism)

This is mainly for Lady Adriana a friend from the Door Within Forums but also for anyone else who wishes to read it. This is why I believe that Calvinism is true.

The Bible has a lot to say about predestination and how we are dead in sin. Take for example these verses:

Ephesians 2:4-10

^"4But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
⁵even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
⁶and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
⁷so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
⁹not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
¹⁰For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
Those verses are saying that it was God who saved us, while we were still DEAD in our Transgressions or sins. If someone is dead, they have no way to respond to anything, so God raised us up out of this death of sin into His life. it was by the grace and mercy of God that we were saved. In Verse eight it says that we were not saved by ourselves, but by the gift of God.

Colossians 2:13-14
^"13When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
¹⁴having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
While we were dead in our transgressions He made us alive with Him and forgave us our debt. A debt that we could never have repaid on our own.

John 6:37 & 44
"³⁷"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
⁴⁴"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day."
Notice the words there, "All that the FATHER GIVES ME..." and "NO ONE can come to Me unless the FATHER WHO SENT ME DRAWS HIM..." God is the one who chose us, and we will go to Him if we are among the chosen.

Romans 8:29-30
"²⁹For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
³⁰and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified."
Notice the words predestined and foreknew in there. God chose us even before time began. He chose who would go and who wouldn't.

Ephesians 1:5-7 & 11
"⁵He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,
⁶to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
⁷In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
¹¹also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,"
Again He predestined us and gave us life through his blood.

Those verses (and there may be more) make me believe, with my whole heart, that God predestined us from before time began. That He chose us and we did not choose Him. I have more to say on this subject, but that is all I will say for now.

let us speak about God in school!!!

here's something I want to share with everyone.

http://www.rutherford.org/KeyCases/McComb.asp

http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/press_release.asp?article_id=793

enjoy...and don't get too angry

Rocky Mountain

Alright, I cant remember everything that happened so I wont be posting about everything. Here's what I will will blog about though, and in this order, HI (humorous interp), in between rounds, and my final debate round.

First I'd like to say that I made it to finals in HI, I didn't win a trophy, but I still made it to finals!!! My HI was called, "Bonnie and Clyde Agency For the Unemployed Underworld" By Bill Majeski. It was such a fun one to do, although not the funniest. The thing I did best with it was the voices. Everyone loved how I could change my voices in different ways. I don't know which voice they liked best, Bonnie or Clyde. At the end of one of my rounds one judge asked me what my real voice sounded like! I thought it was kind of funny. To close my HI part of the post I'd like to say if anyone that I know is reading this blog, ask me to do my HI for you sometime and I will, it's so fun to do.

In between rounds, when the debaters can have a break from debating...
We never stop debating, in between rounds, we find random topics to debate about. The most debating started when me and my partner had a bye.
First I'll explain what a bye is. A bye is when you and you're partner don't have to debate because your opponent didn't show up. Now to continue.
When we have a bye...
Me and my partner got very, very, very bored. So we started talking. What did we talk about? Who's last name is more awesome. We argued until some of our other fellow debaters came bye. Then one of the guys got a piece of paper and went around asking random people what they thought. My name won! :D Then we made some new topics, Batman or spider-man, ninja or samurai, coke or pepsi, and finally which color is more manly pink or purple? the winners were, batman, ninja, pepsi, and purple!!!!

During our last round the judge gave us an oral critique. Which was really good, because i learned something new. I learned that Contention 1: topicality is the most important one to defend. It is what most judges judge on. SO if you dont have topicality then you basically LOSE. Scary, huh?

That's all I have for now, come back for more, later.

kill the good reward the bad

Alright sis, you can stop whining like a little girl. I'm posting now. :P

recently I read an article in the paper, in the opinion page. You can read the whole thing for yourself if you want. I won't be posting the whole thing here, it's just easier that way. The name of the article is "POCATELLO'S DOG POLICIES SHOULD BE REVIEWED" The article is talking about how dogs are being put down because of "aggressive" behavior. What is this aggressive behavior? It's not biting, it's growling and barking. You're probably thinking the same thing I was when I read the article. That's not aggressive behavior, every dog does that. Here's one story of a dog with the so called aggressive behavior.

"One so-called vicious dog, a St. Bernard-collie mix named Balou, is due to be euthanized in the near future. He's been in a cage since May 17. Balou's offense: He growled at an animal control officer and then was spotted in his owners backyard without a muzzle."

