Friday, March 27, 2009

Somthing New

I have decided to do somthing a little diffrent every once and awhile,I will call it simply movie reveiws. Somtime after I watch a movie I will put a post of what I thought. Wether it a Christen movie or not, and I will Post a "christen" 1-5 star, so if you are looking for a moral values movie, fire proof or Facing the giants for an expample. Then I will put a rating of the world's veiw, so like Rocky, Tommy Boy or Step Brothers...I will put the trail on and a plot sypnopis from imdb.com and then my rating

1. Step Brothers

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with the parents so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and the parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law: both slackers have a week to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys' sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's successful brother and his lonely wife: the brother wants to help sell his step-father's house, the wife wants Dale's attention, and the newlyweds want to retire and sail the seven seas. Can harmony come from the discord? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}



I really enjoyed the comdey in this movie, It was very funny. But the language is not want kids below 6th grade to even know. The F word was used more times then I have herd in a movie since Hoffa.

religous scale- *
World scale- ****




2. Fireproof

Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it's his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it's another story.

After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. Yet as they prepare to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's dad asks his son to try an experiment: The Love Dare.

While hoping The Love Dare has nothing to do with his parents' newfound faith, Caleb commits to the challenge. But can he attempt to love his wife while avoiding God's love for him? Will he be able to demonstrate love over and over again to a person that's no longer receptive to his love? Or is this just another marriage destined to go up in smoke?




This moive is one of the best moives I have seen in a long time. For Married couple who have been married for 50 years to couple who have just started dating it is the perfect date movie. With A mix of comedy and a powerful story/message.

Religous- *****
World- *****

with love

Bobby

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Amazing Basketball

Though this is a blog ment to teach and learn about religon,Once I saw this news story I couldn't not put it on here. I was on Big Kenny of Big and Rich...He is the Big part....It is about a Teen with autsim and he was the Basketball team manger they put him in their last game....just watch the story

with love
Bobby


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Part 2 10 step

*Declaimer* a lot of this blog is not doctorine or medation on a verse but oppion on what I think this is about and what my fellow ST. PAUL BIBLE STUDIERS THINK***

I am going to reveiw the 10 step:

1. Encounter the Gospel
2. Realize there is a God
3. Admit that it is not you
4. Acknowledge that Christ is God
5. Admit that you are in sin
6. Realize that you need a Savior
7. Repent and Reconcile
8. Believe in the Gospel
9. Change the way you live
10. Share the Gospel with others so theycan encounter it.


I want to say one thing, when we were at bible study. We talked about this, idea I didn't think of it as the rest of the people their (John Thomas, Jen Harig and Paul Dillick) did part of the reason is past life experinace, going to the new Green Campus of Parkside church. It wasn't a bad experince but you could only listen to this as a 10 things to do then your christen, and then you start believeing it. But Paul saw it diffrently, he said it was more of a guide to your life and how to livebit. More of a Circle, because think how many times we Go around this circle. Defantly 5-7 and then 9, I also think step 3 and 4. We do 4 all the time at mass. I can say that 3 is repeted in my life every day. In just the way that I am not God or a God, I am a sinner trying to be a saint.

Then next thing we talked about was step 10 and how hard for a lot of Catholics it is to do but to non Catholics it comes easy. I would say that it is because they practice that a lot, talking about their faith. Unlike a lot of young Catholics end up with a 2nd grade education in religion. I know if I was to compare myself to a non Catholic I would have about a 6th grade education of my faith. I feel that it is somthing the Lifeteen Program has done for me, With my non Catholic or even non religous friends I have been able to practice.

To talk a little bit more about the circle Idea, I think that non Catholics go though the circle a bunch of times in their lives and Catholics might only go though it once or twice. But it is not the times you go thought it or quanity but the quality in which you do it, think about it if you went though this process 100 times in your life but never put your full being into it. But then someone goes though it once but they put everything into it the quality is most important.

Somtimes Non Catholics like I have stated they use this as a 1 time 10 program. But like AA Alchohalics ana. it is a ever going process like how as Catholics we see slavation not like Baptist or other Protant sects see it as a one time process...

LOVE,
Bobby

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The 10 step christen plan…aka 10 step Christens

I was reading the sword of the spirit and I saw that the authors had a kind of 10 step plan to being a christen. They said if you were to approach Christianity as a 10 step program it would go like this:
1. Encounter the Gospel
2. Realize there is a God
3. Admit that it is not you
4. Acknowledge that Christ is God
5. Admit that you are in sin
6. Realize that you need a Savior
7. Repent and Reconcile
8. Believe in the Gospel
9. Change the way you live
10. Share the Gospel with others so theycan encounter it.
Now I don’t have a problem with this, I can say that I could point out in my life the times that I realized all those things. But if I was to complain, which I am about to, I would say two many non Catholics use this as how you Become a Christen. I feel this is kind of wrong I remember once or twice maybe a thousand times when I was going Harvest Bible Church, the new Parkside Church Green Campus, when they said this is how you become a christen…like I need to carry a list in my pocket and check them off (like up I repented and now I believe the Gospel). I see it as a life process and journey. As a Catholic as Catholics we go though this process….with out a check list but with a life journey. In our lives when we are little we encounter the Gospel…
PSR/CCD teacher Why did Jesus come to the Earth
Kid in PSR To die and save us from our sin…
In very short terms that is the Gospel…Now the next part I think we do very early on in our lives, in fact the next 2 parts, when we are young at least I remember acknowledging that there is a God, then I also remember when my mom would say she was ALWAYS RIGHT I would say NO MOM GOD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT… I feel that is admiting that you or even your parents is not God.
Now having a sisiter who was 3 years older than me I learned the transabsation at a young age (the bread turning in to Jesus Body and the wine turning into Blood.) I can remember there were these 2 old ladies and during that part in the mass I walked up to them and said do you know what is happening…and I proceed to tell them that the wine was turning to Jesus Blood and the Bread was turning into his Body… I know for a preschooler to know that was odd…but it was me…I am not very normal…Now the next part doesn’t happen until you are about 8 or 9 and that is going to your 1st confession where you say you have sinned…the next 2 parts sometimes happen in a flipped order, Repent and Reconcile sometimes happens before you realize you need Jesus our savoir. Because of your 1st confession being in the 2nd grade. But I know that the realizing you need a savoir can happen earlier in life to but in my life it happened in the oppsite order… I didn’t realize I need Jesus until high school (new about Jesus but I don’t think I NEW and LOVED Jesus like you should, I did it in the passive Sunday Catholic way not the x-treme Caflic way) but I had repented my sins before…the next 3 steps happened all at once in my life, at the Game Plan For Life…It was the 1st time I knew God’s love and I embraced it at full force…Then I changed my life, I distanced myself from some of my friends that were leading me far away from Christ…I stopped watching some TV shows…Then like all renewed Catholics I felt like I had to tell everyone…and I was ridiculed but it never changed me and I have kept running the race…this is how at least in my life how the 10 step programmed worked…It wasn’t all at once…It was a process just as it should be approached…

