Friend or Foe?

Me and my wife received this package in the mail from our insurance company and for some weird reason it came with a coloring book which was entitled “Friend or Foe?” and it has a picture of a family with their dog on the cover. The whole book was geared towards children about how they should be careful around dogs because not all of them are friendly but God used this book to show me how certain things around our lives that are our “friend” but can actually turn out to be our worst “foe”.

It showed me how we are able to use such things as twitter, facebook, and myspace or msn, blackberry, Iphone, etc to be our “friend” that makes communication easier which it does, but it all comes down to the fact that are you utilizing it or is it utilizing you. Are you using these things to further you walk or is it using you dragging you back from the call God has on your life. Is the amount of time you spend with it more time you spend with God? Are you allowing it to become a god of your life and making into an idol that hinders your walk? Are you gonna let these materialistic things control you? Or God? I for one wanna choose God as the person who controls my life. Ask God to show you if there are certain things in your life if there are things in your life that are disguised as friends but are actually your foes.

Tags: Blackberry, Cellphone, Facebook, Firefox, Google, Internet, Iphone, Ipod, Myspace, twitter, Yahoo, Youtube

Spiritual Questionnaire.

How much do you truly know about your faith?

Copy this questionnaire into the comment box and answer each one as if someone was asking you that question and truly wanted to know the answer to it. Answer as though this person knows very little about God or Christianity. I am interested in finding out how some of you would answer some of these. Have fun

#1 Who is God and what is He like?

#2 What is the Trinity?

#3 Who is Jesus?

#4 Why did He die on the Cross?

#5 How do I know He really rose from the dead?

#6 Who is the Holy Spirit and what does He do?

#7 How do I get plugged in to the power of the Holy Spirit?

#8 Is the Bible really God’s Word and does it relate to my life?

#9 What is truth and can I know it with certainty?

#10 What is sin and how does it impact me life and my relationship with others?

#11 Why does God allow evil in the world?

#12 What is a Christian and how does a person become one?

#13 If Jesus is the only way to Heaven, are all other religions wrong?

#14 What about the people who have never heard about the Gospel?

#15 what is The Great Commission and how does it relate to me?

#16 Is there a real Heaven and hell and what about they like?

#17 Is there a judgement day and what difference should it make in my life?

#18 Can I really be forgiven for all my sins, even the really bad ones?

#19 Will God ever leave me or forsake me?

#20 Who are satan and his demons?

#21 How do I engage in spiritual warfare?

#22 What is the Church and why should I be involved?

#23 What are Spiritual Gifts and how do I discover mine?

#24 How should the return of Christ impact my life?

#25 What is prayer and how do I do it?

#26 Why should I study my Bible and how do I do it?

#27 How do I defend my faith?

#28 Who am I, where did I come from, and what is my purpose?

#29 Which is true, creation or evolution, and why does it matter?

#30 How can I worship God in everything I do?

Tags: Answers, Basic, Christ, Christianity, Doctrine, Doubts, Faith, Questions, Sharing

Bible Discussion.

I want to challenge you all to read Jeremiah Chapters 7 and 8 and once your done i want you to post as a comment onto this blog your thoughts on this portion of Scripture. Warning: this is not an eazy portion to swallolw but i really want to hear what you all have to say. How it makes you feel? Why do you think God felt this way? Can you relate to this Scripture? Can you relate to both God and the people?

I just want to hear what you all have to say i’ll be waiting for answers!

Tags: Anger, Bible, Forgiveness, God, Jeremiah, Redemption, Scripture, Sin, Wrath

The Danger Of Comfort.

Due to my recent hand injury, (explained in the previous post. read for full details.) I’ve been thinking a lot about life and how precious it is. how easy it is to loose it. It takes 9 months for a husband and a wife to bring an other being to life but it only takes seconds for it to disappear. I know it is kind of a “clicher” to say this because it’s been said so many times, probably because it’s true but you never know what you have until you loose it. Sometimes we get so comfortable with what we have and what possess that it get dangerous.

See, what we need to realize is that familiarity, apathy and comfortability can be more dangerous then we think. Let me explain! Once I started to work there, I didn’t really know how everything worked, where anything was kept as well as  how to do anything. As the days and weeks even months went on, I kept on learning new things and new ways to get work done by taking short cuts or prioritizing my work in a certain way. Some of the machinery that we use we need to be alert and careful with due to the danger that could and can occur. (The results speak for themselves.) Unfortunately, i got to comfortable with one of the machines, thinking that i could just be relaxed while using it, not really being careful and alert to my work. Well we all know where that led me.

The same thing goes on for everything in our lives especially when it come to our relationship with Christ and dealing with sin. If sin is not dealt with right away and cut off from our lives, it can very well mean our life or even our salvation. We come to church services and at first it’s exciting and fun but then you get familiar with it. You let your self become apathetic towards God. We need to be alert and aware as Christians because sometime live can throw stuff our way and if we aren’t ready for it, it can take us out. Some of you may be living in sin and are thinking, “i’m ok, Jesus knows my heart. He forgives.” You need to shake your self out of that mindset and take the steps necessary in order to get your life back on track before it catches up to you and believe me it will. I’m not saying this to freak you out or to condemn you. I am rather saying this from experience and out of love! Hope you were blessed by this.

-Phil Jean

Tags: Apathy, Comfort, Danger, Injury, Life, Work

Hand Injury.

