HEY EVERYONE!
If you would like to follow the trip here please email my mother at jghall09@gmail.com I will be sending my updates to her so she can forward them on to those who are interested.
Hi Everyone,
WE MADE IT.... hehe. After many hours of flying and riding and pacing
in the airport we arrived in Africa. It has been a wonderful
experience so far. It's like a hands on Bible Course and I love it. I
slept really good last night like normal. I believe I inherited my
grandfathers ability to sleep almost anywhere. =) I stayed up later
once I arrived and was able to thankfully get on the internet :D So I
was able to catch up on my emails and send out updates for my iPhone
applications. Unfortunately I was not able to complete them before I
left because of some technical difficulties. But, I was extremely
pleased with their results because what they told me would for sure
take almost 2 weeks they found it didn't take as long and they got it
done in a few days. I got a team that works for me in India and a lady
that does some graphic work for my in Italy and so it makes it really
fun with them being on different time zones and it makes it even more
interesting when I start flying to other countries like Thailand and
now on the African continent.
Sooo, okay today I woke up around 6:30 Bot Time and realized it is
not possible to take a shower without a towel, well I guess it's
possible, but it would make me rather uncomfortable for the rest of
the day. So I was able to do my devotions etc. and then find out where
the towels were later. Then throughout the morning all us guys
filtered through the shower and then had a breakfast of eggs and
toast. Great stuff. Pastor then had a group devotional and showed us
the method he uses for developing plans for the the day, the week, or
even your life. Great stuff. My brother Titus was pretty awed by
everything taught also and is quite excited that he could come.
There was also a number of people who wanted to meet with us and so
we met and had a great time talking. The people here are very
friendly. Thank you for all who have told me that they are praying for
me. It was such a HUGE blessing to hear from sooo many of you and know
that you were concerned for the work. Prayer makes great things happen!
BenH
This is the video which I put together for my Mother's Surprise Birthday =)
Have a Great Day!
BenH
Here is a link to a video I took with my iPhone of my moms surprise
B'day... It was a really special day for my mom. It was quite a busy
day for us :) We were able to have a few ladies and our grandparents
to the house and when my mom got back from a trip at the beach with my
dad she was completely shocked to see us all waiting inside. I'll put
the video online tomorrow which my sisters and I made for my mom. It
was a very nice day :D and very special to her.
BenH
I can't believe I'm actually doing this, but I am :) I am actually going to Botswana.... and I'm not the only one going. Titus will also be going with me. The decision for Titus to go was only made this past Sunday and wow, I needed to get going then on planning plane tickets and organizing some projects Titus has been helping me on. I just bought the tickets today so now it's official.
As I've said in previous blog posts, I have recently begun to preach for Children's Church. As you all know I really enjoy working with kids and this has been a great opportunity for me to begin preaching practice. Well, Today the energy level had to be recorded at an all time high for my teaching experience. Seriously, I am so exhausted. One kid was bouncing up and down before class and I asked him what he was doing and he said, "Wellll, Today I don't have a soccer game because it's raining so I'm getting all my energy out now!" The way most of the boys were going I would have guess the same was true about all of them :)
Here is Part 2 of Evaluating the Culture
I know most of ya'll use blog readers so you wouldn't notice the change on the blog. It's not like it will revolutionize your look on creativity or something, but hey I thought I would point out the obvious.
I will be putting part three of the getting to the marriage altar message. I just have been a little busy recently and haven't got a copy of the message yet :) Maybe I will post it tomorrow.
As I said before I am reading the book called, "To the Golden Shore". It is about the life of Adoniram Judson. In this chapter Adoniram has about a week or so left before he gets on the long boat to Calcutta India and then to Burma. Adoniram got married during this week (Feb 5, 1812) The preacher, Pastor Allen, married them and the words he concluded the wedding with were to the parents and couple. "My dear children, you are now engaged in the best of causes. It is that cause for which Jesus the Son of God came into the world and suffered and died. You literally forsake father and mother, brothers and sisters, for the sake of Christ and the promotion of His Kingdom." With his voice breaking he said, "To the care of the great Head of the church I now commit them. To His grave I also resign you all. May He gather you together in one. And may you all return and come to Zion with a song, and with shouts of everlasting glory."