Peace and love
Bobby

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

has some helpful tips

I was reading the Sword and Sprite; a Book written by Christopher Cuddy and Mark Hart. We are in chapter 3 in our ST.Paul Bible study at 5:30, you should come...

Well anyway the part that I read ahead was all about coming off the retreat mountain
it is the last time i will come off a life teen retreat mountain. I feel like st. Peter because if you go back to your gospel reading it was the story that Jesus was transfigured and st. Paul said Rabbi "we will make tents one for you one Moses, and one for Elijah".... then a dark cloud appeared and a voice said "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." then Jesus told them not to tell anyone

Mark 9:2-10

Jesus took Peter, James, and John
and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white,
such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses,
and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
"Rabbi, it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents:
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them;
from the cloud came a voice,
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone
but Jesus alone with them.

As they were coming down from the mountain,
he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone,
except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves,
questioning what rising from the dead meant.



Now after reading the story think about a post retreat, How often do you not want to come off that mountain...and build tents..but you can't on Monday you still have to go to school. But i have some helpful hints to keep the retreat in your mind :

1. Keep the them in your head, never stop thinking about the theme, keep being called prepared and revived...or what ever the theme is...

2. Keep going to adoration, it might be hard but even if it is just for a half and hour or 5 mins before or after mass...& KEEP GOING TO MASS these go together pretty well but I wanted to make sure you knew...

3. Read your letters when you need a pick me up, I do this often when i feel sad I will grab a letter from a past retreat and read it, it helps me to remember I am loved and I need to keep running the race...

You can't stay on retreat forever, but these are some of the ways to keep living the faith...But JESUS never told you not to tell anyone about the retreat, so the last thing is to:

PREACH THE GOSPEL AND [SOMETIMES](if nessacsey) USE WORDS!

praise GOD
Bobby

Monday, March 09, 2009

WITNESS

this is my witness proably the best I have ever done in a talk, ever it can only get better =D for all those who missed it...and those who didn't but want to hear it again...please read the "CPR" Post Right under this post!

Praise God!

CPR

A lot of you reading this in fact all of you know about how I go to Queen of Heaven Church in green Ohio, and how I am very involved in Life Teen. But I have just gotten back from my LAST retreat, It was all about CPR but not the chest compression, and breathing though the mouth it was about being CALLED, REVIVED AND PREPARED!

WE WERE ALL CALLED:
It was one of the smallest retreats I have ever been apart of, 35 teens. Though some thought we were weak, I know we are the STRONG 35! 2 people had to cancel because of other obligations. I know God had a purpose he only wanted those 35 no more no less. He called us all to be apart of it. A former core member Jason Goshe always said that he felt that if you were on the retreat then God called you there cause their was something you needed to hear.

Then on Saturday we were REVIVED:
Like all Saturdays, we went to confession the Catholic way to revive the sole. Unlike Protestant churches, who say to God before they go to bed "Lord I am sorry for my sins and list them". We go to a Priest and tell them what we have sinned, this serves a 2 fold purpose.

1. It says in the bible that you should tell people of your sins, the church used to have communal confession where the people at mass would confess their sins. They would also still go in front of a priest for the 2nd reason.

2. In basic terms is that the priest is the vicar for God in that way, his words are not always his but Gods.

I gave a witness/testimony about Gods love and my mass and adoration experience, I will be putting this up. I had so many great complements about my witness. I knew it went well it was what God wanted, i did what I could do praying about it and then writing it but God used me to get his message across. (I will be putting it on my blog so that you can hear it and listen to it.

We also went to mass; it was one for the best masses I have ever been apart of, in 4 years it was the best mass during a retreat! we also had a hour of adoration, that was also moving. though we had live music it wasn't as bad as it had been in the past.

On Sunday the last day the lords day, we got PREPARED:
We started the day with the time change so breakfast went from 7:30, to 8:30. My Cabin and I stayed up pretty Late talking about the retreat thus far what they thought, and How I thought they will become great leaders in Life teen. After Breakfast they showed a senior Video that made me cry (yes I cry) it was sad to think that my Life teen experience was almost over. After we had a session about Community, then after we had a lunch where you had to serve the person that was next to you. It really taught to me to put myself last. Then we had the last session all about being Prepared to the world around us and how to be holy after the retreat.

This is all about the retreat we were who God called, revived and Prepared.
We were a STRONG 35! NEVER WERE WE WEAK BUT STRONG THE ENTIRE WEEKEND

Praise GOD!
Bobby