Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Volcom Stone.

Awakening.

About a month ago, I went to the Czech Republic on a mission trip, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. The church there has such brave faith that I am so incredibly jealous of. They are some of the coolest people I have ever met, and their church consists of about 20 members including youth and adults. Compared to churches here.. that's nothing, which makes their faith so much more incredible. They are constantly trying to reach out the the people of Czech who shoot them down a lot, but they still stay strong in their faith and praise God with everything that they have. They don't do it because "all their friends are doing it" or because it's the "cool" thing to do; they praise God because they love God with all that they have, and in a "dead" country, I can only imagine that that would be hard to do. The people of this church are some of the coolest people I have ever met and I plan on going back there some day in the future. We did a lot of different types of ministry with the church and I loved every minute of it. If you want to hear more about it, feel free to message me or anything because I am totally up for talking about it.

These are the lyrics to our teams "theme song" on/before the trip I guess you could say. This song talks about going out into this dead world and bringing it back to life again and letting absolutely nothing stop us along the way. We tried to make this our mindset throughout the trip because we are the hand and feet of God forever and ever.

Talmidim(The Servants) by For Today

Lord of glory.

Make us worthy, to possess your name.

Give us a new name.

Call us your people, God.

Give us a new name.

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees and be careful to keep My laws.

You will live in the land I gave to your forefathers.

You will be My people and I will be your God."

And through all of this, there is nothing, absolutely nothing. No fear, no insecurity, no doubt, no hesitation, that will ever, ever stop us.

Because we are the sons of the living God.

Because we are the children of the Almighty.

Because we are the residents of the kingdom of Heaven.

And we are soldiers in an army of the immortal.

And when we speak life, life happens.

And when we speak healing, healing happens.

And when we speak truth, truth happens.

And when we go and take what we have found to a dead world, we'll see it come to life again.

And when we take what we have found to a hopeless world, we'll see hope come back.

We'll see the heart of our world start beating again.

And we'll see the color come back into people's faces.

And absolutely nothing will ever stop that.

And mountains will move before us.

And oceans will part before us.

And the dead will raise before us.

And the world will know that our God is a god that heals.

That our God is a god that lives.

And our God is a god that loves unlike anything anyone has ever felt before.

Because we are fearless.

Because we are His hands.

And because we are His feet.

Forever and ever.

If grace is an ocean...

then we're all sinking.

Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.

Hey there, I realized that I've barely posted at all this summer, but these are some of the pictures that I took when I went to Gulf Shores, Alabama with my family and Orange Beach, Alabama with my church youth group. Both amazing times. This summer has been awesome.

Your Love Is Strong.

I love to play guitar, so I thought I'd take some pictures of what I love. Random, but I like them.

"Heavenly Father
You always amaze me.
Let your kingdom come
In my world and in my life.
You give me the food I need
To live through the day,
And forgive me as I forgive
The people that wronged me.
Lead me far from temptation.
Deliver me from the evil one.
I look out the window
The birds are composing.
Not a note is out of tune
Or out of place.
I walk to the meadow
And stare at the flowers.
Better dressed than any girl
On her wedding day.
So why should I worry?
Why do I freak out?
God knows what I need.
You know what I need.
Your love is,
Your love is,
Your love is strong.
The kingdom of the heavens
Is now advancing.
Invade my heart,
Invade this broken town.
The kingdom of the heavens
Is buried treasure.
Will you sell yourself
To buy the one you've found?
Two things you told me
That you are strong
And you love me.
Yes, you love me.

Your love is,
Your love is,
Your love is strong.
Our God in heaven
Hallowed be
Thy name above all names.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us weary sinners.
Keep us far away from our vices
And deliver us from these prisons."