The Beginning...

So today I got the phone call. I was officially accepted into the January class of Youth With a Mission (YWAM)'s Discipleship Training School (DTS). I was initially excited, then felt nothing because it seemed unreal and now am kind of nervous. It's strange to think Ill be away for so long. But even stranger to think that this 6 months could change my life.
I don't believe that it will be the program that necessarily changes me, but the things I learn about myself and more importantly God that will help to create the change.
I have less than 2 weeks till I leave, and till then I will be getting packing, praying, organising and praying some more. I hope you will join me on this journey I undertake, and that you will also pray for me, and the base and the people on it as we go on this journey.
'Till next time.

Taking the walk of life.

People say Christianity is a cop out.
They accuse us of creating a God of the gaps to combat our insecurities. These same people claim that we have taken the easy way out, to lighten our hearts with the possibility of an afterlife.

I wish that were so.

Personally, I still have doubts, and still get insecure, my heart still pains and wonders, which would appear to contradict any ideas of an “easy religion”. And Christianity is far from easy, and far from lightening our hearts. In fact, I believe a Christian heart should be burdened, by the weight of the truth.
Hell exists, and many will go to it. Suffering exists, and many will have no aid. But for us who know the Truth, that there IS a way, a truth, a light, what excuse do we have? Stories abound of churches and people who claim to follow Christ but launch hate-filled tirades against homosexuals, or adulterers. Take that log out from your own eye I say. Who did Jesus hang out with? I can guarantee he would not be hanging out in the big churches or with The Pope.
That is not to say that both these factors are ineffective or Un-Christian, merely that Jesus chose to love the loveless, help the helpless. He would love the homosexuals, the prostitutes, the adulterers.
Only through love, not guilt, fear or anger can people truly come to know Jesus. So I say, if you call my faith a cop out I say to you, what does your faith or beliefs call you to do? Live your own way in whatever makes you happy? I call that the easy way out. Meanwhile, I'll be struggling to lay down my life and love the loveless and to work my faith into peoples lives. I fail most days, but I work at it.
I know its not the easy way, not even the hard way, its the only way.

Introduction: or Howdy Doody.

So, I guess to christen this new blogspot, I will try to give some kind of introduction to what all of this will be about. This will pretty much be me talking about what I find interesting. (which I guess is the definition of a blog..)

For starters, I believe in a God who created the heavens and the Earth, and who sent his son down to die so that we may have a relationship with him. I also believe that the bible is the inspired word of God and that the Holy Spirit has been sent down to aid us. So, basically, I'm a Christian, of a denomination that can loosely be called pentecostal.
I am also a bit of a science man, I love how things work, the intricacies of the things around us and the amazing fact that we are able to discover and observe our universe.

I am a history lover (read:nerd) more specifically, ancient history (swords and sandals etc)
I am a feeler and thinker, hence this blog will certainly be an outlet for me in that sense. Saying that though, I love a good laugh and will always prefer a comedy over a drama, and I like to think I can be a funny guy. (Humble too.)

Also, I am going on a great, glorious, scary, exciting, life-changing trip very soon. I am quite sure there will be a lot of thoughts going round my head, as well as adventures and tales to divulge, so I thought this will be a good way to let people know what I'm doing.

So..thats it for now I guess. Pretty boring. Should get more interesting later on.