Stay Tuned America...

2010-01-24T11:51:00.002-05:00

Hmm so I was thinking in church today. Dad read a quote from Winston Churchill. This is probably the most famous speech given by him. In what probably seemed the darkest our for Europe, most of Europe had fallen under the rule of Nazi Germany. Now there focus had turned to the little Island of Briton. This was the last stronghold that stood in the way of America. The Prime Minister of this little island, was Sir Winston Churchill. It was now they he gave his speech to the people who looked to him for strength. Its a bit long but well worth reading:

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag of fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the liberation of the old"

The attitude he had was not one of 'if you do this i will do this' but rather, 'we will fight till the end'. There was no promise of winning. But still they would fight. It got me thinking that often our attitude towards evangelism is one of, 'its something i'm supposed to do' when it should be more like the people of Briton. We need to fight till the end for what we know is right, and not give in to the oppression. This is the attitude of the persecuted church all around the world. They are threatened, tortured, and murdered, yet still they press forward and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So I hope this is a challenge to you, it defanitly is to me.

2010-01-17T19:17:00.002-05:00

Hmm... life really makes one think. If one wants to. Full of complex relationships, weird people, and the desire to feel like your life is fullfilling. The hardest part about this i think is that, we will feel the most satisfied when we let God direct our lives. Its weird because the more i chase other things that are 'fullfilling', the more discontent i become. Weird huh? God is pretty cool.

So I didn't have work on friday and i don't work tomorrow. cuz of work slowing down. So unfourtanitly i might be on the job hunt again. :( I hate hunting for jobs. But on the bright side, I might be working with CEF this summer again. Which i'm so excited for cuz i love working for them! Anyway thats whats new in my life.

2010-01-11T18:48:00.002-05:00

So i'm pretty sick of winter. I have come up with a plan. I am going to google ways to make summer come faster. You never know whats out there. You know, maybe nuke the north pole, the earth my tilt a little but. Or we could build a massive tow rope and build an equally as big spaceship and pull our earth straight so its not tilted wrong, that way you winter people can move to the north pole and there'll still be summer. Hmm i might have some good ideas there. If you have any feel free to let me know. I also need to find some sort of hobby, preferably something that doesn't cost lots of money. If you have any ideas for that i'll accept them gladly. :D

2010-01-09T16:29:00.000-05:00

I'm ressurecting my blog, cuz i'm bored. So whats new in my life, i'm growing my hair out, i'm working right now, and planning on going to Liberty next fall. But the best of all, is... I GOT NAPOLEON DYNAMITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah theres gonna be some changes around here on this blog so stay tuned America.

2009-06-06T09:37:00.000-04:00

Well its pretty much been almost forever since i've updated my blog. So here goes, since last september I've been going to Word of Life Bible Institute in NY. Its been pretty cool, the winters suck and are super cold. I think I'll move down south when I get some more money saved up now that I've spent it all there. But it was a good experience though, I learned alot and defanitly grew closer to God. And I met alot of really cool people who i call friends. :) This summer I'm gonna be back up there working as a counselor for their teen summer camp. Its gonna be fun though, pray for me. I might die, that wouldn't be good either. So yeah thats whats been going on in my life over the past year and a half since I last updated. Oh and I bought a car too. Its pretty cool. So yeah thats it I think... I don't know if anyone will ever read this but who knows.

2008-01-24T16:27:00.000-05:00

I just got back from the docters. Yesterday i had an MRI and today they told me the results. i did tare a ligament in my knee. I have to rest for 10 days now than I'll go back and they'll decide whether to do surgery or physical therapy. Please pray that I'll only need therapy.
I bought Relient K's newest cd today. And I got a Pillar cd. So I'm gonna be really bored the next couple weeks cuz I can't work. So if you get the time maybe you'd like to email me. my email is ctm1690-at-gmail.com

2008-01-21T14:37:00.000-05:00

It looks like its time for an update. Since august I've been working on a potato farm. Other than that nothing really is new. I'm finishing up my last year of highschool and in the fall I'm planning on going to Word of Life. On friday I did something to my knee at work, the docters think I might have torn a ligament. So tomorrow I go for an MRI. I guess they'll be able to tell what happened from that. So right now I'm just sitting around the house doing school. Exciting huh? If anybody even still reads my blog then heres an update you can comment on.

