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Hilarious!!!

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Dictionary.com: shun-to keep away from, from motives of dislike, caution, etc; take pains to avoid.

Marriam Webster: shun-to avoid deliberately and especially habitually

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd edition: shun-

1. To keep away from:avoid, burke, bypass, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, get around

2. To slight (someone) deliberately: cut, rebuff, snub, spurn, informal coldshoulder. Idioms: close/shut the door on, give someone the cold shoulder, turn one’s back on. 

I'm so glad that Christ doesn't treat us like this when we knowingly and willingly do it to him! I don't deserve to take one breath or one step but God allows me to anyway. I'll never understand what I truly deserve because instead of shunning me God decided to turn his back on his son. For some reason He believed that my life was worth saving, he believed that my life was worth watching a perfect man be torn to pieces. That doesn't make sense to me, but His ways are not my ways and His thoughts are not my thoughts. I believe that the only reason why people continue to "shun" others is because of pride, Jesus never shunned people because he cared more about God than himself. To be shunned by God is the worst thing I can think of.

Father, forgive me for being bitter with people and for tuning my back on people when I have been called to love them. I'm so sorry that my pride causes me to act like such an inconsiderate jerk and I'm sorry that most of the time it didn't even bother me. I know that I still wouldn't care if it wasn't for you're grace and I'm so thankful for that! Please show me how to love like you, show me what it means to die to myself. This morning I heard a pastor say "we are all for grace until we have to extend it to others". This is true for me, so God I need you to keep teaching what it means to extend grace to other people and to extend it often!

Stolen Blog from J.D. Greear

I am writing with an urgent request and a call to immediate action.

Sayed Mossa is a new believer in Afghanistan who is in jail in Afghanistan because he decided, of his own free choice, to follow Jesus. In this letter he managed to smuggle out through the hands of a Westerner, he describes daily beatings, torture, and sexual molestation. He stands to be executed for his decision to follow Jesus next week. He has a wife and 6 children, one of whom is disabled.

Part of me flushes with anger when I consider the price America has paid to help Afghanistan escape from the Taliban, and think that this is how the new government treats its own people. Is this what we sacrificed to produce? Is freedom of conscience and freedom of speech not a fundamental right of human beings everywhere?

Here is what I am asking you to do:

1. Pray. Like the early church for Peter in Acts 12. Summit Church, this is our brother. This is a father with children. He is being imprisoned and faces execution for doing what we do freely each Sunday. Pray that Sayed will be released and that he will not falter under persecution.
2. Write your Congressman or Senator. Put feet to your prayers. President Obama and our government can put pressure on President Karzai to release him. That was worked before. As this article explains, all it will take is a nod from President Karzai and he would be released. You can contact the White House or write to your state representative. This past Sunday was the national Sunday to pray for the persecuted church; this is a good way to put that into action.
3. To my Muslim friends who may be reading this blog, can I ask that you do what you can to call for a stay on this execution and full religious freedom in Afghanistan? I was with several of you last week at the Global Faith Forum in Keller, Tx, where you were clear that you cherished the freedom of religion we all enjoy in America. You said that you wished that majority Muslim nations enjoyed the same freedom. I believed you when you said that. Now would be the time for you to do something about that. It is one thing for Christians to call for a stay on this execution; it would be even more powerful if you would do it. His life is in your hands.

Take the World but give me Jesus-Ascend the Hill

Take the world, but give me Jesus,


All its joys are but a name;


But His love abideth ever,


Through eternal years the same.

Take the world, but give me Jesus,


Sweetest comfort of my soul;


With my Savior watching over me,


I can sing though billows roll.

Take the world, but give me Jesus,


Let me view His constant smile;


Then throughout my lifelong journey


He will lead me all the while.

Take the world, but give me Jesus


In His cross my trust shall be,


Till, with clearer, brighter vision,


Face to face my Lord I see.

Take the world but give me Jesus

Oh the height and depth of mercy

Oh the length and breadth of love

Oh the fullness of redemption

Pledge of endless life above!

Ascend the Hill has an amazing version of this hymn...you can download the entire CD for free if you go to this website!!!

http://comeandlive.com/downloads

Untitled

I don’t know just what to say

To all I’ve taken in

I don’t know just how to feel

But I know you’re more that this.

And honestly, it breaks my heart

To see you walk away

I know you say it’s not for good

But somehow truth has lost its place…

I’m so sorry now

That everything you’re losing here

Is all that you’ve allowed.

Oh how I’ll pray for you to see

I know you say that you’re ok

But you’re pride keeps pressing repeat.

The words I spoke to you, I pray

Were never from my mind

Cause all our thoughts are tangled up

And How I should remind

Myself, with every step I take

That evil’s been killing me inside.

All He simply asks of you

Is to give it up cause its not your life.

Your drowning in lies

And you ask me why

I Believed

In something that I cannot see

I guess the view is better

Faced down, on my knees

Broken before the King.

