“Forget and Not Slow Down”

There are those days when I wake up and inspiration and conviction are on the forefront of my mind. My eyelids first opening in the morning is like the striking of a match that starts a fire within this mind and heart of mine. I would like to share the heat of this fire with you.

It is time for us to “forget and not slow down”!!!

Brothers and Sisters we are not called to dwell on the things of our past and let it haunt what it has made us to this day. There are so many people that are scared of the things of their past and what others will think of them once others find out about it. Please, Please, Please realize it is the past and all of the stupid things that we have done that make us the great person we have become and what allows all others to accept you. So “forget and not slow down”.

Keep it up friends, We are called to not dwell but to LIVE. Don’t slow down and dwell but live it out, live out the redemption of your mistakes. The Freedom you have is because of the freedom that Christ gave you from these past mistakes. Rejoice in this and move on.

Share this beautiful redemption!!!!

For those sins that we are still making Our mistakes in, well, We know what we need to do. We need to drop our selfishness and pride and turn away from it.

Friends it is time to “resurrect the saint within the wretch”.

WE ARE SAINTS. Where is our love lately. I am just as guilty or probably more guilty than the most of us when it comes to how we Love God’s creations. Let us make these sins a thing of the past so we may rejoice in the future about how we overcame.

How will you ever really truly show the Love of Christ without ridding yourself of the sin and experience true forgiveness? That is what causes a true joy that no other outside of Christ can know and what all others outside of Christ should notice and desire.

It’s time to make our hidden treasure not so hidden anymore. It’s time to share our treasure and stop hoarding it for ourselves. God is Love and Love is Real, it’s time we share this statement with all of those around us including our own brothers and sisters in Christ, and yes even to our siblings.

“3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. 9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. 10As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, 11knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”

Titus 3:3-11 (esv)

Why

do I always run away from you.

When I should always be running towards you.

Why must I always follow that trend.

Lets learn to stop this.

Amen.

Open Boat

I tell you the truth.

“If I am going to be drowned–if I am going to be drowned–if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? Was I brought here merely to have my nose dragged away as I was about to nibble the sacred cheese of life?”

The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane

“If there was no way into GOD then why would I lay in this grave of a body for so long”

by mewithoutyou

Do we see the moral of these excerpts?

What is the meaning of life? God!

But God doesn’t make sense? Exactly!

Why would you follow something that makes perfect sense? You wouldn’t!

Why would you question something that you already know all the answers to? You wouldn’t!

What is the point of faith at all if we knew everything about this Divine Creator? No point at all!

We are all here for a reason.
Get over it!
Sorry but you have a purpose in this world.
Will you embrace that purpose
or
run from it.
Don’t allow your body to be a grave on this earth.

One purpose that we all have is to Love.

Now go love others and not yourself.

That is a purpose worth dying for.

God is Love
and
Love is Real

Amen!

Everyday

To God be the glory.

A Heart on Ones Sleeve…

1. I constantly question the existence of God
- By the end of each day He reminds of how stupid of a question this really is.

2. I have eczema(really dry skin) in my inner ear canal.
- I am very self conscious of this and is probably why you see me with my finger in my ear a lot.

3. I am very opinionated.
- Because of this I believe that my moods change drastically when certain subjects are brought up.
- My opinions get me into a lot of trouble.

4. I wish I was a better guitar player and singer.
- I would love to lead worship a time or two.
- I’m feel I am capable of this now but I am way to self conscious about my singing.

5. I wish I could act more Biblical.
- I feel I will never be worthy enough for the name of Christ.

6. I write journals in hopes that one day they will be discovered and read and cherished by others because of the thoughts that are within the pages.

7. I really love being in great physical shape.
- This has been really hard for me to do lately because I’m tired of working out alone and I have no one to work out with me

8. I love my job; it’s the loneliness I hate
- I scare myself with the thoughts that I have when I’m by myself on a car lot for hours on end.
- This fear keeps me from going to work sometimes.

9. The most influential people overall in my whole life are my bleeding heart liberal, cradle roman catholic, pluralistic grandparents on my fathers side.
- If I have any culture in me it is because of them.
- I love them for all that they have done and continue to do.
- They are some of the most Godless people in my life and they show me God more than anybody else. Because of them I can truly grasp the concept of grace, blessings and forgiveness.

10. I refuse to be like my father and the way he ran(or didn’t run) his family.
- I am ready to start my own Legacy.
- I will put my families name on the map.

11. My hearts deepest desire is to know God. I long for Him every day. He is my breath.
- I wish my flesh could live up to what my spirit exuberates.
- I really am trying

12. I love physical activities.
- Anything that gets my cardiovascular system going I pretty much enjoy.

13. I’m great at Improvisation.
- If I wasn’t called elsewhere then I would be going to school for acting.
- I truly believe that God gave me this ability to do amazing things for His glory.

14. I need to learn tact.
- Speaking the truth comes very easy for me.
- speaking the truth in love is where I become unBiblical

15. I love analogies/parables. It’s the way Jesus taught for a reason.
- I love to make my own and hear others.

16. I praise God every day for the older men that He has placed in my life to instruct me in ways that my earthly father never would have.
- When I go on to do mighty things in the name of Our Savior, it will be because of the influence that God has allowed for you Godly men to have on me

17. I want more than anything for my family to come to know Christ as I have come to know Him. I would die for this to happen.

