My Testamony

Ok since I think I’ve said things about my past before on here I guess I’ll post how I got to where I am currently at. Ok I was born into a Methodist family in Methodist church, which I have grown to resent. But I stayed with that for a while then my mom got together with a guy names Shawn and he was an abuser mentally and physically to my mom and I. And I lost all touch with God for what seemed like forever like even when I went to church I didn’t fell like there was anything there. That lasted until I was around 10 I think then our family of my 2 siblings, my mother, and myself moved to Bluffton and yet again zero touch with God but life got a whole lot easier for myself. Then after my cousin graduated from her high school which is where I first heard worship music that wasn’t hymns. So after that I started to think what if this “Methodist” God really does exist I started looking into it. Then about the time is was 12 I think we moved back to Fort Wayne and all the religious stuff went down the drain. And it stayed like that for awhile until my grandmother got put in the hospital and it affected me in a way that isn’t even explainable I mean she had been there for me to talk to for anything and I mean she was never a Christian but the very last thing she did was accept Christ, that blew me away that a God who I never really know gave this kind of forgiveness, and then I got back into religion and I asked my mom to take me to church and she took me to Calvary Temple and oddly enough that is where I meet some of the coolest people in the world that word effect my life in ways unknown to me. Then we didn’t go back for about a year and Life Bridge was looking to move locations, and they were praying and to me at the time that meant absolutely nothing. Well we didn’t go back to that church again at least not in the building, at that time I was being attacked in every way shape and form by Satan, and lost all touch with God and actually went completely atheist. During that time I tried to do everything I could to denounce the name of Jesus, I mean I hated Him and everything that had to do with Him and in my opinion anyone who worshiped Him didn’t know anything. This is were I read the Bible but just to show people how wrong it really was and I used any means necessary to make Bible believing Christians look stupid and in most cases I did because I knew the Bible better than the person who actually practices the religion. Then my mom took me back to Life Bridge and I went to a couple times to youth group 29:11 and it was cool to hang out with the people. Then one time when the pastor Bill Campbell was on stage he said that the youth group was going to L.A. on a missions trip and not really knowing what a missions trip was at the time I had no clue at all what a missions trip really was, but I was going to California and I got to help people which I’ve always liked to do. And while I was there we saw Press Play which is the worship group and the atmosphere in that room is just unexplainable you felt God’s presence and as soon as Matthew Barnett did the alter call I was there faster than anyone I couldn’t wait to know the love of this God that some many people felt so passionate about I had to know Him. Then we got back to Fort Wayne and I started reading the Bible but like the Bible says my roots came up fast but they got chocked really fast and my faith started to wither away. And then I went through the same thing with going to youth group and church every once in a while and not really caring about God. Then Pastor Campbell said that there would be another missions trip to L.A. and I wanted have that felling of God around me again and that was really the only place that I had felt it so I went back and I went up for the alter call again, but this time I promised myself it would be different when I got back this time. And it was for a longer time and I stayed close to God and His Word but I still didn’t go to church that much because of my mom’s work schedule, then I got a letter in the mail and I learned that the current youth pastor Brad and Lisa Ruggles were called to start a new church so they had to leave this absolutely devastated me I felt like I could tell them anything that was going on in my life and didn’t worry about being judged at all. And the reoccurring theme after this event I started to go to church on a regular basis I was in God’s Word almost every night and soon after I joined the worship team for the greatest youth group ever 29:11 and I have some of the greatest supporters that are there Dan Justice, Ramon Volz, Devon Groner, Aaron Jackson, Chaddy, Wil, Kodi, Amber Rafferty I could go on and on naming people but I fell like I can talk to anyone in that youth group about anything and they will pray for me and help me out and I love you guys so much for that.

God Bless

Seth

New Poem

Okay at Acquire the Fire this year I said that I would do two things for the Lord this year one you are reading the other is I said I wanted to get a poem published and after I started to fall asleep tonight the words started to pop in my head so any constructive criticism  is accepted and appreciated and any place that you know of thats looking for poems just tell me

His Love

His love is never ending

His love in unfailing

His long always has you longing

for His touch

His embrace

His warmth

His touch

His love is unbelievable

unbreakable

undescribable

His life was worth

His life

His son

His love is the reason we live and breath

His love is one of a kind

His love is never ending

Ammunition

Ammuntion usually when you hear that word you think you guns and violence. But the way that I want to get past tonight is the ammuntion that we can have to be fundemeantal in getting people either closer to God or to know God or to get them to come to your church or youth group. One of my favorite music groups as stated before is Switchfoot, and on their “The Beautiful Letdown” cd they have a song called “Ammunition”, and the song starts off with, “Blame it on what you’ve been through, Blame it on what you’re into, Blame it on your religions, Blame it on politicians” Which is what we as Christians seem to do to justify our lack off going out and telling people about Christ, we’ll literally blame it on anything from personal experience to politics. And instead of doing what we were called to do by Christ we sit around idly and wait for something to happen, I’ve been reading about by Ewrin McMantus called “Chasing Daylight” and he talks about Jonathan from 1st Samuel who was part of an Israelite army of around 600 men against literally THOUSANDS of men and he says “6 Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised fellows. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”

