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Ok.....

Jonny's got some mental issues...

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So.... What do you know about relient k? Are they popular over there among the Christian punk bands? Just curius (you might notice that I ask people about rk alot, they're my fav band )...

Tim

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Originally posted by snowboarderTim
So.... What do you know about relient k? Are they popular over there among the Christian punk bands? Just curius (you might notice that I ask people about rk alot, they're my fav band )...

Tim

Relient K are cool. They are heaps popular over here. Stacks. I dunno about the context of your question about "popular among Christian punk bands".

Local punk bands don't cover their stuff much, if at all.
Punk fans buy their albums.
But so do... not punk fans.
I just don't think they enjoy the essence of the albums as much as punk music fans do.

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I came home at about 5:30 tonight thinking I'll make some cream-cheese icing for my cake... there's only about a 3rd left. My goodness. ! It was so good. I fed some to Belle and Nathan today and they didn't die! Horray!

I ran into Matt (coldtoedpunker) today. Well, actually he ran into me. I was sitting on this bench in the middle of the mall, so tired and out of it and someone kinda walks past and stops. It took me... minutes I reckon, to realise that the feet had stopped walking and were standing in front of me.

I raise my head and my hair nearly falls out when I see him there and I'm going 'what the?'. My hat! I'm pretty sure I just confirmed his suspicions that I've been on dope for some time now.

I couldn't even speak proper, constructed sentences and didn't talk about anything great at all. Fab impressions, lemme tell you. I'll run into him again in 20 years and he'll say... "gee, are you still on drugs?"

Oh, he'd just brought the new RK cd which I showed some genuine enthusiasm for. (Seriously, I was stoked for your Matt! ) Hiphip for Matt.

I'm going to bed before I hurt myself.

High five for Jesus.

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Rah! I'm at the Scriputure Union office... working... hoho.

So much fun here. I've just done a heap of MADD and SWOT camp registrations. I think it might almost be time to go home. I'll be home alone for a long time tonight which is bad cos I hate being in a city house alone and in the dark! Yipes!:kshock:

Today... I wagged... with Keren. It was great. We got some info for an assignment and then checked out some groovy shops I've discovered, of which the contents of cost more than my weekly budget can handle. Still, they are fun. I'm getting to know the shop assistants... one day they might gimme a free-be if I get to know them well enough.

We went to the Market and brought apples and red bullets and then sat in Victoria Square and ate. I waved at the buses going past of which people would stare at us like they'd never seen some great looking gals eating cheese and gherkin sandwiches in Victoria Square before. Crazy old cootes.

Oh well... I'll see ya's all later. I'll write more when I'm at home (so I can entertain myself and not get scared).

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Matt... you are so funny!? As if I of all people in this world would be likely target for you to sell your dope! And as if you of all the people in this world would be selling it in the first place!

Horray for SWOT. I went last year and seriously, did not do much at all. I was heaps mad that they didn't have personal devo times or worship times, so I used the last study time to read my bible, write my journal and pray intently. I used the first 2 study sessions before lunch to read some stuff about... classical history which was my one and only exam to study for! The study time stright after lunch was folding and weaving the starburst wrappers I'd dished out in the morning sessions.

Oh my stars... fun times. My friend put chocolate moouse on my face at SWOT cos I was wondering what it'd be like on your skin. It was really nice. I washed it off later and my face was ultra smooth. It was amazing. Seriously, try it. Soggy oats and honey is also a good mix.

Fun times. Ahh!

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wanna be a leader on Swot 2 matt? horray! it'll be fun...:kroll:

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september/october school holidays... swot 1 (july holidays) is at mylor and swot 2 is at ... longwood.

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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 136:13-14a

Yesterday in worship, the YITS worship team took a trip back to sunday school days. We pushed back all the chairs and got everyone dancing around to "Father Abraham" and "The Blind Man" and "Jesus, superhero" (or whatever it's called).

People from 17-60 years of age were having a gay ol' time jumping around and going nuts. (If anyone happened to walk in, they would've thought we were all from a retard centre.) Anyways, Phil got up and spoke. He quoted the verse above and said something like this....

I'm not a very good dancer. I don't measure up to a buff runner or amazing actor. I feel like a dork when I'm dancing at weddings and stuff like that cos I'm not good at it.

When I'm praising God though, doing my skanking thing, or whatever, I'm not ashamed of who I am or what I look like. I'm praising God with my dancing. It's who He made me. I love using my body to dance for Him - He loves it too and He doesn't look at how well I'm in sync with everyone else. He made my body. The human body is amazing, complex, a wonder. By dancing, I'm giving the glory back to him. The physical anatomy miracle of it... mate! I'm FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY made... no one is like me. I can praise how I like and God loves it.