2007-08-28T18:22:00.000-04:00

So what have I been up to latley? I finished working with CEF in the begining of august. Than I didn't do anything till yesterday. Yesterday I started school and my new job. I work at a potatoe farm doing lots of different stuff. So thats what I've been doing.

2007-07-06T22:10:00.000-04:00

Well here is the long awaited post. I've been really busy lately, working with CEF and all. I've havn't really been doing much else. So what are all you up too?

2007-05-18T08:13:00.000-04:00

The world is safe again! The Return of the Jedi! I have a Chemistry test today so if I'm not on for a year or so...you can kinda guess what happened. Only one more week of school. (Halelujah chorous starts up)

2007-04-30T10:03:00.000-04:00

I would like you all to meet Orio. My sisters rabbit who gets to sit around all day and do nothing.

2007-03-19T14:04:00.000-04:00

Yesterday I was coming out of the church and helping people get into their cars. It was really icy. Wednessday it was 75, saturday we had a foot of snow on the ground. Anyway I was standing there watching someone get in there car, there door was open, and out from under there door stuts this dog. So I grabbed the dog cuz he didn't have anybody walking him. I looked at his tags and found a phone number. But it was for the county treasurer, you called him and told him the number of the dog(also on the tag) and he would call the owner I guess. BUt who ever heard of a treasurer working on sundays. So it looked like we'd have to babysit this dog till tomorrow. Which was ok with me but dad didn't like the idea to much. So my bro and my friend and I walked up the road to see if our neighbor knew who owned the dog. He didn't but just as we were leaving his house a dude came walking down the road. (it was his dog) cuz the dog started pulling at the leash to run to the guy. So I let him go. The guy said, "comehere scooby." What a name. anyway the guy told me that his dog had jumped a five foot fence. and thats how he got away. THankfully the dog was really nice and friendly.

Today I decided to try some juggling so here are some pictures of my 'attempts' at juggling. You can see more over at my picture blog.

Hope you enjoy.

2007-03-11T14:46:00.000-04:00

My Birthday

Last week end was my birthday.(no, not all three days. just thirsday) so I had some guys up to sleepover friday night. We watched some movies and than my older brother and his friend went to bed at 11:00 Some me and my friends went downstairs and played the computer and ate food and talked. We got to bed at about 4:30. Saturday we got up at 6:30. (don't ask me why) We had a snowball fight and played some games and in the evening we had a bible studay with lots of our friends. (about 17 guys) So thats how my weekend went. And to top it all off I had to get up early this morning because of daylight savings. GGGRRRR.

2007-02-09T20:03:00.000-05:00

Heres a picture of my friend's car. It is electris and it goes about 24 mph.It is awesome and tons of fun to race.

This is a ramp we made out of a ping-pong table. Sometimes it would go so high it wouldn't even hit the other side. It'd clear it.

2007-02-07T13:46:00.000-05:00

Attention everybody! Calling all towns and villages!
I have created a picture blog.
www.chrispicblog.blogspot.com

2007-01-30T08:28:00.000-05:00

IT Snowed!!!!!! Sorry I don't have time to post pictures of it yet. Maybe I'll get around to taking some and posting them. I have a job shoveling the mayor's funeral home and yesterday when I was shoveling the snow some of the cars couldn't get any traction on the snow. It was funny to watch them spin and spin as they tried to get through the greenlight before it turned red.

2007-01-23T08:58:00.000-05:00

Trying to figure out chemistry is like hitting your head against a brick wall. Its hard and all you get is brain dead. I'm not going to go to college for chemistry. No way. It snowed here a little bit. about 3/4 of an inch or so. I'm ready for spring now. What have I been doing lately? School.

2007-01-04T09:24:00.000-05:00

Happy New year to all of you! I made a couple of new years resolutions but I doubt that they'll last too long, as usual.
We don't have any snow here. Thats really bad too. I actually wore shorts yesterday.

2006-12-22T14:24:00.001-05:00

Its raining. I'm bored. I'm going to the chinese resturant tonight. :) isn't my life interesting!!!!

2006-12-13T09:48:00.000-05:00

I guess its time to update. So I'll tell you about this amazing art that I have been able to perfect. I was sitting in the recliner surounded by school books trying to think up a topic. And thats when I first realized the art. Doing school on a recliner! It takes a while but eventually you can do it without falling asleep. :)

2006-12-05T16:44:00.000-05:00

I start to realize that I'm tall when...