Ok so basically he says lets go pick a fight and MAYBE the Lord will help, this is basically telling us that you have to step out in faith for something to happen nothing is going to happen if you sit on you butt not doing anything. You can’t wait till the God comes out and tells you “Hey, this is what I want you to do” you have to seize every moment that you have from stoping the kids from school from making fun of the loser (which I am guitly) or to just talking to the new kid in class or the kid at lunch that sits all by him or herself. We as Christians are sent to show His love which means we have to love everyone no matter what if they are homosexual or of another religion we are called to show His Love, not to condemn people for what they are doing just to show his love. Which brings me back around to the Switchfoot song, where the song ends like this “Look what a mess we’ve made of love Look what a mess we’ve made, We’ve got ourselves to blame, Look what a bum we made of love”. I mean the reason I was and atheist in the past was because of the way “Christians” acted towards me because I was different because I look at the world in a different light they almost took me away from Christ becasue of the way we act YOU have that influence on people to change the course of thier lives and that is where I’m going to leave off tonight.

God Bless

&

Much Love

Seth

Music

Ok, since I’ve been saved I’ve been trying to not listen to as much secular music and since that has been one of the biggest things in my life since I could remember I guess I could go through some bands that have helped me a lot:

1. Skillet – If you haven’t heard of this band I’m really not sure what planet you have been on, this band has 7 releases but only 2 that people really know of my favorite album of theirs is defiantly Alien Youth “
2. Pillar -This is the band that taught me that it is okay to be a Christian and rock out my favorite album by them is Where Do We Go From Here
3. As I Lay Dying - For those of you that know me you probably know that I am a metal head I love metal can’t get enough so coming from my background I needed to find a band that I could listen to when I was mad
4. Switchfoot- For some reason this band I found a way to connect to if you haven’t heard this band I would highly recommend going out and picking up their The Beautiful Letdown cd
5. P.O.D. - Last but certainly not least P.O.D. this band has more cd’s than I can count and every single one of them is good.

Hosanna

Wow, my youth paster Aaron Jackson just gave one of the best sermons ever it was over studying the Bible something that all Christians should be doing like I said before we need to know that thing every way possible. But he was going over the way of studying it called S.O.A.P.

Scripture

Observation

Application

Prayer

And I’ve been trying this for a awhile and I fell like I’ve been missing the O and the A ok I live in the 21st Century and I do live a fast paced life. But the more I think about that the more I think “Wow, this is just like 90% of the Church”. We as Christians usually are missing something either we have the Bible down pat we can tell you anything about and then we don’t do anything about it or we go to church one day a week and think that is enough. That is like saying in the words of Aaron Jackson eating one day a week, you can’t eat on day a week and all of a sudden your full. Or take the “you are what you eat” saying, if we are truly Christ-like or even in a relationship with our Savior Jesus Christ we need to be feeding on His Word and then our actions will slowly but surly change. What I’m trying to hint is that the Church is LAZY, and we think that sitting on our butts and not gonna do anything, how are we supposed to have a fruitful crop as the Bible says? We can’t but then we also can’t go out and protest homosexual rallies or look like hate mongers, I don’t know the Bible as well as Biblical Scholars but I do think that I know a good amount of information and I’ve never read anywhere that we were sent here to judge, so us going out and being hate mongers is not what we are called to do.

Now if your looking at the title of this and wondering how can this have anything to do with Hosanna, okay but Hosanna I don’t mean what the townspeople were chanting as Jesus rode into the city on a donkey, I mean the Hillsong United song. Ok if you haven’t heard this song I highly recommend it, as a matter of a fact go but the cd. Ok back to the topic, I’ve heard this song about a hundred times and it never hit me till we were worshiping tonight I heard this:

I see a generation

Rising up to take their place

With selfless faith

With selfless faithI see a near revival

Stirring as we pray and seek

We're on our knees

We're on our knees

And I don't see that but I fell it and it will happen it's in my bones yelling to come out I can't wait

OUR GOD IS AMAZING

Good Night

Happy Easter

Why?

Okay first and foremost if you are reading this than you probably know me. This is why I’m making this blog….because this generation is screwed with the fact that basically most teens care about all of three thing:

1.Friends/Family

2.Relationships

3.Music

Where is Jesus Christ in this? That’s why I want to change this generation he DIED for our sins why can’t we live for Him? I don’t want to lose my generation because of stupid things sometimes I fell like this generation is worst than Sodom and Gomorrah, I mean homosexual relationships arn’t just happening there are EXCEPTED, and why because we are afraid that we will offend someone?

And also for those who don’t know I used to be an atheist, I know where atheists are coming from I used to resent everything Christian.But I knew the Bible better than 90% of the Christians I know we can’t let that happen we need to know God’s word backward forwards and any other way you can think of.

I Love You

God Bless

Seth