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Help a brother out

Mon, 01 May 2006 13:46:50 GMT

Hey guys. Do you think you could do me a huge favor, and maybe get some of your friends to help me out. I'm trying to get a free ipog, i know what your thinking, that it's a scam...well it's not. My friend did this and he got his free ipod. I've seen it. So if you could help a brother out, go to this link and complete one offer. I only need a few more, so if you and your friends/viewers could help it would be great. Thanx. After you sign up if you get your friends to help you out you too will get a free ipod. Heres the link http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=29763201

Another Switch

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:33:51 GMT

Once again I have switched my blog, I actually did it quite a while ago so the address is jteiv.blogspot.com

Ski Rescue

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:03:42 GMT

Well this picture was pretty much me...I was a ski jumping fiend. Ok, maybe I was only a few feet off the ground, but this is was I imagined myself looking like...YA!! Anyhoo, it was a good trip, I was only only one skiing, everybody else was snowboarding...It takes so long to learn and i don't go skiing enough to make it worth it. Anyways, It was sweet, till Kelsea to a fall. Ya, I ran across her, and her French Foreign Exchange Student Friend Marie. She had hurt her wrist, well we ( and Sci too) were aruging what to do and Kelsea didn't want us to get the meds...but I finale desided to go, so I take off, going much faster than I'm normaly comfortable doing, actually I when as fast as I could, which wasn't so hard because I weigh alot. Anywoo, it was a scarey ride to the bottom, When I go there I tears, frozen to the side of my face, because I was going so fast and my eyes started to water. SO we left right after that. Thankful, Kels didn't break her arm it was just a really bad sprain. So that was my exciting skiing adventure of jumps, and rescues. God kept me safe doing alot of thing that I shouldn't have, it was only my third time skiing...ever. But it was SOOO fun. Well thats enough, chill out.

I'm Lion-O

Monday, February 06, 2006

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:18:40 GMT

Well, I just finished watching The Passion of the Christ. I we've owned for a while but I never stopped to watch it. I don't know I think that maybe I was sub-consciously trying to avoid watching knowing that it would change me. But I finally did, and it did. I believe that EVERY Christian should watch that movie. I show a whole lot more about what Christ when through to save us, but even this movie had to edit for violence, the really thing wasn't nearly so tame. I think that Christians are much too comfortable with being Christians. Being a Christian doesn't cause persecution, ridicule and death, like it did for the early roman church. But when did that church grow the most...during those times of intense persecution. Persecution acts like a litmus test, showing truth for truth and falsehood for falsehood. It also makes things real, makes concepts and idea that you believe real on a level that comfort does not allow. They also say seeing is believing, but in this case, it more like seeing defines reality. When you picture Jesus, what do you picture? Do you picture him on the cross? Do you picture Him with a crown of thorns? Most people, as far as I can tell, have a mental photograph of Jesus in His white robes, with a small, neat crown of thorns place on the top of his head...is this reality? NO!!! Christ DIED!!! I highly doubt He was smiling, the crown was not gingerly placed on his head...it was BEATEN ON!!!! It wasn't a few small scratches on his back...he was beaten and wiped to such a bloody pulp that you couldn't tell he was a man. This death, this immense pain was willing borne to save us...to save me, you...even if only you where to only person to every accept this gift, he would have still done it. To actually see this truth brings Christ sacrifice to a whole new level. To see the stripes, to see the nails, to see the crown, to see the ridicule, to see the pain...to see the tears. All shed for a people who would reject him...what love is that? And what do we as Christians do with that gift with the price so high..we get shy, we get scared, we don't proclaim, out side of comfort zone, a Christ who died, such a brutal, painful and bloody death. How hypocritical are we?

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:13:10 GMT

Hey ya'll, WHATS UP!?

So life is going good...classes are a piece of cake, had my first exam today..it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO easy...no where never the difficulty of Maranathas test...I think my test was only 20 questions or so...but I'm not complaining...I like all A's. Well the job hunt still continues...there is nothing up here. International Falls is for the most part a paper town (Boise Paper Mill) and a Tourist Area (one of the main ways into Canada). So right now is definately NOT tourist season...and there no way to get a job at Boise...I couldn't a job at McDonalds if I tried. Church is going so well. I am doing junior church this Sunday..my mom normaly does it but my parents are on vacation for 10 days. So I have that and the Kids Club Class (as you can see below).

I have desided that my blogs looks a little too depressing, all the black and whatnot, SO, I'm going to be changing it around alot till I get something I like. As you can see I've changed my profile pic twice in the last few days..its an artistic process, and beening an artist I'm am bound my the Artist code to follow it...alas the hard ships in life. Well I hope ya'll have a great day, Later.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:49:23 GMT

Well, I had my first class with the young un's. They actually behaved very well, unlike last week when I sat in on them. We learned about Jim Elliot...one of my heros (but more on that later). It was fun I think I'm really going to enjoy this. It's nice to get involved in church. I like helping people...I guess that why I want to be a missionary. But God has been teaching me so much more about that too, but once again thats another post...soon I'm working on it. Well, these are just some pictures of the class.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:30:55 GMT

O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale Thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn!
How does that visage languish, which once was bright as morn!

What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners’ gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ’Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor, vouchsafe to me Thy grace.

Men mock and taunt and jeer Thee, Thou noble countenance,
Though mighty worlds shall fear Thee and flee before Thy glance.
How art thou pale with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn!
How doth Thy visage languish that once was bright as morn!

