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Firstly, I have this new CD by Anberlin called Never Take Friendship Personal and I must say I am obsessed with it! I'm listening to it right now, which is why I'm mentioning this. Go listen to it :)

Anyways, as far as churches go, I am now torn! It's weird because in the beginning I was so set on going to New Hope and I loved going there, but now I just don't see it as "home". As I mentioned before, I babysit for Steve Thursday nights at London Outreach Center, and the past couple Sundays I've gone there while my family went to New Hope. The reason I say it's weird is because I have always always always gone to church with my family, and now I'm going by myself and it's a little bit to take in. I'm not sure if I like it or not. I do because it forces me to talk to people and it's a good step of faith by going to church on my own and not having my parents to tell me to go, so it's good in that sense. But then again, I always saw going to church as a family event and in a way, a time to spend together, especially at Faith because we were so involved and had to work together as a family and as a church family. And by me going to another church I don't want that to appear as though I don't want to be with my family. But also, if God is calling me somewhere else, then that's where I should go.

What I like about LOC is first, the people. I always feel so welcome there and people take the initiative to talk to me, when I feel I don't get that at New Hope. Alright, intermission, I must say something. In NO WAY is this me bashing another church. The only reason I am comparing it is because I am trying to make a decision in which church to attend and why I decided to switch in the first place. So, the second thing I like is the worship. Probably because it does remind me of Faith more than New Hope's does and I just like the style better. Not much to say about that. Third, I like that it is a small church. Bigger than Faith, yes, but much smaller than New Hope and they only have one service, which means you can know everyone in the church, not just whoever attends your service. I have nothing against bigger churches. It's just a personal preference to have that feeling of family/community and to be involved.

The only thing that might take some getting used to is that it's Pentecostal and so the preaching style is pretty different. Doesn't mean it's bad, I'm just not used to it! They had a guest speaker there this morning, Wayne Meyers. He's 83 years old and he spoke about how today is the Sunday of opportunity. How we can be involved with God's mission and mostly about giving. I noticed they talk a lot about giving at LOC, which is fine with me 'cause I want to help poor people in some way anyways! So this morning made me think about my own financial situation and I always seem to use the phrase "I'm poor" when really, I have waaaaay more than a lot of people. So anyways, it made me think.

On a last note, Wayne Meyers said this (I think he quoted someone else or something) and I liked it: "If you have everything but Christ you have nothing. If you have nothing but Christ you have everything."

So true.

Gee-Tar

Hello everyone,

I have the sweetest little video for you to watch. I love the guitar and I think this kid is so good, and I love this song too. Here's the link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b

Hopefully that works for you all. If not, go to youtube.com and click on videos, then top favourites and the video is called guitar. The kid's fingers go so fast, it's amazing! My brother and his girlfriend were over last night for his birthday (happy quarter of a century Kev :P) and he was playing guitar, and I think he's amazing....but maybe I'm just bias ;) Anyhow, watch this video, it's really good.

This and That

I am so glad to be done classes. I had definitely had enough! All that's left is my four exams.

I just finished watching Van Helsing. I bought a DVD drive for my computer, so I can now watch movies in my room! The downside is my computer isn't exactly the newest technology, so depending on the movie, the quality varies. Anyways, I thought this was the worst movie ever made. It was horrible! I was so bored, and after 2 hours and 12 minutes, I wanted to shoot myself. I don't think the acting is very good and neither are the graphics. Maybe vampire movies just aren't my thing, but still. You cannot tell me that this is a quality movie!

The other movies that I've rented so far (yes, they're all older because they're cheaper at the video store) are, The Hunt for the Red October: I thought this was actually a pretty good movie. You can tell Americans made it though because they make the Russian government look completely incompetent. But Sean Connery does a really good job, and it was very entertaining. I rented White Chicks and watched that last night. It wasn't all that great. There's some "inappropriate" stuff in it, but it wasn't all that funny. I did laugh a bit though. I watched Black Hawk Down, which I thought was a really good movie. It's kind of scary to think of war in that sense though because it was fairly graphic. I have a friend going off to basic and so I think I got stuff out of the movie that normally people wouldn't think of. I also watched Little Nikki....not one of Adam Sandler's better movies, and his voice is crazy haha, but as always, there are some funny parts in it. Lastly, I rented The Forgotten. Terrible movie! There were waaay too many loopholes and the acting wasn't all that great. The emotions in that movie were severly lacking. If I found out all the things she found out and went through, I think I'd be a little more surprised and psychotic! So I was disappointed with that one.

So the only good ones were The Hunt for the Red October and Black Hawk Down.

On a totally different note, I was thinking earlier today about something the pastor said on Sunday at New Hope, which was that ALL sin is punishable by death (or something like that). That made me think of all the things that I (or we) do that we may think is just little, but the penalty is still death. I wonder if we all thought that way, how much less sin would occur. The only problem is thinking this before we commit any sinful act. "If I do this, is it worth dying for?" My whole thing is usually shoot first, ask questions later. Therefore, I react mostly before I reason. I don't know, I just thought it was something worthy to think about.