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Name: Tyler
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Austin
Birthday: 6/28/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: Jesus, cuz He's awesome! Do you know Him? You should...Anything sports, music(incredibly huge passion of mine), movies, games, hanging out... what else is there to do ?
Expertise: Not alot, but I know how to make people smile and laugh. I have an extensive knowledge of movies and the show Friends! I can tell ya some things about God and the Bible - so don't hesitate to ask!
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  six foot three T
Member Since:
11/16/2004
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| So as a special request, I'm doing my yearly web-blog... my last entry still rings loudly in my ear - struggles never go away - if anything they can grow stronger over time. Shouldn't we as christians grow stronger over time? But as I reflect on myself and some others (I would be remise if I didn't - I'm not in this alone...) we seem stagnant! Don't get me wrong, I see growth here and there and sometimes when its easy and sometimes when its hard we rise to the occasion - but not like we should, not like the way God intended us to! We are to be holy as He is holy and I shamefully admit that I am not, nor do all of my actions appear towards striving to be so.
But in despair and shame and failures... we are to look to God for strength, hope, new life, encouragement, love - in all of our shortcomings - He is our rock! We can not do it alone, but we can rest securely on Him - the rock, the anchor. With Him we can achieve anything - including holiness! All our faults and failures can be a thing of the past by submitting to Him and leaning on His grace and mercy, His wisdom and power! So daily submit to Him. It's not hard, it rather simple - we just chose to put ourselves (myself) in front of Him, first priority instead of last. To choose Him over me, to choose love over hate, to choose forgiveness over revenge, to choose to serve instead of sin. Lord help us to do this. To serve You first and us last.
On a lighter note, I'm considering moving for a job - not close to home at all. To those who have moved far away for one reason or another - how did you cope, deal, make the change? When did you or did you at all, have peace about your decision? Thanks - Yal have a blessed day!
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Illuminate
By David Crowder Band
You are my Joy, You are my Joy, You are my Joy, You are my JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY!
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I had not been home more than a few hours from a great disciple now. The weekend was great, we had good quality bonding time with my guys, my co-leader made in my opinion a huge turn around and let God use him this weekend (we go way back) and the Speaker was powerful and had this incredible testimony and spoke the truth. I think it sunk in for some of the guys really well and I'm excited for them! GOD was working all over the place in all the groups all weekend, and it was awesome, but again I wasn't home very long from this awesome week and satan started peckin at me... my attitude starting getting funky and thought I was just tired and was blaming it on that, but I know it's satan. he is hard core, he doesn't play nice. he knows our every weakness and exploits it to its full capacity. the enemy goes to steal, kill, and destroy - the Bible says. Don't be deceived! The enemy is strong, Don't be deceived! The enemy is strong, Don't be deceived! The enemy is strong, Don't be deceived! The enemy is strong... Not saying this to say, you can't avoid him and he will eventually get to you, but saying this because, don't think that you are ever in place where he won't test you. GOD is our strength, GOD is our refuge, God is our defender, our stronghold, our shelter, our comfort in adversity, our strong tower, our rock. When satan comes with his fist of fury - God is our sheild! Why don't we automatically run to HIM every time satan comes with the pain? That is why we struggle, we need to get to that place that everytime he comes, we can recognize the prodding of sin and wickedness and turn to HIM who has saved us from such advances by the enemy. We can defeat him through Christ who strengthens us! Be prepared, the battlefield is all around us. There is no place we can hide from the enemy accept in HIM! | | |
