Jon Bob

This is insane

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:02:02 GMT

Luke 12:

35 “Stay dressed for action [6] and keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those servants [7] whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he [8] would not have left his house to be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

1 Thessalonians 5:

5:1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, [1] you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all children [2] of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Dang. What a wake up call. Amazing

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:04:33 GMT

I feel pretty crappy right now. I studied like 3 hours last night, went to the teacher this morning, and studied for another hour and I'm pretty sure I did horrible. I didn't have a clue what I was doing on a few and one I tried what he showed me and it still seemed to come out wrong. This semester has been the worst so far academically. I haven't really enjoyed any class and I feel like I just can't focus. I don't really know what's going on or why it is, but hopefully I will get a B in calculus despite how I just did. I was hoping to get an A though because i had a 96 on the first test... I just feel pretty retarded right now because this doesn't usually happen to me when i study that much but my focus is what has killed me and I don't know how to solve it. Hopefully next semester will be different with different classes.

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:53:12 GMT

This semester has been so strange. Ever since the summer ended I've been in a really weird mood. I haven't been able to focus barely at all. I've been extremely up and down emotionally, and there really is no reason that I can think of. I started living with one of my best friends this semester yet I still have been down. It's just so weird. I can't wait to see what next semester will bring. I've learned a lot despite my feelings and I hope I can get out of this run next semester.

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:24:24 GMT

I hate this online class I'm in. Everything seems to go wrong. Last time I didn't get it done in time or somethin like that and I ended up turning it in like 2 minutes AFTER the late due date. She ended up giving me like 10 out of 35, which was still nice I guess cus she isn't supposed to take it at all. But I just turned in this one 1 minute after the due time, which means I get 50% off, meaning that I'm probably unable to get above an 87 in a class that should be easy. Bleh. I wonder what the point of school is when I know what I'm going to do with my life, and it doesn't involve this. I just want to go to Forerunner School of Ministry but I'm pretty sure my parents would be iffy about it cus it's 4 years in kansas city and it's not accredited.

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:34:17 GMT

I know it's been a long long time before I've written on here, but I'm back from Belgium. I learned a lot. Basically though, I know from this summer that God has called me to be a worship leader in music ministry. So in the past year God has shown me that I was called to be a missionary (found that out at the CIY conference last summer), plant churches (which has been put on my heart since going to River City Church), and now lead worship. So most likely, almost positively, the three will be incorporated. Also, tonight my pastor asked (basically told us) to begin to live out the ministry of Christ every day starting the upcoming week, making a goal to speak to at least one person (or we can set a goal for more if we want) every day and pray for them, that God would bring restoration and healing into their lives. I also met a new best friend tonight. His name is Levi and we connected on so many levels. Wow this night was amazing.

hmmm

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:14:34 GMT

So I just made a smoothie with frozen blueberries, frozen bananas, oatmeal, almonds, a tad bit a pomagranate juice (for kicks), protein powder, and milk and it's pretty dang interesting (but it is pretty good). It's nice and thick.

It's been a while since I've posted. Since the last post I've gone to guatamala to do missions by helping with reforestation. We planted a lot of pine trees haha. I learned a lot there spiritually about getting closer with God, and I felt closer that trip than I have in quite a long time. It does suck though how sin gets in the way a lot of times when you are on a spiritual high. It's like I forget that I can feel the way that I did and I fall into sin and feel so bad about the way my life is at this very moment that I lose hope to be in such a spiritually high state. So I guess from that last sentence you can see that I haven't been feeling too great back here in Ocala. There have been plenty of good things that have happened though, don't get me wrong. I have made 2 best friends - Nick and Adam - and we've gotten to hang out quite a bit which is awesome. I do, though, miss all of my friends that provide amazing Christian wisdom. I really can't wait to get back to Jacksonville, especially after hearing about all of the great things that everyone is doing up there. Last night I was talking to Brendan and he was at the beach while everyone was out SWIMMING! Yes swimming at like 11 o' clock at night. Yep not fair at all. But I'm still having a good time with my Ocala friends and I hope this doesn't sound like complaining.

On a happier note, I leave for Belgium Friday. I'll be gone until August 11. I'm going to work with Operation Mobilization (www.usa.om.org). They're an awesome international missions organization. Supposedly I'll be the only American during the dates that I signed up. There may be some there staying with dates that overlap mine, but basicly I'm one of the only ones. I know no one over there so it'll be a pretty crazy experience.

