Over the last few years i’ve really struggled with over eating and lack of exercise. It would be really easy for me to say that it’s due to a family history, genetic condition or low self esteem but it’s always come down to the fact that I just wanted to eat some amazing food and not being able to say no. Since January I made an effort to try and drop a bit of weight and get fit once again. It’s not been an easy journey. There’s been some weeks when i’ve just given in and took the easy option and as im writing this i’ve just lived in one of those weeks when I just would eat the easy option and do what would allow me to do relax and not do much exercise. Continue Reading…
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Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort – Mark Cuban
I found this post this morning and wanted to share it with you all. Thanks have to go Mark Cuban or writing this great blog post.
I hear it all the time from people. “I’m passionate about it.” “I’m not going to quit, It’s my passion”. Or I hear it as advice to students and others “Follow your passion”.
What a bunch of BS. ”Follow Your Passion” is easily the worst advice you could ever give or get.
Toothbrushes
I guess I should start this blog off by saying that I married my wife seven months ago and it was the most amazing time in my life and I couldn’t have asked to spend the rest of my life with someone that’s as suited to me as my wife.
So, now I’ve got some extra points from my wife, let me share a little about some of my experiences concerning married life and the importance of solid examples and role models in our lives. I’m sure there’ll be some people reading this who will leave comments like “You’ve only been married for sevent months, your in a honeymoon phase, wait until it gets difficult”. Continue Reading…
How to regain intimacy with God
#please note that this blog was for xxxchurch and has a focus on porn and surrounding issues#
Question: How do you rebuild intimacy with god
This is a question I’ve received many times from people and the way i’m going to answer it now is the way I reply to everyone and hopefully it’ll help your out no matter what you’ve been struggling with.
Firstly we need to clear up the meaning of Intimacy.
Intimacy – a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.
I really want to focus on the “loving personal relationship” part of the definition. Continue Reading…
In the name of love…
Over the last few days I’ve been hearing a lot about things Christians are doing in the name of Christ or under the umbrella of “Christians” and as you can imagine most of it has been unbelievable.
This time of the year nearly every Church in the world will be covering the story of Jesus and him dying on the cross for us. For us Christians this story is the foundation of our faith.
I couldn’t think of any greater act of love. Continue Reading…
Blast from the past – I believe your my healer!!!
This is a Post that was posted a good couple years back and i wanted to share it with any of my new readers. As you can tell my writing style has changed a little but the general message is a good one.
So I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to come to an understanding of what Jesus is trying to tell me. I’ve experienced some very tough and upsetting situations and I’ve also been blessed to experience some amazing healings and some people wanting to know more about my amazing God. Continue Reading…
Blast from the past – Forgivness
This week I’ve been studying about the subject of forgiveness. I was asked to develop a study for the youth group on the forgiveness part of the Lords prayer. This has been a fantastic time of growth and revelation.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
For if you forgive others when they sin against you,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
For most people just that bit of scripture is a clear as day and would penetrate through our un-forgiveness but if you carry on reading just after the lords prayer is finished you will find the follow scripture in Matthew 14…. Continue Reading…
Letter from Shane
This is the letter the Shane Claiborne wrote for Esquire posted on November 18, 2009
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
Forgive us. Forgive us for the embarrassing things we have done in the name of God. Continue Reading…
Blog Success!!!!
Over the last few weeks I’ve been spending a little more time working on my site for many reason but really to keep everyone a little more informed about what I’m up to and some thoughts I’ve been having. I’ve seen huge growth in visits to my site and more focused writing thanks to two people.
The first person who’s really been helping me out is John Saddington from Tentblogger.com. This site really is the go to place when you need any advice with writing your blogs, launching a new site, fine tuning your focus for your site, coding or anything you could think of.
This site has helped me highlight some areas of my site which i needed to change and as I write I’m a couple hits away from doubling my current record of monthly hits to my blog and I’ve already doubled my subscriptions via RSS feeds and emails. The reason for this is the advice I got in terms of direction of my posts and being consistent with my posts. Before I stumbled across tentblogger.com I would post maybe 3 blogs in a day and nothing else for a week or two. As a result of reading a few blogs from tent blogger I decided to aim for 3-4 blogs a week with them all being on different days. This has really helped with bring more people to the site and it seems easier to create new material.
The other person who’s been a huge help to me in my blog mentor Matt Snider from geekforhim.com. He’s been very helpful in directing my time. Where there’s been times I thought it would be a good idea to do a redesign or change certain things, he’s really helped to keep me focused on my writing and things thats going to make the most difference right now, which has just been posting regularly. You should head over to his blog as he has some very interesting posts too.
So no matter if your a newbie to blogging or a seasoned professional I recommend you head over to tentblogger and geekforhim and see what cool advice you can collect for your blogs and start creating some great material.
Also Jon Jolly should get a mention as he’s helped me out over the years with my writing and recently with the technical side of running my site.
XXX.Porn.Help.Love
Many of you subscribers and regular readers will noticed by now that I am really passionate about the work of XXXChurch and that I blog for them on a regular basis ( I’m taking a break from the blogging for XXXChurch until after the honeymoon).
I’ve had many people ask my why I’m so passionate about the work of XXXChurch and let me try and sum it up really Quickly. Continue Reading…
