SORRY :(
Hey guys,
sorry I havnt posted in a few days… I am helping my girlfriend in organizing a harvest party for our hurch as well as I am spending alot of my free time working on my sermon that I am preaching in 3 weeks (its gonna be cool)
While your waitng for more posts feel free to leave me some love on some of my older posts (comments, complaints, insults I’ll take it all). Also, Dont forget to check out my radio show and listen to the podcasts.
If you want to email me with any questions or somthing you would like me to post feel free to email me: anthony@straightuptalk.org
God bless,
Anthony
Humility
On Sunday night, my youth pastors wife Melissa preached a sermon on humility and at the end of it she had set up a foot washing ceremony for the leaders (thats me) to wash the feet of the youth as a demonstration of humility for both parties. I knew of the ceremony before that night and was not very worried about it but when it came down to it the first person that came to my station was someone that I had a problem with and thought it was over…. NOT. Every ounce of pride I had swelled up and in my mind I said ‘ I am not washing his feet!’. I took her message to heart so i began to wash his feet and prayed all the while… such an awesome and humbling experience. it got even more humbling when one of the other leaders washed my feet! I thought doing the washing was hard it was even harder to be the one getting your feet washed. it all makes sense now cuz in the Bible peater become completely humbled once he allows Jesus to wash his feet. If this seems weird to you look it up in the Bible… I believe its in John (someone correct me if I am wrong)
God bless,
Anthony
Cool stuff!
Sorry I haven’t gotten to posting anything in a few days.
There are these two girls that I work with that I have been trying to find a time to wittiness to. This week Joey and I finally had a chance to talk to them!! we walk every morning on our break and one of them asked if we had a special diet our religion had to stick to. we told them no and somehow found a way to preach the gospel to them. Later that day we were able to give them both a gospel of John. It was way cool. We have been trying for a long, long time to talk to them.
well, I realize it wasn’t much but this is what I got
God bless,
Anthony
Don’t let politics take higher imprtaince than Christ
There is no "I" in God
This has been on my heart for a while now but it wasn’t until just now that I found the words I was looking for:
I listen to a Christian radio show all the time and they always play clips of these emergent people always talking about the way God makes them feel and its always “I feel that God….” and “I think that God…”. Talk like this always bothers me but i wasn’t sure why. I finally figured it out! A good rule of thumb in my opinion is that as soon as you hear “I fell God….” or “I think God…” it should be a good indicator to be weary of what is about to be said. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to take the word of God and tailor it to your emotions. The question should never be what I think God is or God makes me fell like it should be what does the word of God say and what is God speaking to me through His word. now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that you can’t ever have an opinion about the things of God but as soon as you start having an opinion about what God is and if you let that take precedence of what the word says He is you are in a sticky situation!
This is just my word of caution to every one to be on the look out for theology’s like this where they let their emotions (part of the flesh) run things rather than having faith and looking to God and His word for the truth and guidance.
Good night and God bless,
Anthony
Pics from Cornerstone California
I have all the pics from Cornerstone and am working on loading them (I have 170 of em) I am probably gonna put them up on picasa or somthing of the sort and give you the link but stay tuned!! I am going to have a blog up soon i am kinda in a rut so i will get one up soon I promise
while your waiting for my blogs click on the blogrush links and take a look at some of the cool blogs out on the web
Anthony
Don’t give up!
At work today I was talking to one of the girls and I mentioned that I was going to school so i could become the head of whatever business I end up doing. Her reply was that there was no way this could happen because I had tried something previously and it wasn’t working out so hot. At first i brushed it off but then I started thinking about it… what a crazy way to think about things! I did a little research and I found out that Thomas Edison tried some 15,000 different materials for the light bulb until they found the right one. Can you imagine what would have happened if they gave up after the first try? I would be in the dark right now and we would be in a completely different world (think of all the things we use light for).
