2008 Big East Champions!

So for those of you who are not basketball fans (and you should be!) Pitt, University of Pittsburgh, won the Big East! I will be watching/Tivo-ing all the Pitt games in the tournament! But the best part of them winning to me is that my cousin Jeremy is a Head Manager of the team. He got to cut a piece of the net down in Madison Square Gardens after winning! This link, http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/ ,will take you to Pitt Panthers site!
Also Pitt's next game is this Thursday, 3pm EST on CBS....I encourage everyone to watch and cheer for Pitt!!! (if you're not going to cheer for them...don't bother watching!)

ON TO THE NCAA TOURNAMENT....GO PITT!

idoubtgod.com

My church has launched a website, idoubtgod.com . I encourage you to check it out. It is simply people (Christ-followers and not) writing down their doubts or encouragements. Feel free to post something. If you are a Christ-follower then please write a response if the Holy Spirit puts it on your heart. If you are in the Charlotte, NC area then this Sunday, 3/22/08 Easter. There will be a teaching addressing some of these doubts that have been brought up on the site. I invite you to come and hear what has to be said. You can find directions at nextlevelchurch.org . I attend the Matthews campus (I go to the service that I wake up early enough for!).

I am pretty excited to find out is said at the service. And just to let everyone know...I doubt God, even though I am a Christian.

Martin Luther

I was bored and reading quotes online. I came across a Martin Luther quote. (Not Martin Luther King, Jr. just Martin Luther) Then I looked up more quotes by this man. I then wanted to refresh myself on his history and who he was (I studied him at GFU). He was a faith filled, grace filled, bold man. He nailed a document called "The 95 Theses" on the door of a prominent Catholic church. The pope wasn't too happy, since this ended up starting the Protestant Reformation. And because of that a lot of people stopped attending and paying the Catholic church. Luther's main deal in the Theses was against indulgences and pardons... basically buying your way out of penalties of sin (what a scam!). Anyway, here are some quotes that I enjoyed from this man.

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."

"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."

"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart."

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

"Pray, and let God worry."

All the above quotes are by Martin Luther.

Radical

So I'm not saying that I am a radical, but I do have a blog and I thought this comic was appropriate. I don't like conforming much, in fact I think I've gotten sort of kicked out of a church group because I spoke my mind too much and wouldn't fit into their "box"! But it is the mind God gave me and I'm going to use it and speak the truth as much as I can. And if speaking the truth is radical...well then I guess I am a radical....oh and "I have a blog".