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A week from Saturday – I will have the pleasure of attending the wedding of the year.

I wanted to give everybody a preview of the ceremony.

Amy and Kyle! Love you guys… really looking forward to August 1st!

This is an amazing series that is going on youtube right now…

Can somebody hook me up with some Auto Tune software? I want to auto tune Jason preaching.

I think the Catalyst people need to autotune Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel.

This video has a lot of truth to it! I don’t agree with all of it, but I definitely don’t agree with #8 “Abusing Status Updates”

A lot of people feel that I do this, but I don’t! I haven’t updated my facebook status in a year! HOWEVER, my facebook and twitter are linked. I update my twitter multiple times a day… which means my facebook is updated several times a day. I am debating unlinking the two, but I think I will keep them linked until more people join the twitter revolution.

The video still does have some good points though!

Oh yea…

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I don’t know how this could be even possible.

See the video on espn.com

I question the soundness of his teaching…

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I hope everybody had a good christmas. I went from having a noncamera phone to my new smart phone thanks to Santa! Its the new samsung delve. So far I have been enjoying it. I will be back in Greenville by saturday. Have a great rest of Christmas day!!!

Seriously… You don’t believe in hell. Hell is not a reality. If people do not know Christ, well nothing is going to happen to them.

I know that you are thinking right now that I am out of my mind. “Of course there is a hell. What the heck are you talking about?…”

But seriously, I feel this is what we truly believe sometimes. If we truly believed there is a place called hell don’t you think we would live a little differently? Do you think we would be able to live with the idea that “Hey – its okay that person doesn’t know Christ.”

I know that most of us are afraid of starting up a spiritual conversation, or using an invite card to invite somebody to church. It could make the situation awkward right?

What has me thinking about this is this video that Jason posted on his blog.

It truly disturbed me. It reminded me of how many days I don’t fully embrace reality.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not start up a spiritual conversation? How much do you have to hate somebody to not give them an invite card? How much do you have to hate somebody to not share Christ’s love?

Now unfortunately part of our problem is how we have been shamed and embarrassed by street preachers and TBN. We don’t want to come across looking like an idiot. I agree! -but- If you are Polite, Honest, Sane, and caring enough to share – thats all you need. Crazy street preachers aren’t caring or sane. Some stuff on Christian TV is not polite or honest. Non-Christians can see right through that and see the hidden agendas. If you are polite, honest, sane and care enough to share – then you actually have the opportunity to share with people how God loves them and wants to know them personally. You can share how we are imperfect and that imperfection separates us from God. You can share that Christ is the only thing that can clear away the imperfections and connect us to God. Then finally you can share that they can have a personal relationship with Christ and experience His love and plan.

Think about it… what do you really believe?

I had to get a Sunday night wrap up out… even though its technically Monday (as always)…

-Great day today at Discovery
-Kicked off a new series called “Presence”
-New set today. I thought it looked amazing!
-Claude did awesome with the huge presents on stage!
-Santa brought DC some new intelligent moving scanners and haze…
-The band went old school today – but I loved it.
-No One Like You is so fun to Illuminate… Crowder reference anyone?
-I think some people were really challenged how they are going to spend Christmas – Literally!
-Jason really casted some vision today about some future global partnerships.
-I need to start praying for the big Christmas offering.
-I am getting really excited about this year’s Christmas Eve service.
-It will be something that you can invite your “guy” that you always want to invite to church, but its always awkward to.
-Remember to use your Presence invite cards. They work for both Christmas Eve and Church!
-I talked about this in the new countdown video “The ten ’til”
-I got more feedback about that then I did about the new set and lighting!
-I guess I am always back on the control board and have never done announcements or anything.
-I am used to being on camera… all part of being a comm major. Not really exciting after awhile…
-Exam week is this week…
-I am thrilled… I feel really good about them, but I can always tell when people are praying for me.
-Here are a few pics from today…

I am literally about to pop!

I think this has something to do with it…

Yes… that is two turkeys (one fried-one baked), traditional stuffing, cornbread veggie stuffing, green been casserole, crock pot mac and cheese, corn, squash, collards, ham, sweet potato casserole, corn bread, bean salad, pot o gravy, plus dozens of yeast roles. Oh yea… did I mention there is a two more tables of desserts and drinks. Lets just say that every person had there own pie and or cake baked for them.

I think I am going to sleep well tonight!

Hope everybody had a good thanksgiving. I am looking forward to the ECU game tomorrow. I am bringing my family up to sit in the Student Pirate Club section! ARGH! Don’t tell -but- Purple Beard the Pirate is going to be making an appearance at Tomorrow’s Game! ARGHHHH!

Hope yall had an awesome thanksgiving.

On saturday night I was able to take Jason, Claude and Randy to their Christmas present from me. I didn’t let them know what it was until we got to the RBC Center and the arena’s sign said “TONIGHT – Trans Siberian Orchestra.” Lets just say I kicked their Christmas season off with a literal bang, and explosions, and fire, and pyro, and crazy awesome music. I had the opportunity to see them two years ago… but the show was better then ever. My amazon is getting blown up right now downloading my favorite album of theres. Its going to be rocking driving to Topsail tomorrow night.

Here are some pics from the show.

You can also download the song that they opened the show with this year for free here at amazon for a limited time.

The following is an open letter to the mall preacher who stands on the mall everyday who yells at the passing students that they are hell bound heathens…

Dear Mall Preacher,

First let me begin by saying that I am glad that you have a passion for your work. I don’t know if you are paid for your endeavors, but none the less you do have passion.

I have many emotions that are built up in my heart right now… for three years I have had to walk by you on the mall and hang my head as I see the large group of students gathered around you. My emotions are all over the place. One side of me wants to praise you for your boldness – but when I listen to what you are saying… that all goes away.

I have many things that I want to say to you, but I don’t want to get into a theological debate. The only thing I want to express to you in this letter is that you ARE a sinner. I don’t care what you say or how you try to back it up. You are…

I point you towards 1st John –
1 John 1:8-10
8 If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. 9 On the other hand, if we admit our sins—make a clean breast of them—he won’t let us down; he’ll be true to himself. He’ll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. 10 If we claim that we’ve never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God—make a liar out of him. A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God.

So please stop saying that you are sinless and not a sinner.

I think I understand your mission because there are a ton of people at ECU who think because they call themselves a Christian means that they get their eternal life pass. I know that cultural Christianity is an epidemic that needs to be addressed, but unfortunately having big signs telling people they deserve hell isn’t going to do anything.

First you need to express to people God’s Love and Grace.
1 John 4:8-9
8 The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. 9 This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him.

Then once you have shown people how much God loves them -THEN- you can talk to people about what prevents us from knowing God personally.

So my friend… I have many more thoughts for you, but I think these are the most important.

-Sincerely
Brad