I know I've been slacking off on the blogging lately... but I wanted to get a quick post out to let everyone know that the TNL Fillers will be uploaded to my YouTube channel every week (hopefully by Wednesday night.) So... head on over and check them out and leave comments! Comments are always good!
Monday, January 26, 2009
TNL Fillers!
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Valkyrie
I saw Valkyrie tonight. Excellent movie, both film making quality and story. A definite “purchaser” for me. For those of you who don’t know… Valkyrie is a new film staring Tom Cruise. It’s a true story about an uprising and assassination attempt by high-ranking soldiers against Adolf Hitler. Now if you know your history, you know that this uprising obviously did not succeed and that Hitler was not assassinated. There… I just ruined the end of the movie. Now many of you may know… or at least assume what I’m about to tell you, but incase not, I’m going to throw in a quick SPOILER WARNING! DON”T READ ON IF YOU DON’T KNOW THE STORY AND PLAN ON SEEING THE MOVIE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. ONCE YOU SEE IT FINISH THIS POST. Anyway, at the end of the movie, Nazi soldiers execute many of the men who were involved in this attempt by firing squad or hanging. This prompted a thought in my head that I’ve had before about both soldiers and radicals. It may seem simple but I hope you’ll see the truth in it. Everyday, people are willing to give their lives for different causes. Some noble, some not so much. Take for example: soldiers, police officers, suicide bombers, the 9/11 hijackers, firemen, search and rescue teams, drug dealers. Get the idea?
Take this for what you want… we, as followers of Christ, live for the most noble cause in the history of the world. Matter of fact… our “cause” is the whole reason the world exists. Early followers of Christ risked their lives daily just by unashamedly living for that cause. People in 51 countries around the world today live a life committed to Christ despite their nation’s commands. We as American’s have been blessed with such a great freedom to be able to worship and make our Savior famous… yet how often do we do it? How often do we tell our friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. about the cause we’re living for.
We won’t even speak… they were willing to die.
Now I realize this may seem to you to be hypocritical, judgmental, and one of those plank in my eye speck in yours situations… and I agree. So I write this not to judge… but to get all of us thinking for the edification of the body of Christ.
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
the old has gone, and the new has come
2008 is officially over. I challenged the play, but the officials said that the memories of 08 are memories for good and it's time to move on. Let's talk a minute about these memories...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
I figured I should fall in line with the rest of the blogging world and end the year with a December 31st post. I have so much I could say about the past year but I will keep it very brief, for if I began to explore the details of the last year this post may never end. When I think over the past year there are two things that stand out far above all else in my mind. One, graduating high school and moving on to the exciting new world of studying at Morehead State University, and two, my outstanding summer mission trip to Porto Alegre, Brasil. It was on this trip that I realized my life calling into some form of foreign missions.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
It's probably about time that I tell you all about this... so here goes...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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