Refocus and a break from it all

So i have turned 26 this week.

I have also grown more grey around the sides of head, so i look like a fatter Mr Stretch from the fantastic four.

I love my life, though there is times i really hate living, but lets not depressing...what i mean by "hate" is this. Within my job i get tested each and everyday. I'm either tested by the attitudes of customers are I'm tested by promises broken by the trust of work mates.

Being a christian within the work place is a testing situation.

We also come to another testing place now. I always have problems with it to. Church!

I don't go much anymore.

Church now is being in a small coffee shop with a few select friends and we just chat about life, Christ and what ever else pops into the conversions.

Some day God permetting he will bring me across a communtiy of people interested in doing church in a coffee shop.

I also don't read the bible much anymore. I am trying to refocus my views. It is hard thing to do......

I will hit on this in the caffinated christians videos that will happen when i feel ready for them....

To be honest right now im look for a wife....lol yes you heard it hear....robert wants to settle down and then hopefully get back into church life sometime....i have become tired and weary of it all....so for the next year the blogs are going on hold...i will twitter my thoughts at @bertynesbitt

God bless and please pray that this of refocus and family life would happen.

Robert

http://caffinatedchristians.blogspot.com/

Im looking forward to starting caffinated christians up shortly, i have the blog page all built up and it is ready for the videos that i am planning to shoot.

I am now just looking for people who are interested in having a conversion over coffee as a group and also being filmed. Me and a mate will have questions to ask and the group will discuss them indepth.

IF your interested in being part of this let me know via facebook are my email:
thejourney_1985@msn.com

God bless

Robert

http://caffinatedchristians.blogspot.com/

Give God the Keys to your Car

So the year is nearly over....


2010 has come and nearly gone....

I have followed Gods call on my life to America once again, i also changed jobs once again.

And one thing i have started to learn this year is who to trust God's will.

I personally found this year very testing.

But i also had so many days of Joy and happiness, i was best man for my Friend Stephen, and it was awesome and honour to take part in that beautiful day.

I fell in love with a kid in Philly.

I seen friends get married and others have kids.

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Praise God for those times...

I want to be honest right folks...

I crave a partner...

I crave a family....

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I believe God is in control but there is time folks i want to grab the wheel and say, God move over i wanna drive this Car my way.

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God forgive me, because i have done that many times this year.


I have really messed up this year...


Between blowing my savings on crap i don't really need.

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God's will is following him, trusting him and giving your full life into his hands.


Faith is giving God the Car keys and trusting him to drive to the destination. It is tossing the Sat-Nav out the window and saying to God, "I believe in you, i trust you and i know you can get me there, even if the journey will be rough, i believe you will get me there safely".

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I pray God will one day will me to have a family...


I have so much love to give.....


Trusting in Gods will

Isaiah 50

50:1 Thus says the Lord:


“Where is your mother's certificate of divorce,

with which I sent her away?

Or which of my creditors is it

to whom I have sold you?

Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,

and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

2 Why, when I came, was there no man;

why, when I called, was there no one to answer?

Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,

I make the rivers a desert;

their fish stink for lack of water

and die of thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness

and make sackcloth their covering.”



4 The Lord God has given me

the tongue of those who are taught,

that I may know how to sustain with a word

him who is weary.

Morning by morning he awakens;

he awakens my ear

to hear as those who are taught.

5 The Lord God has opened my ear,

and I was not rebellious;

I turned not backward.

6 I gave my back to those who strike,

and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;

I hid not my face

from disgrace and spitting.



7 But the Lord God helps me;

therefore I have not been disgraced;

therefore I have set my face like a flint,

and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

8 He who vindicates me is near.

Who will contend with me?

Let us stand up together.

Who is my adversary?

Let him come near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord God helps me;

who will declare me guilty?

Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;

the moth will eat them up.



10 Who among you fears the Lord

and obeys the voice of his servant?

Let him who walks in darkness

and has no light

trust in the name of the Lord

and rely on his God.

