* If your message is not filled with hope, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you tell people that they need to come to you to understand the message of scripture, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that “being real” means talking more about the wind and waves in your life than about the One who calms the storm, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that people who don’t attend a Sunday morning meeting are outside of God’s covering and protection, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that sickness, financial problems, hurricanes, broken bones, auto accidents, and terrorist attacks are all tools of God “to teach you something”, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that a person can’t live above their circumstances and walk in peace and victory, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that someone is not being real unless they tell you they’re struggling with some huge temptation, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that the only legitimate types of prayer for a Christian are prayers of lament, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you tell someone who is experiencing the peace and joy of the Lord to “hang on, your turn is coming”, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you believe that only “properly authorized leaders” are capable of serving communion or baptizing others, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you believe that Christianity is best represented by a set of propositional statements and/or a systematic theology, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If your message does not lead to freedom, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that the Father doesn’t speak to his children in various ways, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that America is “God’s chosen country” and that everything America’s foreign policy represents is ordained by God, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that the Republican party is “God’s party, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that religion and Christianity are compatible, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that you can only “cooperate” in ministry and missions with people who have been baptized by a pastor in your same denomination, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that true Christianity is only represented by a particular denomination or systematic theology, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If your belief in Christ does not manifest itself in living the life that Christ commanded us to live, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that you are more capable of articulating what someone else believes than that very person is capable of doing, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you believe that sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, freedom to the captives, and walking to the lame were only for first-century “verification of the message”, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that the only legitimate way to articulate one’s belief in God is found in a 4th-century statement, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that our main responsibility in relationship to God is to study the Bible, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that “everyone needs to have a pastor”, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you believe that leaving the institutional church is what the writer of Hebrews meant when he wrote, “Do not forsake the assembling of yourselves together”, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that a relationship with God means that you will accept or reject certain styles of music, certain hairstyles, certain beverages, or hanging out with certain people, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you think that Jesus turned water into mere grape juice, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you believe that a particular translation of the bible is the only inspired version, you might be misrepresenting God.
* If you believe that one’s beliefs about baptism, bible translation, rapture timing, tongues, or a particular interpretation of Genesis 1-2 are absolute essentials to salvation and/or fellowship, you might be misrepresenting God.


Found at http://www.theologicalmusingsblog.com/2007/11/24/you-might-be-misrepresenting-god-if/

I got a new PD mood theme thanks to jacintillating

1. Who is your best friend? Falina
2. Why did you become friends? Idk it just happend
3. How did you meet? She went out with my cousin
4. Why have you stayed friends? because we share similar interests, and like each other.  Why does any one person stay friends with another?
5. How long (realistically) do you think you'll be friends? We've been friends for like 14 years, so I think this is going to be a lifelong thing.

awesome huh?

Is there a good free program that will change AVI files into GIF files? How about WMV files into GIF files? or at least WMV to AVI?

If there arent any free ones are there any relatively inexpensive ones (under $50)?

Edit: k, I got that one figured out, now how do i make an animated icon thats 40kb or under? most of the ones ive got made are around 180kb, and I dont know how to make the file smaller without compromising the quality of the picture.

The band that Jason and his dad are in played at a restaruant on thurs, and i took some little videos. It wasnt a professional setup and the area they had to play was really small, plus they had to let the waitress go back and forth as you will see in the video. but you can get an idea of how they sound. they play mostly christian/bluegrass. the first song is an original song, and the second is where corn dont grow originally done by travis tritt. The guy that sang where corn dont grow had a scratchy throat that day, so its not quite what it could be, but i think they did pretty good.

'Living Water'


'where corn dont grow'

im on around 3:20 singing seven swans a swimming

My husband and I were trying to teach our cats how to say mama (our little girl cat does it). Marari (our boy cat) decided to do his own thing, so now he give me 'kisses' on the nose

I have a job interview at sally beauty supply today at 4pm (pacific time). all good thoughts and prayers are welcome.
thanks so much
<3 candi :)

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The way he explains mental illness and talks about all the quick answers people give is awesome.

Im hosting an online tupperware party! If you're interested just email me at candi @ intotheflame.com. There's a lot of great stuff in there, and not just you're grandmothers tupperware!
Hope to hear from you!

So we found a new apartment. its really neat. 2 bedrooms, central heating/air, washer/dryer hookups, dishwasher, fireplace. Its in a great neighborhood too. The sucky part is we have very little service on our cell phones (1-2 bars signal) and we didnt get any signal for our wireless internet. so we had to get a landline, and go back to cable one (boo). The rent is great ($495) for how big and nice the place is. We really are planning to stay in this place until we buy a home. I know we said that last time, but we didnt anticipate the problems we had. Its been not so fun not having internet for two weeks. I had a zillion emails in my inbox, and a zillion more in spam. I dont think im going to get completely caught up on livejournal either. For those of you that had my old email here is my new one candilou at cableone dot net. School has been going good. I should be done around my birthday (9-7), a nice present to me :). We are going to take a small vacation at the end of the month. probably camping or something.

I ended up going to the hospital again last night. I had a fever and couldnt get rid of it. when we got to see the doctor they did some tests and saw a uti, so they took the stent out, and put an iv in and gave me a big dose of antibiotics. they told me to stay on the cipro that the doc gave me, and to come back in again tonight. I still have the iv in because they might give me some more antibiotics. the weird thing is that i dont have any pain in my left side, just general aches and a headache. im still kinda nasueous off and on, and i still have a fever, but its only 99 right now. it got to 103 last night. hopefully the antibiotics will kick in and i can go to school tomorrow.