I can't see my face in the mirror,

I walk into people because they are shorter than me so look right over there head,

I bump my head going down the steps,

I have to bend over in my basement,

I sit in the van my head touches the roof.

2006-11-27T16:53:00.000-05:00

Well I guess its time for another update. The problem is figuring out something to tell ya'll. I could tell you about my terribly boring, unsucsesful, and irratating hunt this morning. But you girls probably are shouting for joy that bambi eluded me once again. So I won't tell you about that. Not that there is anything to tell.
Or I could tell you about my little sisters finding a 'cute little fuzzy catiplillar' while we were raking leaves. (and all the girls sigh and say,"thats cute.") But I'm a guy, so that doesn't interest me. I had more fun finding an old toy pistol under the leaves.
So as you can see there isn't much to talk about. Once I get my airsoft gun I'm gonna get all my army camo on and take pics of me looking like a soldier. Cool stuff.

2006-11-17T13:52:00.000-05:00

this is cool
so is this

this can get addicting

2006-10-31T16:48:00.000-05:00

Wow look at me!!

2006-10-25T16:40:00.000-04:00

I got meself a new bike. Its sweet. dual suspension. Its a Mongoose. Its much better than the last one. Especially since the last on is broken. duh. I'll post some pictures soon.

2006-10-02T09:04:00.000-04:00

I just watched the first Star Wars. Awesome movie. Have any of you ever watched them?

2006-09-14T12:09:00.000-04:00

New Blog!!!!
I made a new blog. Its where i'll post more serious stuff.

2006-08-31T12:48:00.000-04:00

Here is a pic of me at my desk with my contacts.

2006-08-23T16:03:00.000-04:00

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4 and write what it says. "think they are necessities. And I reproached myself."
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What can you touch? the thing that holds our tv up.
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? tiger woods golfing.
4. Without looking, guess what time it is. 3:42 pm
5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 3:47 pm
6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? my little sister talking to my littler sister.
7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? Earlier this afternoon. Riding my bike.
8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? The internet disconnecting.
9. What are you wearing? Bluish jean shorts and a red t-shirt.
10. Did you dream last night? Yup
11. When did you last laugh? When I was reading Pete's last post.
12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? Um... some of my mom's quilts.
13. Seen anything weird lately? Not really.
14. What do you think of this quiz? Kinda cool.
15. What is the last film you saw? Dora
16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? I would buy a dirt bike, four wheeler, laptop, cell phone, car, high tech paintball gun, muzzleloader, shotgun, m-16,......
17. Tell me something about you that I don't know. I'm kinda bored. (why do you think I'm doing this?)
18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? Make alot of places not explored.
19. Do you like to dance? Never learned how, but yes I would like to.
20. Comment to George Bush: Your doing a great job.
21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? Thats for my wife to decide.
22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? I'll decide that when I have too.
23. Would you ever consider living abroad? Fine with me.
24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gate? Well done good and faithful servant.
25. 3 people who must also do this quiz in THEIR blog.
Anna.
Abby.
And Josh. Even though he's been tagged twice. But he still hasn't taken the quiz.

2006-08-14T16:42:00.000-04:00

I guess its time for an update. Nothing really is going on here. I'm getting ready for hunting season. Practicing my bow alot. umm. lets see. I went to a picnic on saturday. It was fun. A bunch of guys and me and my brother played some wiffle ball. That was fun. There was alot of food and it was really good. yum yum! And my older brother had a friend over from Ukraine. We had fun while he was here. Oh yeah I GOT CONTACTS!!!!! YIPEE!!! Can you tell I'm glad? No more glasses. I've been playing alot of ping-pong lately. My younger brother and I are getting really good. We like them spins and curve balls. Its fun. Well I hope your all having as much fun as I am.

