Hello everyone!

I hope all of you had as blessed a week as I did. God is so good, it is impossible to praise him enough for his blessings to us. something that blessed my heart this week was the sunrises.

they were amazing, and to think that God made them for our enjoyment the same way he made us for his enjoyment.

I know these pics were from last week but this is pretty much what i see everymornin on the way to class.You know, its really hard to concentrate on driving when there is something this beautiful out your window. that must be what happened to this guy. He's a crown student that lost control of his car and hit a tree. He came away without injury, the Lord blessed him.

I saw another thing that was a blessing to me when i was hiking out in the wood to the natural freshwater spring that is on the property where my dorm is.

It is a bird nest in a cleft in a rock and it reminded me of the song "Cleft of the Rock". It talks about how God protects us through the storms (trials) of life. this picture doesn't show very well but this nest is pretty well sheltered by rock on three sides. God will take care of us like this rock protects this nest and the birds that reside in it.

He also answered prayer and provided a job workin at Napa auto parts warehouse unloading trucks and stocking parts. Please continue to pray for me that i will keep a good testimony for Christ and be the best employee that I can be.

Another thing that was a blessing to me was this car. God showed me that no matter how ugly and broken my car may be there is always a car that is uglier and and in worse shape than mine ;-)

Seriously though God has blessed me greatly this week. And i'm really looking forward to what he has in store for me in this coming week. God Bless you all and have a blessed Lord's day.

Hey again, God is so good. its amazing how he always takes care of his children.

Yesterdays chapel was really a blessing. Dr. Scotty Drake preached, you may have never heard of him, i hadn't. He is a former pastor and now a traveling evangelist. He just spent a couple of weeks in India with Tom Sexton, but his message was very encouraging. Here it is, hope you encourages you as much as it did me.

Things we Shouldn't sell

I Kings 21:1-2
And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

Ahab wanted Naboths vinyard but that vinyard wasn't for sell, and there should be things in our lives that we shouldn't and won't sell.

I. Our message

A. the Gospel

the grace of God

II. Our Book

we can't trade it for the new translation.

Our book is "so deep you can't reach the bottom, yet shallow enough you won't drown"

III. Our ministry

God has called us to Go into all the earth and Preach the Gospel. Our ministry is not for sell

IV. Our mission vision

We can't sell out our methods.

"Don't sell out to the world and don't compromise your standards or your testimony."

God Bless you and I Hope ya'll have a great week.

Hey guys, sorry i haven't posted in a while, I've been pretty busy with school, lookin for a job and workin on my car.
Yes, as hard as it may be to believe my car broke down and i had to fix it. The wheel bearings on the front went bad on me, and i had to tear the entire front end off of my car. the thing was that the bearings had to be pressed in to the wheel hub by a hydrolic press that i didn't have so i had to take that part to a shop to have it done. but the Lord blessed and it came off easy and it went back on even easier. plus i fixed other things that were wrong with it unknowingly. Praise be to God.
I also have to make a revision to a previest post.
I added a class on my mon.,wed., fri. schedule at 7:30 a.m. The class is Theology of Christian Education. Please pray for me i have some catchup to do since i'm starting a little late.
well anyway have a great weekend and a blessed Lord's day.

Last evening was (as you prolly well know) Church, and we had a guest preacher, Byron Foxx.

He was a real blessing. He is an evangelist/songwritter/singer that preaches all over the country, and his main theme was Christian Music. It was a real blessing to me to hear a message on music, and not really preaching against secular music, but encouraging us to listen to Godly music. It was something i really needed to hear. So, I thought i'd share his outline with you. The Title was "The King who sang and prayed".

Psalm 103:1-2:

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

I. David had a song
A. He Sang about God and his attributes
1. the goodness of God
2. the mercies of God
3. the grace of God
B. His songs are still alive
They are recorded in the eternal Word of God.
We still read and sing them.
II. He had sorrows
A. Saul envied him and tried to kill him
B. But David still had a song
C. There is comfort in being a christian

I Thessalonians 4:17-18

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together

with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:

and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

III. He had sin in his life

A. There is mercy with the Lord

B. David made suplication with the Lord

Psalm 55:1

Give ear to my prayer, O God;

and hide not thyself from my supplication.

IV. We must make sure that we take the time to sing and pray.

"We can't let the urgent take precedence over the important"

Keep a song in your heart and Pray on your mind

I hope this is as much of an encouragement to you as it has been to me.

God bless ya'll and have a great week end.

Tomorrow is the 6th anniversary of the attack on the world trade centers. i hope you remember all the people who died and all the police and firemen who gave their lives during that tragic time, also the men have given their lives in defending our freedom and the men that are still in places of danger.

Yesterday Temple Baptist Church in Powell, TN sponsored an event called "Knoxville Remembers". It was a special time where we remembered the men and women that lost their lives in the WTC, and honored (and encouraged American citizens to pray for) those that are serving now in the armed forces at home and abroad. They have a great responsibility in defending our the freedoms that we have in our great nation.

It was an open air meeting in Knoxville market square at bout six o'clock. It was lovely evening for an outdoor meeting.These are pics of the program for the evening. Mike Fox on the far left, Scott Hooks next to him Scott Pauley at the podium, and Greg Gray on the far Right are all on Crown College or Temple Baptist Church Staff.

The Childrens Choir

The Crown College Choir

Mr. Evans the Dean of Students and head of Security

Anyway pray for our troops, and remember those who gave their lives for our freedom.

God bless you and have a great week.

Mon., Wed., and Fri. class
8:30-9:20 Bible Doctrine
9:45-10:45 Chapel (livestreamed online at http://www.faithforthefamily.com/broadcasts/live_services/)
Tues., and Thurs.
7:30-8:20 Comparative World Religions
8:30-9:20 Pastoral Epistles
11:00-11:50 Major Prophets
12:00-12:50 Gospel Records

My schedule for the semester. please pray for me that i will do well in these classes, and that the Lord really speaks to me through the chapel services.
Also pray that i will get a job.
thank you for your prayers, and God bless you all.

hey again, here's some of those pics of the bike ride yesterday.

It started out as a beautiful day the sun shining. a few clouds and about 65 degrees... PERFECT

here are a couple of the bridges over a gorge it was prolly bout a 50 foot dropMe in Green Cove

this is me and tim one of the friends i went with

this is an old train station and a souvenier shop.

me sittin on a huge boulder overlookin a creek. and this is my personal favorite; hangin from a cliff face bout 25 feet above the creek.

This mornin' i got up at 5:50 a.m. and got in a small pickup truck with two friends and drove to virginia to the top of a mountain and rode a bike 17 miles down the mountain it was a lota fun. it was a great time of fellowship and enjoying God's amazing creation.
The trail we followed was an old railroad bed with the tracks pulled up. we went across several trussels that were anywere between 15 feet and like 60 feet. the trail also followed a creek down the mountain, it was kinda low because of the drought here but it was beautiful none-the-less.
I wanted to put some pics on here but i'm havin some problems so i'll get them up there as soon as i can.
Hope ya'll have a great week. God Bless! and remember God Loves you.