homless people dillema

HELLOOO!!

When I am in the car and a homeless man approaches me I feel soooo bad. Most of the time I am with friends so I talk to them or text. When I am with my mom I usually pretend that I am asleep or something. I always feel regret whenever I ignore them because no one deserves to be treated like that. I don’t drive yet so whenever I drive with other people I try and ask them if we can pull over at a mc. Donald’s but they are usually afraid. So whenever I drive I am definitely going to try my hardest to stop and give food to them if I don’t have anything in my car. I usually give 1 or 2 dollars or something like that. I get really encouraged by my brother because even if my brother had just earned 3 dollars from cleaning the porch, he will give it to them because he knows that he has food and a house and that is enough for him..

I would fill a pack with these things:

·            A canteen (hard water bottle)

·            A card that says Jesus loves you and a bible verse (I sometimes leave these things at tables at restaurants).

·            Some of those Kool-Aid/ Gatorade packets that you put in water and make it.

·            Cards

·            Fruit snacks

·            A hand towel

·            Flashlight

·            Maracas

·            Reusable bag (like the grocery reusable ones)

·            Granola bars

·            Lolli Pops

Until next time...

Alexa(:

Radical Series

Radical Urgency: This sermon was about having the right priorities and the right urgencies. A lot of the time we put selfish things like personal plans before God and our priorities as being a Christian. I know that I need to put God at the top of my agenda and I don't need to try and make him fit because he already should.

Radical Compassion: Radical compassion is giving EVERYTHING you have to being a loving and compassionate person. Someone who is like this devotes their whole entire life to loving people and serving them. It is RADICAL and extreme. I am trying really hard to devote my life to serving others and I think that I do, but I know that I may stray from the path.


Radical Sacrifice: Radical Sacrifice is sacrificing everything to the Lord and just giving your life to him. Its like leaving everything behind and carrying the cross forever. This is sorta like radical compassion, but in radical compassion you give up stuff to serve people and the Lord. But radical sacrifice is trusting the Lord with your life and giving it over to him so he can do what he pleases. We have to let Christ make all of our decisions

Radical Urgency

1. In your life right now, what is most “urgent and pressing”?
Right now, the most urgent thing is probably not what it should be. I honestly can not think of one thing, but I know that it is most likely a worldly possession or something of that sort.

2. How have your career plans and personal life schedule taken on an "urgent" status in your life? How is that unhealthy?
My personal schedule is super busy. It is definitely unhealthy in more than one way. First, on the weekends and during the week, I go go go. I have drivers ed at night and my weekends are jam packed. It is also unhealthy towards my relationship with God. I feel like I have to pencil him into my schedule sometimes and I should never have to do that. 

3. Do you recognize the fact that you live your life, everyday, walking through fields that are ripe for the harvest?
I am a little confused but what I think this means is do you recognize that you walk through fields of people who are ready to be changed or something like that or helped. I do recognize that and I try really hard to change how I look at people and how I serve them.

4. There is little urgency to reap a harvest. There is little urgency to share the Gospel truth with others. How can this be the case? What must we do to change this?
There is little urgency to share the Gospel because people say that they are too busy. This can be true, but you should never put those other "urgencies" before the most important one of all. We need to definitely make more time for this and maybe more opportunities for other people to join too.

Radical Compassion

When you understand that the Gospel demands radical compassion, what does radical compassion mean to you and for your life?


  When I think of radical compassion I think of giving your life as a servant to God and a servant to other people. This is not just helping every now and then, this is your life practically speaking. We are all called to be compassionate people and show compassion to others because of our faith, but this is radical compassion. When I think of radical I think of crazy. So, this is crazy compassion (: These are the people who love, support, listen, care, and help those who are neglected, ignored, bullied, and lost. To me, this is the person that I want to be. I do feel that I am a compassionate person, but I am also still living in this sinful world where sometimes satan plays tricks with you and tries to deceive you and sometimes he succeeds. This is definetely something I am working on. I am working on be more compassionate to people that I know of, but I do not personally know. When I leave houston christian, I dont want to be dubbed one of those people who stays within their group of friends. It is SO much easier for me to love and listen and help people that I do not know. I just love it. It is so hard to do the same to people that I barely know. We were actually talking about this in chapel one day a few weeks ago about which one is harder. For me it is definitely people I know. I kind of went off topic, but, for me, radical compassion means to love, care, and do all those things to anyone and everyone with a heart for the Lord and open arms and a willing spirit.