(insert sarcasm) Oh my goodness! the dog didn't have a muzzle after growling! can you believe that?! The next story is even more crazy.

"Another story is that of Rosco, a Newfoundlan-Labrador mix. He got into trouble when a Rottweiler bit his owner's daughter. Rosco bit the attacking dog in defense of the daughter. after an investigation, rosco was put in a tarp covered cage, where he's been since July 6. The Rottweiler that bit the daughter of Rosco's owner was not cited for any violation...animal control cited the daughter for allowing a vicious dog to run at large for Rosco's run-in with the Rottweiler."

WHAT?! the dog that attacked is allowed to live, gets no punishment, and is not cited while the other dog that was just defending it's master's daughter gets all of that? If I were there I would give Rosco a lot of treats and praise him. The Rottweiler should be the one to die, it attacked the daughter, it's the vicious one. Rosco was just protecting his family. People are really stupid if they do things like that.

When I first read this article I was about to try and compare it to humans, when I realized it wouldn't change a thing. This is what I was thinking. What if it were some guy that attacked someone's daughter? Then what if the father punched, maybe even shot the attacker? That's what I was thinking, but then I realized they'd probably put the father in jail. We live in a world where the government is just stupid.

This allows criminals to start suing officers if their drug sniffing dogs, search dogs, or just normal police dogs growl, bark, or attack someone. This probably will happen sometime. and then the courts will allow it. My brother said that he heard that this guy who was robbing a house, fell onto some forks and knives, and then sued because they left silverware out where someone could get hurt. He won the case. That man shouldn't have been in the house in the first place.

Debate class

In my debate class (I haven't told you I'm in a debate class at school have I? Well now you know) we have been discussing poverty. Me and two or three other people believe we should help those in poverty, the rest of the class is against it. They think we should stop helping them, force them out of the country, and even kill them......maybe use what Hitler used to get rid of them.They also say we shouldn't help other countries with wars and other stuff until we have helped ourselves and gotten out of debt. Right now we are learning how to debate. We are all writing debates on poverty, unfortunately for me I'm sick. And they're due tomorrow. I hope I get better before then. My first real debate will be either October 17 or 30. I'm really excited about it.

Every morning while the teacher is taking role she puts a quote on the whiteboard and then we write down what we think about it. We have only three minutes to copy down the quote and write our thoughts. Then she picks five people to go up and tell the rest of the class their thoughts. That person has only three minutes to tell their thoughts and answer questions, then the next person goes. I'll tell more about the debates in another post.

youth group(s) during the summer pt. 2

This is going to be my final post on youth groups for a while (I think). So you can now sit and enjoy the final one. Here we go.

The devil never takes a break from evil, why do we take breaks from God? Are we letting the devil do better than us in his work? While he always causes evil, we decide to postpone Bible studies for a while. Every youth group I have gone to has taken a "summer break". I feel sad that I have not been able to go to a youth group that has a lesson every week. That's probably why I keep having "discussions" with my youth group about summer. And no matter how much we argue with each other, no one agrees with the other. I won't be satisfied that they don't have lessons every week and they don't want to have a lesson every week. I long for the day that we will be in heaven and all we want to do is worship God, I wish we could do that on earth, but I know it is impossible, I will still try though. I pray that God would change the minds of my youth leaders and let us go through the whole year with Bible studies.

My youth leaders and their daughter say they are Calvinists. The daughter said to me "But I think that one of the reasons that we do more fun stuff in the summer is it's a lot easier to get someone who isn't a Chirstian to come and get to know everyone while doing fun things. Then after getting to know everyone they might stick around for the more in depth times during the school year...we're only Jr. High/High school group. We can't get that deep or we would loose some of the people in our group." here's my answer to that.

If you're a Calvinist then you know that God has already predestined and chosen us from before time even began. Knowing this, we should be able to preach the Word, even deeply without worrying about offending others. We preach the Word, and those who leave, leave. Like Paul said in 1Corinthians 3:6 "I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth." We are the ones who plant and water, but it is God who causes the growth. Don't think that just because someone walks away means that they wont be saved. You may have planted a seed in their hearts and if God allows it someone else will water that seed and God will save them. Don't try and make God, church, or the bible seem more exciting by doing your "fun stuff" instead of studying the Bible, do your "fun stuff" on different days than the usual youth group meetings. Don't try and impose on God's plan and works, just do your part and teach and let God work in other peoples lives. If He allows it they will be saved, if not, fine. God is God and you're not. (my Sunday school teacher says that a lot and I really like it.) God is the one who does the saving and those that He saves and chooses will go to Him and will accept Him, and they will not and can not be able to leave Him. (John 6:36,37,44 and 10:25-29)

