When Sat comes, you'll experiance something you havent before!

Good Evening all!

Thought I'd blog about the day i have had today, it has been an interesting day and something happened to me which hasnt before....can you guess? Some of you already know and so i wont draw it out any longer.

Like most Sat afternoon's I endevor to keep fit and kick a piece of blown up leather around some grass with 21 other blokes, something which i enjoy alot and actually on occassion does give me chance to talk about church and my job.

Anyway I am currently playing for the 1st team, yeah i dunno why either! We were playing in Erdington today, near Pype Hayes and the team we were playing were second in the league i think. We started well, and by half time we were 2 up and playing really well, this is went it all went wrong, oh and I was playing well, although i had missed a couple of half chances, as always!

During the second half they pressed us for a goal and they did pull one back. Then i gave away a free kick and as i ran away i kicked the ball away which in football is a bookable offence, so had my name taken and the prospect of a £8 fine, something which hasnt happend, but more was to follow. 2 mins later they equalised and the guy who scored ran away from the goal topless which in football is a bookable offence too, hence i decided to be naughty and point this out to the ref who then went and booked the guy while i suffered alot of abuse of the opposing players for unsporting beahviour which i just laughed off, hey i mean i get threatened that they will break my neck most weeks, like 2 weeks ago when i kinda got in a little frakcar with another guy. Anyway the ref booked the guy and then proceeded to walk over to me and ask for my name, i was like you booked me 2 mins ago, thinking cant he remember??? anyway he said i shouldnt have pointed it out to him that he should book the guy so proceded to give me a second booking meaning i get sent off the pitch and the prospect of a £30 fine instead!!
The moral of the story? I dunno, i probably do it again next week before my 2 game suspension!! So today i got booked and sent off, something which hasnt happened before, anyway its Sunday tomorrow, so it cant all be that bad.....can it?

Love and prayers

Aaron x

TFI Friday!!

Ok so Friday is upon us and to be honest I'm glad it's the weekend, well nearly!

Dont get me wrong i love my job at the moment and am really seeing God giving me the gifts i need to be able to do my job, and I am definatly in the place that God wants me to be in, I am making real in grounds into it and also feel as if God has challenged me to get as many people to see the love of Jesus as possible within my workplace, not all have appreciated me talking about this, but even if one person is saved, i will count that a success, but i wont settle for one. Since what happened a couple of weeks ago happened I have been in some form of panic to get as many of my friends and family to go to alpha, and everything but i have had a feeling from God that i need to slpw down and instead of telling people about Jesus but to show to be like him is just as good, dont get me wrong you have to tell them but to be like Jesus is just as important.

So Friday has started and is almost half way through, as its alomost midday here.

Work has taken a second seat in my life and like DB i have been really challenged by the way Matt and Chris lead their lives, always putting people first and not work, something which I want to do!

Finally wanna wish my great friend 'Screech' from saved by the bell, Jack Osbourne and Dennis the Menace look a like a Happy Birthday!! I hope its a good day my friend!

Love and Prayers

Aaron xx

Vernon Kay Lookalike??

Ok so yesterday wasn't my finest hour, repeating my blog entry three times, I feel I am still quite not use to all this techno stuff!

So Thursday has come and almost gone and I am only just writing my daily blog, but I would like to keep it up so will write this entry anyway. I have to say that Thursday to me is the worst day of the week, I never liked them at school, and so that trend continues in my work life!

Last night one of the team I work with was leaving so we went to the pub for a beer to say goodbye. There we met someone else from the YMCA who proceeded to tell most of the Horse and Jockey that I was Vernon Kay, something which alot of people have told me in the past, and then worse someone said I look like 'Mikey' from Big Brother, not that I know what this guy looks like!!

So anyway not a long blog entry today but I just wanted to say that I dont look like Vernon Kay!

Im doing OK today, manflu has all but disapeared apart from my snotty nose...mmmmmm!!! So thanks to people who prayed for the worst kind of flu for a male, something which women call BIRD flu, apparantly they can catch it from chickens???!!

Hope your all OK, be good to see some of you over the weekend, I am now off to have some sleep and a beer (I'm not an alcoholic though!)

Love and Prayers to you all

Aaron

Midweek Blues....

So today is Wednesday and its the middle of the week, although I'm in agreement with my friend Dave B who says that he is muddled into what day it actually is, i was in this state over the weekend too, so I think i'm just getting back use to the days now.

There is something about midweek i like, perhaps i know it's cause it's not long to the weekend and the chance to spend some time with my friends and family which during the week can prove tricky as we all have so much on, but part of me thinks that i should wish my life away and that i should make every day as fulfilled and enjoyable as the last, and that i should see my friends, to pray with them or to just 'be' with them is something which anyone who knows me, knows I love spending time with people, i feel God has really called me to be a active listner, and through my job as a youth worker is something which i need to be. I love to pray with people and for people and so being able to spend time with them is something i like doing.

Anyway i think i starting to waffle a little bit me thinks. So my thought for the day on this the world we live is to live today as fulfilling and go for God as much as possible, get out your comfort zone as I feel thats when God uses me more, something which I will talk about later.

Be encouraged my friends to live your life for God, and trust and be faithful that the Almighty God will deliver on his promises!!

Love and Prayers to you all

Aaron

Midweek Blues....

