The Secrets to my Success!

I like to fancy myself as a connoisseur, though I have only been a part of the club for about two weeks. 

I like to consider myself to be Anti -“pro”      Here is what I mean by that, everyone is pro something. But what I don’t seem to be able to grasp is how our last few generations, beginning in the sixties, are so PRO everything but “Pro- commonsense ”. How can someone consider themselves to be Pro-choice, yet have the audacity to PRO-test against war? They are Pro-choice, but yet they PRO-test against the right to PRO-tect yourself with the second amendment. I mean they can be just fine taking life of an innocent child, but yet they don’t want you to arm yourself, protect your family and stand up against tyranny and evil abroad (oh yeah, or eat meat). The PRO-choice moment has killed almost ten times the innocent children than the Nazi moment!      Look, I've been there, I don’t want our soldiers dying any more than anyone else, but the world needs someone to stand up against oppression and fight for people’s civil liberties. Is it America’s...

Are Christians truly hypocrites?          Look, I don’t claim to know the whole bible, and I certainly don’t claim to be perfect. But here is what I do know, God is real and Christ was his son. Now ask me to explain the Holy Trinity….. Uh.... Exactly.      A lot of people tend to stereotype Christians and the Church. They know what we stand for so they automatically assume we judge people and condemn them. Stereotypes are bad news because they are based either one experience or the minority of one group. People know I’m an avid follower of Jesus Christ and yet when they fail to get to know me and they make off color comments about who I am or what I believe. Shamefully, they just assume and don’t know the truth. Do I believe in right and wrong? Do I express myself openly? Do I try to lead a life reflective of my beliefs? All of the above are.... True.      But do you really know what the difference is between a Christian ...

              A lot of us, if not most of us, heck maybe even all of us at some time have chosen to do something or start something, quit something on a predetermined day in the future. Being new years we probably all have been waiting and plotting and telling ourselves we are going to do such said thing starting January 1st. I do it, every year! But what’s terrible is a lot of times I find myself doing it every year. We start off with the best intentions and end the year repeating the same mistakes we did before. Or we try to binge the last few days on what it was that we decided to give up (irony); In turn hindering our chance of success over the one thing that has had such a grasp on us to begin with.      Now I don’t have the cure for what ails you and I can’t give you the answer to how to be successful, but I can encourage you to keep it up. But what seems to be odd about these “demons” in our everyday life is that most times...

I consider myself a pretty boring guy, there is not much I like to do. I don’t party, I don’t really drink, don’t watch sports and don’t hang out at bars and I’ve learned to become accustom to this lifestyle. My hobbies in life are pretty strange and I battle with my own demons from time to time. My life however doesn’t need any excitement, I have a wife and kids who need me to have a level head. I support these people with all I am; I work hard and have no real time to play. I am not granted the freedom that some have to enjoy their day and be friendly and chit chat all those things. I like the quiet undisturbed life. I know there is a wild side in me that wants to come out and play but I look at my family and step back and remind myself that although life is a day to day activity it is also a marathon that has to be run one step at a time. I keep my eyes on Christ and I enjoy that. Heck I think he earned it!!! Although from time to time I look away or become blinded, I know that h...

I struggled for a long time to try and make sense of God and his plan. I never felt worthy, and although I have full faith in God and believe the Gospel word for word I could never understand how God could love a wretch like me. But it’s not about how he could; it’s about the knowing he does he loves me endlessly. I am a sinner through and through are so are those before me and then those who have sinned against me. In myself I am nothing, but it’s not until we understand the meaning of being a new creation that it starts to make sense, understand? A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST, YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAST!!! We are wicked at heart, and it’s only when we accept Christ and the Holy Spirit INSIDE of us that we are made worthy. Joe Siar is not worthy, But Christ who dwells inside of me is! That is what Christ meant when he said no one shall go to the father except through me (J ohn 14:6). So for awhile now it’s really taken time for me to understand this. I am unworthy, I am a wretch, an unc...

Sometimes we think we are someone that we clearly are not. For a long time I thought I was a humble Christian. I thought I was this "good" guy who knew God and didn't do this or do that. But what is humility? What is the definition of Humble? You see it wasn't until these last few days that I realized that I had no idea what humble meant. I thought it meant beating up on myself and taking pride in the things I didn't do for myself, and all the things that I was doing for me to not be about ME. But you see there in lies the problem, in my failed attempt to be humble I was making it all about myself. And as they say: EPIC Fail! Being humble is not about how much I don't do for me, and how much I go out of my way to not talk about me. Being humble is about how we lift up others. Being humble is completely excluded ourself. Sometimes in an attempt to be humble we do it for ourself. For our own personal gain and it has nothing to do ...