Christmas Eve

So now it's Christmas Eve. This isn't going to be a long post. But as you go into the holiday, after all the hustle and bustle of shopping, and into the hustle and bustle of visiting friends and realitives, and using all your gifts, and reading crap in the news, don't forget about the true meaning. I read today some news about a movie franchise that distressed me today. Right after I read it I went to my church's Christmas Eve service. God challenged me to think about the true meaning, and not to worry about dumb little movie franchises.

God Bless and Merry Christmas!

What will you do?

The other day I was in the local pizza place talking with a friend who works there. This older man came in, and ordered a slice and a diet pepsi. He said he would eat it there. It suddenly occured to me that this man probably didn't have a wife, or if he did, she was probably dead. I felt sorry for him. Can't cook for himself. Drives out in the cold to the local pizza place to have his dinner. The only company is the people working at the pizza place.
Then I wondered, what's his Christmas going to be like? Does he have family? Is he going to be all alone Christmas eve, rocking in his rocking chair, missing his wife, remembering all the good times they used to have?
And halfway across the globe, there will be little kids in Manchay, Peru. They will be sitting around in their shacks, no hope of getting anything for Christmas.
We can help. We can make a difference. We can do charity events like the food bank for poor people without food. We can send a shoebox to a foriegn country throw the Samaritians Purse so a little kid can have a gift Christmas day.
A little not-so annual tradition in my family is to make a little gift basket with a Christian movie, a Bible and little booklet, and drive to a hospital. We look for lonely people. People who have loved ones in the hospital, who might not make it much longer. Some Christmas eve. Then, out of the blue, we give them this little gift. We can only pray that it influences them somehow.
So what about you? What are you going to do for someone who might not have a merry Christmas. What difference can you make? What will you do?

God Bless!

Handel's Messiah

This past weekend I sang in Handel's messiah at one of the best concert halls in the world. (I won't name the concert hall for obvious reasons.) It was by far one of the most exciting experiences of my life. Many of the choruses I found where amazing, simply lyrically and the fact that over 200 people were singing them. Some of these include Glory to God, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, And the Glory of the Lord, and of course, the Halleluiah Chorus.

The Halleluiah Chorus amazed me the most though. When over 200 voices and a symphony are giving it their all at a song that simply praises God, it is truly amazing. To top it all off, the fact that everyone in the sold out concert hall is all standing, many of them not Christians, in respect to God just makes me overjoyed.

If you haven't seen the Messiah live, I suggest you try and find a large choir and orchestra performing it in a good, packed concert hall.

God Bless!

The True Nativity

So many times at Christmas, I notice these Nativity scenes with the manager looking more like a bed. I've acctually seen a "Nativity" scene in a Russian like room, with baby Jesus on a 4 foot high bed. That sickens me.
I hate how we take the Nativity scene and turn it into a cozy little scene. It was disgusting. Walk into any farm barn today and take a deep breath. That was the first thing Jesus breathed. Lie down on a bed of wet het, with animal siliva and other food around. That was Jesus' first bed. Listen to the sound of animals. That was the first thing Jesus heard.
This is humility beyond all things. It would be humility if Jesus was born in the most royal palace on earth. He deserved better then that. But he got a dump.
We should remember this Christmas while we are in our warm home eating turkey and using gifts, what Jesus had for his first Christmas.

God Bless!

One Little Boy

When I was in Peru, I was majorly impacted by a little boy I met at the orphanage. He was about nine years old. When I first met him, he followed me around and copied everything I said. I was pretty excited inside, because he was the first kid at the orphanage to follow me around and want to be with me. After talking to me for a bit, he rushed to his bedroom and brought back a little second-rate handheld game system. A McDonalds type thing. It required three triple A batteries, and he had one dead tripple A battery. I felt so bad that I had all the crap I could ever want, and he can't even get three little batterys. Then he did the most amazing thing I could every imagine. He held up the battery, and said "For you." I was stunned. He hardly had anything, and he wanted to give me one of the only things he had.
Be curious to see some comments on this little story.

God Bless!

