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Jul
11

Indeed it has, those who actually read this. Well, much has happened since May. First forth: I am now dating the most beautiful and amazing woman on the planet (Nay, in all temporal reality), Corinne Margaret McFee! this happened sometime late June (Really late June). Anyways, it has made me increasingly happy. Second forth: Said Corinne is in Thailand at the moment, leaving me with mixed feelings. I am sad on the one hand, because my Corinne is gone. Yet, on the other hand, I am happy that she is off serving God and reaching far off places for the betterment of mankind and God’s kingdom. I know she was excited about Thailand, and that gives me joy through this, but I miss her terribad. She will return in less than two weeks (Hurray)! Third forth: I am no longer enjoying summer. I want school, I want the rest of my friends back, I want classes back, i want motivation back, and most importantly, I want Corinne back. I just can’t handle 4 months of summer! At least I am getting some writing done (Not nearly as much as I would like!) My fantasy novel is getting there, but it still needs much work! I hope to publish it one day, but that is a long way off methinks…. Well, I am still teaching the junior highers, and I am still to work on a Bible Study for this fall (thinking Proverbs and the Spiritual Disciplines! Well, until next time!

 

Andrew, The Harbinger of Awesome

May
19

Intellectual knowledge of God is good, but it is not solely sufficient. We are called to know God, not exhaustively, but personally. If you do not know God, how then can you truly trust or believe in Him? Yet, If you do not trust and believe in God, can you really know Him? It seems like a Catch-22, yet, it works… If you truly pray with faith and meditate on God’s word, believe and knowledge will come. Sadly, there are sometimes when we get so caught up in the “Intellectual” aspect of God that we start to lose who he really is.

            Don’t get me wrong, I never stopped believing God or trusting Him, I simply was not good at it. I thought, “I’ll let God know about my problems and He can help me solve them. I know He is God.” Yet, I did not consider the words of the Psalmist, “Be still and know that I am God.” I knew He was God, but I did not stop and let Him work. These last month have helped me understand one thing: I need to be still more. I got the knowing down, but my impatience in Spiritual matters must dissolve completely. I have begun to experience a much more significant prayer life, not just “Do this, take care of this, keep me from this” type of prayer, but serious Prayer, but the type of Prayer that includes giving thanks, and simply meditation. Not my old-school meditation, where I empty my mind (A few friends enlightened me to the idea that it may not be beneficial to empty my mind), but the kind that fills you my mind with thoughts of God. Despite a crappy work schedule, lack of friends, and a really nasty headache, I feel more content than I ever have for a good long time. *Granted, I wish my friends never had to leave, but hey, they’ll be back.*

            Thus, I feel more comfortable trying to begin my own Bible Study among the “Circle”, but I still want some significant improvement on my part. Hopefully, I can use this zeal to help myself make a more coherent lesson to the Junior Highers >_<. So, stay tuned for More of The Harbinger’s progress in this and other matters!

 

Sincerely, He who is named on the top of this blog.

May
16

It is the duty of the church to help fill the void in everyone’s life, to show humanity that there is something more. What does that entail, say, once a person is saved? We don’t just toss them into the world and say, “Good luck!” , I believe James said something about that, so I’ll let him speak to you about that if necessary. The church is supposed to mimic the practices of Jesus. If we claim to be imitator’s and representatives of Christ, then why do we like to focus our attention of the middle-class/upper class Americans almost exclusively for church membership? Jesus went to the poor, the unclean, the blind, the crippled, and the altogether “lower tier” of society. So, why the difference? Well, I can go off in any one direction from here, and may do the rest on another occasion, but right now, I am going to focus in on one: The Disabled.

 It is sad to see, that many of the churches I have seen/visited do not even have so much as a wheelchair ramp or handicapped accessible restrooms. This is not my main issue, however, my main one, is the lack of readiness to accept anyone “less than whole”.  Many times people will use the excuse “Well, they disrupt the service!” DEAL WITH IT, the service is for everyone including them. I once more cite the American mentality as the source of this problem. It’s all about me, me, me, and what I want as an “American”. As Christians it is our duty to “Obey God before man.”, and to take identity with God and Jesus over nationalistic ideals. We are Christians, who live in America, not Americans who happen to believe in God! There may come a time where we will have to choose one; we may not always be able have such an easy merger of the two. If we took the Bible and all it entails seriously, then we will realize it is these people who we should reach out to the most! The Church should be the champions of those without hope, without help, or without friends or family. We should strive to reach all people not just “whole” ones. If a couple of uneducated fishermen from Galilee are good enough for God incarnate, then I am sure we can make do with whatever we get. Christians need to make provisions for all types of people to be able to attend and be a member of a church. This applies to everyone. I understand, that some things cannot be done due to lack of training/funds, such as having a learning disabled child in Sunday School. I teach Junior High, if someone brought in a learning disabled child, I wouldn’t know how to help that child understand, since I lack the training. I am just a volunteer teacher; I am not even on the payroll. This does not mean the child could not come to my church. The child could sit in with his parents in service, as they should be trained in how to help him understand. So, I understand that there are issues that stand in the way of my grand master plan, such as financial and circumstantial reality.

This fact does not excuse us though! In Ffirst Corinthians 9:22, Paul deals with this by stating, “To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.” One’s strategy should include flexibility to meet the needs of more than one type of people *NOTE: One must never compromise the truth of the Gospel to “include” more people! The point of the Gospel, is that it change people, not that people change it! Do not take this message and twist it to support some postmodern “new Gospel”, I believe Paul has some choice words for you in Galatians if you consider such a thing!* We must reach out to the rich, the poor, the needy, the rejected, the accepted, and all others who are not saved. Though, it does not end when they are saved; we must continue to aid those in need outside and inside the church.