So as many of you might know, I have had an accident at work last Monday. Without going too much in details, I got my hand caught in a machine at work, broke my thumb at 2 different places, I broke my index at 1 place and also had to get 7 stitches on my index. When i went to emergency they stitched me up and put my whole hand and forearm in a temporary cast until I could see the doctor again this week. I had an appointment with a plastic surgeon/hand specialist yesterday to remove my cast and he said that everything was healing nicely and the my thumb looked really good considering what it looked like in the X-Rays. My hand is currently in a removable device so that I can take my hand out and do some exercise with my fingers. Unfortunately the doctors are saying that i may have a severed nerve since I cannot feel anything on the right side of my index meaning i will need surgery on it so they can sow the nerve back together. I have to go back next Monday so the doctor can look at my hand again and decide if i need surgery or not. I personally believe in a God that is greater then all this and can supernaturally heal My hand and nerves to an even better state then it first was. Thanks to everyone that has been praying for me this whole week. God Bless

-Phil Jean

Tags: Danger, Injury, Life, Work

Father of Lies

Here is an other poem i wrote a long time ago. enjoy

Get Up And Dance

Here is an other poem i wrote about 5 years ago! Enjoy

GET UP AND DANCE

My generation is beginning to rise
You better go hide yourself and cover your eyes
Because it is going to get very ugly
Mostly because it’s going to be satan’s defeat.
Get up and jump and let everyone know
What side you stand on, and where you’re gonna go.
Whether up or down, it is your choice.
So make one today, and let me hear your voice say:

Jesus is the man, the one for who I stand.
He gave it all for me, just so that I could be.
I owe my life to Jesus Christ, and He died for my sins.
He did that so that we could say that we can live again

We are now living for Christ and that’s how it should be
Let everyone hear your voice and let everyone see
That Christ has changed your life for the best
And that you have passed the ultimate test.
Just be on fire for God and don’t turn back
Don’t care what people say but instead listen to Christ
Let the world know, you won’t go back again
To all the stuff you did before with all your old friends

Life can bring you down sometimes, and I understand
But stay strong and keep it going on, cuz God is coming again
And we will sing a song on the day of victory
A song that all God’s children will sing in unity.

Satan has stolen so much from us.
But that’s about to stop because God’s with us
You thought you could get away from God’s mighty power
But we’ll see who’s going to laugh in the end.
Your gonna die and burn forever

Man I love to remind you of your future.
You had your fun but it’s our turn
Jesus said I was the light so I’m just gonna shine through
Brother and sister in unity

Satan is as scared as can be
We are coming for you, so you better run away
Or we’ll get you by the throat and throw you away
I am so sick of your perverted ideas
And how you so easily whisper in our ears
But now that’s all over and we have won
Satan we rebuke you in the name of the son.

Tags: Jean, Philippe, Poem, Writting

A Shattered World Coming Together

I was cleaning my office last week after getting some new shelves installed and I found some poems that I wrote about 5 years ago. I read them and honestly couldn’t believe that I wrote those. I remember writing these when I was down and thought I was completely defeated by satan because I kept stumbling over the same sin. I was just sick and tired of it and I just wanted to remind myself AND satan about who is boss and that I AM victorious in Chris Jesus my LORD! I think some of you need to read these and remind yourselves about the victories that are found in Christ! I won’t post them all today but here is one of them, enjoy!

A Shattered World Coming Together

We are being awaken so you better back away
Our God is rising us up and we are here to stay
We shall not be moved as easily as before
We will blow your face right off, anyone keeping score?
Your reign is coming to its end so enjoy it while it last
Because when it’s all over you’ll be like broken glass

We’ll tear you to pieces for all you’ve done to us
We’ll step all over you for all the times you’ve cussed
The time will come, and it will be your time to pay
Your gonna get it. You hearing what I say?

God’s people are coming together, and nothing will stop us now
You better be scared when you see us as a crowd
We are so fed up with you and all your stupid junk
I told you to leave us alone but you didn’t listen you punk
Take your hands off my brothers and sisters or I’ll have to cut it right off
You better just listen to me now or you’ll deal with the boss

Author of sin, Author of death
nothing good comes from you
You just don’t respect the things of God
Or did you forget?
He created death for the beast and you at it

I hope you remember everything while you’re burning
for all you’ve done to us I can’t wait to see you hurting
The pain, the sickness, tears and the heartbreaks
I hope you feel it all until it’s all you can take
For eternity you shall suffer, while we worship our God
Because you have been caught. you’re just a big fraud

This one goes out to everyone out there
Are you willing to give everything you love and care
To join the fight, the fight of a generation
To fight for the rights that God gives us as Christians
This is our battle, this is our call to war
So join in, sit back and come watch satan fall.

Mice Problem?

Me and my wife were doing some sound system rewiring last night in our basement. For the last couple of weeks now, we have been hearing what sounds like mice in our ceilings but didn’t really had a clue of how bad it was until we actually checked it.

I started to move the tiles so that i could pass the wires through but every tile that i moved would be full of mouse droppings. The problem is not the fact that we have a mouse problem but rather the fact that we ignored it. (well, i ignored it. My wife kept telling me to put up traps…. maybe i’ll listen next time :/.)

I think a lot of Christians do the very same thing. You know that you have something in your life that is eating you away and stealing all your joy and destroying your focus towards God. God has been speaking to you and you keep on ignoring it but what you don’t realize is that ignoring the problem won’t make it go away. In fact it will just get worst. We need to face the reality and clean the “poop” that some of us have rotting in the ceilings of our lives! Don’t wait until it’s too late. Let God help you clean your life up!

Tags: Clean, Dirt, House, Jesus, Mice, Poo

Buzy Summer!

Well this summer have been a SUPER eventful summer with the getting married and the buying of a house and all but now life goes on.

This summer, though it has been really eventful, it has been good. I know i haven’t blogged in a while but it should be a regular thing again now. I will try to blog once a week or so, i promise. Also, I know that many of you have asked about our wedding pictures but we haven’t received them yet but when we get them i will post some for all of you