I love you all and thanks for reading my livejournal. Sorry about the huge gap in between entries...

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:48:05 GMT

I talked to Shane the other day and I asked him about something my dad asked me about why Paul's letters are so prevalent in the Bible and what makes him so important. He didn't understand all of the things he wrote about women in the church and was curious why it is so contriversial and thought that maybe some churches didn't hold Paul as an authority figure. I tried to explain to him the reason Paul's writings are so important and should be studied but I didn't have too great of an answer for him. Shane brought this scripture to my attention:

2 Peter 14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

What I thought was incredible is that Peter, when talking about Paul, used the words "as they do the other Scriptures." Do you think that Peter, and possibly Paul, actually knew that Paul was writing divinely inspired scripture when he was writing his letter to the different churches? I have a feeling that they may have known this, and it just really gives me a greater confidence in reading scripture.

I just thought that was really cool and since I haven't written on here in a long time, I felt like this would be a cool thing to share with all of you...

Wed, 03 May 2006 18:33:57 GMT

I'm currently reading a book called "Boy Meets Girl" by Joshue Harris. The book is incredible. It's helped me to understand the true purpose of a relationship. I also just read the chapter on communication and it helped me realize how important communication really is. I realized that listening is probably even more important than talking is. One thing I thought was really cool was when he talked about a friend of his that told his son that God created two ears and one mouth because we should be listening twice as much as we are talking. Now of course that probably isn't why we have two ears, but I think it's still a really cool thing to think about.

Something else I'd like to share is that he includes a quote from Matthew Henry's commentary on Genesis:
"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him." He also says in the book that the relationship between a man and wife is similar to the relationship between the Father and Son of the trinity. "Father and Son are equal in essense, power, glory, and worth, but they have different roles; and the Son joyfully submits to the Father's will. So in marriage a husband and wife are equal, even though Scripture tells the wife to joyfully submit to her husband's leadership."

I love that. I'll post more if I feel the need to do so :-)

Tue, 02 May 2006 04:32:54 GMT

It's been quite a while since I've posted anything. Exams are finally over and I'm pretty happy but now I won't see Julie for a while. Btw on that, if anyone is interested, we realized we weren't clicking like we should have been the last week we hung out so we decided to try and start over with a friendship. We both really like each other but we have to get to know each other in groups and spend less time alone. I'm so impressed and proud of how she has handled the situation. I didn't really even notice that this needed to be done and she pointed it out and it's amazing because she is so focused on doing what God wants. It's great. Sorry if those sentences were worded weird.

But ya, my summer is gonna be great. My plans so far are:

May 5: Gainesville to see Julie and meet her sis and go to the For Daylight show
May 6-13: cruise to Mexico (not sure where in Mexico), Belize, and the Bahamas
May 17: St. Petersburg to see MeWithoutYou, Thursday, and Minus the Bear and to hang out with Julie and celebrate her bday which is two days later
May 19: Jenna's graduation
May 21: See/hear Nick Herbert speak (the music pastor at St. Mary's church in London - the church that planted mine)
May 28: goin to Jacksonville for an adult baptism at River City Church
June 10-17: Guatamala for missions with my parents' church
July 15 - August 10: Belgium for missions with Operation Mobilization (www.usa.om.org or just www.om.org)

It's jam-packed so far and I'm pretty excited cus I'm gonna have so much time to read and just learn so much. I have so much stuff that I've been wanting to read and I haven't had the time so this is great news.

I love you all,
JB

fun week

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:52:29 GMT

Soooo I met a girl. Her name is Julie and she's really cool. I can't believe I'm starting to like a girl this fast. I just freakin met her on Monday. Goodness. hah But anyways. She's realllly easy to talk to, she's honest, and very sarcastic like me. She's a Christian, is super smart, and all that other good stuff. We're definately taking our time though cus the summer is coming up. Basicly, this last week was super packed. I was sooo busy. Monday, crazy yelling hellfire and brimstone dudes with signs on the green then I met Julie in person finally and went to Intervarsity that night. Tuesday I went to Resolution. Wednesday I went to Bible study. Thursday church.

