I'm growing to be very wary of churches that seem to preach the merits of a man who wasn't Christ almost as loudly as they preach Christ, or churches that treat the founder almost in a godlike manner. For example, I attend the Salvation Army and I am constantly hearing about William Booth, the man who started it. I may be biased on this since my ( Read more... )

I've been doing some studying lately that has led me in the direction that baptism by water is a necessary step in salvation. It isn't salvation in itself, so just being baptized isn't going to get you saved, just the same as repenting of your sins won't save you by itself. It's also safe to say that if you believe in God but say "forget you God, I ( Read more... )

Suppose you and I were walking through a store one day and you saw a very expensive bicycle and expressed a great interest in the bicycle, as well as the fact that you could never afford to buy it. We leave the store and a week or so later you get a knock on the door and see that the bike you wanted so badly had been purchased by me for you, but it ( Read more... )

I made a promise to someone that I would update my journal so they could know what's going on in my life and so that's what I'm doing. It might be brief though because I'm at work ( Read more... )

I'm angry ( Read more... )

Back scratchers are the greatest inventions ever since boobs ( Read more... )

The captains at my church just bought a new laptop computer and they mentioned that they already had a "dinosaur" laptop. I asked them if they wanted to sell it, and they jokingly said, "Sure, fifty bucks!" So I told them that that was a great deal, and they, realizing that I was seriously interested in buying it, began telling me these horror ( Read more... )

I'm at work and it smells like the place is on fire. I'm not sure what the deal is with that. I checked up in the attic to makes sure that the wires hadn't set on fire again, and it seems fine up there. I can't find any other source. I suppose it's just my imagination. I always think this place is on fire ( Read more... )

Today I went horsedback riding with my girlfriend and her cousins. I didn't want to go, but she really wanted me to, so I caved and I went. The last time that I rode a horse it wasn't a very good experience. I came away from it somewhat nervous about horses. Anyways, the whole time that we were waiting to get on our horses I felt like something bad ( Read more... )

My new job is pretty okay. I kinda like the whole paper work scene. It's kinda stressful because of all the posibility of screwing up huge and sending hundreds to thousands of dollars to the wrong person or something and then Duane (my boss and step dad) having to swallow the loss. He's had to swallow quite a number of large losses due to stupid ( Read more... )