Stuff Apostolics Like

Okay, sidenotes-it looks like we may be adding another blogger here shortly (this means the posts should be more frequent...give me two weeks of spontaneous 1-2 posts a week and we should be up and ready back to the usual 3-4 posts a week...apologies for the stagnation...excuses: School, Work, Females, etc...) Also let me preface by saying I may have done a post similar to this a long time ago, but i couldn't find it if I did. Post: What is up with the Apostolic Infatuation of this strange "other-world" wherein if we prepare ourselves for by adding proper Holy supplements to our lifestyle (e.g. prayer, Bible, etc...), then we will be rewarded by God a la an all-expenses paid vacation (On Him) to go "deeper" with Him. Seriously, the earlier parts of my 12-15 year old awkward stage were seen by me trying my hardest to go deeper with this obsessive reality of "GUYS, GET YOUR JUNK TOGETHER! WE'RE GOING DEEPER, AND IF YOU AINT ON BOARD, YOU'RE PART...

First, this post was recommended by Laura Del Vescio . We should all be thankful to her. She used her own life as a testament to the following argument (well parts of it)..... Secondly, one of the greatest features of our movement is the admiration of blooming romances of loving young ones amongst our movement. The hand holding, the cute picture on facebook (with a photo album dedicated to the two in love), the overly-involved in-laws to be (Are not the apostolics the worst at the concept that when you date someone you are also dating their family?)..... The thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars spent for the Apostolic wedding in the name of the bride wanting to have a "wedding to remember" which will be forgotten except for the photo album that the bride/groom spent 300 dollars on that will sit under their couch and be looked upon by the Apostolic wife who mourns the loss of such happiness as the wedding and in this mourning takes out the wedding album secre...

Preface: If I hear you preach about post-modernism or do a conference or seminar on it. PLEASE KNOW ABOUT IT BEYOND READING ABOUT IT FROM A CHRISTIAN BOOK YOU GOT FROM THE BOOK STORE.  or you will risk me, the cynical post-modern throwing a pew in your general direction... *Wink Face*  We can preach about loving our neighbor and embracing difference. We can have a discussion about shorts and movie theaters and no one will get hurt. But the moment standards or disciplines are discussed (hair, skirts, etc....) we tense up. That is not up for negotiation. Because standards (or what may be called "holiness" so that when we go to discuss standards, it looks like we are attacking holiness, and who wants that?) are too certain to be up to be discussed. God likes standards. Why would we want to upset God? Right, who wants to upset God? But that's not what we didn't like. We didn't like the attacks. Because we had questions. Because we were showing uncertainty about t...

An Imaginary Monologue from the Song that was Once Awesome But now is slightly Annoying, though you would never Admit it. (E.g. "How He Loves US" and "The More I Seek You.") To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! Oh, strange! -Shakespeare Do you know what it's like to be me? No, of course not. Because you are subpar. A statistic. Predictable.  But me? I was the show. The entire show for one magical period in time. A shooting star on a romantic date. Everyone knew me. Everyone loved me.  Do you know what it's like to find yourself in front of 11,000 Apostolic Young People having your identity bandied about by the musicians on the platform because you are just that special? I mean, the draw of you at such an instance is that your very core is producing worship in the heart of every young person there. At such a point there is nothing, absolutely nothing flawed about you. Your most inward guts are the stuff of goosebump...

So let me explain...Really...I have an excuse. The lack of posts this week. I apologize deeply. It's so not supposed to be like this. But I got sick man. Like I had completely forgot what pain was like until this past week. It's been years since I've faced sickness like this...And now i'm coming out...And not refreshed, but I just want to forget about the whole thing and move on, you know? So anyways, your mind does weird things when you are really sick. It goes places that you thought you would never go. First, there is that thing in the back of your head kind of like a John the Baptist in the brain, saying "Prepare ye the way for death....because that's the only way out." And you are so sick, you're kind of like, "yah, okay. I'm okay with this. Let me just write a will." (I did not write a will). And you know you won't die, but the paranoid thought has planted itself. And the sickness gets worse. Asking friends for self-pity wil...