Verse of the Day (an NCC of Spencer Blog)

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV)
Today this verse has struck something inside of me. Imagine this, we are small, insignificant in the eyes of an ALMIGHTY and OMNIPOTENT God, but HE doesn't see us that way. So, HE provides a way for us to be RENEWED every day. HIS word renews us, feeds our soul and our spirit. So even when life feels like it is crashing down, you are out of glue and you can't catch all the pieces that are raining down anyway, HE has given us a way to piece our lives back together. I've been going through a tough time myself, where everything feels like it is crashing down on top of me and I am so far from a place where I feel safe. But its gonna be okay, because HE has provided a way for me to be renewed. The Bible.
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Expectations (an NCC of Spencer Blog)

Last night, at our weekly meeting, we discussed expectations. Like how when you take a drink of what you expect to be Iced Tea and it turns out to Pepsi. At first you make a terrible face, because what you were expecting wasn't what you got. That's how it is with church a lot of the time. Either we expect the people to be perfect, because it's church, or we expect it to be terrible because thats all we've ever known. And if we expect these things we are either disappointed, because they can't live up to our standards, or we are smug because they just proved our point.
These "expectations" are more like prejudices. We "expect" Christians to be perfect, but truth is we aren't. We are human as well! Only by Christ's love do we even survive, because Christ is the perfection and we are his children. We hope to attain his perfection, but we aren't perfect yet.
Or we "expect" Christians to be hypocritical, puritanical, annoyances of the world. And when we "expect" this then that's all we see in others. But truth is, expecting someone to be perfect or hypocritical doesn't make them that way. Just like expecting Pepsi to be iced tea.
So, why do we let these "expectations" color our view on Christianity and other religions? How about this, the next time you find that you are expecting (assuming) that someone will fall, change your point of view and expect that they will do well, and even if they don't expect that you will help pick them back up.

The Love Club (an NCC of Spencer Blog)

The Love Club is kind of what We (New Community Church of Spencer) are calling ourselves. We want to make it our job to LOVE EVERYONE!!! Because that is what we are supposed to do, is love one another as Jesus Christ loved us. Even if we get mad, we commit ourselves to loving despite the faults of people. I don't know about you, but I am happy to be in the Love Club. And we aren't talking about "free" love like you see in the movies and all over. We want to make people aware of the promise we have striven to keep. To Love everyone as a brother or sister in Christ Jesus.
Love means (to us) to accept the differences of others, to love despite faults and to pray for the sins of our brethren. I am excited to be a part of this!

Running Away

I'm running away. I hope someone will care that I've left and am no longer there. I'm tired of all this crap that I'm trying to escape... and I hope you won't think me rude, but I'm done with it and I'm running away. I don't know where I will go, or what I will do, but I'm tired of this bullshit and I'm through. So I'm running away, this is my goodbye. Please don't try to stop me, 'cause if I stay I'll die.

Weird Dreams!

A dream
*fades in eerie voice, for dramatic effect*
I am standing in front of this big, magnificent building with marble pillars and grand steps. It is storming all around me and the clouds are black and crimson. When ever one of the black clouds and one of the red clouds meets, in front of the white moon, they cast terrible shadows on the ground, making it look like demons are coming after me. Lightning is striking all around me. I look up and there are two statues, standing at the top of the building. One is a man (nude), he looks like Michaelangelo's David. The other is a woman (also nude), she looks like Venus de Milo, except she has both arms.
Suddenly *pauses for the effect* a bolt of white lightning strikes the David statue's leg, right above the knee. But it is more like a cut, so he starts bleeding profusely from the wound. He starts to fall, because he was standing and the Venus statue tries to grab him, but he still falls. He falls into a fountain in front of the house. I look up at the moon and see it slowly filling up with blood. Then it begins to rain, you guessed it, blood. The Venus statue is still standing on top of the roof, but she is so upset (I think she loved the David statue) that she throws herself off the building. When she hits the ground she breaks into 3 pieces. And each piece (every inch) weeps rain water. Then I woke up.
*fades out dramatically because I'm melodramatic.*