tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62231156371957857752024-03-13T10:50:13.755-07:00Link Year Lax BroChad Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18295704054081752906noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223115637195785775.post-7828680677439359632012-12-02T20:54:00.000-08:002012-12-02T20:54:04.631-08:00Kansas City
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The only thing I would change about this week would have been
letting us stay for another week or at least a few more days. Besides that,
there is nothing I would change. I love getting to serve others who have given
their lives to obeying the Lord’s call in whatever aspects that may entail.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This week we went to Kansas City and volunteered with the
HOPE organization, located in one of the roughest parts of the city. It was
odd, because as we pulled in to the area, honestly it didn’t look that bad.
Last year I went to school in one of the poorest cities in Georgia and at some
point it was posting pretty highly on violent crime and death rates. It was
bad, and it looked bad, but here it looked almost peaceful. Once we got to the
center, the man who had started HOPE took us out in a bus to show us the area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">He started telling us stories of violence and hurt that I
couldn’t even fully imagine. It became clear very quickly to me how broken this
place was. They didn’t have a grocery store in the area. They have one doctor
serving thousands upon thousands of people. In the high schools in the area
only 5 kids have a chance to graduate from college. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Hearing that breaks my heart, and while I’ve been around
poverty before, it’s easy for me to forget how much I’ve seen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">We were able to help out by cleaning up a beautiful old
cathedral owned by the HOPE center. Also a few of us went down the street and
helped in some of the finishing stages of preparing a house that a family who
wants to invest in the community is going to be moving into. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I think being at Kansas City this week has really shown me
places that I need to step up and take more action. I have been trying to find
a place to plug into with lacrosse, but I got distracted and haven’t followed
through with that. I want to find a way to give to people who have less than
me, and when I say that I don’t mean from a materialistic point of view. I mean
that 'from a spiritual perspective. I think at times people – myself included-
get so focused on meeting people’s physical needs that we can forget about why
we’re helping them - to show them God’s love. There are a lot of people out
there who do really great things to help the underprivileged, but people need
salvation of their souls as well. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">So yah, I’m going to try and find a way to make that happen
because it’s something I have always wanted to do and love doing but just
sometimes struggle finding a way to use my strengths to do something.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Chad Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18295704054081752906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223115637195785775.post-2428704609740172102012-11-29T19:48:00.000-08:002012-11-29T19:48:31.532-08:00Ghost of Blogs Way Over Due
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This week has been a very informative and fun week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday we had a nutritionist come in and
speak to us about eating healthier. I found her information really interesting
and, personally… depressing. The idea that in an entire day I should be eating
about 10 ounces of meat - I eat more than that in one sitting. I know for a
fact that I have eaten over 2,000 calories in one meal on multiple occasions.
But while I probably won’t start making a meal of nuts and celery, I am going
to make a better effort to put some more fruits and vegetables into my diet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The next two days we were blessed to have Marvin Daniels, the
director of Kids Across America, come and speak to us. The first thing we did
was stand in the back of the chapel as Marvin gave us several statements that
cause controversy in today’s society. After hearing the question we had to
decide to agree or disagree with the statement and then defend our position. I
really enjoyed getting to talk back and forth and share our opinions and
beliefs. Marvin’s teaching was really challenging to me. You see, I know that
there are areas in my life in which I know how I should act but choose not to.
I’m paraphrasing, but Marvin made a statement that information without
application leads to nothing. I have a lot of head knowledge but I need to be
more proactive in applying that knowledge to my life and allowing the Lord to
transform me through that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Honestly there were so many things that stuck out to me while
he spoke that I’ll just list off a few<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“We live like what Jesus asks us
to do is good enough for the pews but not the public”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Friendship and obedience go hand
in hand with God; you are not a “friend of God” if you are not obedient.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“When you say “no” to your flesh
you usually end up saying ‘yes’ or ‘I do’ to the Lord.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">One last thing that Marvin said that hit head on was when he
was talking about the government. It was that I can criticize and critique and
talk about our government and leaders until I’m blue in the face, but what God
wants to know is, have I prayed? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I know that I love my country and I can get passionate about
politics. Ever since high school I have told people about how important it is
for Christians to be a voice in government, and a million things about what is
wrong in our country. But how many times do I pray for America, its leaders and
people? Not enough. At the end of the day God doesn’t care about how many
people I talked to about politics; he wants to know how many people I gave the
good news of the gospel to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Chad Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18295704054081752906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223115637195785775.post-68007596652610827862012-11-01T22:14:00.002-07:002012-11-01T22:14:54.219-07:00The Mystery of MondaysWell this should have gone up about 2 weeks ago, but it's here now plus pictures!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has been an absolute blast! Especially our second
Mystery Monday, this week we were given a classic Disney movie but with a twist
added to it i.e. Aladdin as a horror film, Snow White and the seven deadly
sins, etc. Our "mission" was to go out into Branson in the groups we
were placed in and take photos to recreate the story with its added elements.
