Beautiful song about the shooting - free download at Klove.com

The Colorado Massacre articles

When I read the story of the shooting in Colorado, I was crying. I think that our prayers need to be with the families of the people who were killed, and with the people who witnessed it. Lecrae posted this blog article on facebook, and I thought I'd share. It is written by a survivor of the shooting, and I really liked her perspective on the whole thing: http://aminiatureclaypot.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/so-you-still-think-god-is-a-merciful-god/

And another cool story of a church who one of their members was killed and at a service they prayed for the gunman: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/colorado-church-prays-gunman-killed-one-own-193810422.html

Quotes about life

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
Yeah, and today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

~This is your life by Switchfoot

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is not in your control. The only thing that you can change is today. So open your eyes. Look at the world around you. Is it how you want it to be? If it's not, then think of a way you can change it. Is your life what you want it to be?

Is your life what you dreamed it would be when the world was younger and you had everything to lose? Does your life look like your dreams?


Do what you love, and love what you do. ~Unknown


All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. ~Richard L. Evans


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ~Josh Billings

Me Without You

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German Doodle

A poodle/German Shepherd Mix - aka a German Doodle.

@Julianne Nicole :)

Should've been me

It should have been me. It shouldn't have been Jesus. He didn't deserve it at all. I deserved it. He was perfect. I was a sinner. He died. I lived. There's nothing fair about it. The only word to describe it is LOVE. 

It should've been me
It should've been us
Should've been there hanging on a cross
All of this shame
All of these scars
Should've been stains that were never washed
Why do I hide
Why do you try
Over and over and over again
I guess it just leaves saying thank God
It leaves me saying thank God, thank God
For the should've been

The lyrics above are from a song called Should've Been Me by Citizen Way. I think it's something that we often take for granted. We are alive, and we don't think much about it. But the wages for sin is death. We have all sinned, and we all deserve to die. But Jesus loved us SO MUCH that he died instead. It would have been unjust for God just to take away the punishment without giving it to someone else. God is just. But he is also loving. He knew that we would all sin, and that we would all have to go to Hell for that. 

Rather than letting His children go to eternal separation from Him, He had His Son die. It proves that God is both loving and just. But He is also victorious! Rather than just dying, forgiving us, and calling it good, He wanted us to be able to live with Him forever! Jesus raised from the grave for that!

We need to be careful not to forget that Jesus died for us. He didn't have to do it. He doesn't have to save us. But He loves us like crazy so He did! It should have been us. But because God is loving, it was Him!

VBS

Hey everyone! Just finished a week on VBS at Fellowship EPC. It went great! I loved the music this year and the kids got really into our skit!

And tonight we start VBS at Friendship, our church. I'm excited!

I'll let you know how it goes! Talk to y'all later!

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FREE and Catalyst Concert!

F.R.E.E. and Catalyst concert!!!

Come and join with us on 8/24/12 for a Night of Worship to our Savior, Jesus! Doors open at 6:30 PM and the concert lasts until 9:30 PM. If you're interested in coming, can you comment and LMK so I have a rough count? Thanks, hope to see you there!

The two bands who are playing are: (I am in Catalyst)

F.R.E.E. stands for Forever Redeemed Eternally Esteemed. They are a Christian Rock band that was started in 2009. They love making, writing and recording music for God's glory and to praise Him. It says in Ephesians 5:19 - “Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, sing and make music from your heart to the Lord." F.R.E.E. sings and plays from the heart. And at the heart of their band is Jesus Christ. Their entire band is centered in Christ and Christ alone!
www.thebandfree.com




Catalyst is a girls band started in 2011 dedicated to praising Jesus with the gifts He has given to them. In chemistry, a Catalyst is “a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change”. Their goal as a band is to increase the rate that the Good News of Salvation spreads through the world without conforming to the ways of the world.
www.facebook.com/catalystforGod
Www.catalysttheband.com

At Fellowship EPC in South Lyon -
at Pontiac trail and 9 Mile
22200 Pontiac Trail, South Lyon, MI

For more info contact Molly at CatalystforGod@yahoo.com