May 2013
1 post
I’ve spent the past year questioning all I’ve ever learned. Whether it be philosophical or physical. Through this time I’ve made some regretful decisions and some that I will be glad I made for the rest of my life. To most outside people I know I appear crazy for living like this WILLINGLY. In fact if I’m completely transparent I’ve had more than a few days where...
February 2013
11 posts
1 tag
“No greater treasure can be conceived than the Son of God.”
– John Piper
“Life ends…
Or does it?
Is this all we see,
Or will we wake up in...”
Paper Route →
I can’t go a day without listening to this song and thinking about the words
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
May 2012
2 posts
The first day of the rest of my life….
It’s been 6 hours and 25 minutes since I left Virginia. My jeep, Carlos, is dead, and I’m stuck in a hotel in a place called Pennsville, NJ. A quick search on Wikipedia shows that this town has a population of 13,194 and one of its most notable residents is none other than Dave Romansky, the famed Olympic racewalker (That’s a sport? Who knew?). Needless to say, this place is far from home, and is...
March 2012
1 post
“He must increase, but I must decrease”… those 7 words haunt me. They are an ever-present reminder that comfortability and apathy aren’t options. The sheer power of that statement is the reason Christians are killed everyday. If we actually lived like Jesus was our source of life… Let’s just say our world wouldn’t look like this…
How beautiful is...
January 2012
1 post
Passion 2012
As pretty much everyone knows by now I went to Passion Conference in Atlanta, GA this past week, and it was amazing. By far the best present I have ever received (Although the N64 did give this a run for it’s money). The thing about all of this is that people will want to know how I liked it or who was my favorite speaker, and while those are good questions there is just one thing I want to...
December 2011
5 posts
Good (Adam & Eve) by Matthew West & Leigh Nash
This song gives me chills whenever I listen to it…
It’s a song written through the eyes of Adam and Eve after The Fall. Honestly, I’ve never really stopped and thought about their lives after Genesis 2. I mean to have once tasted and seen perfection, and then all of sudden all of it’s gone. Can you imagine the guilt they experienced? The long nights without sleep just thinking about if they had...
It's Interesting to Think...
It’s interesting to think-
That our lives have no ending.
That death has no meaning.
That the “Goodbyes” we’ll be saying-
Instead should be “See You Soon”.
That for eternity we’ll be spending-
Our lives with the Creator of all men.
It’s interesting to think-
That we have hope like no other.
That my Father provided a way of rescue-
For not only myself, but for all my other sisters and...
What really is Christmas all about?...
As I sit in front of my family desktop facing the living room listening to music, it hit me. My house is Wicked “Christmas-y.” Off in the top-left corner next to our TV is a humungous Christmas tree filled with white lights, beautiful ribbon and family-related ornaments. The fireplace to the left of the tree has a nativity scene on the mantle and stockings are hung directly under it. A Christmas...
One Random Road trip Thought
“I know there’s nothing good inside me
My evil mind used to blind me
‘Till the spirit came to unbind me
Now I’m like, use me or otherwise grind me”
-From “Full Court Mess” by Pro featuring KB
“Lord kill me If I don’t preach the gospel
I’m still in my 20’s- but I’ll die if I got to
Already dead- so forget my flesh
I done been crossed over, see the...
November 2011
1 post
Jesus and PR tactics...
So today I was reading Matthew 6 in my quiet time. It talks about the Lord’s prayer and pretty much how we should live our lives. Something striked me as interesting though when I read over the passage. Jesus wanted his followers to keep their faith on the DL compared to the Pharisees and the other religious groups of their day. Now I can already here the “duh!” coming from the computer, but think...
October 2011
1 post
All you need is Love…
You know what? This world is full of a lot of things. The least of which is love. I see lust. I see jealousy. I see greed. I rarely see love. I guess that is why we emphasize it so much in church now. We have what everyone wants, but no one gives out. We see so many problems that frankly we can’t fix, but if we show them love? Well it’s a lot better than what anyone else can give them. As people...
August 2011
1 post
Growing...
Colossians 1:3-8
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4since we heard ofyour faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,5because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing—as it...
July 2011
2 posts
Do you want to get well?...
Today’s church service was top notch. We talked about James 1:19-26, and there was some powerful stuff there about how we talk. It really challenged me, but the thing that hit me the most came from one of the guys speaking during worship. He referenced John 5:1-8 and talked about the crippled man waiting beside the pool. As most of you know, he had been there 38 years waiting for someone to...
A lot has happened since I last wrote here. Some good. Some bad. That’s life thought y’know? I had a loan approved to get back to LU, but it turned out to be a mistake on their part. Finally got a job at a factory as a Temp only to be told 2 days later that they would be letting go me and the other temps due to a surplus of workers. This all happened on the same day too which was kind...
June 2011
3 posts
My thoughts on these past 24 hours...