You are more

Then what you give yourself credit for

Yeah, you are more

Because your life has been spoken for

And you are more

Then these pieces you think cant be restored

He has made you more

Because He loves you more…then she ever could. 

This made me laugh A LOT!!!

This is a tad inappropriate but it is SO freaking funny!!! I've watched it like 10 times in the last hour!!!

Dictionary.com helped me out with this one

Jealousy: The act of being jealous (Feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages)

This has been the state of my heart lately, I've been really upset that I don't get to hang out with all my friends anymore, I'm upset that my job is going SO SLOW and I'm scared that I won't be able to pay bills and lastly, I'm upset because I feel like I've lost some things that I'm never going to be able to get back. Being upset isn't something that happens to a "bad-ass" so instead of praying or talking about it, I've just tried to act like everything is ok but this feeling of sadness quickly turned into jealousy and now I am finding myself being irritated with everything.  My heart is so wicked and in desperate need of fixing but because I'm so stubborn I don't always want to admit it...God, I need help and not from another person or book or sermon but from you! I'm so sorry that I have been jealous of other people when I should have been excited for them! I'm sorry that I'm not trusting you with all of these things, if I'm being honest I'm not really sure what it looks like to trust you with all of this...but Lord, I do know that I just keep messing up and hurting people when I try to do things on my own. I don't want to hurt people anymore. Please forgive me for focussing on all the things that I don't have and forgetting all of the things that you have given me. Please help me understand what it looks like and means to trust you and only you! Thank you for being so patient and gentle with me, I know that I don't fully understand it but I'm so thankful for what I do understand! I love you!              

Watch my Bro act it up!!!

http://www.steelroots.com/videos/would-you-like-fries-with-that

Amazing Because It Is-The Almost

I was so scared of everything you put in front of me
I've been arching every part of me
Just to see
See
Why you need me to be
The boy you need me to be

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saves a wretch like me
I once was lost
And now I'm found
Was blind but now I see

I just wanna see

I'm the type of person who lets fear drive
I'm the type of guy who lets it drive
Cause I'm addicted, I'm needy,
I'm lost without you
I need you
I need you

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saves a wretch like me
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Was blind but now I see

Amazing grace (amazing grace)
How sweet the sound (how sweet)
That saved a wretch like me (that saved a wretch like me)
I once was lost
But now I'm found (you know I'm found)
Was blind but now I see

He is Exalted

He is exalted
The King is exalted on high
And I will praise Him
He is exalted
Forever exalted
And I will praise His Name

He is the Lord
Forever His truth shall reign
Heaven and earth
Rejoice in His holy Name
He is exalted the King is exalted on high

Oh Christian Radio stations...

About a week ago I was listening to a sermon on the radio in the car (I know a bunch of people just judged me). A pastor was talking about his encounter with an older woman in their church, he said that the woman was pretty old (I pictured a woman about 75 because he never gave an exact age) and that she was battling bone marrow cancer. He explained how this cancer was probably the most painful and how it was quickly wearing this woman down. He said he saw her that morning and told her that he and the rest of the church staff were praying for her, her response caught him off guard. She asked the pastor what they were praying and he told her they had prayed for healing and strength. The woman thanked the pastor but asked if they could add one more thing to their prayers for her. She asked if they could pray that she wouldn't waste this. When I heard this I sat with my mouth opened for about a minute! I just kept thinking that this woman mind was wrapped around the Lord so tightly, she could probably get away with self pity very easily but she isn't focused on herself. Over the past couple months the Lord has done almost everything he can do to get me to see how selfish I am, he keeps tearing away all the things that I've put before him to show me that he is better but instead of thinking "Lord, please don't let me waste this", I've been thinking "this sucks".
God, forgive me for being so selfish. I know I will probably never really understand how selfish I am but I pray that by your grace, you would increase and I would decrease. This isn't about me, it isn't about other people, it's about you! I've said those words before but now I feel like you have given me such a better understanding of what they mean. 
I don't want to keep looking back at this mess I've made, I want to be focused on you and trust you to help me clean all this up! You say “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” I know I'm going to screw up...probably a whole stinking lot but I want to mess up running after you, not because I took my eyes off you. 
I don't want to care about how other people think of me or what other people are saying about me. I don't want to care but those thoughts are consuming my mind. Your word says this, "Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge". God, I know that ultimately I have only sinned against you. Thank you for not giving up on me when you would have been completely justified to. Thank you for wanting me even when I didn't want you. Thank you for loving me even when I intentionally treat you badly. The words "I Love You" seem so worthless when I say them because I'm starting to understand what you mean when you say them, and the more I learn, the more I'm blown away. But I do Love you and it makes me excited to know that the more I learn about your love the better i'll be able to love you and other people! Father, please don't let me waste one second of this on myself!

Love this!!!

Hallelujah from Elevation Worship on Vimeo.