11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,

who equip yourselves with burning torches!

Walk by the light of your fire,

and by the torches that you have kindled!

This you have from my hand:

you shall lie down in torment.

Being Real Part One.....Risk taking Generation

I started to get real over the past couple of years. I found the old ways of being Christian boring. There seemed to be alot of rules within the Christian culture that made living dry and dull and that made no sense, and that had no real scripture backup. These sort of rules started makes us into a boring group to be around. The people once called christian became uncool.

Westerns christians for me have a real bad attiude about the world in general.

We tend to call everything

Bad

Evil

Not of God...

But this point "not of God" made no sense to me.

When do we decide what is of God?

Is it wrong for me to bang my head to Musical talents and hard and loud sounds of Iron Maiden?

Is it wrong for me to Ink myself with the Art work of amazing Tattoists?

Is it wrong for me chill with friends over a Cold pint of Guinness....were by the way talks of theology and Christianity always seem to spourt up...

Is it wrong for me to consume a nice spicy hot curry and quench the burning with a Ice Cold bottle of Samuel Adams?

This way of thinking also lead me to start thinking about the old traditions of western christianity and wonder if they even apply to me, a generation who doesnt want to stand in shadows of the old ways of thinking and doing Christianity.

To be honest i just want a Christianity that is real and that i can be real....to be honest...the unsaved peeps dont really take us seriously..because we are not real....

I want to live for God..

I want to Love God...

I want to do Church....

I actually feel that Church could be done anywhere....we could have local pubs on a sunday turned into a small communtiy of people gathering to hear the word and take part in a small waorship gathering.

I also believe that Western Christianity has blew out the flame in alot of the younger generation of Christians. There is a generation of Young Christians that want to be free from the bondage of Church rule and they actually just want to be free to witness to their friends the way they beleive God is calling them to.....

To be free and real is to actually go out and be radical and to take risks.

Am i talking about a Rebellion?

Maybe i am....Could we actually get free from the denomation of Church and get back to Risk taking Church that it was once before..

Can the new generation be the Risk taking Church that we have been waiting and praying for?

Lets hope so....because i want to be part of that......

Anne Rice quits Christianity.....but we shouldnt!!

I have been thinking about what Anne Rice said about quitting Christianity, and i wondered have i ever thought this way before, and the answer is yes. I wasnt for turning away from Jesus, for me it was to rebel agaisnt Christians and who they actually are...


Here is what Anne said: For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to “belong” to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.


She is right in what she says about us being quarrelsome and hostile. If we are truly honest, we are judgmental. We are busy judging someone for their mistakes, instead of trying to help that person with love and respect, see the error of their ways. 


She goes on to say this: As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminst. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanist. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.


We are all flawed, we are all imperfect...but are still human..full of sin...but by the grace of God we are forgiven....


But i can see way she wants to leave Christianity....but for me i want to stand by my brothers and sisters, because someone needs to pray for them and with them so they can correct themselves.


We got along road to walk before the Church is ever healed of the damages caused by us....


But with the Help of God and his Loving Word we can succeed.....but we have to want to change!!


There is so many splits within the church, and it Breaks God's Heart....


If i have one to say to Anne is this....Trust in God to change his people....


Christ does not quit on us


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Life's Gotcha" moment....A must read part of Jesus Manifesto

I thought for todays write up for my blog i would post something from the book Jesus Manifesto that i read and found really intresting.

I say one thing go out and buy it, it is really inspiring to read. It makes you fall more and more in love with Jesus.

It also makes you think about the beauty and majesty of Christ our King.

Enjoy and remember to pick up a copy from Amazon....


