As I was running/elliptical 7 miles this A.M, I tuned into a new cd I bought called Passion: Here for You. I usually workout to heavy music, rap, or something to keep my energy pumping… Well, I was talking to my good friend Charles Hill, who runs to praise and worship (but believe me it is not because he thinks that is the only music you should listen to…the man is real), and felt that I wanted to relax a bit while running. Did not think that I would find my self about balling (had one tear roll down, not sweat and quickly wiped it off) , and it is hard to want to lift my hands while on the elliptical….so I just put my head in my towel, and listened to these lyrics….. THIS IS WHERE THE BEST BLOG YET COMES…. not my words but these

Forever Reign- (sung by Kristian Stanfill on the cd)

You are good, You are good
When there’s nothing good in me
You are love, You are love
On display for all to see

You are light, You are light
When the darkness closes in
You are hope, You are hope
You have covered all my sin

You are peace, You are peace
When my fear is crippling
You are true, You are true
Even in my wandering

You are joy, You are joy
You’re the reason that I sing
You are life, You are life,
In You death has lost its sting

Oh, I’m running to Your arms,
I’m running to Your arms
The riches of Your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

You are more, You are more
Than my words will ever say
You are Lord, You are Lord
All creation will proclaim

You are here, You are here
In Your presence I’m made whole
You are God, You are God
Of all else I’m letting go

Oh, I’m running to Your arms
I’m running to Your arms
The riches of Your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

My heart will sing
no other Name
Jesus, Jesus

Oh, I’m running to Your arms
I’m running to Your arms
The riches of Your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

I did chuckle at first that I was running on the elliptical while he was singing running to your arms…..but in all honesty…I began to push harder and harder, exerting more effort. I am beginning to realize that Jesus is all I need….take all the crap that you could be put through…who is left. All the pain that you are going through, who is there? When those around you hurt…who is there? When Japan is devastated, who restores? When someone is on trial and a family is being put through emotional hell…Who comforts? When someone tells you to change how you sing…to whom do you sing however the heck you want to? When you are told to move to a place that no one understands…who told you to go? When there is something that you want something soooooo bad that looks out of reach….who restores hope? Who shows you how to love the unlovable?

Can people see that Christ is evident in your life? Are you able to be you, by knowing Christ alone?

Will Rock 4 Food is a 501c3 that rocks faces to feed places. Last year we were granted non-profit status by the federal government in hopes that we would be able to assist in taking care of the hungry….both physically and spiritually. At Will Rock 4 Food, we know that we are not the only ones in the area that assist these two categories. However we also know that there are many organizations out there that are looking for assistance and we know that we cannot assist every one of them.

Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, we thought we would assist in helping wheels run smoother and more effective…..you know kind of like, we do not make the products you by…we make the products you buy…better (love that slogan). We are looking for organizations in the Northwest Ohio area who are knocking the doors down of love.

Whether you are a teen organization that is loving the snot out of kids, and your purpose is to feed their hunger for Christ, or you are a Food Bank that simply takes care of those who walk in your door with empty stomachs. Both of these areas are what we are about, and would love to come along side you and assist your vision.

How are we going to do this….You will see a link below that you can click on….simply fill that form out, and hit send. We, as the board of Will Rock 4 Food will review it and pick 2 organizations to partner with at each WR4F event. The way you can help us….GET MORE PEOPLE TO OUR EVENTS so we can donate more money to these charities. We also will use some of the proceeds to continue to bring events to Lima, Ohio and surrounding areas!

So join our movement, and post this all over the place!
http://www.willrock4food.com/the-movement/

Finding your passion by what you would do for Free!