I've been blessed to have some great people to work for this past year and one company I work for goes to different conventions and interview people about natural foods and the benefits and then other questions related to the food industry. I do have to say quite a few of their videos are interesting to watch. This video I did today I thought was rather cool. Some of you may have heard of Stevia because it is a good replacement for sugar because it is actually good for you. The only thing is that it could give a bad after taste if not used correctly. This drink uses stevia to replace sugar and and they get it all within the cap.....
During the Emmaus Heritage Day my family got to play some music and it attracted some people over. Some people wanted to know the church we were from so we pointed them to the next tent beside us, lol. It was great, Here are two videos I took on my iPhone.
The book "To the Golden Shore" is great. I love to read about the ambition that Judson had to reach those that were lost. It is so great to see how God worked on his life and in the lives of his friends who also wanted to go to the Orient. In the chapters I read this morning I read about Adoniram's call and when the Lord laid it on his heart. He came back to his parents and he didn't want to share his calling just yet because he knew that it would be hard for them to take. He didn't realize how hard it would be until they revealed their secret to him a couple days after his return. His parents were so excited to tell him that he was asked to be the assistant Pastor of one of the largest churches and his mother added that he would also be close to home. The book said that his Dad had hopes that Adoniram would be the pastor of the Largest church and be like other great preachers of that time. The pressure on Adoniram was so heavy as he shared with them his secret how he felt that the Lord had called him not to be a preacher of a large church, but a missionary, and not just a missionary to a nearby area, but across the world (to Burma) where no missionaries he knew of had gone.
I'm glad to hear that this message has been a blessing to quite a few of you. Here is the most recent message which my Pastor preached this past Sunday Night. It was a powerful message and the picture of Christ's bride was so awesome! It'll send ya chills :D hehe
I hear that there were some difficulties with playing the audio from my previous post so here are two options. 1. You can play it with the embedded flash player below or you can right click on the link above the audio and "save as" to your computer.
My Pastor just preached this past Sunday Night on "The Surest Way to Destroy Your Future Marriage". Though the sermon was quite longer than most the interest was very high. In fact after the message was over, more than 30 people signed up for a copy or more than one copy of the message. I don't think I have to go into any detail at all to explain that marrying the right person is important, so this message was very much a challenge to me, because I want to follow God's will for my life because He knows best. For so many of the choices in life I remind myself of the classic example of Samuel going to choose a King and he thought surely he was looking at the Lord's chosen one, but it wasn't. David's Father and the man of God in their own minds thought that Eliab would be the one. However, God reminded them that men look on the outside and make their decisions that way, but GOD looks right through that all and sees the heart.
called Supremely Spicy Hummus. After eating Thai food I wouldn't
really call it supremely spicy, but it does have some spice to it. It
tastes great with Blue Chips or these veggie crisps I'm having with it
right now. Definitely try it out :D Have a Great Day!
BenH
From the Book "Puritan Prayers"
It's the last night in Tennessee. It's been great being together with my family again. Here is a picture of the last sunset and our family devotions from tonight. I think we were singing a song there. :) We then watched a video of some family that has four girls and two guys and the parents trained them to live a godly life. Good story, nice family. Well, I need to get my bags packed now because we are heading back to PA in the morning. Have a Good Day Everyone!
BenH
I've noticed this command from Christ often this past month as I've been reading the Bible in my devotions. God wants his followers to be active in moving ourselves out of what we are currently doing and moving or going ourselves to those who need to hear the gospel message. The love which Jesus has shown to us is unbelievable and Christ simply wants us to also give up ourselves as he did and give everyone the opportunity to be saved. Don't think I'm just pointing the finger at you, but what actions have you been taking to speak to someone who needs to be saved. Do you have the Love for others as the Love which Christ showed for us on the cross?
Also, to add to this, God may have not led you specifically to go to another country to preach, but there is a task which everyone can be apart of and that is praying to the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth more laborers into his harvest. So today, Go, and pray for others to go.
BenH
Well, I'm back, and alive, breathing and hmmm, yup all the above. After my flight back to the states I had an entire day and a half to unpack and then repack to leave for family vacation. We left on Thursday night at 3AM. Yup, bright and early. Since I was already used to being up at that time of night from being in Thailand I was able to put in some driving hours, but then I started getting tired and needed to hand the driving back over to my dad.
