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Night at the Museum

In Night at the Museum, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) needs a job - bad. He’s so desperate that he applies for the night guard job at the local Natural History museum. Little does he know that after the sun goes down, all the exhibits come to life! Skipping forward to the climax… (So not to ruin the movie) The living wax figure of Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams) refuses to help, giving Larry his chance to shine. Before walking off, Roosevelt charges Larry with a question:

Larry, I’m made of wax. What are you made of?
-‘Theodore Roosevelt’ - Night at the Museum

It’s a good question to think about. What are you made of? When the first challenge comes your way, will you give up and try and find something easier? Or, will you push on a little, and then give up? Or will you push on until the challenge is overcome?

And there were peaks that we would climb
But in the valley’s where we shined
-Disciple - Purpose to Melody

Hard times will come our way - that’s a fact. During the hard times is your time to shine. What will you do when they come?

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
-James 1:2-4

Hard times are not only your chance to shine, but also to grow. Without difficulties, we would have no strength. For a football player to grow stronger, he must work out. During the work out his muscles hurt, but in the end, he’s a stronger man and a better football player. We’re the same way in life. We can’t be strong without the difficulties. Take the hard times, show the world what you are made of, and grow.

What are you made of?

//Bring it World
-Brian Purkiss

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“Everything goes silent when you jump off a 100 ft cliff.”
-Dave Downing

Snowboarding off a one hundred foot cliff is an amazing accomplishment - it’s not something your average Joe can do. It takes years of snowboarding and lots of steps to be able to survive such a feat. And even then, that jump could end in death. Just how do you survive such a feat? Ask a pro snowboarder. Most likely, the first thing he will tell you is practice. The second thing he’ll probably be able to tell you is courage.

Courage
1: the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear
2: bravery
3: boldness

Throwing yourself into the open air one hundred feet up is quite a bold move - but so is living as a Christian. Christian’s are often shunned, laughed at, and looked down upon. Christ’s commands are so incredibly different than our culture’s understood rules that non-believers cannot comprehend some of the things we do. According to most of the world, living like Christ is not the “cool” thing to do.
However:

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-
His good, pleasing and perfect will.
-Romans 12:2 NIV

As Christians, we have to follow Christ and live as He does, not as the world does (2 Corinthians 10:3). That is quite a bold move. Trusting wholly in the Lord in every aspect of your life is easier said than done. But if we take the stand (1 Corinthians 16:13) and trust in the Lord with all our hearts (Proverbs 3:5) He will sustain us (Psalm 55:22 & Proverbs 10:30). Trusting in God and “walking the Christian walk” is quite a bold move - it is probably the boldest, and hardest, step you could ever take - but it’s certainly the greatest.

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.
-1 Corinthians 16:13-14 NIV

//Bring it World
-Brian Purkiss

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We’re soaring, flying, there’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach, If we’re trying, then we’re breaking free. You know the world can see us, in a way that’s different than who we are, creating space between us, till we’re separate parts. But your faith, it gives me strength, strength to believe that. We’re breaking free. We’re soaring, flying, there’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach. If we’re trying, then we’re breaking free. I know the world can see us in a way that’s different than who we are.

Free. Freedom. A word, a thought that has been ever present in my mind this Christmas season. What exactly *does* Christmas mean to me? In a word, freedom. I know this song is from a stupid movie, but who cares, listen to the message, not Zac Efron.

“If we’re trying, then we’re breaking free.” It’s not about getting to where we want to be in life, getting out of our present situation by any means possible, it means trying. Interesting concept, no?
Trying to get out. Working for Him, our savior, at our best, not getting anywhere even maybe, it may seem we’re going nowhere, we’re stuck, we’re trapped. The exact opposite of freedom in our limited vocabulary.

If we’re trying…then we’re breaking free.

So forget the American ideal of getting to the top. Does that give us freedom? Heck no. Then what does? What is this freedom all the celebrities, druggies, middle-class businessmen, teenagers and parents are seeking for?
Physical freedom?

Think again.

Try spiritual freedom.

Freedom…that came into the world in the most humble of packages. Try the best Christmas present in the world, not delivered by an armed truck, not even UPS or DHL. No, it was given to us through a meager package, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. Given…a gift. For all of mankind. Freedom. Christ gives freedom. As a gift.

Freedom. Do you want it? Sure you do, what kind of question is that? The real question is… Are you ready for it?
Are you ready for Him to take control? Ready to drop the reigns and let Him take you out of this world in an insane heck of a journey? Ready to let go of the only branch that keeps you up 10 thousand feet above the ground?
“It’s God’s high wire, there isn’t any net.”
Are you going to go for it? Or let it pass you by? Are you going to be hesitant this Christmas, or show an amazing display of reckless abandonment for you Lord and Savior?

Freedom.

Are you ready for it?

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The light side, the dark side. When Star Wars came out there had never been such a movie that so plainly showed the difference between good and evil. A lot of times we can get mixed up with neutrality, toying with the life-style that we can have both to a certain extent. The truth of the matter is we cannot.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.
-Luke 11:23

That is so…true. I was working one day and I said a “your mom” joke to bobby and he didn’t reply. Intrigued I mocked “you don’t even have a come back” and he shut me down with “heh, God says He will judge us for *every* idle word.”

I knew it was true and it not only shut me up but help me realize by making fun of my friend, I have been putting more on my heart and what I will be judged on when I reach home. Every idle word. By doing that I was going against God’s best for me and bobby. God wants me to be perfect, to be for him, not thinking that “I just said one thing, I’m still for him” when that action was totally against him.

Christ is perfect and He calls us to be Christ like. Not Christ…but Christ like. “Well that’s impossible”, no….heh it’s not. Phil 4:13 says “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Don’t let Satan trick you into thinking that you can never reach what God calls us to be. It’s almost a mind trick you have to play with yourself.
Just as when we say “yea I’m an alcoholic” we continue being it and struggling with it. We can use that mentality for how God really wanted us to use it, in a positive way. The devil only took that mentality and messed with it, it’s really God’s.
“I’m no longer an alcoholic because Christ says I am free of that and I can be perfect”. When we start having that mentality we start acting like that and soon it becomes habit and we are now no longer alcoholics.
When we start having the mentality that Christ wants us to be *like* Him, we start acting on it and will sin less because of our mentality for Christ now, perfection now.

I choose Him, cause I ain’t against Him. I choose perfection, which is His plan.

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I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk
By your side

I can only imagine
What my eyes will see
When your face
Is before me
I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When that day comes
And I find myself
Standing in the Son

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever
Forever worship You
I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship you

-I Can Only Imgaine, by MercyMe

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