2008 Canadian Federal Elections in Retrospect

Hello world! Sorry to all blog followers for not updating my blog in a while. Hopefully there will not be as big of gaps between my posts.
Anyway, another federal election has come and gone. What has the country gained from it? Or, what has the country lost from it?
I will remember this election as a interesting one. It was interesting from the start. Now, I like Harper, but I don't think he is perfect. He showed that when he broke his promise to the country to keep the next federal election at it's normal time. I can see why he wanted to get more seats. People are getting mad at him because he isn't doing amazing things. That's not fair. He couldn't do amazing things with the number of seats he had. Some people don't think this is a good excuse. My question for them is, do you think you could have done it?
I did watch the english debate, and it got quite heated. I was disapointed in it though, because all the leaders decided to gang-beat on Harper. Stephan Dion got a bit of a beating, but basically the whole night was people saying Harper isn't a good leader, even if it was irrelevent to what they were talking about. For example, Jack Layton of NDP when asked one of the questions sent in by various people around the country. He didn't answer the queston right away. He had to start attacking Harper. The news reporter acctually said to him "With all due respect Mr. Layton, you are not answering the question." Although Jack Layton did answer the question in the end, overall he didn't need to start tearing down Harper. It seem that every time he opens his mouth, he just starts to say that Harper is a bad leader. At another point in the evening, Stephan Dion wasn't too happy about what Stephen Harper was saying about his tax cuts. (Harper was talking about how Dion's cuts in one area didn't match his tax raises in another.) Dion outcried "Don't believe this man! We don't need these kind of leaders anymore!" It seems to be the running theme by every party that isn't conservative. They have to tear down Harper, claiming he isn't a good leader. I find it funny, because it seems that people are never happy with what leader they have. You can see this in many countrys around the world. Even if the leader isn't really bad, if it's who some people didn't want they automatically claim that the leader is a bad one. I am probably guilty of this myself, and can't look at many past prime ministers in a good lightbecause of what party they were from.
Anyway, moving on from the debate, it finally came to election day. The numbers were quite interesting, especially because the green party didn't get any seats. It seemed that this was the election that they were going to let their voice be heard. But it didn't happen.
The responses by some leaders were very interesting as well after the election. Elizabeth May of the Green party at the after-election celebration said "I was just at the conservative party celebration to congradulate them, and let me tell you, they aren't having nearly as fun as we are!" She had a good attitude, but I was disapointed that she started to tear down the conservatives on something that really didn't matter, AFTER the election. Once again, it seems all politicians can do is tear each other down.
Stephan Dion on the other hand, couldn't seem to handle the stress. He got choked up in his speech after the election, and apparently snapped at news reporters. We should pray for him in his hour of distress, even if we disagree with his political views.
That's all I have to say for now. I hope to maybe put a youtube clip of the debate on the blog soon.

God Bless!

I don't know what to say

Yesterday, in a small, friendly town in Alberta, a 14 year old girl was murdered. She was walking down a trail most people walk down in this small town, and was killed. Her father is the Pastor of a Baptist church. I hope all of us believers can pray for this family who is in our Christian family who has had an incredible loss.

God Bless!

It's the most wonderful time of every four years...or so

Once again, it's election time. And once again, I haven't seen any ads taking down someone other then Stephan Harper. (Except of course, Harper's ads.)
I find it amazing that all the other candidates can do is tear down Harper, instead of building themselves up. I recently saw one ad by Jack Layton, and let me tell you, it was the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen!
The premise of this ad is Jack Layton telling you that Stephen Harper is a terrible leader because (enter statistics about suffering Canadians here). He expects Harper to work miracles in two years with a minority government, while he is opposing him the whole way through! Like Layton would wave a magic wand and make everything better if he got elected.
It makes me sad to think that most of our leaders are more concerned with winning by tearing others down, and not about telling the public what they think is important to Canada.

God Bless!

A Tribute

Seven years ago today, were the 9/11 terrorist attacks. How fast time flies, and yet, not fast enough.
I'm going to break away from my creation-evolution series of posts, and give a Tribute to a man, a man I don't even know the name of.
It was September 11th. This man was going to work at the trade centres. To him, it was an average day.
Then it happened.
He knew that he was going to die. He knew that this was the end. He knew what he had to do. He got up and preached. And I believe (though I'm not entirely sure) some people became Christians.
Here is a man who knew what God wanted him to do. God had placed him in a situation were he could do great things, and this man acted on it. We should strive to be Christians like him.
Anyway, just wanted to take a couple of seconds to pay tribute to this great man. Let's pray we can be like him.

God Bless!

Evolution: The Biased Theory?

How do you think people would respond if they found out that Darwin created evolution for a different reason then science? Was it racism? Or even anger? I read recently that Darwin had a organization send to him three native men. After studying these men, he sent them back saying that they were less evolved, or in other words, less human then white people.

Before he wrote his book, Darwin actually believed in the Bible. He had no doubt in the literal view of the Bible. He believed that the wonder of nature actually confirmed the existence of God, which I believe myself. But, he eventually started doubting. For example, when he saw the wonders of a certain kind of plankton, he wondered why God kept this creature hidden from the world. This caused him to start wondering if God was even real. It's so ironic! His awe of creation caused him to believe in God, but in the end it drove him away. He also thought about animals eating each other, and wondered why they would do this, if they're creator was perfect. Though, if we read the Bible, we know this is because of the problem of sin. Us humans brought sin into the world, not God.

Darwin's anger towards God though was his final step away from Christianity. Several years before he published his book, his daughter died. He became angry with God, leaving the faith. My theory is that all this pushed him harder to devise the theory of evolution.

Darwin at one point also said he thought God was the perfect lawgiver, but turns right around to marry his Cousin. Kind of gross. This with all I have already said make me think that he wasn't a Christian. He claimed he believed in the Bible as literal law, but disobeys and even misses some things the Bible talks about. Anyway, this is just were I stand on the "Could he be a Christian if..." debate.

Anyway, I hope you liked my first real post. I hope you also like the funny picture of Darwin I found while surfing the web.

God Bless!

First Post

Hello World! This is a introductory post to my blog, which I hope God can use in amazing ways! Yes, I am a Christian, and if that offends you, I'm sorry. I'm not going to stop talking about what I believe, because my faith is my life.
I'm going to start my blog off with a few of my opions on the Creation-Evolution debate. I'll talk about a few interesting points that I have heard about, and hopefully back my side of the argument up quire firmly.
I want to let the world know the truth about subjects, and I thought a blog would be a good way to do this.
I will be puting my first real post up soon, and I hope God can bless people with this blog.

God Bless!