11/11 CRAZY LOVE: conclusion.

  This marks the end of a great journey on what love truly means and also ways we can learn to love others as we do ourselves. At the beginning I thought I knew a lot and I soon came to find out that I knew nothing, now I know little and I will continue to learn what love is about. I thought I knew what God's love was and now I know it's impossible to know completely but I will continue to learn and continue to love, for God's love heals all wounds.

1 Corinthians 13 (King James Version)

1 Corinthians 13

 ¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
 ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
 ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
 ⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
 ⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
 ⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
 ⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
 ⁸Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
 ⁹For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
 ¹⁰But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
 ¹¹When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
 ¹²For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
 ¹³And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

John 15:13 (King James Version)

 ¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 3:16 (King James Version)

 ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

10/11 CRAZY LOVE: what does love mean to you?

     This is an interview question taken by my youngest two siblings that answers the question, what does love mean to you?
   SAM age7: "Ah... chocolate, and a bucket of flowers and a teddy bear and God showing his love to us."
   EMMA-LEE age 91/2: "I think it means true love, best friends and courage like you know how people have their best friend and I think it's about... love you know. It's more like most of it's about marriage. I think... am mm... there's more to it like love birds, how they can make a heart, loving, caring knowing and it's about did I say courage... It's about best friends, and all that a boy being in love with you, like at senior prom in the same class as you and you felt the true love that's love"

9/11 CRAZY LOVE: love likes.

          This kind of love is the liking of objects like foods, goods, TV's, hair things, music, books sports, art and more. This kind of love is fine by itself but if it becomes more important to you then things that really matter like friends, family and God it becomes a problem. It slowly wains on your heart until it's what your thoughts become, what you become it drags on the people who are around you, soon people don't want to be around you and they start getting fed up. Your pompous attitude makes many people hate you and dislike you and this continues until there's nothing more important to you than that thing that started as a like and becomes an idol to you and there's almost no way out right? Wrong there is a way out and the best thing to do is abstain from that thing for a year then or longer until you can control yourself or give it up completely and give yourself fully to God and the rest of the important people and things in life will follow.

1 Corinthians 13:4 (King James Version)

 ⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:4 (New King James Version)

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

8/11 CRAZY LOVE: the love between a child and parent.

   The love between a child and parent is a love that is a bond full of patience on both sides, respect, care and allot more patience. When it comes to the love parents you have to understand there is both a maternal and paternal side to love. Maternal is the loving care of a mother to her child or children and paternal is a father's loving care to his child or children. A mother's love is more gentle, and constantly worrisome about the whereabouts of her children where  a father is tougher, plays with them and teaches them valuable life lessons. In the Bible Ephesians 6:1-4 it talks about love of both parents and the children. "
 ¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
 ²Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
 ³That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
 ⁴And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." It talks about the love a child has for their parents through honoring the parents and the love of their parents through the act of not provoking their children to anger. 

7/11 CRAZY LOVE: love of enemies.

         LOVE OF ENEMIES!!! you must think I'm crazy!!! Maybe you read the title wrong, but no that's what I wrote. The love of enemies is when you love the very people who oppose you and stab you in the back. Impossible to love your enemies you say, believe it or not it is not but it is possible to love your enemies. This takes allot of practice believe me I know, I've been bullied before and I've been the actual bully before. At my high school I was outside with my friends when a bully came up to me and tried to punch me for some comment I had said, so of course I ducked and I took off running with the bully right behind me yelling saying I'm going to kill you. Soon the bully gave up and said "I give up.". So I turned around and walked straight up to the bully and said "Hi my name is Kaitlin what's yours". She laughed and throughout the year we became friends and she actually stopped bullying and it was all from turning the other cheek and showed her love. I've had many enemies and bullies who I pray for and always try to say nice things about them to show them God's love. When I was young I was a bully I could beat up a teen at age eight and I really didn't like too many people, but there was a boy who refused to fight with me. I first learned about God's love and turning the other cheek from that boy, he showed me God's love that eventually helped me to stop bullying at age 12.
^{Matthew 5:44-45 "44}But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;  ⁴⁵That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

6/11 CRAZY LOVE: love of people.