The plane flight was great. I had the opportunity to talk to two different people on my way over about the Bible. There was another guy who I would've tried to talk to, but he was an older Chinese guy and he didn't know much English, in fact I needed to help interpret some of his English to the Stewardess which was quite funny. AND YOU KNOW WHAT. There wasn't ANY crying babies on that flight, I don't even think I heard a wimper. I still couldn't sleep, but hey at least it was quiet. Don't get me wrong, I like kids and babies, but being on a very very long plane flight with them is not my most desired experience.... Just being honest
In my devotions this morning I was reading the verse in Matthew 26:41... It says, "Watch and Pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." I don't know about the rest of you who read this blog, but as for me, my hearts desire is to follow exactly what the Lord wants me to do and to not fail. Unfortunately, like the disciples here I feel like a failure. The christian life sounds simple enough. God laid it out in his word, but I have this stinkin flesh to contend with and it gets me of course at times. I've made enough decisions that were dumb and by this time I wish I had a list to follow each day that told me the decisions to make. I know that may sound boring, but I sometimes think that way because then I wouldn't make mistakes. *Sigh* I know thats not going to happen, so in order to make the right decisions I really need to follow this verse and "Watch and Pray". I agree my spirit is willing, but also my flesh is weak.
So bottom line here, Be watchful, be alert, don't go to sleep because it's when your letting your mind waft through space that the devil has the opportunity to put his thoughts in your mind. Take each thought into captivity and pray about it. Watch to see what the Lord's will is, be alert, attentive and Pray always. Challenging thought, well at least for me it is. I know ya'll are little angels out there, lol J/K
As some of you know I made an iPhone App called "My Prayer Lists" and the Lord has been faithfully selling my app and taking care of my needs. I think more special to me though has been the compliments I've received from it. I can't share them all, but I'll just share the one I received yesterday morning:
"I just want to say that your Prayer Lists program has revolutionized my spiritual walk with God. I have never been so consistent, intentional and specific in my prayers, and I feel closer to God that I ever have before. I show all of my friends, and I can't stop talking about it!"
It was quite a blessing to read that. Well, I apologize for the long post, but I hope that it was a blessing to ya'll. Have a Great Day!
Bye!
Ben
It's hard to believe it's been a month. A MONTH! The time sure went
fast. The Lord has been so kind to have given me this trip. Going on
this trip has encouraged the burden the Lord has put on my heart to be
a missionary. Nat and Bro. Tom have been a blessing to me as I've had
some good Biblical conversations with them. It is always a blessing to
me to be able to spiritual conversations with people who I know have a
priority to walk with the Lord. This past Sunday 'by accident' I ended
up going with Bro. Lange, David and some other guys to a Nepalese
church. I was able to play the guitar with Nat and Bro. Nadaskay and
then Bro. Lange preached a salvation message. I am looking forward to
seeing what is going to happen with their desire to see a church
started.
I'm on the plane to Hong Kong now and the Lord has given me a good
flight so far. Just had a good cup of coffee and am enjoying a very
nice seat. I can see first class right through the curtain :) hehe.
Nooooo, I'm not jealous, I'm just being thankful I am toward the front
of the plane and not all the way in the back. :) It surprised me when
I got on the plane that I only had to walk a few steps and then my
seat was smack in front of me.
It was sad to see my friends see me off. It was really sweet of them
all to give up a few hours in order to see me off. Bro. Tom has been
an excellent example of giving of his time. He didn't have to do
anything for me, but he willingly drove me around to any place I
needed to get to and believe me, it is not easy or quick getting
through Bangkok. Bro. Tom said he hasn't had to drive through New
York. I haven't driven through Bangkok or New York, but to me the
traffic and driving in Bangkok would be so much harder to deal with
than NY. Bro. Gaudet
Well, I just heard the announcement that I need to packup my laptop
because we will be landing soon. I look forward to seeing my family
soon and also seeing my church family. Thank you to everyone that has
been praying for me because your prayers mean sooooo much to me and
the only reason this trip was so successful was because of the prayers
everyone
Hello my wonderful Family!
It is Friday night! I can't believe it's the end of the week again!
It is hard to believe that I will fly out this upcoming Tuesday. The
time goes so quick. Nat and I are working fervently over the video
project :) There is a bit to do, so please pray we can get it finished
up. I went into town tonight with Nat, Anne, Pookie, Carolyn, Mr. &
Mrs. Gaudet. The main reason we went into town was because I needed to
get my suit checked out to make sure it was good to go. The guys there
were very helpful with helping me make decisions on what to get. As I
said before, it is hard for me to picture what a suit or shirt will
look like when it is just a sheet of cloth. I had basically the same
measurements as last time so that made things easier.
