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10 Good Reasons Why

Filed Under : Christianity,Music,Uncategorized by Phil Jean
Jan.19,2012

Ever felt like you were never good enough for God? I sure have felt that MANY times. I was just listening to “10 Good Reasons” by “Hello Kelly” and i just couldn’t help my self but to pull up the lyrics and to post them here. Tell you what, I am SOOO thankful that Christ died to forgive me EVEN though He knew how many times I would mess up. Romans 5:8 says that Jesus actually died for us EVEN while we were still sinners. It means that He didn’t do it because we showed any improvement or that we did anything that looked promising. Rather He did it in Hope that one day we would turn from our wicked ways and accept His love and sacrifice.

When you feel like your not good enough and that you feel like you need to give God reasons as to why He should love you, welcome to the club. All you need to do is to thank Him for His sacrifice and show Him that you love Him by obeying Him.

-Phil-

 

10 Good Reasons – Hello Kelly:

This is the first thing I remember
I’ve seen black and white forever
But the mistakes I’ve made are making me afraid
That I might do something
Something that can’t be forgiven
So I’ve got this suit and tie
Something I can hide behind

And it feels like I’ve got give you

10 good reasons why
You still love me every time
10 good reasons
I deserve forgiveness every night
10 good reason why
You still love me when I
I ain’t got no reason why

And I remember laying everything down
Only to turn around and sell you out
It’s like I’m laughing in your face for the sacrifice you made
But you’re breaking my defenses
And you’ll carry me when it feels like

it feels like

it feels like I’ve got give you

10 good reasons why
You still love me every time
10 good reasons
I deserve forgiveness every night
10 good reason why
You still love me when I
I ain’t got no reason why
you still love me every time

i got no reason why

But this is everything I wanted:
To give you reasons I’m not
Everything you wanted
Theres blood on my hands
These 10 reasons I can’t give you
Is one more reason that I need you

10 good reasons why
10 good reasons why

10 good reasons why
You still love me every time
10 good reasons
I deserve forgiveness every night
10 good reason why
You still love me when I
I ain’t got no reason why
you still love me every time

I aint got no, I aint got no, I aint got no reasons why
I ain’t got no, I aint got no, got no reason why

10 good reasons

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The paradox of our time in history.

Filed Under : Christianity,Life,Random,World by Phil Jean
Jan.10,2012

The paradox of our time in history is that…

  • We have taller buildings but shorter tempers.
  • We have wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
  • We have bigger houses and smaller families.
  • We have more conveniences, but less time.
  • We have more degrees but less sense.
  • We have more knowledge, but less judgement.
  • We have more experts, yet more problems.
  • We have more medicine, but less wellness.
  • We spend more, but have less.
  • We buy more, but enjoy less.
  • We write more, but learn less.
  • We plan more, but accomplish less.
  • We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
  • We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
  • We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.
  • We’ve  added years to life but not life to years.
  • We conquered outer space but not inner space.
  • We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.
  • We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
  • We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
  • We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
  • We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.
  • We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less.
  • We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and laugh too little and pray too seldom.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but more broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

Give time to love and care, warmth and affection.

Give time to life!

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Who? Me?

Filed Under : Book Review,Christianity,Get a Grip Ministries,Leadership,Life,Sermons by Phil Jean
Dec.9,2011

Have you ever felt unqualified or that you just weren’t the right person for the job? Has God ever asked something of you and you thought to yourself “Why me? ask “so and so” they would do such a better job than me.” If you have thought that, welcome to my world. It’s extremely easy for me somethings to think “who am I to be serving in the house of the Lord” or “who am I to be the one to share the good new to hundreds of young people each week in the church as well as in our local high schools”. I mean if you think about it, I have not even been saved for 10 years, I did not grow up in the ways or the house of the Lord, my native language is french and I have only been speaking English for the last 11 years or so, i was pretty much always below average in school, I was no were near “Mr. Popular” in school either, and the list can go on. All this to say that in my own human mind and through my own human eyes, it does not make sense that God can use me in the ways that He is using me. I am so glad that God does not look at us the same way that we look at ourselves.

Someone bought me a book recently called “The youth worker’s guide to helping teenagers in crisis.” FANTASTIC book by the way. There was a quote in the book that really caught my eye and caused me to read it over a few times: “Madeleine L’Engle put it nicely: In a very real sense, not one of us is qualified but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do His work, to bear His glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think we have done the job ourselves. If we are focused to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own or God’s glory with our own.”

In conclusion, let me say this. I’m so grateful that I get to be used by God!

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Grateful People

Filed Under : Christianity,Leadership,Sermons by Phil Jean
Dec.7,2011

I just recently watched a leadership conference session online from NewSpring church in South Carolina and it was Steven Furticks’ session on gratefulness that really messed me up for the better. There is one particular point that Pastor Steven raised up that has really shaken me and it goes as follows: “Grateful people can find a blessing, enlarge a blessing or create a blessing in almost any situation. But on the other hand, negative people can find a burden, enlarge a burden or create a burden in almost any situation.”

The Lord has been challenging me with this. I have had to ask myself, am I the kind of person that sees the bad in almost everything or everyone or am I able to find, enlarge or create a blessing in almost situation? What kind of person are you?

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Seeking Approval?