Deep down inside all of us is a passion for helping other people, a passion that is given to us by someone we have yet to see, and was demonstrated the best by none other than that person. I know some of you will read this blog and say, whatever Tug, here goes another spirtitual post, well…I did not tell you to read this…you chose to, and if you continue to read, that is your choice as well… but I will say one thing, I am who I am today, because of the volunteering of One person’s life.
I will be the first one to tell you, that I wish I was paid for my biggest passion. I wish that I could quit my job today, (which I love) and venture out to my passion. For the last 8 years I have poured myself into something that has been the most rewarding…other than seeing the smile on my kids face when Daddy comes home, or the joy of knowing that I am providing for my family.
It began as something I drawn to…something that I could not live without doing , and honestly would die trying to help start this before not seeing it started at all. That is how I knew it was my passion. To find your passion, you must find something that you think about consistently. Something that you know God has put in your lap and if you do not do this, at the time you think no one else will. For my mom that is Africa, for my Grandma it was Children Evangelism, for my friend Charles Hill it is Utah, and for me….. it is Rockin Faces and Feedin Places (right here in Ohio, and other places).
I would be lying to you if I did not say I have a total blast running concerts, and am probably the biggest music fan out there…. but this is not why it was started. Back in 2002 God spoke to me and said….you need to VOLUNTEER your time and start a concert ministry that will impact people for the cause of ME. Now it was not those exact words and frankly the word volunteer is not something people like to here. If you were to ask me back then, if within 10 years Will Rock 4 Food would become a non-profit and would see roughly minister to over 15,000 people at concerts, giveaway roughly 15k dollars, see over 500 salvations, and now partnered with another Concert promotion agency out of Ohio that is well recognized in the nation, in Christian Music….I would have laughed. But you see, that is what God does when you are truly passionate about what He has given you. I am not the reason this is successful…..for I am not the only volunteer….We have had over 500 people volunteer in the existence of Will Rock 4 Food events. God has given me and many other people the passion and wisdom to run these events, but ultimately if He was not the Captain, the ship would spin out of control.

Passionately Volunteering….but not afraid to hurt feelings by Carrying out God’s call on your life. When you are passionate about something…you will come across to some people as crazy, maybe sometimes arrogant, driven, authoritative, called names, unfriended on facebook, and many other things because what God has given you, can offend even Christians…..the passion that He has given you to accomplish this can upset people….DO NOT LET THAT STOP YOU!
If I would have listened to humans to tell me what I am supposed to do in life….I would have killed WillRock4Food 3 years ago, and would have probably been in a few fisticuffs during some of the events. God is bigger than people!
Chad, you are one person that I think has a heart the size that I do….and wants to see the world a better place…but I also know that sometimes people will look at you as the toilet ,as they have me….. and think they can take the biggest crap on you….TRUTH is….they can…..other truth….there is a handle on a toilet that enables you to flush that out, and have clean water once again!!

Many of you have seen the posts (on facebook) I have made this week and have even responded to them with other quotes by Charlie Sheen….even at one time I posted on facebook the following update: Tug Taviano is a winner…..and I laughed when my mom liked the status…knowing that she had no idea what I was talking about. I was then bombarded with people giving their best sheenism and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Now first things first, I do not agree with the lifestyle that Charlie Sheen is living but one thing I do truly think is that he is living in front of the public eye, the same way that he is living behind closed doors. So I began to think……am I winning?

The way that I categorize winning is alot different than that of Sheen, although I must say….Tiger Blood, Bi-winning, Being asked if he was a user and saying yah…I use a coffee pot…was brilliant one liners. I categorize winning in my life maybe different than you, but I hope not. Being able to live a life in front of people in public as if you would behind closed doors. I have my fallacies and know that all of us do, but I have spent the last few years of my life…letting people see Tug for Tug.

I pray that this way of winning is allowing people to also see Christ, and if it has not, which sometimes I get in the way….I apologize.

Revelation 3:15-16 says I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

So my challenge to you is win……by allowing people to see who you really are….and quit being a closet christian! that is if you are!

More to come this week….but the fam is wanting to leave my fav coffee shop…… BIGGBY!

Many of you have heard the news, whether it has been on facebook, the Lima News, or even the story that was done on WLIO (above) last night about PFC. Curt Yetman (a recent Allen East grad), but what people have truly got to understand is the love that his father feels for him, and the anguish that this has got to be putting him(Curt) and them (family) through. I have spoken with Bill (who I have known for a long time, dated back to when Curt played little league with my brother in law) on a few occasions since this has happened and although he is sooooo thankful for the prayers that have been prayed so far, you can tell there is a definite need for those to CONTINUE LIKE IT WILL NOT GO OUT OF STYLE.