If that wasn't difficult enough we were given a maximum of 15 photos to tell
the story ALSO we had to have a complete wardrobe change in at least one of the
pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So we got into our groups and received our
"movies" and then began the mad dash to grab a change I clothes and
get to the cars. -personally I feel like the leadership here puts time limits
on things just because they want to watch us run us out of energy at least one
day a week- <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My group was AK, Jesse Anne, Timothy, and myself. We got the
movie Snow White and the seven deadly sins. I won't act like we were a little
perplexed as to how we were going to accomplish this movie remake. You see the
as truth is that 2 of us had never seen the movie before and the other 2
couldn't really remember specifics of it. So we did what any struggling student
does... We looked it up on Wikipedia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After a few minutes of browsing the story we came up with a
semblance of a plan and began furiously taking photos, some making sense, most
of them not. We managed to find a castle and a log cabin for background and
then did our best to recreate the story while incorporating the 7 deadly sins. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At 11 we headed back to the chapel where we were going to
present our creations. We presented ours along with all the other groups; there
was a lot of laughing and shaking of heads. Unfortunately we did not win the
competition, nor did we place in the top 3... But that's ok! It was so much fun
getting to be ridiculous with my group. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can't describe how blessed I feel to be here at Link Year.
Not just for the fun that we are able to have, but also for the relationships
that are being built as everyone here pushes each other towards the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chad Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18295704054081752906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223115637195785775.post-2868592794664677222012-10-20T15:54:00.001-07:002012-10-20T15:54:38.223-07:00Week 3 with Jonathan Morrow
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feel like I am going to end up apologizing each week at the beginning of my
blog but I promise I will try really hard not to this next week! That being
said I feel like I have so much I want to talk about and so little time to get
it all down. I just finished watching the Vice-Presidential debates; first off
I keep forgetting Missouri is not on Eastern Time… so I missed the first hour
of the debate. So now I get to go back and watch the whole thing again before I
can talk about how much I dislike Joe Biden. Also I have a soccer game tonight
at 11:30 which should be interesting since I haven’t played soccer in years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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right! Now that that’s out of the way let’s get down to the good stuff…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This
week we had Jonathan Morrow, the author <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Think Christianly </span></i>and
several other books. This man is incredible. He spent three days going over how
to defend our faith. Let me say that I already love this stuff. It’s something
I just get stoked about. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Right
off the bat we hit the ground running. We started by asking the question, “Does
truth exist?” We talked about how claims of truth can be split into 2
categories: subjective and objective. Basically we discussed how people are
entitled to their own beliefs BUT they are not entitled to their own truth.
Then we went into what our job as believers is during apologetics, which is to:
Respond to Objections; Make a Case, and Give Hope. As we discussed this I felt
convicted because I know that in the times I’ve discussed the Bible with people
who don’t believe in it or question things about God, I usually skip the last
and definitely most important step. I get into the heat of the argument/debate
so strongly that I end up losing focus on why I am having this conversation and
will just try to show the person why they are wrong and feel as if I’ve
accomplished something. Which I have done - I showed the person I was speaking
to that I can argue with them, but they know nothing more of the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also learned several arguments that we can make which will lead to proving the
existence of God and in turn give us an opening to share more from Scripture.
One was the “Kalam Cosmological Argument” which is actually very simple and
just deductive reasoning. Here’s a simplified version of it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Whatever begins to exist has a cause<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The universe began to exist<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Therefore the universe has a cause<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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here we can move the conversation to how if time began it must have come from
something timeless; if matter began to exist it has to come from something
immaterial, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
so much more complicated, but I love that instead of starting with conflict you
focus on things that anyone would agree on and then you can take things step by
step and create minimal confrontation to make your point. Not that I am against
confrontation, but once people get heated they tend to stop listening to the
message you are presenting and are focused on doing the same to you and you end
up gridlocked. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also looked at arguments for God’s existence from the angle of design. How
things came to be. I thought the coolest example he gave us was Mt. Rushmore.