You've probably already heard, but Bro. Nadaskay is in town. Did you
send him in to check on me? LOL J/K . Ya, so it was good to see him
again and Monday night we will be having a singspiration since we've
got quite a few LVBCers here.
I'm not sure if I said this already, but I was at the border again
this week to unload the truck with all the boxes of literature. We
finished the work in about an hour. It was a very intense hour though.
It felt like multiple hours because of the work involved. Nat, Noah
and I were completely soaked in sweat by the time we were finished.
You may have seen some of the pictures on facebook. The boxes went all
the way to the top of the ceiling. We had to keep showing the guys how
to stack the boxes in a way so they don't fall over as they are
pulled off. Two of the guys did catch on and so we kept running boxes
all over and trying to keep everything organized. As we re-evaluated
the amounts of certain boxes we had to move some piles to other places
or add certain piles to others all the while trying to work with some
guys that didn't speak any English. We kept Noah busy translating for
us.
Well, I am back safe now and am in Bangkok running full speed :) Oh,
while we were in town today we stopped at a Mexican restaurant and the
food was excellent. We had a very good time talking and joking around.
I'm just about out of battery so I'm going to plug in my laptop and go
to bed here. Have a good night. I love you all!
Benjamin
Today has been a very wearisome day. I doubt I spelled that word right, but I think you may have guessed that I was trying to say I am tired. I want to write more, but my eyes are closing as I write this. Just check out Nats blog because from what I've seen has been doing a great job at posting updates. The internet was down yesterday and I was travelling and video taping almost the entire other day, so that is my lame excuse for my lack of writing (again) ;)
Thanks for checking out the blog,
cya
Benjamin
Hello Family,
As I'm sure you've heard by now, Nat has arrived and he is in one
piece :). He got up quite early this morning so I think his body is
confused as mine was what time it actually is. There is a missionary
family that is nearby and she was about to have her fifth kid so
Pookie and Anne went to the hospital at 5:30 in the morning to pick up
the kids with the taxi and bring them back to Anne's house. The girls
watched the kids and then right before picking up Nat at the airport
Bro. Tom took us to the hospital to drop them off. Their last name was
Woods, so Mrs. Woods had a little girl yesterday morning as far as I
know all went well. It's been busy around here with doing the video
projects so thats the reason for the lack of emails. It won't be
possible for me to write about it all, so let me think of something
that may be interesting... hmm, oh well I'll guess I'll stick with the
travel theme. Aaron and Heather flew back to Ohio two days ago, they
were great guys. Goodbye's are always bummers. Aaron was really funny
to the moment he left.
Hmm I hear a kid singing really loud next door, I think it's Gracie,
Jon has been counting down the days till Nat was too arrive and now he
is officially here and he is with the kids next door probably playing
with Jon's airplanes. Jon doesn't miss a thing as Nat and I passed by
the door to go to 7-11 he some how spotted us and immediately ran out
the door and started calling us.
OHHHH thank you so much for the sweet note Mom and also the bags of
licorice. I really do like that stuff. We started eating the apple
flavored ones first. Noah's question was, "Are these made by Apple" :)
hehe, anyhow we had a good laugh out of that. Well, I think I'm going
to stop by the Lange's, though I've been here for so long I've only
been over to the Lange's about 2-3 times. I don't really have any
plans for the day. Anne said something about Future Park, but who
knows we all slept in really like because we were tired (beside Nat,
lol :)
Have a Great Day! Stay Sweet! :P
BenH
Hello Mom, Dad, Nina, Selena, Titus, and Hudson!!!
The Lord has been very good to me. Right now I just feel so
overwhelmed about how great the Lord has been to me. I just had a
great meal with Berm and Aaron at Future Park and the day though
filled with many problems was successful in my eyes. I got my laptop
working with the server. I located and imported all the footage I've
recorded the last few days and got my hair cut and the lady didn't
butcher it like poor Aaron, lol. I was nervous for a second because
when I was explaining how I wanted my hair cut I told Berm that the
guy who cuts my hair buzzes the sides and he said, "Oh, you want a
buzz" Ahhh, right now I no desire for a buzz. Thankfully we got things
worked out so I came out of the house with hair still in tact. It was
funny going in this ladies front door to get my hair cut cause there
was lady next to me getting her hair hydrated or something because she
had this thing over her and steam was coming out. :) I have no clue,
but whatever, I guess those big things work. Thankfully guys don't
need that done because it looks so crazy.