I received a text from Coach Yetman today that read like this… ” Some very good people have organized a vigil for Curt. Tonight @ 8. Southside Church corner of Elm and Eastown Rds. Love to see you there. He’s coming home tomorrow!!” I immediately picked up my phone and called him…excited for what I am thinking is a homecoming like no other, one with assurance that Curt will recover, that he will be fine, and that he is stable enough to make the trip and wanted to assure him that I will be there tonight.

When I called, I said awesome news that he is coming back to the states… although he is glad that he may get to see his son soon, he asked if I could relay this message to people that I talked with…Although it looks like they may send Curt back to the states, he is not out of the dark so to say. He is in an induced coma, and has 3rd degree burns over a great portion of his body. He was traveling with I believe 7 other soldiers when their vehicle was blown up by a 700-1000 lb (from Bill) IED, and the vehicle was set ablaze. Curt was the gunner for the vehicle from what I hear, and when he was pulled from the vehicle he was still ablaze as well. Out of the 8 soldiers only 3 of them have survived…1 being our own Curt Yetman. He has been supported by 100% oxygen, but now I believe is down to the support of 60% (which is better) however it seems once an hour, his levels plummet. (they are saying that this is due to the damage possibly to the inner lining of his lungs from the explosion) The great news is, he is alive….the other news is, that Bill said he could be in the hospital for a very long time and could take from a year to a lifetime to recover….this being if Curt will make it through this. We know he is strong enough, and we know our God is capable of doing this! Bill also told me that he has had numerous surgeries (do not know what all they have intelled) and they do not know if Curt has enough skin to perform the grafts needed and they may have to use skin from cadavers (not trying to be gross, just wanting you to know the severity of this).

After talking with Bill, I immediately hung the phone up and began to cry in my office….one because the pain I felt for Curt, for Bill, and for the family involved, 2 because I have never been so proud of a soldier in my life, 3 because you never think this is going to happen to a soldier that you know, 4 because I have a son and if he came to me and said he was going to the military I would have reacted the same way Bill did. 5. Do we really understand a Father’s love.

My heart aches for the Yetman’s and I do not know how you are doing this Bill if you read this (I do know that it is only the strength of God that can get you through this). My mind continues to race, why are we over there, why do people give their lives for this, why Curt, why this family, why someone with so much potential….then it hit me…Curt has really seen this country, and our freedom as something to risk his life for, something that he believes in sooo much that come hell or high water, or explosion or under fire….he would put his life at danger for the freedom that we have. Curt is doing in a military sense and an American Freedom sense…what Christ did for us in a Spiritual and physical sense.

You see I have been consistently reminded that there are two types of people that have died for you…..one being a soldier, and the second being Jesus Christ. The soldier risks his life for us to have the freedom that we have here, and Jesus gave His life for the freedom that we have in Him. If you are experiencing the one without the other, than you are not getting total Freedom! I am at a loss for words while speaking with Bill, and him knowing that people are praying for him is what is keeping him going! My prayer is that all of us that are praying for Curt, truly understand who we are praying to, and the power that we have through Him! If you do not have a relationship with Christ, and understand His dying for you….you cannot truly be praying for the Yetmans…just thinking about them!

Bill…I love you brother, and want you to know from the bottom of my heart…that I have never been burdened with prayer so much in my life….I believe that God has this right now and will continue to…and I pray that in some way shape or form…you can see God in this!!

That being said….I still can justify wanting to see those who have done this brought to justice….and we all know what i mean by that!

Thanks Curt and know that we will continue to pray for you!!

If anyone has questions…please ask!

