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Name: Joel
Birthday: 10/9/1985
Gender: Male
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I play the guitar for hours and work at my church (Westbrook Christian Church).
I play some basketball but mostly im a loser.
Expertise: being a jerk!
Occupation: Retired
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AIM:  baballer777
Yahoo:  jjmballer7
Member Since:
2/17/2004
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| Life is Good.
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Jesus Is Better.
Its the End of My Junior Year, I graduate in like a year?! wow.
I am 21 years old, ill be 22 in 7 months! wow.
My Grandparents are coming from India, i cant wait, they get here April 3rd.  I miss them.
I am Learning that Following after Christ, means leaving the things that you love the most behind, at least thing you thought you loved.
I think i only have about 2 more years or so left at westbrook, im ready to do a church plant.
I am excited about my friendships with true brothers, Matt, B, Pierre, Rick, and people that are in my life that will Love me regardless.
I am excited for opportunities to travel, and lead worship, record with the band, and share my life and songs, with people that might be or have been in the same place as i have, Broken, hurting, excited, joyful, anxious, eager, happy, lost, in need of rescue.
I am humbled that Christ would use a song i wrote, out of brokeness, and hurting, and needing christ, to touch and speak to the hearts of the students i lead worship for every sunday night, and spend my time with.
I am humbled that God would use me to advance his kingdom, as screwed up, and dumb as i am.
I am thankfull for Christs forgiveness, and strength, that he pours into me, when i feel like i cant keep going. It feels good to be humbled by a sense of helplessness. I need more humbleness.
As God is changing me i am seeing things not so much in my eyes but the eyes of God, Its amazing how much hurting, and brokenness there is in this world, and it breaks my heart to see so much unforgiveness, false love, hypocrisy, judgement based on anger and resentment, people who are lost.
Its 2007, and i am seriously being given a glimpse of heaven. And i cant wait for heaven, to begin here on earth, the way Jesus commanded his disciples to begin.
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| Im at lincoln christian college and seminary. I like it. I think ill stay this time. Plus ive made some friends who are...well amazing guy's and amazing musicians, that are all about living the life style of the barbarian way. It makes me happy. for the first time in a long while, im able to smile, and i have people in my life that really do care about me. | | |
| im sittin on my computer, just finished cleanin all my connections on my pedal board. had some trouble with my chorus, but hopefully things will be beautiful once again. haha. just got back from the quickest trip to OCC in my history barely 24 hrs, co lead worship in chapel, an it was sweet. Ben my Ol, RA, brought the word in chapel an it was an honor for me 2 be there for an with him at such an important part of his education speakin in front of his peers an proffs. In this journey i call life, ive found myself at an awkward place, ive realized that God is changing me once again, and im at this place where i want to live a life that is completely not civilized, where religion is not domicile. where in a john the baptist type of way be a barbarian, an live my life that way. my heart is bent on christ and on christ alone. Im running towards him, an im not looking back. im not letting any thing get in my way, whether it be music, friends, girls, ....an so on. As i run towards Christ and im living a life that is being turned upside down by christ so that his will can be done, as i live in christ, any girl that comes my way that is not living the same type of life, recklessly for christ, and if she's not running that way towards christ, then i say, c ya later, peace out. the people i surround myself with are people of the same caliber that are sharpenin me gettin me ready so that we can live that life together. My future is uncertain, but me living in christ is certain, an my dreams are to go and start a church plant out somewhere god leads, a church plant where i am the worship pastor, but worship becomes a lifestyle not just singing, this is further down the road, or mabey tom if God wishes. | | |
| So...i played b-ball for the first time competatively in a long while.....i was pretty ticked off the whole time, cause of how bad i was sucking it up. I mean seriously it was kind of depressing realizing that im , like 20, and i feel like im just gettin older an older, an its al down hill from here, i mean, i sprained my ankle like 8 times, usually i just popp it back an keep playin for a couple of hrs, this time, i was hurtin pretty bad, kept playin but it swelled up like a baseball, so aside from my stupididy, my life has been.......if u really care, ask me about....other than that let me leave you with this idea.
"Spartan:Total Warrior, is amazing, ive been playing it for the past 6hrs straight, it might become an addiction....im sry.......live life my friends to the fullest cause in the end, the end is the end, and then there's either heaven or hell, an heaven is pretty sweet, an hell is pretty not, an im serisouly doubnting in hell ur going 2 be smokin cubans with the devil, more like the devil will be smoking, like you!. seriously dude's..... | | |
| Real Life, The Costly Life, The Hard Life...........THE ONLY LIFE.
Lay down your cross and follow me, jesus said. This implies that we must follow a crazy man, who was crucified, ridiculed, spat upon, hated, rejected by his own hometown, and the people that new him as he was growing up. for us this means joining a revolution that has already failed in the eyes of human kind. can u accept that? im at the point where i have 2.
Peace.
in his love,
joel | | |
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