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i sometimes think how people’s personalities and attitudes can ruin conversation about Christ. how people will argue their understanding over someone elses or their relationship with God is better than yours etc. God deals with us on an individual and personalized basis so how he works in my life won’t be how he works in your life. and the words it takes for me to describe him in my life won’t be your words, even if they essentially have the same meaning, because we will never have same walk with Christ. God knows and understands all of us and by being good steward’s of Christ we must deliver God’s ultimate message of love and salvation but so many Christians are so quick to impose condemnation and their personal understanding of God on others it turns people off to the whole idea of a relationship with God. we should seek to be understanding of others and their personality differences, be accepting of them so God’s word can be delivered in a more comfortable and receptive manner. we weren’t sent to beat anyone over the head with overly indoctrinated purely religous statements, God wants us to be loving and kind as he is loving and kind and to seek after people in that manner. as the saying goes you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar and you’ll lead more people to Christ with love than with anger.

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Habakkuk 3:17-19 NIV

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.

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since i have deleted my account (yes folks it IS possible) i have found life is more fulfilling, days have grown more hours. i never noticed how much time i wasted, really not doing much of anything. patrolling my newsfeed looking for something of interest and never finding what i was looking for. strangely i have experienced some withdrawal…the sudden feeling of racing over to the book of faces to post my random thought that nobody truly cares to know except for myself. i have stayed strong in my stance and am glad for it…largely because i had this insecurity with myself that i never had before. i feel it comes from knowing the eyes of the world are on you, and your privacy isn’t really private. facebook has changed the game when it comes to social networking but it has also changed how people view themselves and the world. yes it has allowed “us” to be more connected but what about young people who feel like those 3000+ people on their pages are really their friends. or those young girls who feel as though the overt sexual attention they receive from posting overly sexual pictures is the kind of attention they want in life. facebook feeds into this celebrity fantasy that has steadily grown in this nation. that material wealth and finite things are real measures of success and make you somebody. what people view as being real has been lost behind a shade of insecurity and materialistic dreams that i feel it’s only going to get worse…

materialkillers:

R.I.P. Joe Paterno - The legendary former head coach of Penn State is now sadly on 2012’s (rapidly growing) death list.  Joe passed away of complications with lung cancer after being in serious condition earlier today.  He was 85.
Update: After several sites broke the story it was revealed that Joe is in fact still alive, albeit fighting his cancer in a hospital.  Still bad news, but thankfully not as worst as previously thought.

let’s all pray for joe

materialkillers:

R.I.P. Joe Paterno - The legendary former head coach of Penn State is now sadly on 2012’s (rapidly growing) death list.  Joe passed away of complications with lung cancer after being in serious condition earlier today.  He was 85.

Update: After several sites broke the story it was revealed that Joe is in fact still alive, albeit fighting his cancer in a hospital.  Still bad news, but thankfully not as worst as previously thought.

let’s all pray for joe

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