I recently shared my story about my passion for what God has given me (willrock4food) with someone who is publishing a bible and the crazy thing is…it looks like it may be used! The bible will feature a group of young people (i guess that is me) who have been passionate about something that God has given them…WHAT A HUMBLING and EXCITING THING! Our story will be paired up with John 10 (What…that is too big of a passage was my first thought, then God says…TUG—–you care for my sheep and you are one of them….this ministry is all about that)

So here is a snip…of the history and where we are going…and if you would I ask for your support…both in prayer and if you have the ability to donate… a button will be at the bottom!

So many of you know that WillRock4Food exists but not alot of you know where it has came from. Back in 2001, I sat at a prayer meeting and really felt God telling me to start a concert ministry….WHAT? yah a concert ministry He reiterated! I never have really dove into the fact that other people can encourage your calling and that God can be speaking to others about you as well. I walk over to pray with Chris Ewing, who before I said anything, says something to the fact of (maybe not word for word) “I know..you are supposed to start a concert ministry!” Immediately I felt a passion for something, as far as ministry, that I have never felt before! I wanted this to be the best thing that I have ever done…why, because I knew it was from God!

So the next week I began researching what it would take to run a concert, we wanted this to be downtown so we started contacting the City of Lima and rented the Amphitheater at Faurot Park. I was reading this Focus on the Family Magazine who had an article on this guy named Joseph “Afroman” Foreman…you know him as the guy who sings “Because I Got High.” With this being in Focus on the Family, I was assured that this could be a hit, I contacted Afroman’s agent, who did not work with him anymore due to him becoming a Christian. I got a message that night on my voicemail, Hey Tug…this is Joseph Foreman, known as Afroman…I hear you may want to bring us to Ohio…call me on my cell @ Colt45 and Two Zig Zags (just kidding, it is an old Afroman song) so anyways, we call, and he comes up for the weekend in a mini-van with his wife, kids and grandma for a total of $500. We add The Goodbye Session (Hit the Lights) and a couple other bands and it rains…we have around 100 peeps and about 10 get saved….Success right, well yes the fact that souls got saved, but here to find out, Afroman a few months later is back rapping the because I got high and back in the vulgarity of Secular Explicit rap. I contacted KJ-52 and had him call Afroman, whom to this day, I know his heart is amazing but Satan has enticed him by the worldly riches so deep that it will only take God to get him away! (cool fact, Afroman and I talked about going on a cruise together with our wives,cause we share the same anniversary…my wife is afraid of WILD WATER) I still have the pics. (not digital if you would ever want to see them) We had 1/2 Chicken Dinners available, and with the rain….we had a couple hundred left over…(donated to a food bank)

The concerts:
Grits, Broken Yoke ,Godsound and Rocket Ismail
Day of Fire, Krystal Myers, This Beautiful Republic
TFK, Day of Fire, This Beautiful Republic
Sanctus Real, Need to Breathe, This Beautiful Republic
Family Force Five, Falling Up, Spoken, This Beautiful Republic
Family Force 5, Harlend
Skillet, John Reuben, This Beautiful Republic
Skillet, Disciple, Decyfer Down
Red, Barlow Girl, House Of Heroes (with Acts 429)
Reach Records Don’t Waste Your Life Tour “featuring Lecrae, Tedashii, Sho Baraka, Trip Lee, and Flame”
Faith and Family Night at Crew Stadium with Pillar and This Beautiful Republic
KJ52, Group 1 Crew
The Apostles of Comedy Tour
The Village Idiot

Current Shows:
Working on Faith and Family Night with Phil Stacey at Crew Stadium on Oct. 24 ( https://www.thecrew.com/faith-and-family-night )
The Unashamed Tour with Lecrae, Trip Lee, Tedashii, Sho Baraka, DJ Official, and Pro ( http://www.willrock4food.com/tickets )

The crazy thing about these concerts is that through all of them their has been a passion behind them, to be more than a concert, to create an event that will bring people to know Christ and to use the funds that were generated from these concerts to benefit the misfortunate. Whether it has been the local food banks, the youth pastor networks, or the land recently purchased in Kenya, we have existed to RockFaces to FeedPlaces! Now is the next phase, the form is finalized, and is being shipped to the IRS to become a 501c3, we should have this within a month! This will enable us to become a localized effort of raising awareness of those right here in our backyard who are struggling and use the events to raise money to provide for them in ways that Christ would want us too…I have never wanted this to just be a concert…any person with alot of time and lack of brains can run something like that. (just saying if you ever want to try and start this…make sure it is God)