So yesterday I decided to go for a walk. It was a long, frustrating day. I just had to get away and think. I had no idea where I was going, and frankly it didn’t matter. When I need to get away I just put on some comfortable shoes, put on my ipod and take off. Well, I went through a lot of neighbors I’ve never visited before. For the first hour of walking I never really processed...
Just a thought...
When we don’t even apply the principles of a sermon to our lives that week what’s the purpose of even showing up to church? Do we just do it to make us feel better or just to check it off our “to-do” list? Church isn’t for building up fake appearances. We go because we care about growing, communing with other Christians and because we decide to take a part of our...
Something deep I thought of while chilling on my...
Well over this summer, I’ve had some interesting thoughts on God, the universe, good & evil, etc., and it has really challenged the traditionalist way that I have perceived things. Some of my preconceived notions about God and The Bible have changed or been altered through a more thorough reading of The Scriptures and through more discussions with those that know more about everything than I...
May 2011
10 posts
Something worth thinking about (heads up it's a...
Alright so today I’ve been having an off day. It’s been kinda good, kinda bad you know what I’m saying? Ya you probably do. Anyways, here I am typing my frustrations away when I realized I hadn’t read my Bible today which was kind of a “Noel you’re an idiot” moment due to the what I just posted on Tumblr just 3 days ago. FAIL. Anyways, I asked God what...
Every week there's either...
a new album, artist or song that I’m obsessed with, and the reasons for that are many. I could really dig their originality, their style, their content, etc. and I usually can’t wait to share it with people. Well yesterday I was made aware that Jars of Clay had made an album this past October with about 43 different artists (Ok more like 15, but that’s still alot!!). So as per...
Alright I know this sounds bad but...
I kind of wish more people bought into this end of the world thing going on today. I mean just think about it…
The sales at stores would be incredible.
You could have your pick of any car.
You could stock up on groceries for free.
I might finally get a ticket to a game at Fenway Park. etc.
I mean the perks would be through the roof! I know. I’m evil. But still think about...
Places I'd love to visit...
Honestly if I could I would travel the world, but if that’s not a possibility in the future then I’ll settle for this list of places I’ve never been (in no particular order trust me haha):
Honolulu, Hawaii
Barcelona, Spain
Nuuk, Greenland
Liverpool, England
London, England
Tokyo, Japan
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Jerusalem, Israel
Montreal, Canada
...
Can't sleep so I wrote a poem about it haha...
I am tired,
Yet I cannot sleep.
I am exhausted,
But my mind roams free.
Ideas are the enemy of rest.
The quest to find something worth thinking about-
In the end only brings on more lethargy.
If only there was a good coffee shop in Lowell I'd...
I’ve been home for 4 days and I can’t even believe that. Time is flying right by and that’s fine by me to be honest. I’m learning to cherish certain seasons of my life, and I feel as if I didn’t capitalize on that last semester. Keeping mostly to myself 4 of the 5 months probably wasn’t the best idea, but hindsight is 20/20. It’s times like these when I...
Yesterday...
I reconnected with family on both sides so I could personally be there to give both my grandmothers Mother’s day gifts. It was actually a lot of fun, but something stuck out to me. Yesterday I met one of my dad’s older brothers whom I hadn’t seen in 13 years, and this was the first time I’ve ever had a conversation with him. What stuck out to me was that he immediately saw...
Endless thoughts....
106 pages, 11,833 words, 45 poems… That is how much I’ve written in the past year, and that’s just the POEMS. Not the essays, songs, etc. In my mind is trapped so many thoughts it appears to never end. If you were to ask me if I viewed myself as creative I’d say heck no. Random? You bet! Awkward. Most definitely. Creative? You got the wrong guy. It’s just…...
Learning...
You would think that going to Sunday School, watching Jesus movies, graduating from a Christian school and going to Liberty University that I’d have a pretty thorough knowledge of The Bible. I wish it was that easy. Starting in December I’ve embarked on a journey that has changed my view of God, and for the better. The best part is that it wasn’t from a class, but through talking...
I am addicted...
To Shoes ugh…
My list of shoes that I will get at some point (no particular order). Feel free to judge me.
1. Vibram Five Fingers (Haterz gon Hate)
2. Nike Free Run
3. Timberland Pro Magnus
4. Keds
5. Sperrys
6. Air Jordan Fly Wade
Judge Away
Sports:
They are entertaining. A great workout with peers. Something that bonds competing individuals when they are striving for a common goal. For the most part, they illicit all kinds of emotions. It is nearly impossible to separate emotion from any game of competitive nature. However, sometimes it may be to the detriment of those playing. Overly-emotional players can at times take away the enjoyment we...
April 2011
2 posts
I find it strange that...
1.) That the end of a semester is alway when I decide to actually make new friends.
2.) That I’m on my 3rd major, but finally feel at peace with what I’ve chosen.
3.) That at 20, I realize that I know nothing.
4.) That New England gets such a bad rep. Seriously, spend one week in Boston and you’ll see why I’m proud to be from Mass.
5.) That I’m actually beginning...