He asked us if we knew who created it, and when none of us could answer, he
asked if we could still be certain that it was created or was it just a
happenstance of nature. He extended this metaphor to the world - just because
we can’t say we saw God make the world doesn’t mean that we can throw away an
Almighty Creator of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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love history, and we discussed just a few things to support the existence of
Jesus and His resurrection. We have recorded accounts from Roman officials of
Jesus’ death and the “strange doings” that happened after. Then the fact that
every one of Jesus’ disciples died for this belief in His resurrection - why
would men do that who knew it to be a lie? Another thing was that Jesus first
appeared to women. At this period of history women’s testimony meant nothing,
so if you were going to have a believable story of a risen Lord you wouldn’t
use the word of women.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I have like 15 pages of notes of stuff; I have so much left to process. I love
what we went over and I think it has given me a greater boldness for defending
my faith. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Chad Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18295704054081752906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223115637195785775.post-73917747546769383712012-10-04T18:19:00.003-07:002012-10-04T18:20:04.246-07:00Week 2 with Mike Aleckson<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I apologize in advance for the terrible intro but I’ll be
honest, I have no idea how to do this nonsense with a “blog.” So that’s going
to be my intro… moving on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week we had Mike Aleckson come speak to us. He was a
business man who felt called by the Lord to go into full time ministry and now
works at Compassion International. He also spent some time working at KIVU,
which is pretty cool because I went there back in the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyways, he has spent the week with us going over a
historical timeline of the Bible. It’s crazy because he used to teach as a college
course over this material and he was attempting to take a whole semesters worth
of material and package it into three days. It’s a bit like drinking from a
fire hydrant but it has been awesome! I love history already and for the first
time in years I get to listen to the history of the Bible from someone who
actually believes in the inerrancy of God’s word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This whole week I have learned a lot but here are 5 things
that really stood out to me this week,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We discussed the Messianic Expectation starting
in Isaiah, Daniel, and all the way through the Jews time of exile. I think that
sometimes it’s hard for me to understand how the Jews of Jesus time couldn’t see
that he was their Messiah. I can only imagine that for hundreds of years being
told that I would one day have a savior who was going to be like King David
then seeing some peaceful man would be hard to change that mentality. I think
this knowledge will help me to speak one of my good friend who is Jewish and be
able to better articulate why Jesus was the Messiah and understand why he doesn’t
believe that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We spent some time talking about Matthew 5:48
which says “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” I’ll be
honest this was a verse again that was hard for me because I know that I can
never be perfect, I mean impossible right? We learned the original Greek word
in this verse for “perfect” is “teleion” which means to strive and work towards
your goal that you were created for, to become more like God. Not that I feel
like this means I don’t have to strive to be “perfect” but I need to strive to
become more like the Lord and because of that I will be closer to His unattainable
perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another really awesome thing was that we talked
about how our “psyche” is our dealing with our soul, which includes both our
logic and emotions; these 2 things are therefore deeply connected. The reason I
think it’s cool, is because in our JBU health course we had just read an
article about basically the same thing. I know that I need to take better care
of my body and spirit and I can do that by working in the other area. That last
statement may not have made a ton of sense but basically the more rested I am
the better decisions I will make, the better I can focus on spending time with
the Lord reading his Word and praying. Inversely I know that when my life is
right with God my physical abilities have always exploded and have been the
times I’ve bee most successful in my career.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also this is something I knew beforehand but it
was just a reaffirmation of my thoughts. In the Abrahamic covenant God tells Abram
about he will make a great nation from his seed and they will be his people and
be blessed etc. Also the Lord says that He will bless those who bless his
people and curse those who curse them. I think that America is on a knifes
edge, we have always been Israel’s greatest advocate and I believe that our
nation has been blessed because of this. Those in leadership of our nation do
not respect Israel and would see America no longer support Gods people. It’s
scary to think about losing the Lords blessing on our nation and I will continue
to try and get people, especially Christians to understand why we need someone
to lead our nation who will support Israel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the last things that we spoke about was
heaven and how when the Lord returns and creates a new heaven and earth, will
he destroy everything or will he keep those things which are honoring and good
to Him? Because if so wouldn’t we want to live our lives in a way that what we
pour ourselves into won’t be turned ash at the Lords coming. I know that I don’t
and wherever I end up working or doing with my life, I will do all I can to
honor the Lord with it, so that he can use it in His new kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sorry if my points all seem boring and long winded, I love
all the old stuff, meaning of words and the way history progresses and then
looking at how I fit into it. I can’t begin to explain how grateful I am to
have the chance to come to Link Year and be blessed by others teaching. I look
forward to seeing how the Lord shapes and fits me into His eternal plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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