I was thinking about that last post...

I guess that you can't expect someone to do things your way when they play by different rules, ya know? Like you can't expect a non-christian to act like a Christain. I think that's in Romans or James...I'll have to check.

If nothing else, it would be nice if people acted like they had some class.

Peace out.
--SavedBy Piercing at 16:41

I've been checking out other blogs to see what people are thinking. Aparently they aren't.

Does anyone know how to convey emotion without cussin' like a sailor? Your 13 year-old friends might think it's cool, but most adults --you know, older people-- see it as a stunted vocabulary. Get a thesaurus or something...
--SavedBy Piercing at 12:57

HOSEA 11:9 "For I am God and not man--the Holy One among you."

God is not a man. He does not just get angry and fly off the handle. His anger is only for good reason, and the Bible constantly talks about how patient He is. Don't think that you know God's reasoning behind the events in your life.

Isaiah 55:8--
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:52

Geocities is messing up the ftp for bloggers. I'll try to work around it for a while...
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:24

Some things I KNOW:

1. The Bible is true.
2. The God it speaks about is real.
3. Boxers allow too much freedom.
4. Bruce Lee would whip Jet Li like a little girl.
5. The Offspring have a monkey that writes their songs.
6. There is no such thing as a true atheist.
7. Under no circumstances should one consume power steering fluid [unless directed by a physician].
8. Someone needs to stop the Rolling Stones before someone breaks a hip.
9. The only thing scarier than another President Bush is a President Gore.
10. Death is for keeps.
11. The only thing keeping my car together is half a roll of duct tape, 2 ace bandages, a safety pin, and atmospheric pressure.
12. You don't stop getting zits after you hit 19.
13. God is head-over-heels in love with you.
14. You don't want to admit that's true because then you would have to respond to Him.

15. You can wait too long.
--SavedBy Piercing at 20:58

I swiped this joke from this guy's page:

A river overflows and washes over a community. Terrified residents climb to their rooftops as helicopter crews struggle to rescue them. So one of the helicopters flies by a church where a priest is sitting. The crew lowers the rope and tells the man to hold on.

"Go on, I don't need rescue. Jesus will save me," the priest says.

A second helicopter flies by, but the priest says again, "go on, I don't need rescue. Jesus will save me."

A boat goes by and the people on board ask him to get aboard, but again they are shooed away.

Finally, the waters rise so high that the priest drowns.

In heaven, the priest exclaims accusingly at Jesus, "I don't believe it! All my life I have spent trusting in you, and you let me die!"

To which Jesus replies, "YOU don't believe it? I sent three rescue teams to help you!"

Ever live your life like this? I see all kinds of people, especially on the net, that are searching for God, but when He tries to show them anything, they just plug their ears and scream, "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!" People don't realize that God is trying to rescue them. People keep wanting Jesus to save them, and they won't even take the rope He throws out.

Don't be that guy. Open your eyes.
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:58

Check this out. It's a religion selector thing. I guess I'm a Quaker or something... Pretty scary, huh? I don't think I can handle all that oatmeal...
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:45

These sites crack me up...
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:05

I guess that the proverbial "they" have met again this year and their newest saying ["you know that They say..."] is about the old 3 second rule about food dropped on the floor [for those not familiar with this, if you drop food on the floor, you must shout out, "Three second rule!" and pick up the food before the cooties can latch on].

The new rule, I am told, is the "5 second rule." It says, "Five seconds on the ground, Three in water."
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:04

Ever have a pile of clothes laying on your floor when you are really desperate for underwear and you don't know if they are clean or not? I hate it that the only way to tell if they are clean or not is to *sniff sniff* smell 'em.
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:32

I saw the Left Behind movie last night. I was dissapointed. The books stinkin' rawk, christian literature or not, but the movie looked like something some high school kids made. The acting was baaaaaad.

I heard that they gave the movie idea to some big-name studios (whoever that is) and they wanted to take all the God stuff out of it, so they settled for a smaller company with a smaller budget. I was willing to accept that this would probably keep the movie from becoming Titanic or Independence Day.

Here's the most dissapointing part...after all that hub-ub about God stuff, they really didn't present the gospel. The books did a great job of it without getting all preachy, but I don't even think the movie mentioned Jesus. Everyone just prayed, "God, I need you," and "Forgive me." La-dee-Freakin'-da.

I was thoroughly let down.

Read the books. They rawk. I PROMISE you will not be disappointed.
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:30

Is there so little hope in the world? Every site I see that has anything to do with Jesus is either flat-out trashing Him, or else making him out to be some impotent, fru-fru diety for only those who buy little angel pins and have "Jesus Saves" bumper stickers on their Continentals as they drive 45 mph on the highway. Has Christianity lost touch with what it is all about?

If you have a problem with God, make sure that it is with Him, and not Christians. People suck. If you want to see people, read about God on some website or base everything you believe on whatever your preacher spoon-feeds you. If you want to see God, read the Bible.

Don't you DARE get your view of God from what I write. I'm writing about God, not for Him. Don't put that responsibility on me.
--SavedBy Piercing at 13:50

hmmm. Interesting...You either want to laugh or cry. I'm not sure yet.
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:21

Here's just some dumb page about me living in the country. It'll get more interesting as time wears on. Check out my Hick-o-meter and see how Hick your town is.
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:47

It's raining today. All I can hear in my head is Axl Rose squealing "...nothin' lasts forever, even cold November rain..." I need some Advil.
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:09

OK. I got a page up with some verses about God's Love. It's nothing special, but maybe you should check it out...
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:02

So I'm sitting in church yesterday, on the first day of our 4 day "revival," which is really just a hyped-up word for guest speaker, and he's talking about some of this love stuff. Here's some of it:

Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:
"I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving-kindness..."

