frozen chosen? *really*? that's...pretty funny, actually. now i've got this mental image of a bunch of people in a church, encased in blocks of ice that are slowly melting on the carpet.
Lol!
I told one of my friends from another church that if someone were to clap or raise their hand or anything during a hymn we'd probably stone them.
they don't call us the "frozen chosen" for nothing.
but I love my church. they're my family.
haha yesssss
:P
we went to a baptist church when i was on a retreat soph year and as we were sitting there all of us were like O_o this would so not happen at our church
“The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”
“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”
“The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”
“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”
frozen because our services are strict and traditional.
supposedly we're completely incapable of moving or clapping to music
chosen cause of predestination.
Exactly!
I love them, and I love the old hymns, and pipe organ music...
but I also like the contemporary, so I go to a youth group at a nondenom church on wednesdays....
it's about the people anyway, not the music, and i am glad you are both blessed with wonderful families =] my 'family' was strong last summer, but this summer it seems like none of us have time for each other. my good friend alex left to go on tour for the summer, and he was really the strongest of us all. we need to learn to get along without him, but it's still hard...i really miss him. he was the one who showed me that God loved me even when I wasn't perfect. He's one of the few guys I've met that love God with everything they've got. He used to SI, too, and he helped me a lot...I'll stop rambling now, i just really miss him =]
and about the laughing in church thing, i get in trouble for that so much! especially since i sit up front. i can't help it, some times my pastor gets SO stereotypical and one of us will start quietly grinning and before you know it we're all fighting not to laugh. and then my pastor will look at us and start laughing...thankfully he doesn't get mad, he actually says it keeps him from speaking 'christianese' and freaking out any new people that show up =]
i think you guys would like ron mcghee...he's a really great christian comedian. he's got this one comedy bit about people praying that is REALLy funny...
“The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”
“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”
You must bear your neighbor's burden within reason
Join Date: Jun 2007
well, I used to be christen. But I define christen as anyone who believes in jesus christ.(inho) then I kinda ditched that religion and started to look at others. So I was into paganism for a while. then I became Mormon. XD*big switch, huh*
I don't know why that mattered. but I just felt like saying it.=)
Just got back from helping out at youth club camp, and it was awesome. Was quite low for the week or so before I went, and I confided (finally, it's taken me a long time to get to this stage) in one of the leaders there (Ruth), mainly because while I was there my cousin went into hospital, but that's not important really.
She was so great about it, it was like we really connected. She's had many similar problems to me, and she's gotten through all them. Some of the things she told me, well, it was so, so inspiring, and I'm going to do my all now, to recover from this, so that I can help other people the way she's helped me.
When we had what they call "encounter time", they were talking about this guy, he went through self harm, drugs, alcoholism, anorexia, and bulimia, but he got through it with God's help, and now no-one would know about his past unless they were specifically told, and how did he know that, well because it was him, and afterwards, because Ruth had assured me that I'd be OK in short sleeves, he'd seen the state of my arms, and he came up to me afterwards, told me him and his new wife had been praying for me, since they'd seen them, and that he knew I could get through this patch in my life.
Just... it's been such an inspiring weekend, and I wanted to share somewhere. Sorry it's so long though.
~Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly~
You must bear your neighbor's burden within reason
Join Date: Jun 2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by aquatickitten
I ran across this song quite some time ago...I was wondering what you all think? I was thinking of maybe doing a human video to this song, or something.
"Bleed Like Me" by Trapt
Have your nails scratched the deepest
Have you broken skin this time
Made your mark and took me deeper
As you drown me with your eyes
I held my hand over your mouth
As you scream at me to feel
You felt my scars with understanding
But I can't promise anything
Can you tell
That I picked my poison well
That I have no more to sell to you
Is it really that important that I settle down
Does it really even matter that I have my doubts
I search for the one who bleeds
I reach for the one who bleeds
I forget to dream in color
I am better off alone
Honest hearts are undercover
We are shadows on our own
Lose ourselves in open waters
Always swimming back to shore
My addictions have no bounderies
Now I'm crying out for more
Can you tell
That I picked my poison well
That I have no more to sell to you
Is it really that important that I settle down
Does it really even matter that I have my doubts
I search for the one who bleeds
I reach for the one who bleeds
Like me
I have my doubts
I have my doubts
And so does everbody else
So help me take this all away
You gotta help me take this all away
Please help me take this all away
And bleed like me
So help me take this all away
You gotta help me take this all away
Please help me take this all away
And bleed like me
Is it really that important that I settle down
Does it really even matter that I have my doubts
I search for the one who bleeds
I reach for the one who bleeds
I reach for
I reach for
I reach for
I reach for
I reach for the one who bleeds
Like me!
can't believe it's august already.
i'm def. growing in my newly renewed relationship with God
i still slip up in some areas.
but i have to rely on God's strength, not my own.
to carry me through...
sigh.
tis hard.
I know, it seems like the summer is slipping by so quickly.
I'm still at a loss--
I don't know how to strengthen my relationship with God.
The only one in my immediate family who's religious is my mom, and she's strictly Catholic, something I don't always agree with. My confirmation group (we started last year and get confirmed next spring) is just a bunch of teenagers dragged there against their will by their parents, who think if their son/daughter's baptized and confirmed they're all set.
I'm just at a bit of a dead end when it comes to broadening and deepening this faith. Which I want to do, more than anything.
Though your sins are as red as blood, they will be whiter than snow or wool --Isaiah 1:18
Sorrow may last through the night, but joy will come in the morning --Psalm 30:5