Until next time...
Alexa(:

Kyle Lake Sermon

  "Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun.If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time.If you bike, pedal HARD… and if you crash then crash well.Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done—a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed. If you must wipe the snot from your 3-year old’s nose, don’t be disgusted if the Kleenex didn’t catch it all… because soon he’ll be wiping his own.If you’ve recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE. And Grieve well. At the table with friends and family, LAUGH. If you’re eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke. And if you eat, then SMELL. The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven. And TASTE. Taste every ounce of flavor. Taste every ounce of friendship. Taste every ounce of Life. Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift."


I really liked this poem-essay-paper- thing that he read to us. I didn't understand is completely when he read it aloud because I just dont process like that, but reading it now, I really get the meaning. I think he is telling us to live our lives positively and take the most out of every situation. It's kind of like if you're going to mexico, you have to para sail or swim with dolphins or something like that because you want to make the best out of it. So if you live life, why not live well? If you crash, crash well. It also reminds me of what my coaches tell me which is if you are going to mess up, mess up going full speed and 100% because then it wont be as noticeable and you would have tried your hardest. We are meant to try our hardest and enjoy everything about life. So its simple, yet empowering, love life, live life, and live it well.

Radical Sacarifice

1. Do I want satisfaction without sacrifice?
Yes to be honest. It is always in the back of my mind and I have to correct myself because that is what I want, but not what I need and I only want to fill my life with things I need and I need sacrifice because I need him.
2. What are we willing to give up to have true abundant satisfaction?
I am completely willing to give up everything. But, easier said then done. It is so hard to give up everything when the world it telling you that you need more and you need this to become this and you have to do this to be this. I dont want those things but temptation is there and although I might have a slip up, I catch myself and something just comes over me.
3. If Jesus instructs His followers to relinquish all of their lives in pursuit of His glory and desires, how do their lives change in terms of priorities? What should be the center of out lives?
Their lives change completely. Like ALL the way. The center of their lives is God and we should do the same. If that is how it was back then and that is how his followers acted, then his followers now she do the exact same.
4. If we are dead to ourselves, who makes the decisions in our lives? What decisions do we not like to surrender to Him?
 If we are dead, then Christ has to make our decisions. Even if we are alive he has already made them for us because he knows already. We don't like to surrender family, items acting as idols, friends, and other things.
5. Should we truly seek Christ in decisions such as where we go to college, what clothes we wear, what we eat, etc? Why does it matter? What would our lives look like if we did?
Yes, completely. All my decisions need to be based on Christ. My life would look like this, but better. I say that because I know that some of my decisions are based on my pleasure, but I do make my decisions based on Christ too.
6. How do our attitudes toward our possessions reflect our relationship with Christ and our desire for His mission? How would our lives look if we sought to glorify Christ in the way we purchase and obtain possessions?
 Our attitudes toward possessions reflect negatively on Christ if we are caught up in the possessions. If we bought our possessions with the glory of Christ in mind, we would have given it all except what is actually needed, which is little.
7. What does it mean to carry your cross as a disciple of Christ? Are you living your life this way?
To carry your cross means that you have dedicated your life completely to Christ and he is number 1. Yes I do carry my cross but I certainly lack in some areas. 
8. Will Jesus Christ be your supreme joy, or will you forsake Him for the fleeting pleasures of this world?
Jesus is my joy, all my joy. I do try and find happiness in other things but I know that the only time it is true is whenever I am glorify his name.