This is a project my brother helped direct and organize. If you enjoy the trailer please take a moment to become a fan on Facebook. The finished product is scheduled to be releasedshortly!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
WANTED: THE WESTERN
This is a project my brother helped direct and organize. If you enjoy the trailer please take a moment to become a fan on Facebook. The finished product is scheduled to be releasedshortly!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus: The Hope of a Generation Facing A Potential Storm
The American culture we live in today is growing increasingly bleak. The economy is decaying and the nation is currently led by a government hostile to God. Morality and restraint are disappearing and threats of shortages, wars, economic devastation, tyranny and persecution loom on the horizon. Understandably, many live in a state of alarm, fearful of what the future holds for them and especially for their children, children just like me, who are members of the next generation praying, planning, and hoping for a future.
So how should we respond, not only as the next generation, but as Disciples of Christ to this gathering storm? Perhaps the current alarm is a providential wake-up call, a call for us to trust in Him alone and depend on Him for all things, including our daily bread and our health care. It is time to realize that our hope and our trust should be in the Lord and not in our circumstances, a standard of living, possessions, or people. It is time for us to cut away the bondage of cultural thinking and the false sense of security that has wooed us into forgetting that God provides us with our very breath and knows the number of our days, and even the number of hairs on our head.
How freeing it is to ponder that God alone is our refuge and strength, and our freedom comes from faithful obedience to Him in all circumstances. The era God has placed us in may look drastically different than that of the prior generations, but our calling transcends circumstances as we seek to stand with Joshua and Caleb and follow God with dedicated hearts in the face of incredible odds and the giants in our land. In the whirlwind of challenge, we proceed one step at a time, laying our hopes and dreams at His feet and trusting Him who directs nations and orchestrates all events according to His awesome plan. May we be faithful to seek God with our whole hearts, stand as children of His promises, fix our eyes on Him, and run with endurance and purpose the race that He has set before us. Now is the time to evaluate what really matters in life so we can set our sights high and live lives of precision focused on knowing God and making Him known.
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"Oh, that young and old would turn off the television, take a long walk, and dream about feats of courage for a cause ten thousand times more important than American democracy - as precious as that is. If we would dream and if we would pray, would not God answer? Would He withhold from us a life of joyful love and mercy and sacrifice that magnifies Christ and makes people glad in God? I plead with you. . . set your face like flint to join Jesus on the Calvary road. "Let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come" (Hebrews 13:13-14) When they see our sacrificial love-radiant with joy- will they not say, "Christ is great"?" - Don't Waste Your Life, Piper.
So how should we respond, not only as the next generation, but as Disciples of Christ to this gathering storm? Perhaps the current alarm is a providential wake-up call, a call for us to trust in Him alone and depend on Him for all things, including our daily bread and our health care. It is time to realize that our hope and our trust should be in the Lord and not in our circumstances, a standard of living, possessions, or people. It is time for us to cut away the bondage of cultural thinking and the false sense of security that has wooed us into forgetting that God provides us with our very breath and knows the number of our days, and even the number of hairs on our head.
How freeing it is to ponder that God alone is our refuge and strength, and our freedom comes from faithful obedience to Him in all circumstances. The era God has placed us in may look drastically different than that of the prior generations, but our calling transcends circumstances as we seek to stand with Joshua and Caleb and follow God with dedicated hearts in the face of incredible odds and the giants in our land. In the whirlwind of challenge, we proceed one step at a time, laying our hopes and dreams at His feet and trusting Him who directs nations and orchestrates all events according to His awesome plan. May we be faithful to seek God with our whole hearts, stand as children of His promises, fix our eyes on Him, and run with endurance and purpose the race that He has set before us. Now is the time to evaluate what really matters in life so we can set our sights high and live lives of precision focused on knowing God and making Him known.
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"Oh, that young and old would turn off the television, take a long walk, and dream about feats of courage for a cause ten thousand times more important than American democracy - as precious as that is. If we would dream and if we would pray, would not God answer? Would He withhold from us a life of joyful love and mercy and sacrifice that magnifies Christ and makes people glad in God? I plead with you. . . set your face like flint to join Jesus on the Calvary road. "Let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come" (Hebrews 13:13-14) When they see our sacrificial love-radiant with joy- will they not say, "Christ is great"?" - Don't Waste Your Life, Piper.
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