Oh my word, mom once again I see why animals aren't your thing. :)
I'm not sure if I mentioned in any of my other emails, but David has
two baby bunnies, Joshua and Anna. Well, there is only one now because
Joshua died two days ago. Anyhow, Anna has been bouncing around the
room because she has figured out how to jump out of the box. She's
been using the bathroom all over the room and last night she decided
that my pants on the floor were a great hotel. I mean I guess you have
to look at it from her perspective, the air conditioning was blowing
there, the pants are nicely laid out and softer than tile. Well,
needless to say she thought her hotel came with bathroom facilities
and she soiled my pants like really bad. I was a little bummed to find
my pants looking like that in the morning. Thankfully David has
banished Anna to the downstairs and is planning on getting her a cage
so she doesn't always have free roam of our dorm.
Anyhow as I was saying, I am rejoicing in a great day, my office area
is cleared off and ready to begin some creative projects. Oh, ya gotta
pray for Bro. Tom because he kinda had a rough day and is resetting
the server tonight because to be honest it was a bit of a pain this
morning and right now we can't connect to the printer.
Oh Titus, you would love the buffett here, you can eat so much at
this Japanese buffett for a really good price. We had all sorts of
meat and squid, haha. Honestly it wasn't bad, a little on the chewy
side. I wouldn't make it a diet, but it was good to try out. We get to
cook everything on a coal heated grill and so we just kept asking for
rice and more meat and noodles and we kept the coals going. There was
also icecream there so that was pretty cool. Us guys really got our
money worth from that place =) .
The Lord has been taking care of all my needs also, my new "Bible
Plan" app has been selling fairly well as well as "My Prayer Lists"
and so far it seems that every day all the expenses I've paid out
everyday have been covered with each days sales. Hey it ain't much,
but to me it's just cool to see God taking care of me each day. The
Pastor at Lat Prou (or however you spell that) preached about
depending on God for each days needs and the passage he used was about
when God took care of his people by giving them manna and they weren't
to take more than they needed.
Oh, I feel like I have more to write, but I'm not sure how to sum up
my day in a letter like this. Too much typing. :) hehe, anyhow, oh oh,
I just remembered to tell ya mom that I did practice my piano :) *
wink *wink. There are two guys at the church here which are the
Pastor's sons, they are Billy and Bay. They both play the piano and
loved the music books I brought over. I told them they could photocopy
them because they don't have any of that music in Thailand and beside
everything in Thailand is illegal anyhow so I don't think whoever was
the writer of the music will have a cow that there music is being used
to worship the Lord in a country that can't get their music. Oh, also
I got to sing in the choir was pretty cool. They did sing english for
us :) hehe, ya I think I would pretty much butcher the song if it was
in Thai. I can hardly use English properly :)
Well, I can go on and on with stories, so I better stop. Thanks for
reading my ramblings. ;) Love ya, Miss ya, and Praying for ya :D
cya!
BenH
Hey Everyone,
To complete New Testament Survey 2 I needed to read through the New Testament as one of the assignments to pass. I've read through the New Testament who knows how many times, I never how been bored of it and it's amazing that each time I always have something that pops out to me. Now I'm only listing one verse in this blog, but really there's probably over a billion things I could write.
This is a really neat story...
There are two really nice guys I work for, Mark and Damian, the one lives in Florida and the other in Georgia. They run the website www.virtualdealfactory.com and a little over a week ago they had their Grand Opening. The Grand Opening was hosted at Marks house and wow his house is amazing. They invited the people that are on their website to come and visit and start making relationships and doing deals with people. Their website is really taking off, I check it every day or two and the member database is always increasing.
Achoo Achoo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today was the birthday of my little brother Hudson. We've given him a nickname which he really loves us calling him. We call him our little bonus boy because he came into our family at the tail end. I can still remember the day when I saw my after he got back early in the morning and I was able to get everyone together and my dad told us it was a boy and his name was definitely going to be Hudson. All of us kids wanted his name to be Hudson because we all thought it sounded so cool and also the fact that Hudson Taylor was a missionary to China made it a great name.
