PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here it is. The moment you've all been waiting for. THE CREATION VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here are the pictures(not ALL, but close) from the Creation Music Festival, taken by yours-truly. Pictures from the people I was blessed to be with, and the bands i was equally blessed to see. Sadly, i was not able to put all of my pictures of all the bands I saw. But, I thought these where the best of the rest.

psycho-babble

I am standing at the door after hitting my head on a skillet(boy, do I feel awake), thinking, in my life I need to forget and not slow down. Then I get in my Reliant k car and drive past a red, pillar(turning radio on means end of silence), on my way to confessions. On my way back thru town, I look up and spot something in the sky( what a beautiful hawk....NELSON, WATCH WHERE YOUR DRIVING, mercyme!, sometimes,with all that is within me, I would just love to....well do it). When I get home, as I watch as cites burn on tv, my wife says,come now sleep.

Would It Matter

I asbolutely LOVE this song by Skillet.It is soooo beautiful.(it's song number 77 on my playlist)John Cooper has a crazy,good voice.

Skillet, Would It Matter

V1

if I wasn’t here tomorrow would anybody care
if my time was up I’d wanna know
You were happy I was there
if I wasn’t here tomorrow would anyone lose sleep
if I wasn’t hard and hollow
Then maybe you would miss me

Pre
I know I’m a mess and I wanna be someone
Someone that I’d like betterI can never forget,
so don’t remind me of it forever

What if I just pulled myself together
Would it matter at all
What if I just try not to remember
Would it matter at all
All the chances that have passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Would it matter at all

V2
if I wasn’t here tomorrow
would anybody care
Still stuck inside this sorrow
I got nothin’ and going nowhere

Post bridge
I know I’m a mess and I wanna be someone
Someone that I’d like better
Can you help me forget, don’t wanna feel like this forever

What if I just pulled my self together
Would it matter at all
What if I just try not to remember
Would it matter at all
All the chances that have passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Would it matter at all

I know Im a mess and I wanna be someone
Some that I'd like better
Can you help me forget,don't wanna feel like this forever

Chorus
What if I just pull myself together
Would it matter at all
What if I just try not to remember
Would it matter at all
All the chances that have passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Would it matter at all

Outro
If I left tomorrow would anybody care
Stuck in this sorrow
Going nowhere

The million dollar question.

Do you believe in Heaven??? Well, if you do, then you agree with the majority of 15 other major countries, along with ours.( i just LOVE readers digest). Reader's digest recently posed that question to 16 countries, and all but one(always at least one rebel huh) agrees that there is a Heaven. Tho, I'm really not sure what this says about these countries spiritual state.Anyhoo, here are the numbers.

Do you believe in Heaven?
This is the percentage of people that said yes.

Malaysia: 98% Russia: 76%
Philippines: 97% Australia: 75%
U.S.: 91% U.K.: 64%
India: 86% Spain: 63%
Italy: 83% Germany: 58%
Singapore: 82% China: 54%
Brazil: 81% Netherlands: 57%
Canada: 78% France: 50%

Barack Obama won the Noble Peace Prize...............I'm not even going to go there.

WoW....

Musically, this past month has been AWESOME!!!! Four premier Christian rock bands released their newest full length CDs.( In order of pictures of album covers)Hawk Nelson, Thousand Foot Krutch,Relient k, and Skillet all released new music. My personal favorite release was by my fav band Relient k. My " Honorable Mentions" would be Pillar's new release called Confessions and KJ-52 with his latest full length release. I would have put them on here, but i didn't have enough room.

Hawk Nelson, Live Life Loud

Thousand Foot Krutch, Welcome To The Masquerade

Relient k, Forget And Not Slow Down

Skillet, Awake

Standing, Always Standing

Yes, there are many forms of persecution. Here is a excerpt takin from the late great Dc Talk's book called, Jesus Freaks( I extremely encourage everyone to read this book, it will change how you view your world).

Anne Askew
England
1546

"Anne Askew was imprisoned and greatly tortured for her faith. Placed on a cruel rack, her joints and bones were pulled out of place. She fainted from the pain, but when she regained consciousness, she preached for two hours to her tormentors.
On the day of her execution,she was carried to the stake in a chair because her bones were dislocated and she couldn't walk. At the last moment, she was offered the king's pardon if she would recant. She said: "I did not come here to deny my Lord and Master."
She died praying for her murders in the midst of flames. " (end of excerpt)

Now, in today's world, in most countries, we are not persecuted in this way for being Christians. But persecution is still happening today even here in America. Persecution is happening on a much larger scale. People are becoming more open against God and Christians, for example: tyring to get the phrase " In God We trust" taken out of are national anthem and off our coins and currency. All across the nation, schools are being told not to start off the day with prayer, students are discouraged from wearing things that openly proclaim their Christianity like necklaces or clothing. Politicians all across the states have/are trying to remove things like a Ten Commandments memorial off public or government land.These are only a few of the examples of persecution in today's world. And not just in America, oh no, these type's of things are happening all over the world in places like Europe, Canada, and other bigger countries. My message is this, we need to stand up against this, speak out, all the while standing firm in our faith and our God. We must not let these problems stop us from spreading the Gospel.

IT WORKS!!!!

The video thingy finally works.So, to honor this special moment, I have put Skillet's new music video for their song 'Hero' up for all to see. Any of you who are allergic too hard rock and reality( i am still not sure where reality fits in), please do not watch this video. I was going to play their ' Monster' video, but....well, I won't say why I didn't, so put I this one instead.

Warning: Playing of this video too loud could result in your face being rocked off.

SKILLET, HERO

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

Well, I couldn't think of anything to post about, so I surfed the web for a bit to see if i could find some good little stories. I was not disappointed. Here are two interesting stories.

Just recently, a woman,Gloria Ballard, was arrested for spanking ANOTHER parents two year old. As the story goes, Mrs. Ballard, decided something that the two year old said annoyed her, and she proceeded to spank the child twice across the bottom. Note to Mrs. Ballard: how about you reserve dishing out spankings to your OWN children, I mean ,c'mon lady, how not smart(notice i refrained from saying dumb) can you be?!

How many children are a good number for a family, 1,3, 6, nooo, not for this family.The Duggar family in Tonitown, Arkansas have made it public that that Mrs. Duggar is now 2 1/2 months pregnant with their 19th child. let me repeat that. They have NINETEEN, 19, children.WoW. If you have an opinion on this story, look at my poll.