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Name: Matty-O
Country: United States
State: Texas
Gender: Male
Interests: Anything on the snow. Snowmobile, snowboarding, cube-ing (have to be from No-dak to know that one!) mountain biking, wakeboarding, camping, outdoors in general, concert production, learning, motorcycles, vintage land rovers, basically anything that runs on gasoline.
Expertise: aspiring renaissance man
Industry: Media
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Member Since:
12/22/2005
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| How do christians have it so right yet get it so wrong? Meaning how do we have the truth yet fail to apply it? How can we hold the teaching of Christ yet fail to apply those teachings... visiting the sick, looking after the widows and orphans, sharing our wealth, Spreading the love of Christ, encouraging a brother... i am painting a broad stroke but you would think that for the people who possess the truth we would manage it better. | | |
| "It is the PRIVELAGE of the strong to care for the weak." | | |
| This is one of my favorite "My Utmost's" it is always refreshing. It is the March 19th reading for those of you who read Oswald Chambers. Learning what "living by faith" truly means is not an easy task. We often think we are doing it but I think seldom do we really understand it. Faith is the thing resonating in my life right now. PS. Waller, I haven't forgotten about posting what we talked about I just am still fleshing all my thoughts out on the subject. Enjoy~ Abraham's Life of Faith In the Old Testament, a person’s relationship with God was seen by the degree of separation in that person’s life. This separation is exhibited in the life of Abraham by his separation from his country and his family. When we think of separation today, we do not mean to be literally separated from those family members who do not have a personal relationship with God, but to be separated mentally and morally from their viewpoints. This is what Jesus Christ was referring to in Luke 14:26. Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason—a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world. The final stage in the life of faith is the attainment of character, and we encounter many changes in the process. We feel the presence of God around us when we pray, yet we are only momentarily changed. We tend to keep going back to our everyday ways and the glory vanishes. A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles’ wings, but is a life of day—in and day—out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (see Isaiah 40:31). It is not even a question of the holiness of sanctification, but of something which comes much farther down the road. It is a faith that has been tried and proved and has withstood the test. Abraham is not a type or an example of the holiness of sanctification, but a type of the life of faith—a faith, tested and true, built on the true God. "Abraham believed God. . ." (Romans 4:3). | | |
| since facebook is easier than Xanga to put photo's on you can go to Amos' or my site and check them out. There are over 100 between the two of us. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000563&l=73445&id=1347391929 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000252&l=c7671&id=1347391929 | | |
| Jared is currently in MSP at 5D school and is holding the rest of the photos of the trip hostage untill he returns later this week. So everything from Vegas on you will have to wait to see the photos. In a nutshell. Yosemite was awesome... i think it was a close tie with Moab for coolest... probably teh coolest park but Moab was just way cooler to do stuff in. The waterfalls in Yosemite are unreal. Then on to Monterry Bay, CA and then we drove up the 1 and 101 all the way up the coast. We camped in a little place on the coast about a hour north of San Fran. Then we drove up to Red Wood National Park. Again Redwood was a huge suprise at how cool it was. We got off on this abandoned gravel road that is on a cliff above the ocean... way cool. Then we went to Crater Lake. Again worth seeing! Then to Dunes Ntl Park in Or. and up the coast to Bremerton, WA where we stayed with a buddy Dougie Fresh (that is his name!) Then we road the ferry out to Victoria Island, BC Way cool. Victoria was different than the rest of our trip... no so much cool outdoors but cool urban... The city of Victoria is way cool urban almost euro feeling. Then back to Seattle, Coeur D' Alene, ID Then Glacier Ntl Park... again amazing and worth going to. All in all we did 6063 miles in 14 days! We actually got home 2 days for a few reason which i can post another day. The trip was awesome. If any one wants to visit any of those places i will try to give you some insight. I hope to get all our photos 500-700 in a photo bucket or something so those of you who have emailed and texted wanting to see more will be able to. | | |
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