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This is an Emergency

January 28, 2010

A Coalition of Non Profit Organizations are Working to Prevent Human Trafficking and Exploitation of Haitian Children

Global Centurion, The Home Foundation, Love146, Call and Response, Renewal Forum, Fondation Espoir, Salvation Army, Olive Branch International, Doctors at War on Trafficking, Equitas Group, Gracehaven, World Hope International, Beyond Borders, Restavek Foundation, and Fondation la Limye Lavi announce a first response campaign to develop and distribute simple, clear information campaigns designed to prevent human trafficking after the earthquake.

Take action and join in our efforts to raise awareness in Haiti against the dangers of Human Trafficking.

1. Text SAFE to 85944 and donate $10 to help
2. Post this on your Page
3. Twitter and SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Read more about what we are doing in HAITI on our website www.thehomefoundation.net/blog

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The world we live in

October 23, 2009

According to livescience.com they polled a lot of people and a lot of scientists to find the “Top 10 Greatest Mysteries of Science.” It’s not surprising that in the top 5 you’ll find:
-Where is the rest of the universe? only 4% of the matter and energy in the universe has been found. How could they even know that?
-What drives evolution? what is evolution? That sounds made up…
-Who are you? -I’ve been asking myself that for a long time now…
-How did life arise on earth? -sounds like the evalootion question or however you say it.

Granted, I’m being ridiculous with my commentary, but really- it sounds like everyone’s looking for a beginning, and an ending and “science” has yet to yield solid results. Really, we don’t even know how gravity works. Still! If we’ve only come this far in decades and generations of modern science and research, it doesn’t sound like we’re going to have the time in our lives to get to the conclusion. Don’t get me wrong, I love science and nerdy things, but my faith hat hangs on God. Searching for answers is just too much fun, but honestly, I don’t “believe” in science.
Here’s a nerdy article: here
Just reading this makes me believe a lot of scientists believe in God but just don’t know it.

I’m a dork. These are my ramblings.

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Across the World & Across the Street.

October 02, 2009

Hello, friends, fans, and family.
Last night Mike and I had the opportunity to hear the heart of some of our fellow christian music artists about the current rising global crisis. To my surprise it’s not famine, it’s not AIDS, it’s not financial deficit either.

I know I’ve blogged about this before and sorry for repeating myself. I realized during this conversation we had recently that I am in a band that has a platform (although modest in size) to speak and “fight the darkness.”

This growing crisis is human slavery. It is said that there are now more slaves in the world today than in any point in history. This slavery isn’t working in fields or factories. Children are being sexually abused. And this isn’t an intangible reality. This is a virus of the most evil nature that manifests itself in India, China, Africa, and just a few months ago even in my own back yard of Nashville, TN. A local motel was raided and 8 girls were rescued from a prison of a room filled with mattresses.

I could fill this page with statistics and heart breaking, disgusting stories, but I’d rather fill this page with hope. There are facilities and institutions in place that are making a change. They will not be quiet and they are shining their light where there is no light. Please, educate yourself on this subject that not many know about. The church is oblivious to this situation and we must not wait for the government to deal with it like the last time. Slavery is real and it pays less in our generation.

I’m excited because we’re working with other artists to help fight this poison that has silently crept into the streets of our world. Pray that those who are oppressed will be saved.

God will break the chains. He will deliver. Allow him to work in you to fight the darkness.

www.ijm.org

www.thehomefoundation.net

Tags: crisis God hope slavery social justice

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Something cool

September 15, 2009

So, there’s an age-long conversation about going to church I’ve been witness or exposed to.

My whole life I’ve known that it’s good to go to church. A few days ago Heather and I read why…

¹³ “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight
and the LORD’s holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

¹⁴ then you will find your joy in the LORD,
and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land
and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”
The mouth of the LORD has spoken.

-Isaiah 58:13-14

There’s a lot of cool moments in there.
If I keep from doing as I please then…
I will find delight in the Lord.

So take that, eat it, digest it, and absorb it’s nutrients. One thing I’m working on is the 2nd and 3rd to last lines. What does He mean?

-Jeff

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What I Want

August 22, 2009

“Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
-Psalm 37: 3-5
How often do I use this passage to get what I want?

“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
- James 4:1-3

With Psalms 37: 3-5 I must say that I am often guilty of James 4:1-3.
A long time ago a friend revealed a stunning revelation in delighting myself with the Lord. It goes like this: God is a jealous god. You delight yourself in Him (he’s your joy). So, shouldn’t God give you Himself? He’s what I want right?

Wow. Never thought of it like that.

Dwell on these passages. But not on these lyrics of an old Janis Joplin tune:

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Hasta la pasta
-j

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I'm excited to fill this journal with literary compositions, artistic trials, and an echelon of ideology. Several thoughts have filled my head on what to put exactly on here. I thought about applying some form on nonsense lesson in each journal. Quite frankly, I don't know how this will all turn out...

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