Now from Thy cheeks has vanished their color once so fair;
From Thy red lips is banished the splendor that was there.
Grim death, with cruel rigor, hath robbed Thee of Thy life;
Thus Thou hast lost Thy vigor, Thy strength in this sad strife.

My burden in Thy Passion, Lord, Thou hast borne for me,
For it was my transgression which brought this woe on Thee.
I cast me down before Thee, wrath were my rightful lot;
Have mercy, I implore Thee; Redeemer, spurn me not!

What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest friend,
For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end?
O make me Thine forever, and should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never outlive my love to Thee.

My Shepherd, now receive me; my Guardian, own me Thine.
Great blessings Thou didst give me, O source of gifts divine.
Thy lips have often fed me with words of truth and love;
Thy Spirit oft hath led me to heavenly joys above.

Here I will stand beside Thee, from Thee I will not part;
O Savior, do not chide me! When breaks Thy loving heart,
When soul and body languish in death’s cold, cruel grasp,
Then, in Thy deepest anguish, Thee in mine arms I’ll clasp.

The joy can never be spoken, above all joys beside,
When in Thy body broken I thus with safety hide.
O Lord of Life, desiring Thy glory now to see,
Beside Thy cross expiring, I’d breathe my soul to Thee.

My Savior, be Thou near me when death is at my door;
Then let Thy presence cheer me, forsake me nevermore!
When soul and body languish, oh, leave me not alone,
But take away mine anguish by virtue of Thine own!

Be Thou my consolation, my shield when I must die;
Remind me of Thy passion when my last hour draws nigh.
Mine eyes shall then behold Thee, upon Thy cross shall dwell,
My heart by faith enfolds Thee. Who dieth thus dies well.

~Bernard of Clairvaux

The words to this poem and the song, are some of the most powerful I have ever heard. Thought the song is quite rocky, but it is the only one that has the power that I feel this song has. O, that this be our prayer, for it has become mine.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:24:58 GMT

This isn't a real blog post, just some thing that are inspirational to me. Things like poems, quotes, stuff like that. So here ya go:

The safest place to be is in the middle of God's Will. ~unknown

The universe is so vast and so ageless that the life of one man can only be justified by the measure of this [Christ's] sacrifice. ~John Eldredge

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is a people who have come alive. ~John Eldredge

One does not surrender a life in an instant-that which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a life time. ~Jim Elliot

The way is rubble strewn
I cannot tell mor see
Mid all the wandering
Which is the way for me
Be this my boon, Jehovah
Amid stumbling, this my plea
Not victory, zeal nor worth
But my simplicity
~Jim Elliot

The Fish and the Ship

Along the battered ocean tossed
A ship with sails so white
By the shore, the waved did crash
Onto those rocks all night

And in the morning rose the sun
Upon a small wrecked scooner
The rock cried out, "What have we done?"
To late, but none the sooner

A small bright fish, with scales a red
Did surface by the bow
He kissed the boat, and soon did come
The broken wet wood, together

Once more the the Cap't did come alive
Though dead he once had been
He grabbed the fish with scaled so bright
And kissed it on the lips

Upon that kiss from Cap't to fish
The fish began right there to change
A ball of light zephyred to night
A star to light the way

With guidance from the star above
The ship no more did crash
Hard time did come but not alone
The Cap't had found his match.

The Sand Dune Poem

Sand dunes blown with heavenly breath
Make for fleeting, aloof Congregations
The hot winds are vocal, the sermon is swift
And the grains do not wait for amen.

But what of that grain who is stuck down below
Who has never seen the sun rise?
Having heard all the rumors, it aches to take wing
For a taller, more glorious mound.

Yet each anxious grain is helpless to move
Unless the Heavenly breath sets it free
Though it squirms, though it shout, thou it
complain to the dune
All must wait for the heavenly breath.

~Allie Kyle (from the book Lost in Rooville by Ray Blackton, So I guess that would make him the real author

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:09:03 GMT

Hi again, I know I've done a lot of post recently, but isn't that what this is for. Well, I emailed Katy last night, it was just telling her that she needed to return a calculator. I have bummed as you could tell by my horrible attempt a poetry, so I was avoiding emailing her, but I broke down and had to do it. Well, she wrote back..she doesn't hate my guts. I was surprised. Anyways enough of the past, it done.

Job hunts going slow, got a temp. job next week painting a house...inside. But other than that no leads. Schools going good. it going to so easy compared with Maranatha. But it is a much different atmosphere. honestly , I think that all Christians need to go to a Community college once. We need to feel, especially if we were raised in a Christian home and school, what its like to be a minority. Throughout history Christianity has only grown during time of persecution. We need to tried for our faith to make it really to use, so many Christians today have a form of social Christianity. We goto church, do our devos, but it never become that real. In my European History class my Prof said "If America had a God it would be money, because you want you spend most of your time on is what you worship." What a challenge is that, we work for money most of our life, we watch TV, or hang out with friends more that we serve God. Christianity today need a kick in the butt. Let those who don't care leave, and strengthen those who are willing to die for He who dies for us.

Friday, January 13, 2006

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:38:23 GMT

Hey all. Ya, well my poem really stunk. I'm horrible at poetry..I try but it stinks. Especially that dark, feely kinda stuff. Ya I was kinda bummed last night, read a note from my ex-girlfriend, I had been a jerk. I hate looking back in retrospect there's so much I'd change. Anyways, I made chocolate souffle last night..it was good. Today I made some home-made tapioca pudding. I really like to cook, I wish I could take a class or something.

I have in that last few days, I have run into quite a few old friends...it's kinda weird. People I thought gone from my life kinda pop up. Anyways, gotta go eat dinner, Later.