Today is My Birthday!

Today is my 23rd birthday!

Tacha surprised me and flew in for my birthday with was the best birthday gift and surprise ever! I started crying! Last night, I had some friends over and we grilled out. We had hotdogs, bratwursts, corn casserole, potato casserole, baked beans, pita chips and hummus, and cupcakes that my friend Nadiyah made!

MADD Adult VIP

This Wednesday, August 18 I am speaking on behalf of MADD along with 2 other speakers to a group of adults that have gotten DWI's in McKinney from 6:00-8:00 PM. Please keep the speakers and the adults receiving the message in your prayers. If you would like to attend, please let me know.

August 15, 2010

Today I visited my friend Kelly's church called V-Life near the Virginia and Stonebridge intersection in McKinney. I really really enjoyed the worship music. It was very uplifting and empowering! They had a guest speaker. He is a songwriter and was very funny. The sermon ran a bit too long though. We then went out to eat at Amato's Italian Restaurant across the street.

My friend Kelly and her husband felt God calling them to be missionaries and start a pastoral strengthening ministry in Costa Rica about a year ago. They plan to leave next Monday. She has been wanting me to check her church out for months so we finally did. She has also been my massage therapist for 3+ years. I'm going to miss her! Please keep her, her husband Steve, and their ministry in your prayers.

I also found out that the pastor of my church is transferring to another church. So we are most likely going to start looking for a new church close to home. Any suggestions?

God's Wrath Against Mankind

Romans 1:18-32

¹⁸The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

²⁶Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts . . .

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. ²⁹They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ³²Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.