               A love of people is when you love people. They can be of blood relation, friends anyone who you see on the street. This is a hard love to learn because of all the hate in the world but it is not impossible to have. The love of people is basically to like, be patient, enjoy being around and caring for people. It is to love everyone in John 15:12 it says "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.". Now the greatest example of loving everyone would be Jesus' love for all of us that he died on a cross and rose from the grave so we would be able to be saved, but I'm going to give you another example. The church bus driver they work behind the scenes often having to calm down rowdy kids, their often unappreciated with hardly ever getting a single thank you, they have to keep the bus clean and make sure everything runs on time. Yet they are continually caring, counseling, a friend to all who ride and they show the love of God through their patience and their smile that on a Sunday morning seems to say "good morning, Jesus loves you." that's truly shows the love of people.  

5/11 CRAZY LOVE: love of God and love for God.

In this post I will be talking about the love of God and our love for God. The love of God is different and alike all the kinds of love it is different because he's the only one who loves completely unconditional and it's alike because God's love follows all of the requirements of all the types of love. I put God's love in the middle of these posts called crazy love because God's love is in the center of all love for God is love, 1John 4:8 "He that loveth not knowth not God; for God is love." Now think of this God has so much love that he came down to this earth as a baby going thorough all the pains and troubles that we go through and then even dying on the cross to save us from our sins that we might have eternal life in heaven but he did not stay dead he rose again so that through him we would have a new life. That is not the end of his love he sent his spirit the Holy Ghost to live inside of us that we can be saved that he can live inside of us and to let us know we are his. He loves us so much he wants to have a relationship with us, he cares for us, gives us a new life a new beginning, he's our Father, our Friend, our Savior and our King of kings. Jesus is always there for us loving us more then we could ever imagine so much that he gave us the choice to on whether we love him or not that's how much he loves us. Now our love for God is never the same amount as he loves us because his love surpasses all. To love is to know God and to love others is to love God.

Fearless conference!!!

Coming to Green Bay March 11 & 12 at 7;00pm at West high school auditorium, it's free and childcare for ages 12 and under is provided (by Indiana Bible College) It's going to be awesome and if your in the Green Bay area I highly recommend you come there is a sample of a small portion of it in this clip. I hope you can come! :)

God's love letter

Love is art and qoutes

3/11 CRAZY LOVE!; Love Between Siblings.

                                     Love between  siblings is different then the average love between friends because siblings are related to you and you'll have that connection with them your whole life. I know allot about love between siblings because I have what some people call allot of siblings but I call normal, now that you're probably wondering just how many siblings I have so I'll tell you I am one in six kids. Sure that may not be allot to some people but with the average family having 2-3 kids, 6 is allot.   The love between siblings is patient, kind, caring and most of all it is forgiving. For this kind of love I'll be telling a story that most people have heard or read it is true and also found in Genesis37-45. This is a true event about a young man and his 11 siblings and his love for his family through his patience, kindness, caring for them and also forgiveness. The young man had a couple dreams in which he told his brothers that made them angry and the young man was also his father's favorite out of his 11 brothers which made the brothers even more jealous. The 9 brothers were all out in the fields(they were shepherds) when they saw the young man coming, they at first wanted to kill him, then they decided to throw him in a pit, after they had thrown him in one of the older brothers left for a few hours. During that time the brothers left in the fields saw a traveling caravan and decided to sell their brother who was in the pit as a slave. Now years latter the young man had gone through many different things he went through being a slave, being convicted of a crime he had not committed, being in jail to second in command in the country he was in. In time there was a famine in the land and the young man who had been thrown in the pit years earlier was selling food, when his 10 brothers that had thrown him in the pit came to buy food. When he saw them he know who they where right away but they did not recognize who he was, so he decided to test them to see if they changed. At the end of the test he finally told his brothers who he was and forgave them and he also had them and the whole family move into the country and made sure they had everything they needed to live through the famine and after. This is the love between siblings.

4/11 CRAZY LOVE: the love between a husband and wife.

The love between a husband and wife is both a relationship that is both of a friend and of an intimate relationship. It is a love that is loyal through all circumstances including if a spouse has been unfaithful, it is understanding the other, sticking by each other wanting to please the other, care for one another and sharing with each other. In marriage their is a love that goes deeper then a friend because there's an intimacy that can only be shared between a husband and a wife in 1 Corinthians 7:1-24 it talks allot about the relationship between spouses, I'll let you find that and if your married and want to know more read the book of Song of Solomon. I'll tell you this I do not know too much on this subject, but I've seen enough marriages that I know small things that make marriages work, here is 5 for more read 1 Corinthians 7:1-4. 1) They communicate. 2) They are crazy about each other. 3) They work with each other through their problems. 4) They share responsibilities. 5)(this is the most important) They both love God.  All of  these things are because of love and show the love between a husband and a wife. Genesis 2: 24 " Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall become one flesh."