Friday I went to a pretty crappy show and went to get some coffee at Uncommon Grounds after. Ok, Friday night was great. When we were all walkin to Uncommon Grounds after the show there was a car that was driving really fast. Julie was walkin near the road and I didn't even realize this until later but I guess the guy in the passenger seat reached out and tried to grab her butt. Shortly after, an undercover cop pulled the car over. We then relaxed in the coffee shop and on our way back three cops approached us and asked Julie if he touched her. We had no clue was he was talking about because Julie didn't share with us the fact that she saw his hand sticking out after he drove by. The officer said the guy was trying to "reach out and get a hold of it" and that the guy that was in the car was going to spend the night and jail and study in the law library.

Saturday we went to eat at Friendly's with a big group and then went to Uncommon Grounds again and watched Jessica Pounds and some other guy play guitar. It was super relaxing and when I went to drop Julie off we talked for like two hours in the car about everything that has been going on. Man this is so exciting. I really could use prayer though from all of my friends. We definately need to take it slow and make sure we are both where we need to be in our walks before we start dating (if that happens, I'm not saying it will for sure).

Tonight we all went to see Bench Warmers. It was one of the cheesiest movies I've ever seen.

(I got a little personal on this one so it feels kinda weird puttin it up but I guess I will anyways)

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:53:44 GMT

I just saw the worst movie I've ever seen tonight. Don't go and see "The Hills Have Eyes" unless you just like to watch gore for the sake of gore. That's all the movie was and the ending sucked balls. I can't believe I wasted my money on it. So I went to eat with Jenna and we would have gone to a Thai place but it was a 30 or 40 minute wait so we went to some italian place and waited 10 or 15 minutes and the food wasn't amazing but it was good. We were like 5 minutes late to the movie and now I realize that we could have just gone to the thai place and gone back to her house and watched "Walk the Line" cus I forgot she had it and I really want to see it. Oh well. It was still a really fun night. She's talkin more now and that's good haha. I love gettin to know new people.

And now I'm spending my night watching Lost episodes. I went to nashville from friday to tuesday and we all watched all of season one (I'd never even seen the show before). Ya that's right, all of it. And there are 6 discs, each with 4 40 minute shows. Ya it took up a lot of our time. Oh ya, Nashville was awesome. We ate really really good food, I got to meet matt's brother finally, and all of his roommates are freakin awesome. His roommate jake gave me some new running shoes, I bought tons of teas from a shop there, I got a saweet g-star jacket that was normally 180 bucks for 50, I got to meet and have dinner with Chris Rice (he's the Christian singer who wrote the super hero song back in the day--don't worry, he hates the song too haha), and I got to watch Mike's (matt's bro) band MikesChair record. Check em out if you haven't heard em. They're really good. Oh ya and I ate meat 2 times on the trip and once since. I don't know what I'm gonna do haha I think I just want to make sure I'm not dependant on meat in my diet. K that's all for now. Thanks for readin. Peace

oh ya

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:27:43 GMT

I got a hair cut the other day...

Ed and I (Ed is my British friend from church)

Ed, myself, and Phil

journal entry

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:01:11 GMT

I'm sorry that my thoughts are so jumbled together. I decided to just take a picture of my real journal.

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:08:08 GMT

Ok I just saw one of the most amazing shows I've ever seen in my life. Shangrala, Vedera, and Owen. Hoooooly crap all of those bands are amazing. Check out the first two bands on myspace. I don't think owen is on there but try to find his stuff cus he's incredible. A little vulgar but he's very honest which is what I think counts most in music. Seriously though, I could go on and on about how great the show was. I seriously looove music. Gah I'm sorry to all of you who missed it. It was a little expensive, 13 bucks, but I think it was well worth that.

Oh and to follow up to my last post, I realized that God taught me a lot that night after driving back to campus. I left thee imperial for no reason really. I mean it was cus I didn't want to wait around, but it would have been a good show and it would have only been like 30 minutes, but I think God just caused me to want to leave so that I could go back to Intervarsity to worship him and I'm very thankful for it cus it was a great night and then I got to meet with my group which was good cus one of our members got in an accident and the other had a lot of studying to do so there was only three out of five of the ppl if you include me. I'm going to bed though. Thanks as always for reading my post. peace and love, JB

pissed

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:20:49 GMT

Everyone bailed on me tonight. I was going to go see Good Clean Fun with Phil and was gonna meet casey and kevin there but phil got sick and casey couldn't tell me why they aren't going for some reason. I drove all the way there and I was gonna watch them by myself. I got there at 6:45 and there was barely anyone there so I went in and asked when it was starting and they said in a few minutes and they said 3 bands were playing and he looked at this board and I got confused cus it said 8-10 on the board and the website said it started at 6. I just left cus I was already pissed enough at that point. So now I wasted a lot of time and gas driving and I'm not even done with my work yet. I'm pretty upset. I was also going to skip intervarsity and a group meeting for a presentation I have tomorrow for it...

