Woowee!

I'm tired.

And I'm at Josh and Jenny Penman's apartment.

In Charlotte.

North Carolina.

I can't think.

I endorse this blog.

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Expect plenty of running, chafing, and chauvinist posts. FTW.

Alright, yeah. A couple more thoughts.

After what's happened in the last couple days, I've been doing a lot of looking around online to see what I can find. And the things that I have found are just disheartening. It's amazing how many people are out there that were at one point part of WCG and/or Ambassador College, and now spend a healthy dose of their time writing up blog posts and comments just to put down and belittle anything that the church stands for. I've heard a few standard cases of people that would talk about how they were forced to give up something they loved so much like Christmas because of the church, and now they can enjoy it again. They even embrace the fact that it has pagan origins and go out of their way to prove (and by "prove" I mean, "mention without facts and then tell the reader that if they have any brains at all they can find reference material that backs up their claims") that the church also celebrates holidays of pagan origin. They also dig deep into every publication ever to come out of WCG (and sometimes up into the newer associations) so they can put down anything they can find that is scripturally unfounded. Newsflash: humans are imperfect. They make mistakes. And they had (and still have) a long road to travel on the way to spritual perfection. The Bible is a huge jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces are there, but they're scattered throughout the book, and we have to put it all together. And when HWA started understanding the truth, he didn't even have a picture on the box to look at. Along the way, you can only expect someone to try to jam a piece into the puzzle where it's not supposed to go. Incidentally, I find it amusing that these same people who don't care for God's Word whatsoever are the ones that are going through these same articles with a fine-toothed comb looking for mistakes.

Then you have the other faction of naysayers: the ones that don't hate the church but put down all of the branches that exist (mostly LCG and UCG). I would say that if these people have such a problem with the way things are run that they should start their own church, but undoubtedly at this point, the majority of them already have. So how can we hold on to the faith with so much turmoil around us? I think these points are a good starting place:

I Thessalonians 5:16-22
Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Quench not the Spirit.
Despise not prophesyings.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Have a great Sabbath.

Just some thoughts.

So, things are unstable again. Nothing seems to stay good for very long in the church without something coming along that creates turmoil. But without turmoil, how could we ever grow? If everything went on and on and on without anything ever being turbulant, then the Laodecian attitude would just be prevalent. So where do we go from here?

We can't hope to know where all of this is heading, except for knowing that the final product will never change. Jesus Christ will come to this earth in a glorious 2nd coming, and the Kingdom of God will be established forever. And this is going to happen no matter what happens along the way. And the Church that God and Christ have established on this earth will be in existance and will be there to rule alongside them in the millenium and be the family of God for eternity.

So, don't lose faith. No matter what happens in a human world, we have the promise of our Father in Heaven that the Church will exist until the end of this age. And we have His inspired Word -- the Holy Bible -- to teach us and lead us along with his Holy Spirit. Mr. Meredith continually tells us to follow him as he follows Christ. So let's do that.

Discouragement is futile.

Goodbye balloon ... *pop*

Kristin says:
hahahaha when you got to the rap part, I was quite thankful I finished eating, because I would have choked lol

:( I'm a good white rapper.

Girls come and kiss me, show how you'll miss me ...

Highlights from a memorable and awesome wedding, compliments of Julie and (James) Bert:

- A map and directions that took us at least 10 minutes past the building where the wedding was at, and 30 minutes to reconcile (AND I had Mr. McNair in my car!)
- Getting the "Karl! You're playing" from Julie when I arrived (which I responded to with a fist pump and a "yessssssssss")
- Getting asked "Are you a Moluf?" I guess the facial hair did it. (WHOOP! The cat is out of the bag.)
- My "T - 10 minutes" call to Annette from the front row of the audience.
- The amazing music choices for the bridal procession. Karl doesn't cry at the beginning of every wedding.
- Rachel Tlumak didn't die walking in heels in the processional (coming or going).
- The kiss. Bert is my hero.
- Marshall being a class act show-running usher before and after the wedding. Work it. Woowoo!
- No cake to face action by J&B. Totally classy, right-to-mouth action.
- Totally unclassy cake to face action by Lacey and me at our table afterwards.
- An epic birdseed bag war out in the parking lot. Not even close to time when the bride and groom were about to leave.
- Julie did the "Moluf dance" with me .. IN her wedding dress. That was awesome. OH OH! AND A HEEL CLICK! Hot.
- Running after the towncar containing the newlyweds, doing heel clicks all the way.

Good good times.

The most recent update.

My car took 12.2 gallons this morning.

Seriously, this shouldn't be possible.