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College..
Hello everyone how are you guys?? I am doing pretty good. I just finished my first week of college. Goodness, I'll get into that in a sec. So high schoolers..how are you feeling about starting on Monday?? lol...yeah not so excited, didn't think so. Well anyways college is going pretty good. Currently I have I have Bio, Chem, Mus, & English. Music and Chem are def. my favorite this semester, really all because of the teachers. They are pretty funny and I like that about em. As for English, she rambles on the entire class period, it's just crazy. As for Chem he is going to be throwing evolution down our throats soon enough. Other than that he seems to be a good teacher. But gosh college is so different. This freedom that is so new to me is a bit daunting I guess. I'm so unsure of it, but I mean it's not that I'm scared, I don't quite think that's the word. It just seems so unnatural maybe. Moving right along. Today I am going up to Sara's. I'm actually driving up there, so that's going to be a new challenge. I'm going to get directions and become an expert navigator, lol. I have faith, lol, but keep me in your prayers anyways. Leaving about 3pm if you would like to know.

I have a major praise report to tell you guys…I failed to mention it before, but from our church my good friend and youth leader was healed of Psoriasis. Psoriasis is a terrible skin condition and she was told it would cripple her too, because of the type or something. Obviously there is nothing that can be done about it, other than to relieve some pain occasionally, but overall it is not curable and it def. does not go away. She had been praying for 4 years, I think it was, and finally she was healed. She said that she just recently started to "pray-through" as she called it. Where she sought after God with all her heart and relentlessly ask to have that sickness taken away. It just goes to show that we have to be serious with God.

Our nation is slowly deteriorating around us and only a select few can actually see it…I mean..

"We have preachers preaching a message of blessings with no mention of Hell whatsoever---People thinking there is no sin and they can do whatever they so please---some people believing God will see that they are a good person at heart and let them into Heaven---Some people don't even believe in Heaven---Some don't believe in Hell---and surprisingly enough, some of those people are Christians---Some people believe they are going to Hell and have no concept of forever---etc"

We can't be ignorant to what God has already given us. I mean in some statistics we are at an all time high of people not even believing what is in the God-given word "The Bible." That is extremely sad. I mean we are living in a nation where it is ok to abort babies as long as the mother says it's ok, where murder is justified, and sin is ok. People something is wrong. The United States of America leads the world in the worst statistics out there, or we are extremely close to the top. From thefts to murders to rapes, to abortion, etc etc. What is happening?? Why do we rationalize sin?? Gay marriage is not ok. Gambling is not ok. Lying is not ok. Having sex before marriage is not ok. SIN IS NOT OK. Why is it so easy to sin you ask? Well because we were all born sinners. We want to do evil things. We know right from wrong. It is embedded in our genetic makeup. But the problem is we get enticed by our own flesh more than the Devil. Why would the Devil have to do anything when we are hung up with our own bodies in an unending battle.

Jesus didn't say take up your cross daily for no reason. I mean it's obviously that the life we are in is a constant struggle and battle for holiness and cleanliness. We have to fight our flesh first and foremost daily before we can even battle Satan or other people. Seriously, look around us. Everything that used to be bad and unheard of is being accepted and tolerated. Not only by the world, but BY THE CHURCH. How could we get our eyes off the real focus? Isn't everything we need to know in the bible? Not in man, Not in the world, but in the Bible. Honestly, look around in your daily life. Who is living up to the Christian standards (this is me included "looking at myself")? A Christian means to be "Christ-like" think of that the next time you call yourself a Christian.

I mean come on we live in a nation, where 70% of the population claims to be Christian?? Think about that for a second? Do you believe that? Make it into a mathematical problem. We just reached our 300,000,000 mark. So 70% of 300 million = 210,000,000...hardly. Moving right along. Look at some of these statistics I just found.."startling"
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--At the present rates of change, Islam will become the dominant religion in the world before 2050.

--At the present rate of change, most Americans would identify themselves as non-religious or non-Christian by the year 2035.

--Of the ten moral behaviors evaluated, a majority of Americans believed that each of three activities were 'morally acceptable.' Those included gambling (61%), co-habitation (60%), and sexual fantasies (59%). Nearly half of the adult population felt that two other behaviors were morally acceptable: having an abortion (45%) and having a sexual relationship with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse (42%). About one-third of the population gave the stamp of approval to pornography (38%), profanity (36%), drunkenness (35%) and homosexual sex (30%). The activity that garnered the least support was using non-prescription drugs (17%). ...Less than one out of every ten evangelical Christians maintained that adultery, gay sex, pornography, profanity, drunkenness and abortion are morally acceptable."

--Although 2/3 of all teenagers say they know all the basic teachings... of the Christian faith, 2/3 reject the existence of Satan, 3/5 reject the existence of the Holy Spirit, and 1/2 believe that Jesus sinned....

--"A minority of born again adults (44%) and an even smaller proportion of born again teenagers (9%) are certain of the existence of absolute moral truth.
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Yeah something is extremely wrong there...if you don't see it, you might need to get back to the book yourself. It is really sad though. I mean we have no drive to help our nation or more-less help ourselves. We have a country where everything soon enough that once was thought to be immoral will no doubt be passed and be made legal here shortly. It's happening now with a republican president, idk want to know what will happen if/when we get a democratic one.

Just think about it guys...I need to go..have a great day =)

Josh.