Back to the Basics

The Dark Knight is overrated! Yes, it’s a good movie, but it didn’t live up to all of the hype. Heath Ledger was amazing and in my opinion, he’ll go down in history as one of the best villains ever. The Joker was the only cool thing about the movie. If Hollywood is going to hype up a movie as much as they did for The Dark Knight, it better be unbelievable! I wasn’t impressed. There, I said it…

I’ve been single for over two years now. Having already been in two relationships, I learned the hard way of how to do it right. Personally, I’m having the time of my life, and I’m single too! Is that even possible in today’s culture? I believe it is. Although it took a while, I finally came to the point in my life where I realized I’m not a whole person. (Talk about a humbling experience) I realized that God wants to bless me with an amazing woman of God, but He’s not going to do that until I take the time to prepare myself for her. Why should I expect God to give me the best when I won’t even take the time to make sure I’m at my best? I have a friend (who shall remain nameless) but she is always giving me advice about who I should date. After ignoring all of her advice, she finally asked me why I’m not interested in any of them. This is what I said; “It’s not that I don’t have the desire to be in a relationship and it’s not that I’m not interested in any of the girls you’ve mentioned to me, but I realize that if I start a relationship with any of them right now, they’re not going to get the ‘best Joe’, they’re gonna get the Joe who is still in the preparation season of his life and that’s not fair to her.”

If you think I don’t want to be in a relationship right now then you’re crazy! Of course I want to be in one, but I also realize the importance of doing things right, and if I want to do things right it’s gonna take time. It’s going to require a lot of patience! I believe every girl deserves to be a with a boy who is complete in the Lord, knows what he wants in life, and knows how he’s gonna get there. I want to be faithful with what the Lord’s blessed me with now so that when it comes time for Him to bless me with a wife, He’ll trust me.  

I’m completely content with where the Lord has me and I couldn’t be happier. I also know that I’m on the right path of becoming a whole person. How do I know that? I know I’m on the right path because of the peace in my spirit. There’s truly no greater feeling than to wake up every day and know that you’re in the will of God. As for now, I need to forget what’s behind me and keep moving forward. The Lord has put so many things on my plate and my job now is to remain humble, work hard, and continue to be His servant. I’ll let Him take care of my relationships status. 

“You are ready to date when you don’t need to. If you feel that you “need” a date in order to be complete or fulfilled personally, you are not ready for dating. Need involves demand and implies that there is something lacking in life. The opposite of need is choice, which allows for a decision. When you regard dating as a matter of choice rather than necessity, you are ready. It is a matter of your ability to be happy and content whether you are with someone else or not.” - Myles Munroe

I recently finished a book entitled Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship by Dr. Myles Munroe. In my opinion, it’s one of the best books on dating I’ve read by far! With that being said, I’m in the mood to write about the wonderful topic of romantic relationships. Oh yes, the ‘R’ word! I’ll have it up soon…

Our church recently sent a team from our youth group down to Los Angeles for a short term missions trip. This is a highlight video of everything that took place during that week. Be blessed as you watch it and know that the Lord is truly doing a great work through His people all across the world!

I never thought the day would come where I would literally be tired of traveling. I’ve been home for two days now and I am still exhausted. No fun…

Enjoy! : )

1. Drive 180 mph down Highway 5.
2. Make a stomp video inside of Fred Meyer. 
3. Don’t drink water until January 1st 2009. 
4. Eat McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 
5. Read 15 books by the end of the year. 
6. Run 25 miles every day for the next five years. 
7. Wash my car until you graduate from PBC
8. Give Matt free breadsticks from Olive Garden. 
9. Buy all of your Dorm Leaders a Starbucks gift card. 
10. Buy every Israel & New Breed CD and listen to them every day. 

I know I said I would post an update last night but I ended up falling asleep. Sorry! This past week has been so much fun but I’m officially tired of traveling! I’m so thankful I had the opportunity to travel to Idaho this past weekend. I’m learning that every ministry trip has its own uniqueness. When I get the chance to experience the presence of God in other churches, it’s a reminder of how we’re all a part of something so much bigger than ourselves. Regardless of the size, style of preaching, style of worship, every church has its own style, but the Lord’s definitely moving across the world through His people. Another thing, and this is geared towards any PBC student that comes across this post. We truly have no idea how blessed we are to be students at PBC. There are people all over the world that would give anything to learn from the people we sit under in the classroom! We are tremendously blessed to be bible college students at PBC. My flight landed in Oakland this morning and now I’m back in the offices for work. I’m assuming the next couple of weeks will be busy as we prepare for summer camp but it’s gonna be great. To everyone I saw on campus, it was great seeing you! I can’t wait for next semester.  

I’m at the Boise airport waiting for my flight to Portland. I will post more later today…

I had the wonder privilege of getting to travel with one of my Pastors to Boise, ID this weekend. We landed around 11 am Boise time and it’s been great. I’m having so much fun! A great guy name Caleb picked us up from the airport and when Pastor Marc was out doing his thing, Caleb and I got to spend some time together. We ended up going to one of the local frisbee golf courses and we played a couple of rounds. I’m happy to announce that I straight up dominated the second game. Okay, so I only beat him by one throw, but still, this is his home turf and I threw that frisbee like it was nobody’s business! Marc led an evangelism seminar for a couple of hours tonight and it went great. The church was hungry to learn and it was evident that the presence of God was working in the lives of everyone there. We’ve been on the go since our flight landed and Marc and I are both pretty exhausted. After service tomorrow a few of us are supposed to head over to this sweet frisbee golf course that has 18 holes while all the Pastors do their thing. It’s gonna be great. Till next time…

So apparently when you fly with Alaska/Horizon airlines you need to show up two hours before your flight leaves to check in. I showed up 45 minutes before. Oops!  Now I have to wait until the 9 am flight to Boise, ID. This is why Southwest rocks…