We are at a point now where I know God wants to take this thing in run with it, I mean…have you ever embarked on something and it just will not die…and no matter how stupid you are, or sometimes how you may come acrossed and do not mean to…GOD STILL GETS THE WORK DONE!! In the last year, God has given me the unction to assimilate a board of directors for this next phase of ministry…for I cannot and have not done this alone, but want to be responsible and professional when it comes to the ministry! God has lined up the following people to be a part of this: Myself (Idiot) Dr. Todd Ignarski (Ignarski Family Medicine), Jen Vastano (marketing director of Jerry Lewis McDonalds), Dr. Phil Mikesell (Endodontic Associotes of NW Ohio), Scott Bechdolt (Northwest Custom Concrete), Mike Hulsey (Gifts of Joy), Shan Griffin (Hospitality WiFi), Gabe Taviano (The River 104.9) Ricky Bowersock (Secondhand Idiot). These guys and gal have the same passion and literally have been aligned by God to continue this!

We know we are to continue it why!
Over 25,000 people have attended Will Rock 4 Food events
Over 4,000 people have came to know Christ (through WR4F events and the support of missions to Kenya)
Alot of money has been given to local food banks and organizations!

We now are trying to raise around $9,000.00 for our next events…why are we asking for this! Because we will use the proceeds and put them to work right here in Lima, Ohio…The proceeds will go to continuing the ministry of WillRock4Food and the development of funding people right here in NWOhio! Feel free to pass this on to businesses and other people to pray and help get us to our goal in the next 2 weeks!

You can donate, by clicking this button!

We are in the process of becoming a 501c3 in which we should have this by the end of the year! (and if we do, this would make all donations this year tax exempt!)

Please also pray as we are praying for my mom, who is ministering to somewhere else that we believe in…Kenya. (she is there til Nov. 10)

So many years of my life have been trying to make Christ known…but yet He has not completely been known to me. You see, what many times is in the forefront of our lives is not at the FOREFRONT of our souls. We want him at the Foreground, but we want Him there so we are there with him (to others). We use Him to make us look good, we say we know Him but we fight every day to figure out who He is. We say we want Him to be Lord of our life…but only at our time. I have been there in ministry, make Him known to others, while you have no freaking idea who He is in your own life.

This is what is sooooo hard and a lot of times people who look at us who call ourselves Christians, say you put Him in front, but your lifestyle stays right there as well. God I want you to make me known…is that what we pray? Or is it God I want you to be known, I want you to get all the glory…I will bust my tail for you, but it is all for you to be known! You take the leading role…I will play the background! I am guessing it is the first. I am sooo glad recently God is really morphing me, into the background. He literally has got me out of VOCATIONAL Ministry (which is for some people) into a life where I am focused on HIM, my Family and everything in Ministry (WR4F and volunteering with design and what not at THE BEST CHURCH OF ALL Shawnee Alliance…Shameless Plug ) will come as it may, and I will be there to do what God asks! Needless to say, I am ready for what God asks of me, and willing to Jump First and Fear Later!

This song needed to be out 31 years ago when I was born…..wait it already was, but it took someone putting it to music for me to actually grasp this! I am beyond blessed to have seen this artist in action…the artist’s name is Lecrae..and CANNOT WAIT TO WORK WITH THE 116 Clique in a month for the next Will Rock 4 Food event. ( http://www.willrock4food.com )

