My Huckabee for President was a fun ride, but it has officially ended.
The recent news regarding Barack and his "spiritual adviser" (his words) has really aggravated me. I email Barack after Huckabee was done, and asked some questions from an undecided voter, I never received a response, only his "vote for change" junk. My problem is simple with his pastor. You can say what you want, believe what you want, that is the great things about America. But you must be held to the same standard as everyone else. If my church put on our webstie that we were "unashamedly white" what would be the response (especially if I was running for office.) If our pastor stood in the pulpit and bashed Barack, how fast would the IRS strip our "tax free" exemption? As quick as Barack uses the word "change." Also, Huckabee was crucified for saying the following, "we need to take our nation back for Christ." Yet Obama gets a pass when his pastor says "God D!*n America." I don't know if Obama is a rasist, I do know that his pastor is. I know this by his words. How is a "three strike" policy a bad thing? Do we keep letting people do bad things because they are a certain color? Bad is bad, regardless of race. If a white gets three strikes he is out, if an Asian does, same thing and so on.
Jeremiah Wrigth blames the problems in the black community on "three strike policy" and more "jails being built." I blame all problems on peoples lack of responsibility for their actions. You can be an atheist, but you will be held responsible by God, you can be murder but you will be held responsible by the law (or should), we live in a county with no responsibility. We only want to do what makes us happy. Life is not always happy, and it is not always fair. Grow up and get over it. Life is hard, tough, and hurts, but God is good!
Go McCain 2008. The old sucker might just pull of the victory after all :)
Monday, March 17, 2008
25%
Sorry to all 2 people that read this blog. It has been a while since my last blog. Here is a quick recap of my life the past couple of months.
God's has been good, life has been rough! For the last 10 years I have given everything I have to 50 young people, sometimes more, sometimes less. The last year it was been a struggle to keep the faith that the "tears will not overcome the wheat." I have had one young person that grew up wanting to be like me, now totally shutting me out. Other young people that I stood by as they struggled with friends, relationships and person situations, now tune my voice completely out, choosing to listen to others who do nothing but deceive and eventually destroy. I have given my time, energy, and my heart to these young people, and all I show is about 25% return on my investment. Now before you feel sorry for me, I have gotten over the sad stage and now into the rejoicing stage. The 75% that have tuned me our, blocked me, and simply ignored my advice have simply made a choice. One that I can't make for them, but would love to. They are living in a world that is "twisted." To them they are making sense, to everyone else they are completely lost. Don't cry :) I'm not. I have studied the ministry of Jesus even more as of late, and I found that out of the 12 he HAND picked, he lost 1. Even He could not win them all. In his parable of the seeds, he only kept 25% of the seed. This blew my mind, because that is the exact percent that I have kept as a youth pastor. In the parable, Jesus rejoiced over the 25%. That is become my new passion. To rejoice over the 25%. Those that are passionate about their relationship with God, passionate about their worship, passionate about their church, and passionate about their pastor. I believe in pastoral authority, holiness, worship, my church, my city, and my God. The TEARS will not overcome the WHEAT!
God's has been good, life has been rough! For the last 10 years I have given everything I have to 50 young people, sometimes more, sometimes less. The last year it was been a struggle to keep the faith that the "tears will not overcome the wheat." I have had one young person that grew up wanting to be like me, now totally shutting me out. Other young people that I stood by as they struggled with friends, relationships and person situations, now tune my voice completely out, choosing to listen to others who do nothing but deceive and eventually destroy. I have given my time, energy, and my heart to these young people, and all I show is about 25% return on my investment. Now before you feel sorry for me, I have gotten over the sad stage and now into the rejoicing stage. The 75% that have tuned me our, blocked me, and simply ignored my advice have simply made a choice. One that I can't make for them, but would love to. They are living in a world that is "twisted." To them they are making sense, to everyone else they are completely lost. Don't cry :) I'm not. I have studied the ministry of Jesus even more as of late, and I found that out of the 12 he HAND picked, he lost 1. Even He could not win them all. In his parable of the seeds, he only kept 25% of the seed. This blew my mind, because that is the exact percent that I have kept as a youth pastor. In the parable, Jesus rejoiced over the 25%. That is become my new passion. To rejoice over the 25%. Those that are passionate about their relationship with God, passionate about their worship, passionate about their church, and passionate about their pastor. I believe in pastoral authority, holiness, worship, my church, my city, and my God. The TEARS will not overcome the WHEAT!
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