A Thoughtfull Question:

A leader is shown by the small things they do in life not the big...

Snow Day! Sledding with IMPACT FOR CHRIST at youth invasion in C-Ville!

2/11/11 This was my first time sledding in about 6 or 7 years and my first time tubing it was awesome!!! Don't believe me? Here are some pics none of them are of us actually tubing because not to many of those pictures turned out too well and the videos of us going down were slightly too jumpy to show, but it was an awesome time.

2/11 CRAZY LOVE!: Love Between Friends.

                                      Before I go into love between friends I want to first define what a friend is. A friend is someone you care about or spend volunteered time with that is or is not of blood relation; someone you like to spend time with. In Proverbs17:17 it says "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." Now this verse does not mean you and you friends will always be BFF's (Best Friends Forever!) at all times or that you and your friends will never be in a disagreement, or that your friend will never leave you, it just means a friend will love always, now this love is a loyalty to one another, so love between friends is loyal. In Proverbs18:24 it refers to the loyalty of a friend "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer then a brother." A thing that all friends share is a love for one another, the love is tender, fond, kind and benevolent. A friend spends time with you not out of necessity or because their being forced to spend time with another, but because they want too. A friend is one who laughs with you feels compassionate with you, crys with you at times and should be cherished because you never know how much time you have with a friend. In the book "Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery (pg 131-132) Anne and her friend Dianna after a terrible accident are no longer allowed to see each other, they made a promise to always remain friends to each other no matter where they go. They are latter reunited a few chapters latter remaining as loyal to each other in their friendship as the day they made the promise, as they will always remain "bosom friends.".  Their friendship reminded me of a friendship in the Bible 1Samuel 20 between David and Jonathan. Now David's life was in danger and Jonathan's father King Saul was the one who wanted to kill him, so to find out if David would be safe remaining in the kingdom they made a plan between themselves to find out. Now the plan was that Jonathan would tell his father that David went on a trip to sacrifice with his family in Bethlehem and if his father showed any anger or said anything of the sort Jonathan would warn David by sending three arrows into a field and by telling a servant boy the arrow "was still ahead" but if it was safe Jonathan would say the arrows are on "the side of him." The sad part is that Jonathan had to deliver the news and it was that David needed to flee, but before the friends left each other they made a promise to never let any harm come to each other and between their children and any other family that follows forever, and then they departed. That was one of the last times those faithful friends saw each other, but even after Jonathan's death David stayed true to their promise, by taking Jonathan's only surviving son Mephibosheth (2Samuel 9:1-13) by taking him in to live in his palace as one of his own sons. In John15:13 Jesus says "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." this is the love between friends. John14:34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another."

1/11 CRAZY LOVE; Introduction

Love what is love?
The whole month of February is national love month and it is also the month that has the holiday valentines day which is a whole day just for celebrating love, but even with a whole month celebrating love how come not many people really know what love is? I'm not talking about the "I love pizza" love or the "I really love that sweater" love, but true love. In this and the 11 following posts I hope to explain what love is and let you discover what kind of love is true love.
True love is a crazy love that is sometimes really hard to understand, so the best way to start out will be with a few definitions on what love is.
1. a fond or tender feeling.
2.a strong or passionate affection for a person of the opposite gender.
3.a strong liking.
4.a person who is loved.
5.a kind or benevolence for someone.
6.a reverent devotion.
     Now that you've seen the definitions of love we'll go more into dept with what each one of these definitions mean.
1. Love is a fond or tender feeling.
            Being fond is showing love by showing affection in some way such as romance or in loyalty towards someone. Now tenderness has a few different definitions. The first is pain, love often inflicts pain in the heart, as in a break up between boyfriend and girlfriend, but also in sympathy when a loved one is sick or battling something such as cancer, or the pain you feel when your loved one is hurting in a physical or spiritual sense such as a broken leg or going through a spiritual trial.  The second is gratifying to the touch or such as gentleness, like the comforting words, or a husband kissing his wife or to comfort someone when their sick or in pain. When a little kid falls down and scraps their knee the child's mother runs to comfort the child with soothing words and often a bandage to help the kid through the pain and why does the mother do this? because she loves the child. The last thing in this definition of love is love through submission as a loyalty to another then yourself, or in other words completely giving yourself over to something or someone such as giving yourself over to God, submission is not because of weakness but because of complete love.