2006-07-31T10:35:00.000-04:00

Aaahhh. Back home to the daily grind again. I guess you probably want to here about my vacation. Well last Saturday morning we got up at 2:30 and packed the van up. We pulled at of our house at 3:15. We drove and drove and drove. I got to drive a little bit about 3 hours. Finally we pulled into the beach house. We were sharing a beach house with my grandparents and four uncles and their wives. It was a big beach house. In all it took us about 12 hours to drive down.
Through out the week we had fun swimming about every day, putt-putting, walking on the pier, and playing games with our uncles. Some of our cousins also brought a game cube along. So we played that a lot to. Once when we were playing putt-putt I hit my golf ball into the parking lot. Thankfully it didn't hit any cars. Or people. On the second to last day my bros and I went out to the Christian bookstore. Jonathan got a book and I got three CD’s. They were Casting Crowns, one with a bunch of songs by different people, and than Declaration by Steve Chapman. So all in all it was a pretty nice vacation.

2006-06-23T20:58:00.000-04:00

Well I have been working for two weeks now for CEF. I am a counselor for days camps that they have at different churches around the county. These two weeks have been pretty interesting I have been helping with 3-6 graders. And I have had to teach Bible lessons. Sometimes I get pretty stressed out but there are the moments of humour. Like kids falling in the creek, naming trees, and other weird yet hilarious things. Some things you wouldn't understand unless you worked there. But here is an example.
One of the staff asked a kid if he had a Bible. The kid told her that he did, but that it had died. The staff member asked the kid what he meant. The kid said that it wasn't a Living Bible. And he was totally serious! Well thats how my summer has been going.

2006-06-07T09:01:00.000-04:00

Well, I guess I should post. So i'll tell you about yesterday. I mowed all morning and than worked for a neighbor in the afternoon and than mowed another lawn after supper. Needless to say I was pretty tired. Until I drank some iced tea. More like 6 cups. So did my bro who was working with me. So by the time we decided to go to bed we weren't very tired. So we read till 10;30. Each of us in our own rooms. To make a long story short, I ended up sleeping in his room and staying up till 1:00 reading LOTR and than playing a game with him till 2:00. after that we were tired enough to go to sleep. I think I'll send that joke to you on email Josh.

2006-05-27T11:27:00.000-04:00

Well I got up at 4:00 this morning to go turkey hunting. After I had completely woken up I got my stuff together and went downstairs. The guy that I hunt with arrived at 4:20. About 30 minutes later I was sitting in the woods waiting for a turkey. In about ten minutes later the quiet of the woods was interupted by a loud gobble I a nearby turkey. So we moved our stand to a closer and more advantages position. As we sat there listening to the continuing gobbles the dawn came upon us. (That sounds so professional.) Anyway we waited until about 6:30 and than started calling. See the turkeys fly down from the trees at about 6:30. So we called and they sounded really close. I was getting ready to shoot. So we called and called and called and THE STUPID TURKEYS WOULDN"T COME OFF THEIR STUPID TREES!!!!!!!!!!!! So we sat there to 8:30! And than we had to leave. Those stupid turkeys. Ok I’m over it. Than me and my brothers went fishing and Jonathan cought a fish. And now I am back! Stupid turkeys!!!! I’m ok.

2006-05-18T08:42:00.000-04:00

Are you satisfied? Ahhh summer is so nice!

2006-05-08T15:44:00.000-04:00

Well here is a pic of me and a bunker I was behind. This bunker actually had pink paint all over it but it is hard to see.

2006-05-03T10:45:00.000-04:00

It's Time to Turn Your Computer Off and Read a Book When...
- You wake up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and stop to check your E-mail on the way back to bed. -
You name your children Eudora, AOL and dotcom. -
You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one. -
You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap and your child in the overhead compartment. -
You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free internet access. -
You laugh at people with 14.4 baud modems. -
You start using smileys in your snail mail. -
You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com -
You can't call your mother because she doesn't have a modem. -
You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again. -
You don't know what gender three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral screennames and you never bothered to ask. -
You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you Landscape -
You tell the cab driver you live at http://1000.garden/house/brick.html -
You start tilting your head sideways to smile. -
After reading this, you immediately e-mail it to your friends.

2006-04-26T19:22:00.000-04:00

Ok, This is me going of a jump around my house. Sorry I couldn't get anymore air. but the path had a bunch of ruts so it was hard to get speed.

2006-04-26T10:13:00.000-04:00

Here is pic of my paintball gun. I know its alittl blurry.

2006-04-24T20:55:00.000-04:00

Well pictures are finally starting to work for me. Now I have to find a picture to insert.