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In faith, there is a "gotcha" moment, when Jesus gets you for life. The gotcha moment may take millions of minutes or just one. But when Jesus gets you for life, you begin to live out of Jesus-love. When we present ourselves as "living offereings" to Christ, suddenly questions of what to do and what not to do take on a whole new meaning. Once we are truly sharing our lives with Christ and learning to live His love, then truly Charitas Christi urget nos: "The love of Christ constrains us".
It is not the commandments and the laws that control our behavior. It is the presence of the indwelling Christ and Jesus-love that bothrestrains and releases us. A relational Christ ethic is why Paul said Christians don't have sex with prositiues. Since Christ is living His resurrected life in and through you, would you want Jesus to share that purchase of lust with you? Would Jesus treat any woman like a purchase? The commandements are paper handcuffs compared to Jesus' love strands. It is "the love of Christ" that impels, compels, and propels us--a love that is so captivating we become free to do it all...in love, with love, for love.
Of the millions of words dicated by the gifted Latin-speaking Christian Augustine, bishop of Hippo (354-430), these are perhaps the most important but also the most misread: Dilige, et quod vis fac, "Love God, and do what you will." If you love God, or love another, the one thing you cannot do is what you will, for love bends the will. To live in God's love is not license for hedonism, but liberty for sacrifical living where we're all working off the same brief, which reads, " As i have loved you, so you must love one another" and Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
To live the "incarnate life" is to do little large. God does little large. That is the story of the incarnation, and that is the metanarrative of the Bible. At the heart of orthodoxy and paradoxy: the paradpx of the littlest revealing the largest and the finite revealing the infinite. The incarnation is both once-and-for-all and ongoing, as the One who "was and who is to come" now is, and lives His resurrection life in and through us. An "already now" participates in the "still not yet."

Regeneration Church

I have been chatting to a friend of mine who runs a christian radio station here in Ireland, we had such an amazing chat.

The big topic that came up was about the organic church or the house church groups that have started to make it pretty big around the UK.

I love the idea of church planting, but one thing this friend made me realise was this "do we really want to start another church group, do we really want to take people out from within the churches that they are already part of?"

do we really want to split the church up anymore?

i said no.....

he then asked me what do you think needs to happen?

I said we need to send a teaching pastor and leaders into those dying churches and plant a new seed within it and Regenerate the body that is already there. We need to bring the heart of the gospel and the saving grace of Christ back into it.

But from my experience we need to hit tradition on the head...because the old ways of doing church in Ireland is full of man-made laws and dogma which has no place in Kingdom work of Christ...

There is a younger generation growing up that i call the Un-Churched....

They have been brought up with Religious hate and war...Catholic verses Protestants....

We need to get past this so we can move forward.

Regeneration of the dying churches is a way forward...

There is churches here in Ireland that are growing....spiritually and also by member's...we need to teach these member 's to grow and mature through the Word of God..so someday they can possibly work within these churches...

We need leaders who are rooted in the word...and who are willing to take a step to birth a new generation of Christian's.

Out with the Old ways and in with the New ways.....back to the Gospel...back to Jesus Christ....out with man-made laws...back in With Christ.....

Regeneration of the Church

God is in Control

One thing i'm learning is this......God is in Control



I'm looking for a new job at the moment due to the one that i am in is coming to an end.



I have grown tired with the Car business...and i feel restless and burnt out spiritually...


When i was on the mission trip to amercia i felt a real joy and peace when i was working with the kids.


I believe God is in control of my life so i know that everything that has happened is by his will.

But there is a select view that keeps making a fuss over nothing, trying to make me worry about work and money.


So this is what i say....shut up.....making a brother stumble in his faith is wrong and unbibical....




God controls my life....




I just pray that i could go back into the ministry.....

New Rob bell Video

Hi folks i just wanted to post up Rob bells new video here..

I hope you enjoy it and are blessed peace

Rob Bell: Resurrection

A prayer...... a Plea....My heart crys out

You know the way some people suffer from home sickness?

well i think im like that right now.....but mine isnt home sickness....mine is Kingdom Sickness.....im missing the whole experience of being with other christians working 27/4 for 2-3weeks together with the kids of West-Philly.