2.Love is a strong passionate affection for a person of the opposite gender.
             This is a kind of love a husband and wife feel towards one another or an engaged to get married couple feels towards each other. It is a deep emotion of tender devotion of love mixed with friendly qualities towards each other with controlled emotions.

3.Love is a strong liking.
           This is a kind of love you can have towards anyone, for a boyfriend and girlfriend it is a fond attraction between comparable or similar pleasures, or a man or boy trying to persuade a girl that he likes to be his girlfriend. In other cases it is taking pleasure by enjoying or preferring a particular inanimate object, like music, a certian type of food, to favor something more over another. The last would be the grace of God that he shows in high concentration which is favor; which is something what Christians need to be an example of by showing grace towards all, which shows Jesus' love for us all.

4.Love is a person who is loved.
          This is normally a nickname for someone who is in love, but it really something every person can be called. In a marriage a love is both husband and wife with the relationship they share. Now the category every person falls under is in Christ Jesus for he loves us all, so we also are his love his beloved. John3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

5.Love is a kind feeling or benevolence for something.
       This kind of love is an undeserving love, a selfless love where often one will give up their own likings or preferences for the one they love; like someone who's married giving up a type of food they like because their spouse doesn't like it or is allergic to it, or someone giving up old habits for the one they love like squeezing the tube of toothpaste at the top instead of in the middle, or giving up something that is unpleasing to God like sin. Another definition for this kind of love is a kind sensation or emotion, an openness towards others or being transparent towards others, or in other words being real with others, to show who you really are, not pretending. Another definition of this kind of love is dedication to the welfare of others; or in other words being generous of charitable, it is voluntary and kind and full of forgiveness, wanting others to have the emotion of happiness. By being charitable, it is not for self profit nor for the thrill of being charitable, but it is selfless love. When Jesus went to the cross he had such a dedication for the welfare of me and you, that he selflessly gave himself openly to forgive us so we could one day have the benefit of Heaven and seeking his face, that we did not pay for, but Jesus paid for us with his life, he could have easily got down from the cross but he loved us so much, he had and still does have selfless love and is willing to share his home with all of us.

6.Love is a reverent devotion.
         Being reverently devoted is a love that is based on commitment and loyalty to someone. This love also has many different definitions like many of the other kinds. The first is a love for your home country, by being loyal having a dedication to your country by pledging your allegiance or by having patriotism. Another definition of this love is in marriage, it is an adoring fond affection towards a spouse, it is observant continually wanting to learn more about each other;   committed, loyal, steadfast, through thick and thin; it is trusting in each others dedication to one another, that couples make on their wedding day as they say their vows to stick together no matter what. The last kind is the devotion one has for God, having a relationship with him through prayer, worship, and listening to what he has to say, it is being a committed disciple or an apostle continually being committed, affectionate, trusting and wanting to know more about him as he wants to know more about me and you.

                                          1 Corinthians13:1-13
"1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and knowledge, and though I have faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up, 5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked
thinketh no evil, 6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth  all things, endureth all things. 8  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10  But when which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."   

February national love month.

It is February and national love month so with valentines coming up and this being national love month I thought it would be appropriate for the next few upcoming articles on this blog to be about love. Now throughout this month I'll be posting a lot of things on love from art work to articles and don't forget to leave comments I would like to know what you think of them so I hope you enjoy the articles to come. :)

Be Bold And Speak Up!

I choose the title Be Bold And Speak Up as the name of my blog first because it sounded like a name that I would remember and it sounded kind of cool. Another reason for this title is the verse 1 John 4:17 where it says "Here in our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." The word boldness stood out to me in this verse and I started thinking what if there was a blog about being bold and speaking up on issues and things many people take for granted. So I decided to make this blog to be bold by trying my best to show the love that Jesus shows me and to speak up on different things such as social issues, music, games, videos, the Bible, art and random things along the way that may or may not be interesting. So I hope you enjoy this blog Be Bold And Speak Up. :)