You say the activities are to draw people to the group, I say do the Bible study and let God do that part. The Bible tells who God is and what He is like, not the games. Let's show people who God is instead of showing them how much fun we can be. Here's something that came to my mind the other day, most of the time when people try and make friends they just be themselves, they don't act differently and don't try to make themselves fit in or seem funner. i say if someone likes me because of who I am, Great! I just made another friend! If, on the other hand I have to change myself, then those people probably wont be very good friends. Let's show people who God is and not try to change Him. Let God do the pulling of people and you do the teaching, not the other way around.
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 "Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable." We are all running in a race, and we need to run as though we were going to win. We need to have the endurance and the discipline it takes to be in the Word constantly, meaning everyweek and everyday, no breaks. the more breaks we take, the farther behind we get. When you're in the middle of a race you don't take a break to play chess or something, you run so you can win. Don't give up the race or even take a break, you only have one life, so spend it telling others about Jesus Christ and what he did for us.

I would now like to say that I don't have am problem with the youth group doing the fun activities on days other than the regular youth group days that should be reserved for a Bible study, but when you replace that with the "fun activities" I've got a problem, and I won't back down.

Why is it the quiet one who wants more Bible?

This time I'm just going to respond to something one of the people at my youth group told me while we were chatting online. I copied her comment and have been thinking about it, and now I will respond to it....................here. First, here is her comment.

"just nobody knows what to think of what you've said on the forum, I guess it is really hard to voice your opinion about what we're reading, I know it is for me at least, but people just don't get it when one of the quiet kinds speaks up online about not getting enough Bible time when he's only spoke up during the lessons once or twice"

I can speak up at youth group about me not liking the summer activities we do, but I thought it might be better if I did it online.

First to clear one thing up for those of you who read my blog. I'm not the type who can speak up as much as I do over the internet. I might be able to, but I never do. I'm still working on speaking up more often. Though I must admit, it has been hard since we haven't had a Bible study for a while.

Why don't people get it when I ask for more and deeper lessons, even when I don't speak up during the lessons? Speaking up isn't what gives you the Bible time. Sure it makes it more interesting when people talk and have discussions, but that's not what gives you your Bible time. It's when the person that's teaching does the teaching. It's how deep they get into the Word, it's how much the lesson affects you and makes you think. when you're in the middle of the Church service you don't just start voicing your opinion on whatever the pastor is preaching on. You just let the Preacher preach, and the Holy Spirit move. I can sit at youth group and listen to what the youth pastor is saying and still get as much out of the lesson as those who are doing the talking. And I can do that by just listening.

That's the end of my post, sorry for it being so short. I would like to say one more thing though, I am not saying that you shouldn't ever speak up. That's important also, I'm just saying that speaking up doesn't always give you more of the Word than it does others.

Purple!!

I've decided that purple is my new favorite color! it is so awsome! I've got a purple shirt and a purple bandanna and I want to paint my room PURPLE!!!!!!!

youth group(s) during the summer

"Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter is better." ~Charles H. Spurgeon

During the summer a lot, probably most youth groups substitute their normal meetings with fun stuff. It's play time, instead of God time. Sure there's some Bible lessons, but mostly it's all fun stuff. I can understand wanting to do all this stuff during the summer when everyone is out of school, but what I don't like is how they do it at the time when they should be doing Bible lessons. I don't care if it's done on a different day, like for example if youth group meets on Wednesday and they do it on a Thursday, or some other day. Unfortunately they do it on the day of youth group. My youth group is doing more fun than Bible.

The people at youth group tell me that I'm free to do Bible study on my own. True, but we're still taking a "summer break" from our studies, from learning about God, with each other. And while we do that, the Devil and his demons don't take a "summer break" from doing and causing evil. If Satan does not take a break from evil, why should we take a break from doing good, and learning about God? Doing a study on your own is good, but when there's more people and someone who knows the Bible better than you it's better. You can go more in depth and have better studies. If we truly did believe the bible, if we truly believed that Satan and the demons are doing and causing horrible things, if we truly did believe that God was who He says He is and that He is like He says He is, if we truly did love Him, then we would want to spend every second learning more about Him, worshiping Him, and telling about Him so that others may be saved, but we don't. I wish that I could force myself to spend all my time with God, but I can't. In fact I doubt it's even possible to forever be with God, always worshiping and telling of Him while on this earth.