So today is Wednesday and its the middle of the week, although I'm in agreement with my friend Dave B who says that he is muddled into what day it actually is, i was in this state over the weekend too, so I think i'm just getting back use to the days now.

There is something about midweek i like, perhaps i know it's cause it's not long to the weekend and the chance to spend some time with my friends and family which during the week can prove tricky as we all have so much on, but part of me thinks that i should wish my life away and that i should make every day as fulfilled and enjoyable as the last, and that i should see my friends, to pray with them or to just 'be' with them is something which anyone who knows me, knows I love spending time with people, i feel God has really called me to be a active listner, and through my job as a youth worker is something which i need to be. I love to pray with people and for people and so being able to spend time with them is something i like doing.

Anyway i think i starting to waffle a little bit me thinks. So my thought for the day on this the world we live is to live today as fulfilling and go for God as much as possible, get out your comfort zone as I feel thats when God uses me more, something which I will talk about later.

Be encouraged my friends to live your life for God, and trust and be faithful that the Almighty God will deliver on his promises!!

Love and Prayers to you all

Aaron

Midweek Blues....

So today is Wednesday and its the middle of the week, although I'm in agreement with my friend Dave B who says that he is muddled into what day it actually is, i was in this state over the weekend too, so I think i'm just getting back use to the days now.

There is something about midweek i like, perhaps i know it's cause it's not long to the weekend and the chance to spend some time with my friends and family which during the week can prove tricky as we all have so much on, but part of me thinks that i should wish my life away and that i should make every day as fulfilled and enjoyable as the last, and that i should see my friends, to pray with them or to just 'be' with them is something which anyone who knows me, knows I love spending time with people, i feel God has really called me to be a active listner, and through my job as a youth worker is something which i need to be. I love to pray with people and for people and so being able to spend time with them is something i like doing.

Anyway i think i starting to waffle a little bit me thinks. So my thought for the day on this the world we live is to live today as fulfilling and go for God as much as possible, get out your comfort zone as I feel thats when God uses me more, something which I will talk about later.

Be encouraged my friends to live your life for God, and trust and be faithful that the Almighty God will deliver on his promises!!

Love and Prayers to you all

Aaron

What does the cross mean to me?

Ok so today I have been of work again due to a bad case of man flu, something which women have no understanding on, its worse then normal flu, honest, ask anyone thats male and has had it.
So for the past two days I have been reading more (anyone who knows me well knows i dont read that much), and am currently reading a book called boy meets girl by Josh Harris. Its a cool book and i would advise anyone to read it that arent already married, and in some respects people that are may find it good too.

Anyway while reading it i came across a very cool bit about the cross and what it is, a view on the story of the cucifiction which made me sit up and really look at what it means to me, hope you think the same. Here it is:

As the man swings, the Son recalls how he and the Father first designed the medial nerve of the human forearm- the sensations it would be capable of. The design proves flawless-the nerves perform exquisittely. "Up you go!" They lift the cross. God is on display in his underwear and can scarcely breathe.
But these pains are a mere warm-up to his other and growing dread. He begins to feel a foreign sensation. Somewhere during this day an unearthly foul odor began to waft, nt around his nose, but his heart. He feels dirty. Human wickedness starts to crawl upon his spotless being - the living excrement from our souls. The apple of his fathers eye turns brown with rot.
His Father! He must face his Father like this!
From heaven the father now rouses himself like a lion disturbed, shakes his mane, and roars against the shrivelling remnant of a man hanging on a cross.
Never has the son seen the Father look on him so, never felt even the least of his hot breath. But the roar shakes the unseen world and darkens the visable sky. The son does not recognise these eyes.
"Son of Man! Why have you behaved so? Yu have cheated, lusted, stolen, gossiped-murdered, envied, hated, lied. You have cursed, ribbed, overspent, overeaten-fornicated, disobeyed, embezzled, and blasphemed. Oh the duties you have shirked, the children you have abandoned! Who has ever so ignored the poor, so played the coward, so belittled my name? Have you ever held your razor tongue? What a self-righteous, ptitiful drunk, you, who molest young boys, peddle killer drugs, travel in cliques, and mock your parents. Who gave you the boldness to rig elections, foment revolutions, torture animals, and worship demons? Does the list never end! Splitting families, raping virgins, acting smugly, playing the pimp, filiming pornography, accepting bribes. You have burned down buildings perfected terroist acts, founded false religions, traded in slaves. I hate, loathe these things in you! Disgust for everything about you consumes me! Can you not feel the wrath?"

Of course the things that God felt towards Jesus wasnt his actions but ours. I have thought long about these things listed as well as other sinfull stuff that has happend in my life that i have done. The Cross to me is where i feel closest to God, when I confess all i have done and know that 2000 years ago on that cross Jesus Christ took all of it on his shoulder, he showed the whole world how much he loved them and how much mercy he had for each of his people!!

I just want to leave you with the thought of this, not to make u feel guilty but to encourage you that God has shown Mercy and love towards us and that we need to accept it, as difficult as it is, If we confess our sins, through the cross we are forgiven, what love is that.

God Bless
Aaron

My first Post......

HELLO!!!

Welcome to my first post on my first blog, thought I'd start one as it seems to be the way these days.
I hope to let you into my thoughts on stuff thats going on in this mad world of ours.

Anyway, would be good if you wanted to link on with what was being said.

Cheers
Aaron