People always say ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again’ that’s at least half true because you should never give up on a dream (unless told so by Godly counsel but that’s a different subject that I don’t even want to dive into) but in choosing to try again in again learn from each time you fail and change something in what you did and keep changing until you finally you fulfill your dream. (even if it take 15,000 tries)
God bless,
Anthony
Realization
When I began this blog I wanted to do somthing different and not be like every other dumb kid with a blog that whines about life…. but here is one of the few blogs I am going to write about my life:
I have been out of high school for about a year and a half and since then I think I have talked to 3 maybe 4 friends from school. I had the type of friends that would hang out with you at school but not outside of it. I only had a few I actually hung out with. I figured it wouldn’t bother me because I have never had a ton of friends (as far as school…. still have church friends) but anyways there is this one friend that i have tried really hard to stay friends with and for some reason the feelings don’t seem to reciprocate. She has lost most of her friends as well but for some reason even though I attempt to find time to hang out she dosnt really seem interested. I don’t understand why you would not want to keep the friends that are still interested in hanging out,
well thanks for being part of my venting (at least it has nothing to do with Cornerstone lol)
God bless and goodnight,
Anthony
A reward for you!!
So I thought as a reward for you guys sticking it out through my four blogs on the weekend I would let you guys be the FIRST to know about a super huge announcement for my radio show
Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter is going to be on the show Sunday October 21st at 3pm!!! and he will be taking some calls… so get those questions ready. If you have one that you really want answered email me anthony@straightuptalk.org and I will add it to the ones I am gonna ask. please make the subject something along the lines of DH (demon hunter) interview questions
so be sure to listen to our show then as well as every Sunday at 3pm Pacific time and call in (646)-7160-8880 www.straightuptalk.org
Cornerstone California PT 4
sorry about the late post I am sure you guys are ready for me to be done with Cornerstone and move on to my normal topics. Here is the last installment of my weekend at cornerstone Ca.
So after watching Death is not welcome here I walked around and talked to vendors. there were some really cool booths there. there was one lady that did what i call Christian abstract art. It was like a bunch of abstract style dots and then in the right third of the canvas she painted a picture of Jesus with the crown of thorns it was way cool! I ran over and watched this band Showbread play, I had never seen or heard of them before but let me tell you they were freaking amazing… so much energy and one of the guys who plays one of the keyboard/guitar type things was throwing the thing around and dancing all crazy it was way cool. The lead singer had green makeup on his eyes and on the sides of his face… it was kinda weird at first but their music was great! After their show i went up to the lead singer and introduced myself, I told him that I had never heard of the band before and I was defiantly going to have to buy their CD because they had a phenomenal show. He said thank you and I asked him if the band would be willing to do an interview with me later that nigh. He said sure no problem and told me to find the band later after they had loaded their equipment and changed. I ate dinner to the soundtrack of Falling up.. they were pretty good but I was really hungry. at dinner, I sat next to the lead singer of Anberlin and had no idea (I had never seen him before). after dinner I went and watched Project 86 play for a few minutes (good but not as much energy as i had been accustomed to for the day) I ran back over to the VIP dinner area where a majority of Showbread was and once they finished eating conducted my final interview of the night. At first I was weary of asking them my questions because I thought I was going to get some crazy answers but they were actually well educated in the Bible and Josh th lead singer had a great sense of humor and had no problem saying what he believed (again, you must listen to the show to hear the interviews). Once finished with the interview i went and watched Anberlin play (good but a little too soft for my tastes but got some decent pictures) it was only then did I realize that during dinner I had sat next to the lead singer (felt retarded!) A little more than half way through their set I ran over to the other stage to claim my spot in the press area for Underoath. There were so many camera people over there waiting to take pictures of the band (everyone but the drummer hid in their bus all day so i did not get to meet them) 
After getting hassled by security who was checking our press passes, we were told that after three song press would have to leave the area. I thought it was dumb but according to a woman that does concert pictures for a living, she said that most big bands limit press to three songs for pictures. the band came out and let me tell you they were so good (I personally liked Demon Hunter better but both shows rocked.) I was so close to the stage the lead singer hit may camera with his hair (so cool!!) Once our three songs were up I dropped my stuff off at a merch booth that I had made friends with the staff and then ran into the mosh pit. Underoath put on such an amazing show I was so excited that I got to see them. as soon as their set was over I ran back stage to see if I could meet them but the stupid event staff had added another berrier so not even the VIPs could get back to see the band and they ran back to their bus (I was kinda mad).
Well, overall i had the time of my life! Saw some of the best shows ever, meet some awesome people and got to interview some cool bands and spent way to much $$ on T-shirts (got some real cool ones… might have to blog about those later) I would have to say it was an utter success. I am hoping that next year the lineup is just as cool and that the radio show will be big enough for me to get my own booth or at least a quiet area to interview bands. next year I am also looking for people to come down with me!
so thats it for my long weekend at Cornerstone California… thanks so much for putting up with my rambling and be sure to leave some comment love
Anthony
