It's Warm!

Well, the title pretty much says it all. The thermometer at home had the temperature at almost 70 but online it says that it's just above 60. But hey I'll take whatever I can get. After the 5 months at around 30 or below (mostly below) you feel like putting on shorts with this kind of weather. Less than a week ago it was in the 20s but now its much warmer, you've got to love Michigan weather.

Promised Pictures

Here are the pictures of us at the public access television station. I got a digital camera for Christmas and I'm still trying to figure out how to use it so some of the pictures came out a little blurry.

Video Work

Well things are slowing down a little bit here, although it still seems a little hectic. But hey I'm not complaining. I don't know if you've heard about the Public Access Television class that a bunch of us at TEP are taking. Basically we pay $75 each (cheap when it comes to video work) and for 10 weeks they teach everything about video production. After the class is over we can check out their really nice equipment for FREE! Needless to say this is great for The Ezekiel Project. Anyways we've moved into the studio part of the class and I think it's really a blast. I've done some video work before but this is totally new to me and I enjoy it a lot. Christina, who works with TEP, wrote a funny blog about the experience so check that out here www.tepse.org/tepnews.html
Lord willing if I remember I'll try to take some pictures this week and post them here.

I haven't forgotten about my blog

Well I guess it's been quite awhile since my last post. Now it's not that I just completely forgot or didn't want to post anything, I've just been a little busy the last few weeks. Just to make this quick, easy, and painless, I'll keep it short. Christmas was good and the Lord really provided for my wants and needs. The downside of Christmas was that my family and I were sick for about 2 weeks straight. Since getting better I've been studying like crazy because I've been teaching Cults & World Religions at TEPSE. So that has been the thing that eats up my time (in a good way). That's about all that's really happened in my life recently so you should be up to date. :) Hope all is well with everyone and Lord willing I'll be posting more often.

CTU Christmas Party

Well I've had some frustrating trouble with Blogger here so this post is going to be shorter than I had intended. Right now I'm just getting sick of looking at my computer screen, but that's ok it's almost time for bed! Anyways enough of my whining.

CTU (Calvary Truth Unit) my chapel's youth group had our Christmas party last week. It was really a lot of fun and I think everyone thought the same. My parents and I are the leaders of CTU and were of course in charge of setting the whole thing up. My mom and set up the Christmas tree and decorated the house the night before. My mom was really dilligent and wrapped all of their presents. This is the part that I'm proud of, we got all the kids the same thing a couple of books on how to study the Bible and some candy and a group picture. Then we took those and wrapped them in different sized boxes and bags and started a white elephant gift exchange. So needless to say we encouraged the swaping of presents which was accompianed with lots of laughs. Then we made them open them at the same time.

Afterword we talked for a little bit about how we should be constantly looking unto Jesus accroding to Heb. 12:1-3. I had prepared for just a few minutes of talking about this subject but it morphed into somewhere around half-an-hour of discussing how we are slaves of God and that we need to God our all. Lord willing this really sunk into the kids minds, but just for me it was a good reminder that I owe God bigtime. Just because my sins have been forgiven and I'm going to Heaven doesn't mean I can do anything I want and/or get lazy.

Well I've had enough of typing for one day. Maybe I'll try for somemore later in the week. Merry Christmas.
JC

Jesus is Better than Santa

Here is a little article that I found, oddly enough, in a Christian joke book, but I thought it was pretty cool. Thus the reason I’m posting it here, hope you enjoy it.


“Santa lives at the North Pole; Jesus is everywhere. Santa rides in a sleigh; Jesus rides on the wind and walks on water. Santa comes but once a year; Jesus is an ever present help. Santa comes down your chimney uninvited; Jesus stands at your door and knocks. Santa makes you stand in line to see him; Jesus is as close as the mention of His name. Santa lets you sit on his lap; Jesus lets you rest in His arms. Santa asks, “Little boy, little girl, what is your name?” Jesus knew our names before we did. Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly; Jesus has a heart full of love. Santa offers “Ho, ho, ho”; Jesus offers health, help, and hope. Santa says “You better not cry”; Jesus says, “Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.” Santa's little helpers make toys; Jesus makes new lives, mends hearts, repairs broken homes. Santa may make you chuckle; Jesus gives you joy. Santa puts gifts under your tree; Jesus became our gift and died on a tree. There's really no comparison. Jesus is the reason for the season.”

Holiday fun!

I don't know about you but I really enjoyed my Thanksgiving week. My parents and I spent the week down in Ohio. The weekend before Thanksgiving we stayed with my Uncle John and on Sunday my dad spoke at Westlake Bible Fellowship and then I spoke to the Awana kids during their counsel time. After all that my mom and I went to my cousin Jen's house where her husband and daughter were along with my other cousins and their 4 boys. Needless to say it was a busy fun filled house. We just did a whole lot of nothing while there. We would stay up late everynight because that was our time alone when the kids were asleep. Here are my cousins on the couch ready for our night of fun

Here I am all alone in the big chair

My dad stayed with my Uncle John until Tuesday when I went and picked him up. Then came the great Thanksgiving day. I have to say my cousin Drew did a fantastic job on the turkey. Everything else just came out great. Oh if only we had some leftovers. :(

After the gluttony producing dinner we occupied ourselves with just hanging out, played some video games, and took some family pictures.Playing some Guitar Hero

A blurry photo of my little cousin Noah giving his best John Lennon impression

The whole family

It was a great time. It was even more fun because almost everyone was there which was a first in a while. Everyone made it except my cousin Mike who is in Iraq, but he did get to call and pray with us. Sorry for the long post but I thought you would like the pictures that I absconded from everyone's cameras. :) Happy Thanksgiving