Here is why I chose or should say God told me to work with these guys again. The minute they walked into the concert facility, they were not worried about the size of the building, the tickets that were sold (although it was pretty much sold out), not worried if the stage dimensions were exactly to the rider…they were worried about presenting Christ in a way that was making Him known before people ever heard their music. They were even late getting onto the stage because of their DEVOTIONAL TIME…in fact, I only saw Lecrae not in His physical bible only when he was on stage “spitting the Gospel” so to say. Most bands/artists will lead people to Christ only to let your volunteers talk to them in a separate room. Not these guys…they wanted to sit with every person and share Christ with them….saying, do not come back here to meet us…we will be out…come back if this is real! WHAT THE HECK…as a promoter, I have died to see a band as real as these guys even in concert myself! So after the 1.5 hours of them talking with the kids, they then go out for another 1.5 hours or so, and sign autographs and meet those who waited to meet them, again making the focus on Christ. That would be enough you would think, but Lecrae has such a discerning spirit about him, that he stopped me, and asked what is going on man, something is bothering you! Immediately thinking, you do not know me, I began to let him in on “me getting laid off” and not knowing what was coming. ( I thought I had this hidden so well, but you cannot hide it from the Holy Spirit) He prayed and we talked for 15 min or so. Not mentioning that from the stage, each artist gave a real testimony of their life with Christ, and you could see people from the audience just diving in! Besides all of the change that happened spiritually, I have never seen a more diverse crowd (even at a DIVERSE CITY CONCERT), and the most amazing performances I have ever seen in 8 years of promoting shows. When they left, after signing the hood of a SUV with 26” rims, blaring that song (by Tedashii), I immediately told God, they would be back, no matter what the price was! So on November 10, we have the privilege to be the ONLY OHIO STOP on THE UNASHAMED TOUR… http://www.reachrecords.com/unashamed . We were contacted by their manager to see if we wanted the date…before talking with anyone else…I SAID EMPHATICALLY>>>SIGN US UP!

So with all of that story, I want you to watch a video of Lecrae (w/ C-Lite) and the title is called Background. I then want to open up the discussion about…how can God work better when we are in the background! This does not mean go half-butt so to say…it means GO HARD OR GO HOME, while letting Christ be the STAR!
What God is telling me: This ministry (WILLROCK4FOOD), This family (Wife and Kids), this career (Marketing) would not be if it was not for me…imagine where I can take you…if you play the background! So I commit today…to be in the background, and let God work in my family, in my career, and in WillRock4Food. Besides that, please pray for mom!! She just landed in Kenya an hour ago and will be there until Nov. 11! God reigns, so we let Her be in His hands!!

Now …watch the video, and just try not to let God speak to you (SARCASTIC VOICE)

PLEASE SHARE PERSONAL STRUGGLES, OR PRAYER REQUESTS, OR HOW YOU HAVE TAKEN THE BACKGROUND and LET GOD TAKE THE LEAD!!! Lecrae, if you read this….THANKS…you have no idea how much effect God has given you in ministry…HECK, you were #2 to LIL WAYNE!!! That says something about the RIGHTEOUS HEART following what God has you doing!

So yesterday our Pastor, Daniel Messner talked about a topic that is soooooo much overlooked to us as Christians….the topic, is how much the devil is really after us, and the realm of Spiritual Warfare. You see Satan finds whatever is our weakness and tries to exemplify it…the thing is, he knows where he can get to us, and the thing is, if we stand up to him and MAKE WAR….the dude will leave! Will he come back…for sure….so get your armor on.

Today I did something that I have never done before, after the encouragement from pastor…before my feet hit the floor….I prayed for each piece of armor on my body that is the Armor of God, and then I turned over and did the same for my wife! Then I got up out of bed, and set my feet on the battle field!

There is sooo much that the devil is after…he is personally after my wife’s neck and back and the fact that he is trying soooooo hard to keep her from being able to function to do what God has wired her to do. She gets so anxious and and dizzy that I am asking you to join me in prayer that Satan will get the heck away from her. (realizing this could be physical, I ask you to pray for healing as well) As a husband it drives you nuts to know that your wife wants to do so much more than what she is right now….meaning, she wants to golf…can’t….wants to lift certain things…can’t wants to not be anxious…can’t…so I ask you to join me in praying the armor of God over her.