The part of the verse that I'm talking about is that "everlasting love" thing. What does everlasting mean? I think that everybody has at least heard that God loves them, but this puts a new spin on it, huh? Everlasting means forever. It has no intention of ever terminating. It does not end.

This is one of those verses that tell us that no matter what we -have done/do/will do-, God will still love us. He might not be all that happy with us, but He will still love us.

I think I'm gonna write a page for that sidebar on the left about God's love so that it will stay up there. When I get it up, check it out.

Peace out. Have a good day.
--SavedBy Piercing at 08:19

I was talking to a friend of mine today, and she was talking about how she doesn't feel like anyone can love her. Every feel that way?
While I can't honestly say I've ever felt exactly that way, I've been pretty lonely before. I've been heartbroken and let down. I've thought about suicide once or twice...

In spite of all that, I can also tell you that Jesus loves you and he knows how it is to be you. Boy does that sound cliche. I think that we throw that around way too lightly and that it's lost all of it's meaning.

He knows how it is to be unloved.

Think about it. He was abandoned by all of His friends and beaten and hung out to die because He loved us. Don't EVER think that God doesn't know what it's like to be you [<--double negative]. I think that's part of the reason that He chose to save us the way he did by becoming a human.

He suffered for you. You know anyone else that would do that?

HE LOVES YOU.
--SavedBy Piercing at 23:03

Now I have a page for Crazy Carl and a lame-o page for me. The 'Me' page just has 3 pics on it right now. I'll try to work up some good stuff for that page.
--SavedBy Piercing at 22:48

Check out my page for Rachel.
--SavedBy Piercing at 21:40

OK. So I am from the city and now I live in the country. There is some weird stuff going on out here. Check out this conversation I heard tonight:

S:..so what did you do with yours?

D: Well, my brother carved his, but I shot mine.

S: Me too!

Me: What the heck are you guys talking about?

S: What?

D: Our pumpkins, stupid!

Yee Ha. I can't wait to get back to the city.
--SavedBy Piercing at 21:38

My sister, Jessica suprised me and drove 4 hours to see me last night. I was glad to see her. We spent a lot of time talking about God and what all of this is about.

We get so caught up with going to church, and praying, and reading the Bible, and tithing, and sacraments/ordinances that we can't see the forest through the trees, ya know? All that stuff is good and important, but that's not the point of all of this. God wants a RELATIONSHIP with Him, not a bunch of pew-warmers that just go through the motions to get some golden ticket to heaven.

God wants people that LIVE their faith, not just save it for Sunday mornings or mass or whatever. God isn't up there just making rules and regulations so that we can't have any fun. He is up there because He wants us to experience His love. As Christians, it is our job to show everyone else the love He has shown us

James 1:27--
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Preach it, James.
--SavedBy Piercing at 13:23

Here' s some sweet lyrics. These are from Sweet River Roll by Waterdeep off of Everyone's Beautiful.

I'm lookin' out my car window / staring at the pouring rain
though your house is fifteen miles away I can still feel your pain
I've thought and prayed and worked it through / about a hundred times or more
of how your soul cries out to everyone to help you get up off the floor
Right now it's morning, maybe you're sleeping / I bet you're totally unaware
of the flood of kisses you hold back by the way that you despair
It ain't me I'm talking about here / or anybody else you can touch
That's all I'm gonna say right now. I don't wanna say to much.
Except...
Sweet Jesus Roll...all over me
Sweet Jesus Roll...just to set me free

Good Stuff.
--SavedBy Piercing at 13:50

On the way here I watched a guy mowing his yard just to mulch up the leaves. Does anyone else find this strange? Seems like it would be a never ending job. Not only that, but I kinda like the leaves on the ground. With all the grass turning yellow, it's kinda nice to have some color.
--SavedBy Piercing at 13:43

I think I've got 2 new pages running, my Jess page and my Brian page. Hope ya like 'em. If not, you can go sit on a tack...
--SavedBy Piercing at 10:37

PSALM 139:1...Gotta love it..."You have searched me and you know me." I heard that the original Hebrew for that verse doesn't have the second "me." Try, "You have searched me and you know..." Hmm... that's a scary thought. What does God know about us? He "knows." He knows all the junk that we do...what people have done to us...what we are scared of...what we need...He knows what we did last summer...

Did you ever stop to think that God knows you? Pretty weird feeling, really. Why does He still love me? I'm really not that bad of a kid to most people, but He knows that I've done some pretty crappy stuff--some downright disgusting.

I think I'm gonna keep studying this chapter for a while. There's some good stuff here.
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:12

Ever just start out the day wrong? I was woken [waken?] up this morning at 7:05 by Brian, wanting a ride to his 8 o'clock. I didn't mind giving him the ride, I just would've appreciated maybe a full 20 minutes to shower and shave...So then I go to get my clothes out of the dryer and they smell like I've been workin' the dishroom at KFC or something...I guess letting them sit in the washer for 3 days wasn't a good idea after all...
--SavedBy Piercing at 09:04

OK. I think that I also got my spiritual biography up. We'll see how that goes over. It is taken from a paper that I wrote for school. Now you know that's gonna be good....um... yea. Look out--I'm gonna put my Algebra test up next week...
--SavedBy Piercing at 21:55

This is a pic of me a couple of years ago during my punk rawk stage. This one was after a few more cups of coffee
--SavedBy Piercing at 21:23

Here's a pic of me looking pretty GQ. That was back when I was modeling a lot...either that or I was going to a funeral...
--SavedBy Piercing at 21:18

I got my first two pages up now. My What's this about page and my links page.
--SavedBy Piercing at 20:56

Whooo Wee! Look ma, my own page. Let's hope this doesn't turn out really lame. (This is a lot of pressure!)
--SavedBy Piercing at 14:27