Filed Under : Book Review,Christianity,Leadership by Phil Jean
Dec.2,2011

I am currently reading this book by Bob Sorge entitled “Dealing with the rejection & praises of man”. The question that I am finding myself asking is this: Do I do what I do in order to get God’s approval or man’s approval? Does God’s approval of me mean more than man’s approval of me?

As you go on doing what you do everyday, ask yourself, Whose approval am I seeking to gain?

Proverbs 27:21(NLT) Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised.

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Jesus are you there?

Filed Under : Christianity,Life,World by Phil Jean
Aug.16,2011

Have you ever gotten to a point in your life where it felt like God was MIA (Missing in Action). Have you ever felt like God seemed a mile away? Have you ever been in a service where it seemed like everyone was getting touched by God but you? Are you feeling like you are the only one in the world that is dealing with sin?

See, If the enemy cannot get you to turn your back on God, he will do everything in his power to ether keep you in sin or keep you oppressed or depressed. He just want to discourage you enough that you become inaffective as a christian. There is only 1 think worst then a non-believer and that’s a depressed Christian.

I want to encourage you and let you know that if you are currently feeling any of the feelings mentioned above, then you might just be on the enemy’s hit-list which is a good thing. It means that you are a threat to him. That means that someone down the line you might be doing something good. Never give up, never let go. God sees and knows what your going through. Keep on being faithful and everything else is bound to fall back into place!

 

-Phil-

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Humility

Filed Under : Christianity,Life by Phil Jean
Aug.12,2011

Have you ever been in trouble but didn’t realise you were in trouble until way too late? That has happened to me quite often. The real question though is what do you do when its too late to turn back? Do you keep doing it and get deeper in trouble or do you try to fix things up no matter how humiliating, embarassing or uncomfortable it is?

Unfortunately the world’s standard of things is all face and no heart. It’s all about what we look like on the outside rather then to be right on the inside. I love James 4:10

James 4:10

King James Version (KJV)

 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Next time that an opportunity rises up for you to do what is right, just remember that though it may not feel right, it’s still the good thing to do!

 

-Phil-

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Why is this happening to me?

Filed Under : Life by Phil Jean
Aug.11,2011

Here is a thought for you. :)

Ecclesiastes 9

Death Comes to All

1 This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God’s hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor. 2 The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad,[a] ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who make promises to God are treated like people who don’t.

3 It seems so tragic that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway. 4There is hope only for the living. As they say, “It’s better to be a live dog than a dead lion!”

5 The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered. 6 Whatever they did in their lifetime—loving, hating, envying—is all long gone. They no longer play a part in anything here on earth. 7 So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this! 8 Wear fine clothes, with a splash of cologne!

9 Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil. 10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[b] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

11 I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time.

12 People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.

 

Just remember this, There is ALWAYS someone that has it worst then you do!  Jesus loves you!

-Phil-

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Examine Yourself

Filed Under : Bible,Life,Random by Phil Jean
Mar.18,2011

I was reading the Word this morning and i came across this scripture.

2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourself to see if your faith is really genuine. Test Yourselves. If you cannot tell that Jesus Christ is among you, it means you have failed the test.”

Wow, that is a loaded verse. Do you walk around and go about your life without and Doubt that Christ is in you or do you constantly think to yourself, “I wonder if God is here with me”? Do the people you hang around with undeniably know that you are a follower of Jesus Christ or do you just pass as a nice person? The answer is simple: “Test yourself. If you cannot tell that Jesus Christ is among you, it means you have failed the test.” I also like what the Message Version says: “If you fail the test, do something about it.”

-Phil-

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Experiential Message To An Experiential World

Filed Under : Leadership,Life,Uncategorized,World,Young Adults,Youth by Phil Jean
Nov.23,2010

I’ve been reading this book by Mark Miller entitled, Experiential Storytelling. It is about (Re)Discovering Narrative to Communicate God’s Message. It is honestly changing my entire view on preaching. I found this quote by a gentlemen named Kong Fu Tzu a.k.a Confucius and this is what he had to say. ” What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.” Young people, especially, nowadays want to feel something. Our society has become one of experiencing things. When you go to coffee shops, the $1 that you would normally spend on coffee now turns to $2, $3, $4 because you are not only paying for the coffee anymore; you are paying for the atmosphere that they’ve created with the rock music, the nice furniture or whatever other artsy creations that maybe displayed. Even the whole movie industry has caught on. People don’t seem to want to go watch regular movies at the theatre anymore, so they started to come out with all of these 3D movies in order to spike up the interest again and it is working. Due to the society in which we now live in, regular normal life and entertainment just doesn’t cut it anymore. It has to be more, more music, more colourful, more stuff, more interaction, more, more, more.

This is now the reality of the society in which we live in.  As teachers of the Word of God, we can either fight this or ride the wave. Personally I chose to ride the wave and to utilize this to reach to as many kids as possible. We need to realize that the world is changing and unless the church takes the time to realize these changes, we are going to lose our effectiveness. Mark Miller puts it this way: “Today’s Church leaders must see themselves as missionaries who are setting sail from the land of modernity to the uncharted waters of post-modernity, and the first rule of any missionary is to understand the language and culture of his or her community.”

Let’s be a people that effectively communicate the Greatest story ever recorded!

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