forgot to mention another blessing which came all the way from South
Carolina! The Reeders! The famiy stayed up here for a few days and Tim
had came here two weeks earlier. We had a great time. I have some
pictures of cute little Gracelyn I thought I'd post. She's grown up
and likes to talk :) Im not sure if the talking is really the new
thing, but it's a little more understandable now :)
BenH
Hello Everyone,
Hello Everyone,
I just saw this email today and I just had to share this with you. If you're like me I find I need to clean the outside of my screen, but I have real trouble with cleaning the inside so I found out a way how to!!! Click here to Clean Your Screen
I was just studying for my Homiletics class and as I glanced across my desk I saw the flute which I bought in Thailand. I really love the sound it makes so I picked it up and started playing some hymns. I decided to record one of the songs and share it's pretty sound with you, unfortunately I made a couple mistakes like trying to find that bottom hole. It tricks me every time because that hole doesn't have to get played often and its one extra pinky finger length further in comparison to the others so I always seem to miss it :)
But drops of grief can ne'er repay
the debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give myself away;
'tis all that I can do!
At the cross, at the cross,
where I first saw the light,
and the burden of my heart rolled away;
it was there by faith I received my sight,
and now I am happy all the day!
On the long 6 hour trip to Ohio I had a whole lot of time to get some reading done. I was really glad for this opportunity because I feel like I've been so busy that I don't have time to read. During the trip I successfully completed the book "Getting Thing Done" by David Allen. That was a great book with a whole lot of good information. I'm really thankful to my Pastor and Brother Ronnie for letting me borrow that book. I've been busy trying to implement his lessons into my life.
Today I was able to go with brother Anger, Eric and my brother Titus to Bloomsburg. It was a great day and I was able to preach for the morning service. I preached on the story from Luke 7 about the woman who was a sinner and Simon the Pharisee. It was a really interesting story, one thought in particular which stood out to me was how Simon seemed to have no problem having Jesus over to his house, whereas others in the Bible felt Jesus was too great to even come to their home and then along with that the Pharisee looked down on the one person who humiliated herself in order to reverence Jesus. The application came down to asking each person to look into their heart and see if they have ever come to the place of humbling themselves before God because they see their debt they owe Christ or have they been like the Pharisee who from the passage seemed to not even think he had a debt.
I've recently came across an interesting blog and have been reading it. I thought that Today's post about the "Art of Planning" was really good for me and so I thought I would share it all with the rest of you. Have a Great Day Everyone!
I got something to announce to everyone... Oh yes, it's true.... and I'm going to let you all know today... I bought some sweet things for a very special person. :)... haha, okay, I won't keep you in suspense any more. LOL, I'm really bad at these suspense things :P
Okay, Okay, I actually have three special Valentines. Oh yes, be jealous :) lol My dad and I ended up going to Wegmans tonight and we got some gifts for the three special ladies in our life. Yes, that would be my mom and sisters :) Haha, seriously though. They have been amazing to me and it is such a blessing to have such great sisters and a great mom. I gotta tell ya'll they do some amazing cooking and it's really been nice having all these construction guys around the house because now their making even more cookies. It probably isn't the most healthiest thing, but hey, they sure do taste good. I just need to keep working it off on the weight system :)
I just finished watching the movie "Fireproof" with my family and I gotta say that Sherwood Baptist did a fantastic job at creating another great Christian Film. Beside the music I absolutely loved the video. OKAY, before I go any further in writing I'll just so NO I'm not having marriage problems, duh, obviously I'm not even married. I hope that wasn't a revelation for anyone. But, anywho. The whole truth of understanding what true love is so important. When you understand what Jesus Christ did for you when you were an enemy against him is so amazing. Jesus loved us before we ever even thought about loving Him back.
The Love of Christ is just so amazing. When you even begin to grasp the truth of God's love toward you, it is not possible to even begin to hate someone. The Bible from the beginning to the end shows Christ's love toward us... Some people base their unbelief on why would a loving God create hell. The real thing to focus on is why did a loving God die. Hell was created for the devil and his angels, however our rebellion against God causes us to be punished to hell unless we repent. Hell is a warning, not the focus. See that Christ loved you inspite of your sin and things will change. I Know =)
(ok, and side note here, please don't think that I have the lessons I post here on my blog down pat,,, haha ya.. that would be awesome if I did... but my goal is to keep changing so hopefully I will get some of these lessons better implemented by the end of my life :) Just wanted to tag that on so you don't think I am problemless, haha, far from that my friend, far from... God is still very busy working on me
Thanks for reading Everyone!
BenH
P.S. I SOOOOO want to create a motion film after watching the video....AHHH I would love to do that so much! =)