saw this earlier, its the opening to a third day concert, where they sing blessed assurance, complete with crowd singing, brill.

remember remember the 5th of november

This little poem/rhyme will now not only remind me of Bonfire night, it will now remind me of the day of my Enrolment as a Senior Soldier of the Salvation Army.
As my testimony was short and sweet today, I've been instructed to write about my day on this my blog, as apparently I'm better writer than I am a speaker. So here goes nothing...

I haven't got to this point in my life all by myself, (although some would say that I have), my friends and family have got alot to do with it, whether they know it or not. My friends old and new, young or not so young, believers and non-believers, the somewhat strange and others even more so, have been the biggest influence in my life to get me to this point in my life. They have always been there, when anything good has happened they've been there to celebrate, anything not so good, and they've been there to comfort and/or cheer me up.
But my friends have brought me further in my faith than i realised, because through many conversations with them, i have had to develop a stronger faith, and a better understanding of what i believe. Some of my friends who dont believe have challenged me about my faith, and this has helped me to strengthen my faith, more than anything else.
I have never been one to shy away from talking to someone about my faith. When i first met my new friends at uni, they learnt fairly quickly that i am involved quite a bit in church, and this very quickly led to questions about church, and how i got involved. So obviously they have learnt that my parents are army officers, and that i have been going to church all my life. Since talking about my church life, it has basically been taken for granted that its a part of who i am.

Thats all i really wanted to say, i know it wasnt about me, but i see my friends being as a part of who i am.

I want to say thank you to all at the corps for their support and generosity today.

Also I want to finish with a verse that was brought up at one point during the day, and it is one that i have been keeping in my head over the past week aswell.

Romans 1:16
I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God for Salvation to Everyone who believes.
And another that has been brought up in a few conversations through the day.
1 Timothy 4 :12
And don't let anyone put you down because you're young. Teach believers with your life: by word, by demeanor, by love, by fait, by integrity.

Quote of the week

"Four basses, thats enough to cure Diarrhoea" - Alistair

if this was a bumper sticker, id want it, actually i want it as a bumper sticker anyway.

yeah. this basically says all that I want to say.
Dont just be a sunday Christian, theres no point being good on a sunday if on a monday you go and act like most other folk.
Being a Christian isnt just about saying your a Christian, dont just say it, live it. Don't say your a Christian...BE a Christian.
I've changed my outlook recently, I'm not gonna shrink back from saying that I think something being said is wrong, im not gonna sit back and allow something to happen that isnt right, im gonna stick by my beliefs and not just push them to the back of my head cause I dont wanna embarrass myself. It doesnt work like that.
Im gonna have to read my bible and learn more about the stories, and the faith of those people, because im gonna get questions i know i will, and i need to have some sort of backing, im gonna need a solid grounding to go back to...the Bible is what im gonna be going back to.

Thats all really
apart from one thing....

Preach the love of Jesus.....If stuck....use words.

All I really wanna say is thanks to all my mates who have (knowlingly or not) cheered me up over the past few days, whether that is talking random on msn, or trying to break msn(which we did), or attacking me by tickling me, or anything else. Just thanks.

My Friday the 13th

usual friday to begin with:
early train, met Alistair on train as per usual
Uni @ 9, 2 hour lab, that we had finished in about an hour, then onto the 2 hour lecture, where Kirstin and myself decided to write a dictionary of uni things, after sleeping for the first hour.
after Uni, we went for lunch, and headed back to hang about for a while.
After looking for Franks wallet for a while (dunno if he found it or not), we left. Kirstin and myself were going to the Orson concert at the Barrowlands. So we headed back to hers, b4 going up 2 Glasgow.
The band supporting Orson were a band called Gliss, i didn't really like them but i give them credit because i liked the fact that they all played each instument at some point.
*applause* for Orson, great concert well done!
After the concert I went to Lynseys to crash. She had some mates round, so we stayed up watchin movies, and spouting absolute rubbish all night, and into the early hours of saturday morning.

So my friday the 13th was a good one. so i see no reason to say that friday the 13th is a bad day to do anything, as i was about glasgow barrowlands at night on friday the 13th and im still here today :)

Today I thank God for...

....knowing that all christians are not like this



hannity and colmes interview Shirley Phelps, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, who protests gays, jews, soldiers, etc.

i think this view is too extreme
what do you think?
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