I have a craving of returning.......i loved working with kids in that sort of Ministry......it is fulfilling....it is meaningful....it brings a joy into your heart, that you have done right by God today...you have taught the kids about Jesus' love for them...and you showed them that love, by being with them, playing games, talking to them and hugging them while they cry....

O how i love to be in that place full-time...i love to give up my car and my job and just work within the Kingdom forever.....thats were i feel happy...i dont feel happy within my job....i try to...but!! my heart just breaks for the kids of philly....

God put me back on the plane to Philly...this is my prayer....use me there......this is my plea.....My heart crys out.......amen

God loves West Philly

Well what can i say, another two weeks is over and so is the mission trip to West Philly Spruce Hill Christian School.

What a Awesome time we had....

The Kids were amazing, God was moving...we had over 200 children it was bigger than last year.....

33 Northern Irish folks went over and worked with around 30 american folks.....

The team was by far the best i have worked with....we worked as a christian community and there was unity between us all.

It was also a hard time....the weather was hot and we got hit by a freak storm...but heck that didnt stop us...we fought on and preachered and taught the gospel to the kids....

we had amazing trips for the kids.....there was messy games...there was music...and great skits.....

bible buddys was awesome...i got to lead my own bible group..andi fell in love with them all.

But i fell in love with one kid called Israel....he made a big impact in my life...and i wont forget him...he was shy, scarred, lonely and he had a story to tell about his life...he is around 8 years old....his dad left the family...so he has no father figure....after two weeks i became that father figure...i shared so much love with....and well it is even hard now to type this....because my heart is broken...i wish i never left....because i want to keep helping him....

so i have written him a letter...and will post it off soon......he give me a card that he made me...i will not let that go....miss you buddy....

i miss philly so much..my heart is always with that city and the kids of it.....God is moving there folks....

so many church plants going on....camden and around the city area....pray for philly so souls would be saved.....pray also that Jesus will move the hearts of the other churchs to work together there for the people of west philly....

God bless Philly....

Love you all..

peace

end time talk is very depressing!!

I find end time teachers very depressing, all they ever talk about is the future and how the world is going to end.

They are always looking for the anti-christ and putting other christians down when they dont teach end time theology in the church.

but who really cares anymore?

we know Jesus is coming back..so why worry?

look Jesus didnt create us so we can worry about tomorrow...he wants us to focus on the now...

the world is depressing enough without some doom and gloom preacher freaking the life out of people.

God will save people when God is good and ready....we just have to work the fields and become more like Jesus.

alot of people know me..and one thing they can tell is this....robert was caught up in End time theology when i was younger...

i found it actually a stumbling block to my faith....you are to busy looking for signs and antichrists....but you dont see the signs that someone needs the love and compassion of God.

i find it sad millions of Gods money is wasted on stupid endtime movies and books...when we already know the truth....

stop depressing people.....and start building people up for Gods Kingdom.

6 weeks

i cant believe it is only six more weeks and im off to America again.

I will be working in West Philly in a place called Spurce Hill.

I was there last year, i was part of a team who ran a hoilday camp within a school...we taught the Kids about the Kingdom of God....im wearing one of the t-shirts as i type this lol.....

The kids are amazing..i love the lot of them...and i look forward to reconnecting with them all again, and also i look forward to meeting new kids and sharing the Gosple and the Love of Jesus with them....

Praying that God will get all the glory...and that we will see lives changed and restored.....

The count down has started......the N-Irish are returning!!

Do we live by Faith?

I was doing my personal study on hebrews chapter 11....it was entitled "by faith".

And it got me thinking about this volcanic ash that has put the spanner in the works for so many lives throughout the world. People everywhere on a global scale were stuck in airports. These people could not get home. Also alot of them where running out of money to survive.

But something caught my eye, alot of these people started to work together, strangers and friends, putting what they had left and they started to rent taxis and buses to get them home.

Humanity actually learned to put their differences behind them and put their faith in each other to get home....beautiful.