*Disclaimer, this is not a stab at my church! I think we do a pretty decent job with this issue. We have to fight a battle within our means, and we do that with local help, outreaches and the food pantry.*

May
11

     “So there I was, alone, left in the ancient ruins of the once great Jamestown. My name? Well, if its of any importance, it Mu’thou. I was sent there, on a mission from my government to keep the area clear for the archeologists to arrive and extract the artifacts. So, thus began my eight day stay in the silent halls of the Jamestown city hall. All i was armed with was my standard issue radio-pistol, to check in with the higher ups, who were oddly nervous about this mission, and my small crystal shard, which I used to check in with my own associates. My order, after all, was a sect of battlemages, aiding my homeland’s government. So, in reality, the pistol was the least of my weapons. I decided it was time to begin my patrol.

     The first day was inconsiquential, I familiarized myself with the surronding ruins, and fully explored the place. I found a refugee, who had obviously lived here a long time, I inspected her closely. Using what abilities I could without risking detection, I decided she was safe to leave. I sent the message over the radion, “Alls code four over here, no sign of any hostile activity.” They responded with a “Affirmative, continue your patrol.” I frowned, this was no place to send a Mrytan Battlemage… this was a job for a grunt, not a vice-luitenant.

    The second, third, fourth, and fifth days, they passed quickly, nothing happened at all. The messages to my comrades, who had been shipped out on tour a week prior, kept me sane. The sixth day, thats when I found it, what they had obviously sent me here for: The Silent Hall. It was a tricky place to find, but I detected a slight magical spike in the area, the days before, and I finally cracked the code. After I got into the area in question, the real struggle began. In their, my crystal stopped working, my pistol-radio, only served as a radio, an offensive capabilities it once had were lost. I wandered the halls, but madness had begun to overtake me. I started to see things, things that could not exist, ghosts, random creatures darting here and there, I tried to sit down and take a break to collect my thought, but it only made things work. I had begun to search for the exit, but it evaded me. I wandered for nearly the entire two days, it had been the 8th day, and I had not eaten or drank for the entire time in the silent halls, magic was of no use here. Whatever artifacts that were here, they must be pretty powerful to do such things to a Battlemage. Finally, a voice cried out, “Special agent Mu’thou! Are you all right?!” With an exhausted sigh I replied, “Yeah, lets mark the exit, get the goods secure and get out of here!” We secured a handful of powerful artifacts, and left a small military prescence at the city till the rest of the archeologists got done. I had survived, and I could only hope the same for my comrades in their tour of duty.”

05-10-2108- Mu’thou signing off.”

 

Thats my allegory for work last night, hope you all enjoyed it!

May
03

So, In the recent weeks, the semster has come to a close, which is awesome. I did really well this semester, cept for the C+, but that replaces the F prior, so whatever. Most of the people I talked to also did well, as this semester was just extremely fast-paced, yet interested (in more ways then one). But, with the end of the semester comes soem non-awesomeness….. I have to say goodbye to some of my best friends, grind hours at work, and just simply be for some weeks. I got a job a DPS, which started rather brutal, but I will persevere! I got a long summer goal list, and I will keep you posted on that one!

 

P.S. I already miss friends… you know who you are!

Apr
13

I realized how much I love the weekends. I do enough professional working to make myself feel not unless, see my friends a LOT more, and get to go to chruch. After not teaching for so long, it feels really good to teach again, even though they don’t seem to listen all the time. Just being able to dig into the word and try and impart what I myself picked from the passage makes me feel warm inside. I enjoy weekdays to, don’t get me wrong, but after being busy all week, it is just nice to wind down and relax. I also got to cook an amazing old-school Majcherek meal, which I hadn’t really done for like 4 months. Cooking for others just makes you feel appreciated and loved, and I enjoy showing that I am willing to serve in such a way. So thank you to Corinne for buying the materials to cook with :D!

Majcherek

Apr
08

Well, I went to a concert of Amazingtacularness yesterday. Yes, I, The Harbinger of Awesome, saw Bruce Springsteen and the Legendary E-Street Band. So here is my review of the night.

The Honda Arena was the place, the day, the seventh of April. Me, Uncle Steve, Uncle Ray, Aunt tammy, and My father all were there for one reason: to see some good ol’ Rock and Roll. Once I lead my Father and I to our seats using my elite crowd dodging skills, and we waited. It took nearly an hour after that for the concert to start, and during that hour, there was a guy and his girlfriend drank away. Now, this girl was extremely tiny, like cut Corinne in half thin. So I noticed she drank 2+ beers in about 10 min. So I natural was thinking, “This outta be a funny display.” What I saw, far exceeded the estimate of comedy.

So, the amazing events of the concert unfolded, once Bruce got playing, the crowd got crazy. Now, the small lady in front of us, started to flail dance, which escalated into “Drunked Rail Dancing”, which is like pole dancing, but instead of being seductive, its just simply hilarious. It started getting just sad, when she almost fell off the railing (Which would’ve killer her), but instead, was saved by only falling on her butt. She then left for about 40 min, wonder what she was doing hmmmm..>? *clearly sarcastic.*

The music itself was amazing. He played such classics as Born to Run, The Ghost of Tom Jones, and played a lot of stuff from The Rising and Magic like, Radio Nowhere, Summer Clothes, Long Walk Home, The Rising, Lonesome Day, and others. It was a really high energy concert, though I sat the whole time, because my seat was awesome like that. Anyway, hope to frequent more shows in the future, and anybody I know is invited (you gotta fork up the $$$$$).

Andrew Majcherek

 

Apr
05

This is my blog. For those of you who are elite enough to know who i am, you know. For those who do not, you may find out. You can expect a real blog by tomorrow. THis is just to let you all know, that I am here, and awesomeness will rise forth from it.

Apr
05

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