2006-04-22T15:19:00.000-04:00

I woke up this morning at 4:20 to the sound of my noisy and annoying alarm clock. I hit it off and dragged meself out of bad. I stopped and listened for a moment. It was raining. I planned to do some turkey hunting today and as some of you may know, it is much nicer to hunt in nice weather than pouring down rain. Needless to say I still went. A couple hours later I was sitting out in the woods trying in vain to call some turkeys in. Thankfully I had some waterproof clothes on. Otherwise I would have long since been soaked. All morning I tryed to call turkeys but to no luck. We quit at about 9:30. So the guy I hunted with and I went to visit a member of the church. Her husband used to hunt all the time but now he can't so we were visiting with him. But now it is still raining and I don't have anything to do.

2006-04-21T09:54:00.000-04:00

Empty Signs

Have you ever seen signs along the highway or on church billboards that say something like 'Jesus saves' or 'Jesus loves you' or something like that? Well my first thought is, "wow that’s great that somebody put that sign out." But recently I watched a series on evangelism by Ray Comfort, and he said some things that really stuck out to me. I am going to build on some of the stuff that he said. First I think that an example would help make my point a little better. I got this example from Ray Comfort.
You are walking along in the busy hub-bub of the city when some complete stranger comes running up to you and says, "Hey guess what! I love you! So I sold my house and my car and everything I have so that I could by this medicine so that you could take it. You really need to take it." And than this guy walks away leaving you with the medicine in hand. What would you think about this? I know that I would be thinking something like this. "This guy is a lunatic!" And than I would probably pitch the bottle in the nearest trash can and forget about the whole thing.
Well I think that’s what people think sometimes when we come running up to them saying, "Jesus loves you and He died to save you!" They aren't going to have a clue what you are talking about. Now I am not saying that this is always the wrong approach. I have heard of people getting saved this way, but in our society people feel comfortable with all their immorality, money, and other stuff that they don't even care if you tell them that somebody they never heard of loves them. Now lets go back to the medicine example again.
What if it happened this way? Somebody comes running up to you and says to you, "I have just been to your doctor, and he told me that you have a terrible disease that puts you in terrible pain for years and you won't be able to move at all and life will be terribly miserable! But wait! There's hope. Your doctor told me that there is a cure for it but it is really expensive, so I sold my house and my car and everything but the clothes on my back to buy this medicine for you!" By this point you would probably rip the bottle out of his hand and start taking the medicine as soon as possible. Now you may not see any point in this, so let me point it out to you.
The reaction might be different if we came running up to them and told them that we had terrible news for them. Than we told them that once we die we will either go to a place where there will be eternal peace and no pain and no sins called Heaven, or we will go to a place where we will be tortured eternally and be in pain and torment forever and ever called Hell! By this point you probably would have their attention. You could go on to tell them that one must be perfect to enter this place called Heaven and that nobody that has even lied a little white lie or stolen a peace of candy still can't enter into heaven and therefore will go to Hell. By this time they will probably be in despair over themselves, and that’s when you tell them that there is somebody that loved them so that he sent his own son to die for us and take our sins away that we could be saved and be able to enter into Heaven simply if we asked God to forgive us and asked Him to take control of our lives. So now when I look back on those signs that I mentioned in the beginning I think about how empty they are to a sinner without the full meaning. You can't save someone until they realize that they are lost.

2006-04-17T08:45:00.000-04:00

Sorry I don't have any pics on my blog but I am haveing trouble posting pictures. But I hope you all had a happy Easter. Now back to normal life though.

2006-04-11T08:19:00.000-04:00

Its so hard to see when my eyes are on myself.
-Keith Green

What do you think? I like it alot.

2006-04-10T08:46:00.000-04:00

So what time are ya'll finishing school this year? I know homeschoolers often have diferent times of finishing. Some even go through the summer! I don't think I could stand that. And what do you plan on doing this summer? Going anywhere neat?

2006-04-08T12:38:00.000-04:00

So where do you guys and girls like to go on vacation? My family usually goes to the beach every year. This year my whole mom’s side of the family is going with us to the beach. We will be playing games and swimming and site seeing and other stuff. So what do you guys like to do?

2006-04-08T09:44:00.000-04:00

Welcome to my blog. On this blog I be posting all kinds of stuff. Including fun things that I have done, cool pictures, and occasionally I will try to post some of my devotionals that I have written.