All About Love

A bit of a strange week this week. We had a patchwork of classes because a lecturer had to cancel. We watched a few sermons by Major Thomas the founder of Torchbearers, we also had a few other guest speakers. Doug Toller the senior pastor of Winter park Christian was kind enough to come out and teach for a block of classes. He was my favorite of the guest speakers this week.
He taught on compromise and how it is the blending of two different viewpoints. It's very true that we often compromise what we say we believe. I could not help but think of how many Christians were going to just this when they go to see 50 shades of grey this weekend. This is just one way we compromise, we say that we would never do something like what is portrayed in the film yet we will go and support it? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Even if we don't go to see, or support something like this I would argue that it is just as much a compromise to not speak out against it and let a brother or sister compromise. I don't mean for this to become a rant about this film (because we all know we have had enough of it) but these were just thoughts that came to mind. So I would challenge you to think about the next time you have a chance to speak truth to a brother or sister about something they are going do or watch, and you don't, because you do not want to offend them or because you have to be politically correct, so you don't say anything, have you compromised in what you say you believe?

Tuesday for our workday, me and some of the other students set to work on the tubing hill. With how warm it has been the safety berm had melted quite a bit and become more of a launch ramp. So for a few hours we were out shoveling and reshaping the berm to a nice smooth, non jump like curve as to safely guide the tubers on a merry ride down the hill. 

Friday night I was up at the Younglife gym watching and playing games with kids from 4th to 8th grade. Me and some other students were helping out with the Pregnancy Resource Center fundraiser banquet. It turns out a few years as an Awana game commander comes in handy. I joke after running around a gym for 3+hrs that I am getting old as I realize I can't go nonstop for that amount of time anymore.  

 

I was on program for this weekend. We had a group of Burmese kids from Aurora Co in. I led some games, music, and just hanging out with the kids. They had a wonderful time in the snow as they do not get to play in a lot of snow. So more or less we kinda played the weekend by ear so that they could experience something they don't often get to.Football with the boys in the snow quickly turned into lets just tackle each other into the snow and forget about the game.

Currently we are working on a project called (progress of redemption) it will be a 10 to 15 minute presentation of 10 or more scenes from the Bible as to explain what the story of the Bible is all about to someone who may not know. I am working with my buddy Chris. We are doing a slideshow, voiced over to tell the story. So along with writing this, I have been also very busy in writing the narration Script for our project 1226 words and counting. If you know me well, you would know that just a few months ago I would have lost my mind trying to write that much. Well I can honestly say I have kinda enjoyed it. I credit it to keeping this blog actually, and a good school teacher back home (TV SHOUT OUT "HI MOM") because I really do think this has  prepared me for it and the Lord used it to do that.
Not only do I have that, I also have to prepare a teaching from a book of my choice. I chose James, not really sure why but I have quoted a number of verses out of this book the past couple of weeks. I think I may talk out of chapter 1 or chapter 3 but I am not sure yet. So as I prepare and read and pray through my reading if you would pray for me as well I would greatly appreciate it.


I often times sit down and write these posts and often think I will go a cretin direction with them and I usually end up finishing in a way that I didn't see when I started. I was just thinking as many people will go out this Valentines day weekend and try to find love or they go and watch a so called "love" story there is a greater love story at hand. That is the LOVE story that Christ wrote for us in red ink when he freely gave up his life so that we may be reconciled by it.
John 15:9-11 ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

 Lets also take a look at what real LOVE looks like.

1st Corinthians 13

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^{[b] 6} it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
¹³ So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

This will be the song seems to fit the theme of this post rather well.

 We've got CD sets and videos, radio and TV shows
Conferences, retreats and seminars
We've got books and magazines to read on everything from A to Z
And a web to surf from anywhere we are
But I hope with all this information buzzing through our brains
That we will not let our hearts forget the most important thing

Is love, love, love, love, love
It's all about love, love, love, love, love
Everything else comes down to this
Nothing any higher on the list than love
It's all about love

Now they're fighting in the middle east
And they're fighting down on Seventh Street
And there are fights in my own house on given days
It's like something's lurking deep inside
That can't seem to be satisfied
But life was not meant to be lived this way
'Cause it's true for every man and woman
Every boy and girl
That our only hope for living here together in this world

Is love, love, love, love, love
It's all about love, love, love, love, love
Everything else comes down to this
Nothing any higher on the list than love

This is the reason we were made
To know the love of our Creator
And to give the love He's given us away
Yeah, the Maker, and the Father, and the God of everything
He says to love, love, love
He says love, love, love
Love, love, love
'Cause after all, it's all about love

Gods says love, love, love, love, love, yea yea
It's all about love, love, love, love, love (love love love)
Everything else comes down to this
Nothing any higher on the list than love
'Cause after all, it's all about love

That's right, yeah (laugh)
Woo!
It's all about, yea yea
It's all about
All about love, love, love, love, love
It's all about love, love, love
Yea it's all about love love love
It's all about love love love (yea love)

After all don't you know?
That it really all comes down to love
After all don't you know that
Gonna tell you what it's all about, yeah
Yeah, it's all about love
Yeah, it's all about love, yeah
It's all about love,
Love, love, love


Till Next Time
Love Jared