Then there is me, I battle with myself not being good enough in every aspect of life, and have battled with years of feeling of being insuperior to others, which does not bother me too much anymore, but tries to creep in! The other thing is financial, that God would relieve the stress of financial burden from our home to where we could not stress any more ( i know that is about 98% of you all as well). The last thing is for those people that I come into contact to know I love them sooooo much and want them to see the love of Christ that I have for them….but do i rep Him well? HMMMMMM .

So I prayed-
First for the helmet of salvation – That I would truly know that I am God’s!
2nd – The Breastplate of Righteousness – That I would make choices and decisions to live in the light, and right manner
3rd -Belt of Truth – That I would only hear what God thinks of me!
4th – Shield of Faith – That I would trust God with the financial burdens and with my wife’s health!
5th- Sandals of Peace – That everywhere I walk, I would be ok with…knowing that God has us!
6th- Sword of the Spirit – That I would truly realize the power that is in God’s word!!

So I make a simple post about putting on the armor this morning, and stepping on to the battlefield, then a friend named Susan Hawson posts the below video, that is from one of the artist’s (Tedashii) that we are bringing to Shawnee Alliance Church on November 10…. I understand rap may not be your thing, but simply ask that you watch the video…read all the lyrics, listen to the beginning intensely….and look SATAN in the face and say…BRING IT!!!

Hey Satan…my God beat you back then, there is no reason to try and step on the field again!!!

#5 Charlie Bit Me

#4 -Deer vs Race Car

#3 The Evolution of Dance- Judson Laipply (worked with him at Sun TV)

#2 The Bed Intruder Song – and News story to get the full effect….the story is not in anyway funny…but autotuning it is!!

Watch this first-

And now —-the autotuning!

#1 Teenage Dream …LOL

I know it has been a while since I have blogged, and have been thinking about this for a long time. You see I do not blog just to blog, or just sit here and think, people need to hear what I have to say so I better type something today. Blogging helps me get what is going on in my life out there, and lets me type through what God is telling me. A way to purposefully think through what God is doing, and remember it so to say!! Potentially could this have an effect on someones life…maybe, but can only happen if I am honest and vulnerable, and listen intently to what God is saying! So here we go on a month of blogging to get back at it, and see where it goes from here! … I will post at least 3 times during the week to start and hope to do daily blogs…. Here we go!

The past year and half has been a whirlwind so to say, things going on in life that are unexpected, a layoff from a position that I thought was God’s calling on my vocational life to find out that it was just for a season (not saying that about the layoff, just clarity that God has me where He wants me), relationships that have been kind of ripped away so to say (missing the teens) , Personal struggles (sometimes not feeling good enough, anger towards people, sometimes including God, having a I do not care attitude), and not giving God the totality of my life. You see it is because of these things that have happened that I have taken some HITS to the gut, and BLOWS to the face, and KO’s to my personality, and would go as far as to say my being….all caused by a round 1 of doubt that crept in when I felt someone tell me I was not good enough (was it that person telling me or just my thoughts to the matter…I am guessing the second one.) and flat out …the thing I was not doing was punching back….with each blow, I would turn my head and give them another cheek….heck you would think I would have 20 cheeks instead of 4 (you have to know me to get the 4 joke). This crap knocked the living tar out of me, to the point of where I am still battling my way back off my knees, but hear me say this….I AM GETTING THE CRAP BACK UP…and CANNOT WAIT TO WALK WITH GOD this year. Cannot wait to see what he does through the fam, in the fam, and just in me personally by saying…. GOD…. I know what I am worth to you…. I do not care what life throws at me…. in you I will always win, apart from you….I AM NOTHING!

Watch this clip from the ROCKY BALBOA movie!

So where are you…be honest, lets start a discussion of WHAT GOD is telling us we are, vs. what we are hearing from others….Let’s throw out there things people have been telling us, and enable this place to be a complete place of lifting each other up….kinda working the cuts and swellings down so to say, and begin the healing process! I pray that you will keep moving forward, and that it will not take until the 8th or 12th round for you to figure out who God has intended you to be!!

Proverbs 24:16 states (MSG) No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don’t stay down long; Soon they’re up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.

You see you are gonna get knocked down and tripped up…TAKE THE HITS….but do not stay down long!

Start the discussion!!