Refuse

We must REFUSE to believe our wounds are our identity.  Stop using them as an excuse to stay stuck!

Beyond Adaptation

I bear these scars.  A constant reminder of my own inadequacy.  I’ve held everything and nothing all at once, and all at once been altogether broken.  But even scars fade with time.  Only You remain, and my determination is not enough.  Even so, I bear these scars.

Dysfunction

Break the cycle, be the change. Dysfunction can be overcome!

Death Of The Wicked

We must be careful not to take pleasure in the death of the wicked. YHWH addressed this in Ezekiel 33:11. Justice is one thing, hate is another.  Jesus had many hard sayings, most of which challenge our thinking and most importantly, our motives.

Addiction

Though addiction is very similar to a disease, it is not. Labeling it a disease presents it as something that is impossible to overcome. Through the power of Christ, however, the root cause of addiction, sin, can be overcome.

Convictions

I have come to learn that I cannot change peoples convictions. People tend to believe what they want, or as many of us, that which we were brainwashed with as children.

COLUMBINE: 10 YEARS LATER

Ten years ago this past Monday was the 10th anniversary of the “Columbine Massacre.”

I remember that day very well, as I was living in another suburb (Aurora) very close to Littleton, right outside of Denver, CO.  I have a morbid curiosity, and am strangely drawn to tragedy and things macabre, so this event has been a source of intrigue for me.

I was working as the Commercial Sales Manager for Lowe’s, and was at home that day due to sickness.  I remember watching the coverage of the event on local stations as the event unfolded live.  I find it interesting how much we think we know during these times, and when the dust settles, after the bodies are buried and they hype is over, we find out that everything wasn’t as it appeared to be, via media reports and speculations….  imagine that.

The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at Littleton’s Columbine High School 10 years ago this past Monday weren’t in the “Trenchcoat Mafia,” or desensitized videogamers. The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn’t been bullied — in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and “fags.”  They were bullies.

What is now beyond dispute — largely from their journals, which have been released over the past few years, is this: Harris and Klebold killed 13 and wounded 24, but they had hoped to kill thousands.

The two planned the attacks for more than a year, building 100 bombs and persuading friends to buy them guns. Just after 11 a.m. on April 20, they lugged a pair of duffel bags containing propane-tank bombs into Columbine’s crowded cafeteria and another into the kitchen, then stepped outside and waited.

Had the bombs exploded, they’d have killed virtually everyone eating lunch and brought the school’s second-story library down atop the cafeteria, police say. Armed with a pistol, a rifle and two sawed-off shotguns, the pair planned to pick off confused survivors who did not die in the explosions.

As a last terrorist act, a pair of gasoline bombs planted in Harris’ Honda and Klebold’s BMW had been rigged apparently to kill police, rescue teams, journalists and parents who rushed to the school — long after the pair expected they would be dead.

Dylan and Eric had parked the cars about 100 yards apart in the student lot. The bombs didn’t go off.

The Confederate Battle Flag

The Confederate battle flag was designed with deep religious meaning by Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, a slavery abolitionist.

The colors represent the following: red represents the blood of Christ; the white border represents the protection of God; and the blue “X” represents the Christian cross of St. Andrew, the first disciple of Jesus. The 13 stars represent the 13 Southern states of secession.

Robert E. Lee on Slavery

“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.” – Robert E. Lee

THEOLOGY

the·ol·o·gy
Pronunciation: \thē-ˈä-lə-jē\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English theologie, from Anglo-French, from Latin theologia, from Greek, from the- + -logia -logy
Date: 14th century

The study of religious faith, practice, and experience ; especially : the study of God and of God’s relation to the world.