That's all I have to say for now. Adios mis amigos y amigas.

Proverbs 13:7-9

this is something I did for youth group after we had a little bit of debate on these verses.

after doing some studying on these verses I have decided to put down my thoughts on them. Proverbs 13:7-9.

Proverbs 13:7

"There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing;" I believe that these are people like the pharisees, who on the outside were rich in the spirit and in godliness, but on the inside they had nothing. On the inside they were hideous people. They were rich while on the earth, but their heavenly treasures are nothing.

"Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth." This one took a little while, but this is what I have so far. These are people poor in the spirit and show it. They covet, they lie, and they do other sinful things. And the part about them having great wealth, welll I don't know exactly what it is, but this is what I read. They are people who are poor in spirit, but have great material wealth.

Proverbs 13:8

I don't think I had to look this one up since there really wasn't any debate on what it meant, but I decided to include it anyways. "The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but the poor hears no rebuke." I came up with this, men who are rich are always watched and they are the ones that thieves look at, but a poor man is ignored.

Proverbs 13:9 now for verse nine. "The light of the righteous rejoices," The righteous rejoice and have joy, and they have a light of good works which doesn't go out. I think we all agreed with that, although I can't remember because it's been a couple of weeks. This one there was some discussion on though.

"but the lamp of the wicked go out." The wicked put out their own lamps, for it was they who rejected Christ and not Christ who rejected them. They were the ones who sent themselves to hell and still are sending themselves to hell. They chose not to follow Christ, and so they put their own lamps out.

so, those are my thoughts. feel free to comment.

July 2-July 5, 2009

so my aunt and uncle came over and I spent a lot of time with them, and almost no time on the computer. I probably spent a total of two and half to three hours. I played some games of settlers, apples to apples, and imagineif with them. I also went to a pool and played with my little cousins there. At the pool they had this nice hot tub. I really liked it. So anyways, I can't really think of anything more to say, so adios for now.

July 1, 2009

yesterday I went over my time by a lot. *blushes* here's all that I did.

randomness (maybe over 4 hours)

Bible reading (20 minutes)

memory (10 minutes)

reading (2 hours)

mowed two lawns (about 2 and a half hours)

sat on my roof and watched fireworks (maybe an hour)

that's all I can remember right now.

June 30, 2009

Since I didn't write down everything I did yesterday, I will do it now.

I went to the movies with my dad, my little brother and his friend. (I'm not sure how long it was. But the movie I watched was inkheart)

I had a sword fighting group. (two hours)

I memorized some of Proverbs one while my friends played the wii. (around two hours. Although I didn't memorize the whole time)

I did some research on whether or not a woman should teach a man. (around 30-40 minutes)

I did facebook and other random things on the computer. (40-50 minutes)

I read some books (1-2 hours)

That's all for yesterday.

no more video games

Lately I have noticed that video games have become more a part of my life than God and His Word have. I've noticed that when I play video games, it's harder for me to memorize scripture. It also makes me angry on the inside. I usually try not to let it show, but it is still a sin, God can still see my anger. So, starting tomorrow I am going to go at least a week with no video games, I will also limit myself to 1-2 hours of random computer time. This includes facebook, forums, videos, and anything else that i don't need to do. The things I will do, that I won't consider random, are blogging, listening to sermons, and doing research. Each day I will post what I have done on that day. If I go even one minute over the time have set for myself, I will lower my time by an hour to an hour and a half the next day.

Worthless Prayer meetings: Paul Washer

here's a sermon by Paul Washer that I found. I really liked it.

Worthless prayer meetings

Enjoy!

If Evolution Was True

If evolution was true..............

1. We would be able to create our own worlds with the right kind of explosion.

2. We should respect monkeys and other animals and treat them like humans.

3. There would be no such thing as good and bad.

4. that must mean fossils evolve also. How else did fish get to the top of a mountain? Did the fossils grow legs or did they roll up?

Doesn't look like evolution is true, I'm sorry.

SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, I'm done with school. So now I can just do whatever I want! woohoo!!! no more school. A few days ago I got civilization 4. It's really fun, I've been playing it a lot. I cant think of anything else to say so adios for now.

I will not be posting any more posts until summer break, which is the beginning of June. Please be patient.