ESM
Hey all,
It’s been so busy I just haven’t had time to write anything! But I wanted to take a moment and share something awesome…
This past week we kicked off the youth ministry at abc church! ESM.
If your here from ESM leave a comment, I’d love to hear from you. If your not here from ESM leave a comment I’d love to hear from you too! But, I’m excited to see what God does with us together as we walk down this path. What a great time we’re going have! I’ll leave you with this thought:
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Let’s grow together!!!
p.thad
Blessed
I’m excited to finish up our move tomorrow. I live in Colorado Springs. That just feels good to say. Moving on. On our trip there has been one recurring theme of conversation in our car. That theme is how blessed we are. I know everyone is blessed, has been blessed, or will be blessed at some point in life. But for whatever reason our family has been flooded with blessing recently. Over the last few years God has been so good to me, to the point others have noticed. I’ve been called lucky, spoiled, and favored. You know what… it’s true! It hit me today as I was reading Galatians 3 why.
Galatians 3:9 – “So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.”
Faith and blessing go hand in hand. As I have put my faith in God and do everything I can to follow his word, by the covenant God made with Abraham, I am blessed. That doesn’t mean I don’t face obstacles. In fact the biggest most visible blessing came from the obstacles. So instead of freaking out when something stands in the way, we pray and use our faith. I could make this post 1,000,000 words long giving examples. I won’t do that. The truth is that when you walk in faith you position your self to let God give you a miracle blessing. I wonder how many blessings people let go by because they gave up when faced with an obstacle. Faith is a powerful thing to say the least. Faith in God will return blessings into your life. So walk in faith and be blessed!
p.thad
Changes…
It’s been a while since my last post. There’s a reason. Life has changed for the White family. Maybe you’ve already heard, Mikal and I are moving from Soldotna, and the Soldotna Church of God to Colorado Springs, Co. The first question I’ve been asked by just about everyone so far is “what happened?” Let’s get it out of the way. Nothing “happened”. Both Mikal and I felt that God was changing our hearts and calling us on to a different place. Then a door opened. After a lot of prayer, thought, and discussion, we chose to accept the student ministries pastor position at Austin Bluffs Community Church. I know that’s not as interesting as if there were a big drama story attached and it’s natural to want to think something went wrong. But the truth is we love the Soldotna Church of God and all the people we’ve been blessed to know over the past 5 years. We just believe that God has a new assignment for us. I can’t even begin to thank Pastors Alan and Miriam for everything they’ve done for our family! The whole church for that matter. You’ve all blessed us and poured into us so much. It truly has been an amazing time for us. So from the bottom of my heart I say THANK YOU! You’ve been a bright spot in our family’s lives.
Just as a chapter of life closes, a new one begins. We will be moving early next week! Starting our journey towards what God has for us next as we join ABC Church and the Ministry team in Colorado. On the lighter side, I’m sure they have no clue what they’ve just gotten themselves into. None of us will ever be the same again.
p.thad
Random
I don’t normally do post like this one. But I do like random stuff, so this makes sense. Yesterday was the start of a new era for me. I really enjoy paying guitar, and to this point in my musical career I’ve been a Gretsch guy. I love the sound of my Gretsch guitars. But yesterday, for the first time ever I played a Fender strat. Mmmm, it was a happy day! I’m not leaving my Gretsch’s or anything but wow I do love my new Strat. She is a beautiful dahpne blue, american made strat.
Change
Let’s start this thing by saying hello. It’s been a while and I feel like a stranger in the admin pannel of my own web site. Not good! Let’s not waste time…
I’ve been studying the subject of change for a few weeks now. In fact we’ve been teaching on this subject for the last 3 weeks at 3py. Change is an interesting thing. The more you think you know about it, the more you have to realize you actually know nothing about it. That’s the very nature of change. Once you start to grasp something it… changes! I wish I had the 12 step program for change to sell you, then I’d be rich and you’d be better off. But that’s just not the case. The truth is change is hard and takes a lot of work. As I’ve tried to come up with a “way” to change all my efforts have pointed back to this simple thing.
1 Corinthians 6:9 “Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves…”
Inorder to change you have to stop “fooling yourself”. As long as you rationalize your addiction, problem, habit, or whatever you are struggling to change you will never change! When your mind is set in the way you think you have no chance of changing or growing. This applies to every area of life. I’d be willing to bet you need to change in many areas of life and because of the way you think you don’t even know it. You can’t honestly tell me every area of your life is as effective and as good as it can possibly be. However, you have fooled yourself into the sense that things are OK and no change is necessary, therefore life can remain comfortable. Let’s face it, isn’t that the root of why we don’t change? It’s just to uncomfortable and takes to much effort. Heres the problem though, in our natural human state we do wrong instinctively. We don’t mess up by accident, we mess up by nature. Here lyes the importance of this verse. Wrong doing equals separation from good. Those who live a life of wrong doing won’t inherit the kingdom of God, or have part in his blessings!
I really do wish I could tell you how to change, I can’t. There is no one sure fire way to bring change in your life. It works differently for everybody, you have to travel that road and figure that out for yourself. But I can tell you that all change starts when you stop fooling yourself and realize you need to change. If your looking for a way to change Jesus said, “I am the way, the Truth, and the life!” Let Jesus show you the way, the truth, and life!
p.thad
Life and Times
What a crazy time we live in. I find it interesting to see how life changes not only from year to year and day to day, but even from hour to hour. I’ve only been 30 for a week now and it’s settling in nicely. I’m not sure how it happened but I’ve had to shave more in this last week than it seemed like I did in the whole of last month. Ok now on to some real content. I’ve made the comment to myself to read through the whole bible in 90 days. Thanks to youversion reading plan. Go here to check it out. The last 2 days I’ve been in Exodus. I almost couldn’t believe what I was reading when it got to part were Moses was laying down the “rules” by witch they were to live by. As I looked at it from our “modern” mind set it seems impossible to live up to the standard that was set. I couldn’t help but be so thankful for grace. But as I thought about it more it brought up some questions about society. After reading the penalties for some what we would call crime, it’s no wonder people back then were not career criminals. So this makes me think, are we to soft today? I put a tweet (follow me) out there about this earlier this week and got some interesting feedback. In Moses day if you stole something and got caught red handed, you were stoned. One guy on twitter said he would attend a public stoning with his kids and tell them this is what happens if your noddy! Would we have a better country to live in if we went back to the rules of Moses day? Go read Exodus 21 & 22 it will take less than 5 mins. then comment about what you would keep and what you would change from Moses day. GO….
First blog of 2010… kinda
Ok I plan on get back into the swing of blogging very soon. Until then here is the silliest video I’ve seen in awhile. I love these guys!
p.thad
Worship 101
I think there might be some people out there who learned how to worship from this video. Funny stuff.
p.thad
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