The Prayer of My Heart
Posted by Kris in Moments of Meditation on September 7th, 2009
O Lord, let us not live to be useless; for Christ’s sake. Amen.
— John Wesley
What a short and sweet prayer,and yet how profound the words. This is the prayer of my heart today and I hope it will be the prayer of yours. We are each here for a purpose and to not be fulfilling that purpose is to be useless to Christ who suffered, was humiliated, and died for us. Let us not be useless, but instead but perfected in Him and living a live that is fully within the Will of God and pleasing to Him who created us for that exact purpose.
Moment of Meditation – 09.06.2009
Posted by Kris in Moments of Meditation on September 6th, 2009
When we are rightly related to God, life is full of spontaneous joyful uncertainty and expectancy-we do not know what God is going to do next; and He packs our life with surprises all the time.
— Oswald Chambers
I came across this quote today and It really seems to me to be the essence of what living a Christian life should be. The world does not always go as we want, our plans seldom are realized, but God is in control of all and we must sit back and accept that simple fact if we are to live a life that is wholly within His awesome Will. I look forward to all the surprises God will through at me. And I am still surprised daily that he has chosen to use me t owin lost souls to Him and to see his Will accomplished here on earth.
Will you allow God to take control of your life, will you take your hands off the wheel and accept with joy the surprises He has in store for you? It isn’t an easy journey and life won’t be how you had planned, but the reward is eternal!
Three Whole Years
Posted by Kris in Uncategorized on July 19th, 2009
Wow, Just got the notice from GoDaddy that it was time to renew processthis.net yet again, and that means that it has been three years that this blog has been active … well I guess inactive is a better word. Looking at that stats I get more hits on this blog than I do on many of the other projects I work on… and it is the one that has the least amount of content and activity go figure. Well so what am I going to do for the next year? Continue blogging about whatever random stuff pops in my head of course! I’ve noticed that I tend to do more religous content now and less technology which is odd since I bought this domain to be my “technology blog.” But, life has changed a lot in three years. Three years ago I was fully focused on my career in IT, now I am focused on my future career as a pastor. I guess when God calls your life changes. I am about to begin my second year of Study at Nazarene Bible College, which I am very happy for since it is a three year program so I am getting much closer to completing the educational requiremnts for ministry. We are now expecting our second child which will change life once again, but for the better. So keep us in your prayers and I promise I will post something of value at some point … you just have to wade through all the junk first 
Another Doomsday Prediction?
Posted by Kris in Personal Rant on June 20th, 2009
Really has been way to long since I have posted anything. I always say I’m going to post and then when I sit down I have nothing to say. Every time I look at the news I get more uneasy about the path that our country, and world, is going down. We have allowed a minor finical crisis turn our world upside down., well it would be a minor crisis if our government had not felt the need to intervene, instead of just letting the market do what the market does best: Work it self out. I can honestly say that I know no one who has been affected by this recent down turn and I know that my family and I are doing better now than we ever have, Praise God! God has been good to us (my family) during this last year and we are trusting and being obedient to Him and believing that we will make it through as the old hymn says “My Lord has never failed me yet!” Now I look and I see what is going on in Iran, which is literally falling apart. I am now more convinced than ever that we are living in the last days. The news is just full of horrible stories of people doing things that are unspeakable for the audience of this blog and no one seems alarmed that we are going down a slippery slope and we won’t be able to get our footing to climb back out if we go much further. I pray daily that people will wake up to what is going on around them and realize that Washington is not the answer, the United Nations are definitely not the answer, my faith is not build on government of this world, but on the faith that Jesus is coming back and He and He alone is the answer to the problems of this world.
Goodbye First Admendment!
Posted by Kris in In the News, Politics on May 30th, 2009
Well it was nice while we had it, but I guess now you can’t even hold a Bible study in your home for 10-15 people without the government intervening. I was just reading a news article about a pastor in San Diego County, California, who was told that he can no long hold Bible studies in his home, unless he pays for the proper permits, and studies to be performed. Apparently to have 10-15 people at his house he will need to have:\r\n1. Traffic Studies\r\n2. Parking Studies\r\n3. Environmental Concerns studies\r\n4. and will need to obtain assembly permits.\r\n\r\nAccording to the article, this will all cost 10’s of thousands of dollars. Do you have to have a permit to have family over for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? I know when my family gets together we have more than 10-15 people in attendance. And what is with the need for enviromental studies … for 10-15 people! This is just crazy. The Pastor and his wife are not being named, but a court battle is brewing, lets hope the court shows some common since, or your next Avon party is at risk next. Well this is California so I guess we will have to wait and see. If I were told to stop having a Bible study in my home, I am telling you right now I wouldn’t, throw me in jail I don’t care.
A Letter to Rick Warren
Posted by Kris in Personal Rant on April 8th, 2009
I came across Rick Warren’s, mega-church pastor and author of Purpose Driven Life, interview with Larry King where he said that he apologized to his homosexual friends for making comments in support of California’s Proposition 8. Shame on you, Rick Warren! You are supposed to be a man of God, a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the God’s inspired word, the Bible. How can you overlook blatant sin? As a minister, it is your job to hold people to the standards placed in the Bible, and to come out against sin, whether the sin be lying, stealing, or practicing homosexuality. Sin is sin and you as a minister should not be condoning sin. You, Mr. Warren, are responsible for their souls and allowing them to live in sin is allowing them to enter eternal damnation, I wouldn’t want that on my conscience. The Bible tells us
:Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. Hebrews 13:17 (ESV)
\r\nSo either you are a fraud only in the ministry for the money it brings, you are naive of the teachings of the Bible, or you just don’t care about the sin that is committed by those you are charged to lead to the Saving Grace of Christ. Maybe you need to search your life for the “purpose” of what a minister of God is supposed to act, say, and do.
The Mission Letter of Paul
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- 3. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
- 4. always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy,
- 5. for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,
- 6. being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
- 7. just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
- 8. For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
- 9. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
- 10. that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,
- 11. being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- 12. But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel,
- 13. so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ;
- 14. and most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
- 15. Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will:
- 16. The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains;
- 17. but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
- 18. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
- 19. For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
- 20. according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
- 21. For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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Did you Celebrate Global Earth Hour?
I sure did! In case you don’t know Global Earth Hour was last night at 8:30 PM in every timezone. The goal of the project was to have everyone turn off all their lights for one hour to “save” the Earth. So I celebrated like I celebrate any other “earthy” day. I turned on all the lights in our house. Every last one of them and I went above and beyond and left them all on for a couple hours. My wife thinks I’m crazy and you proably do too! I think I did my part. Did you do yours?
Moment of Meditation for March 17, 2009
Posted by Kris in Moments of Meditation on March 17th, 2009
A Psalm of David.\r\nLord, I cry out to You;\r\nMake haste to me!\r\nGive ear to my voice when I cry out to You. \r\nLet my prayer be set before You as incense,\r\nThe lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. \r\nSet a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;\r\nKeep watch over the door of my lips. \r\nDo not incline my heart to any evil thing,\r\nTo practice wicked works With men who work iniquity;\r\nAnd do not let me eat of their delicacies\r\n\r\nPsalm 141:1-2 (NKJV)
\r\n It is a great encouragement to know that God does hear us when we call out to him, he does give us the words to speak and he will help us to keep to ourselves the words we should not speak. If we are fully trusting in God and striving to live a Holy life with the help of the Holy Spirit then he will give these things to us. Let us each pray this today.