It really made me think. I realised that when I'm dancing at a concert out the front and stuff I feel like a dork, in fact, I don't even like doing it (I usually go to keep a friend company). When I'm in my seat, it's just me and God. Up the front, people are looking at you, from your seat, they don't care as much. I don't care as much. I don't care what I look like... all I care about is that I'm with God and we are rocking out.

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Had a rad day.

Went to a school with a seminar band Sacred Stone. So rad!

Went shopping with Ben and Kate for our combined 18th which is on Saturday week, come if you can. :P

Came home on the bus. Eating some Kellogs Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (which are the greatest, by the way) and then Eddie's picking me up and we're going to Victor.

Be back on Monday!

Love ya - Beanie

High five for Jesus!

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Desperately, helplessly, sadly, I cried.
Quietly, patiently, in love, God replied.
I pleaded and wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said, “Child, you must wait.”

“Wait? You say ‘wait’,” my indignant reply,
“Lord, I need answers; I need to know why!
Is Your hand shortened? Or have You not heard?
By faith I have asked and am claiming Your word.

“My future and all to which I relate
Hangs in the balance, and You tell me to ‘wait’?
I’m needing a ‘yes’, a go-ahead sign,
Or even a ‘no’, to which I’ll resign.
And Lord You have promised that if we believe
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
And Lord, I’ve been asking! I need a reply!

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again, “You must wait”.
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
And grumbled to God, “So I’m waiting… for what?”

He seemed, then, to kneel and His eyes wept with mine,
And He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun
I could raise the dead, cause the mountains to run.
All you seek I could give, and pleased you would be
You’d have what you want – but you wouldn’t know Me.

You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint;
You’d not know the power that I give to the faint;
You’d not learn to see through clouds of despair;
You’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there;

You’d not know the joy of resting in Me,
When darkness and silence were all you see;
You’d never experience the fullness of love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;

You’d know that I give and save (for a start),
But you’d not know the depth of the best of My heart;
The glow of My comfort, late in the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,
The depth that’s beyond getting just what you’ve asked
Of an infinite God wo makes what you have last.

And you’d never know, should your pain quickly fless,
What it means that “my grace is sufficient for thee.”

So, be silent My child, and in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.
And though often My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still “wait”.

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The theme of the entire camp was “wait – hold on - help is on it’s way”. We spent a lot of time looking over Bible heroes who were told by God to wait, wait on the Lord. You don’t know what he’s gonna do, you can’t even imagine what he’s gonna do! Just wait and have faith.

The very essence of faith is believing in what you can’t see.

There was all these testimonies of women who’ve been praying for their un-saved husbands or children for years and years. (One of whom deliberately chose to marry a non-believer. My question is why bother yourself with the pain!?!)

A dear lady who prays with my mum every week came over and she has an awesome, amazing testimony. She’s the most gracious, joyful griever I have ever seen in my life.

At 12 she became a nun. At 25 she got out after been attacked by some lesbian nuns (I don’t hold that against the church by the way). She got married and had 4 sons. Her husband didn’t turn out to be especially nice. 10 years ago he died. She married again and is currently separated from him cos he knocked her out. Sure, she has her days of sadness and doesn’t wanna get out of bed, but man, she has not stopped sharing Jesus and encouraging people. We walked around this island during our spare time and she greeted everyone – everyone! And everyone greeted her back as if they’d been best mates for years! She is such an inspiration to me.

Does anyone else find some funny stuff in the Bible? This is from 1 Kings 17:12-13.

“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread – only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I’m gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it – and die.”

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. God home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.”

So, she says she’s basically got nothing. She’s just gonna use what tini bit she’s got left to make something … then she’ll really have nothing and her and her son are just gonna sit there and die of starvation. She tells Elijah this and then he goes, “Sure, go home and make your bread and die. But make me something first.”

I laughed.

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This is one of my brothers Edwin and Me at the wedding a couple of weeks ago. We look like dorks cos we were pulling faces but the chick took forever to take the photo, by the time she did we'd started laughing at how funny we were. I cut off mum and dad to the right cos they look terrible. They weren't pulling faces or having fun like me and Ed.

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This is me and my best friend Belle at Easter Camp.

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This is me doing some of my famous 'trolley ballett' at the Woolies carpark in Victor Harbor. Kez and I were helping the trolley man round up all the stray trolleys for the evening.