God is Love
and
Love is Real

The Unfortunate SoundTrack to My Summer

Verse 1:
I have done all the right things for all the wrong reasons
I have been here before, it seems like time and time again
I keep trying to find life in the places life’s not found
I’m recessitating old flames without thoughts of getting burned

It is possible that I
Could ever get it right

Chorus:
There is nowhere else to go
There is no one else to run to
All around is quickly fading
All I know is You’ve always been there
Always been there, you’ve always been there
Always been there

Verse 2:
I have seen all the endings to all my sad stories
And they leave me alone, everytime its just the same
You have fully accepted me with my failures
Through the cross of my King, it’s your mercy and your grace

Is it possible that I
Could finally get it right

Bridge:
Yesterday has come and gone
Everything I thought I had was wrong
All I really want is to be found
This is what I know,
I have nowhere else to go – I have no one else to run to
All around is quickly fading – All I have is you

Song by: Spur 58

To God be the glory for his ever loving Kindness, Grace, Mercy and Love.

AMEN

Art Ispired by Underoath

Absurd Houston Chronicle Column. (in my opinion)

Women in politics, yes. Women in the pulpit, no.

WASHINGTON — There may never be a female pastor leading Tony Perkins’ Southern Baptist congregation in Louisiana, but there could be a woman taking over the vice president’s mansion in Washington.

And as Perkins sees it, there’s no contradiction there whatsoever.

“It’s not a spiritual role,” said Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a church elder, who calls Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a “brilliant pick” for the Republican ticket.

“An elected official is not a spiritual leader — and that’s what the Scripture speaks to.”

That view — that female politicians are fine, but female pastors are not — has sparked debate about the role of women inside and outside of the home and the church.

“Even though the Bible reserves final authority in the church for men, this does not apply in the kingdom of this world,” says David Kotter, executive director of the Louisville, Ky.-based Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which believes men and women have separate and distinct roles in the home and the church, in a column on his organization’s “Gender Blog.”

But some evangelical leaders, including women at the helm of prominent conservative Christian organizations, chafe at such viewpoints, arguing that women should be considered for leadership both in and out of the pulpit.

Jane Hansen Hoyt leads Aglow International, a mostly evangelical organization that brought some 2,000 women to Washington for its national meeting at the end of September. Hoyt, an ordained minister in a Pentecostal denomination, is “disappointed” by fellow religious conservatives who affirm women in politics but not in the pulpit.

“I personally believe that from the beginning — and I’m going back to the third chapter of Genesis … the role of the woman was very strong because that’s when God said he would send a help to the man,” Hoyt said. “Well, it wasn’t just a help to cook his meals. It was a help to walk alongside him, even as we see John McCain and Sarah Palin walking side by side.”

These views appear to be a change for some evangelicals. As recently as March 2007, the Pew Research Center found that 56 percent of white evangelicals viewed the idea of mothers with young children working outside the home as a “bad thing” rather than a good one.

But Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said such polling numbers may be a “rather stark” look at situations that vary from family to family, including Palin’s.

“What people have seen as they’ve watched Gov. Palin is that she has integrated her family and her work,” she said. “There are situations where people are able to bring their children to work.”

Palin herself has religious roots in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination that ordains women but where female clergy still have difficulty getting prominent pastoral roles, said Margaret Poloma, research professor at the University of Akron.

She calls the views of evangelicals — many of them non-Pentecostals — who support women politicians but not women pastors a matter of “selective interpretation” of the Bible.

“The whole thing is contorted, but they really believe that,” she said. “That’s their interpretation.”

The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest evangelical denomination, declares in its faith statement that “the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture” and a wife should “submit herself graciously” to her husband’s leadership.

But those beliefs, based on New Testament teachings, do not apply to women in secular leadership, said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

“Where the New Testament is silent, we’re silent,” he said. “Where the New Testament speaks, we’re under its authority.”

Land’s wife works as a psychotherapist, but he said he couldn’t see himself as “first dude” (a term used by Palin’s husband). Still, he thinks decisions about roles are up to each husband and wife — including Sarah and Todd Palin.

“The only thing that would disqualify Gov. Palin from being governor or vice president, in my opinion, would be if her husband didn’t want her to do it,” he said.

LifeWay Christian stores, a nationwide chain of more than 100 bookstores owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, ordered Gospel Today magazine removed from its shelves and placed under the counter.

Its taboo topic? A story about five successful women pastors in the September/October edition.

“My problem with all this is, how can we have a Sarah Palin running for vice-president and yet (Southern Baptists) don’t think a woman can be preacher?” asked Sheryl Brady, one of the five pastors featured. The 48-year-old pastor of The River Church in Durham, N.C., preaches in the Pentecostal tradition of prophesy, healing and speaking in tongues.

Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow at Concerned Women of America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, said she’s appeared on Christian radio talk shows since Palin’s nomination, and is shocked by callers who complain that the Alaska governor “has no business being in politics.”

Crouse, whose mother is an 85-year-old United Methodist minister, thinks those comments reflect a fear of women not only having a greater role in politics but a greater place in the nation’s pulpits.

“Quite frankly, it is threatening because the more you

see Christian women out in the professions and doing things publicly, the more people get adjusted to that idea and

the more acceptable it is,” she said.

***Now here is some scripture that I would like to share with you.
I do not see how one can misconstrue these verses.
But some seem to have done so.

1 Timothy 2:11-15 (esv)
11 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

p.s. the book of timothy is known as one of the pastoral epistles in which Paul writes to timothy concerning how one is to run the church. This is for the church, not the country.

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Thank you for sticking with me,

Hudson Tansey

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