| I wish...... ...sometimes I wish I lived in Bible times. Because it seems so much simpler back then - less distractions, less temptations, Jesus was around and prophets, it just seems more genuwine back then.... ...I didn't want to be like others sometimes, but be myself, or have to be around other people all the time and just simply enjoy my surroundings and communing mentaly with God... ...I didn't fall fast and invest in something that is not there or not worth a long haul, to put my blinders on and not be so seceptable to mere attraction... where are my God goggles? my moral and spiritual 3-D glasses? So that I could better disect the flesh, the character, and the spirit of a person all at once! ...I had better patience, to wait on the Lord and His perfect timing - to simply trust w/o waivering or looking back, to move ahead pursuing what the Lord has placed in front of me at that moment not worrying what's to come or what others think, but to basque in each moment knowing God has allowed this to be and concentrating on how He would want you to handle it and what you can do for Him to further His Kingdom! ...I could persue Him with such a feverish longing that it consumes every moment of my existence! I think that may be what Heaven is like. That the desire for fleshly companionship and work and provisions of safety and food are wiped from our comprehension to leave the desire to server our Lord as the only desire so that we can fully invest 100% of what we are into serving and glorifying HIM! How sweet it will be... | | |
| As I sit at my desk laughing with my officemates about stories of previous jobs they've had and previous colleages they've worked with, and sing off tone bits of christmas songs, while surfing the web and reading about T.O. not listening to Parcells in a team meeting or Britney "Accidentally" exposing herself to the paperautsy (sp), checking my facebook and myspace, then laughing at a funny comment one of the roomies made about my boss and reading an email that the guys upstairs sent back saying I emailed the wrong link then telling them that I already sent the new one, and to start reading their mail faster, then checking on the download I'm waiting on to do some more actual work while complaining that we all wish it was friday already and pondering how we can slack off a little more tomorrow... ...I realize I have it pretty good! God has blessed me immensly!!  I could be somewhere where I'm slaving away or doing manual labor. And don't get me wrong I did get a lot done today and we have times where we are super busy and hardly get a word in about anything but work related stuff, but today isn't one of those days, and I'm very thankful for it! Thank you Lord for the slow days and for the hard days the remind us to not be lazy and be thankful for the slow days! Love you so much! Hope you all are having a great week and a soon to be holiday. My prayers are with those that are traveling, with those that are taking finals, with those that are sick or in pain, and with those that are doing way more work than I am today! --Tyler | | |
| As I sat at my desk and played on my mac, long into the night - constantly looking at the clock as if it would slow down and not be soo late if I kept looking at it, I wondered what would my life be like without music? For the past couple hours I had been checking out new cd's, old cd's, random songs from artists I enjoy or have just come to a liking from their airplay on the radio (to which I would suggest logging onto www.yes.com, which is a site that allows you to find radio stations in you local area or the area to which you are currently listening to music and see what was playing if the dj so happened to forget to mention who that was that he/she just played or you caught the tail end of the song and missed the aformentioned title) through iTunes. (Where you able to connect the original thought through the sidetracked one?) Ok... I often do this, it is a relaxing way to end my evening and get caught up on lots of music that I have missed or artists I haven't heard of. - I love Mac/iTunes! As I was scoping out stuff from John Mayer/Citizen Cope/G Love/John Scofield/B.B. King/Aaron Neville - try to limit my selection each night so I don't stay up too late, doesn't always work - I was just infatuated with the different moods and feelings that music unvails in your mind! It was almost sensual (not sexual) - it breathed energy and life into my spirit. It wasn't praise music or music that was glorifying God - it was just music..... Music - just chords, melodies, harmonies, twang of a voice, or beat of a hook - but these are God given abilities and talents. Moreover the artists were given these abilities and some don't even realize where they came from or even dare to think that they developed them on their own... the kicker is, the music that has raised my feramones (sp) and made me smile may not do a dang thing for the next person, it may make the next person squirm and shake their head.... but this brings me to the conclusion that this is another way of God showing me how much He loves me!! That the sheer volume of different kinds of music is because He loves us all so much and knew that each person would like something different and impact each person in a different way! He loves us sooo much - that's how dedicated He is to us! Just a general wondering, but if there was no music - would there be God? YES!, but this is just a reminder of how much He loves us and how great the extints and lengths that He goes to, to show us just how much He loves us! (Just some food for thought......) | | |
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