But here is the thing...how many actually put their faith in God....how many actually seek God for reasurance that this is part of his great plan for their lives??

Have you ever struggled?
Have you ever been lost in another country, new job, new family and new church?

Have you ever took a step back and ever thought to yourself.....this has Gods finger prints all over it...and i need to trust him, i need to put my faith in His hands......

because

it is all part of his bigger plan for all our lives....

If you are saved you should already know God has your life planned out...past, present and future....you just got to learn to trust Father...

Do we live by faith?

I hope so....

A new Job and a New Start.

I am so looking forward to starting my new job....i am still going to be working as a car valeter, but it will be for a different place all together.

The boss is a christian...and i love what he has told me...

he explained to me his dreams for the valet center... and i am looking forward to being apart of this team.

I pray God will use me for his glory....that i will work hard...and work as a bibical Christian within this valet center...

It will be good to leave the place i am already in....as it has been a spiritual and mental and emotional rollercoaster.....

I felt always drained spiritually when within it...and it was starting to afect my faith....

so i prayed to God to lead me...and that his will be done in my life....and now this venture has come along...so i jumped right at it.....

please pray God will use me for kingdom......

please pray my temper will go away....

please pray for me to be a witness along with my new boss....

i hope this Job is the place i work until Christs Coming.....

Peace

Why do christians keep holding to their old politics?

It makes me sad living in this country.

There is alot of Christians that cannot let go of their old politics.

Im talking more to the protestants here........

I read facebook and the comments that brothers and sisters leave up.....and it isnt nice what they say at all...like facebook is a very public place....and we are susposed to be Gods witnesses here on this planet....

but what sort reflection are some making when they splatter facebook and even the news with hatered towards the catholic community......

they have every right to live and say what they like.....

but the biggy.......they can get saved to!!

these so called protestant christians make christianity a selective faith....

it isnt!!!!

anyone can come to salvation through Jesus.....

i wish these christians would stop treating people outside the church like second class citizens......


i wish they would let go of their tradition IT ISNT FROM THE BIBLE.....


Your are pharisees!!!!

Darkness has NO PLACE IN THE CHURCH.....

Love you neighbours and your Foes

The Starbucks Experience

I for one love coffee....

I love its texture...

I love to watch people make it, grading the beans, and turning it into one amazing experience...

I love the smell of coffee...

But my favourite thing is sitting with a bunch of christian friends and openly talking about God and his Word and how it is impacting our lives and the lives of people around us.

For me the best place for this, is always Starbucks....

It has a chilled  out feeling everytime i am there.

The Music in the back ground is always intresting......Jazz, blues etc.....

I love gettting myself a Grande Cappuccino with a extra shot...and cream....with a choco topping.....umm i just love it...

Christian friends+Coffee+Starbucks+Theology=Church


This is a great Video....it shows me where my money goes....enjoy

Encourgaging Sermon by Francis Chan

Now and again i like to post a video that will build you up in your walk with Jesus and the family that we are part of.

So here is Francis Chan......God bless and Peace be with you

frightening stuff

I have been working out on the forecourt lately....enjoying the weather...my work seems to have a awesome view of the country side.....makes me feel at piece...even though work at the moment has been a complete drag...but i have been trying to remember to keep calm and also to be humble...

part of me is also worrying about myself....see the past couple of months i have been having a strange thing happen to me while im sleeping....i would wake up...not able to move my mouth...but my body is taking a fit...it would usually happen once then i would stop and i fall back to sleep..the following day i would be shattered....but on sunday night..early monday morning it happened four times from what i recall...and man it hurt like hell....cant seem to shake the sore head lol...

frightening stuff....

but i will see the doc on thursday and i pray to God my father that we will get to the bottom of it....

i know people will i hope they dont find anything...but i sort of hope they do...because then I will know what the heck is wrong with me....so i can get it sorted....

anywho........

this is in Gods hands and also i know he will decide where my life is meant to go next....

all for his glory