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:27:58 GMT

Soo Coldplay was really really good last night. We were kinda far but it was just as good cus there was a hilarious drunk guy dancing, an awesome guy with a mustache that kept looking around for no reason, and I got to see then with Jenna. Jenna is super cool cus, well, she is anyways but besides that she let me go see Coldplay with her. Seriously, that was so sweet of her.

And to add to that, I woke up this morning kind of sad. I don't know why but I was just sad. It's weird. I had no reason in my head for being sad and I didn't know why I was sad. Maybe it had to do with my dad making me breakfast. I don't know if I miss home cus I've never had that thought really come in my head. Maybe I'm lonely. I started thinkin about how I felt when I was going through emotional pain after my last relationship and I was thinking about how much I miss loving someone like I did. I miss being loved in the way that I was or thought I was. I don't really know if I want to be in a relationship because I'm very happy being single right now, but I think I just wish there was someone who understood me and loved me whole heartedly for being the way I am. And I'd like to love someone that way too. I don't know. I'm not really sad now, but I sorta am. Ok that made no sense but I'm gonna go now cus I need to drive back to jacksonville. Thanks for reading this. Peace, love, and God bless

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:59:55 GMT

Tim Hughes and Matt Redman are definately my new favorite writers of worship music. British worship is where it's at!

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:28:59 GMT

Last night some cool stuff happened. I had a big biology exam today so I had to study for it and by 7 oclock I had only studied about an eighth of what I needed to study. Bible study was at 730 and sometimes I would have skipped but I decided to put God first and just go to Bible study and then study for school after (even though it usually lasts until 930 or 10. So I went and I ended up not getting to the library until like 10. I was about to start homework and then I realized that I hadn't done my quiet time/devotional for the day yet. Again, I decided to put God before school, especially considering the fact that I hadn't done my quiet time since friday. So I prayed that God would reveal things to me in the scripture as usual but then I also prayed that because of me putting him first that he would help me to stay awake and retain the things that I study when I got to that after the Bible. I finished my quiet time in about 20-30 minutes and then prayed again that God would help me to stay awake and such. I almost ALWAYS start falling asleep when I try to study and this time I felt like I could have stayed there for even hours later studying and I was there until like 1 or 130. I started getting a little tired a few times but then I would pray and feel completely awake again. It was amazing. Now I just gotta wait and see how I did on the quiz. Praise God!

Oh and earlier I went to ride my bike and the tire was flat. I thought maybe someone deflated it or put a hole in it cus I left it outside for the first time cus it was raining but I just tried to fill it up and then it deflated again so I took the tube out and looked at it. I found one hole. I went to target and bought a patch kit (and some eggs that the cashier must have put in the bag too hard cus I had to go back and get a new batch). I came back and patched up the whole and filled it up and rode it around to see how it was. It seemed good. I left it alone for like 30 minutes and went to ride it again and it was flat. I took the tube out AGAIN and realized my patch was a little off cus it was leaking out of it. I patched that up and pumped it up outside of the tire to see if it was good then and then I realized there was ANOTHER hole. So I patched the other hole and pumped it all up and it should be good now. I hope...

Oh and I couldn't decide whether I was gonna go to the show or to church tonight but I chose church. It would be a good show though and I would get to hang out with phil, johnny, and shaun.

REMEMBERING NEVER (Ferret Records)
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR (Bridge 9 Records)
RAMALLAH (Thorpe Records)
SUFFOCATE FASTER (Ironclad)
ROUND FOR ROUND
xREIGN OF TERRORx (Schnarler Records)
BITTER END (Texas)

Good lineup. Ok have a good day/night.

peace and love,
JB

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:25:00 GMT

This weekend was a ton of fun. Some things sucked but I enjoyed it still. Friday night I hung out in downtown Ocala with Nick, James, Casey, this girl Jessica, and another girl Jamie who I just met for the first time. All of those kids are suuuper cool and I missed Casey sooo much.

Then Saturday I rode at the trails with my dad and at night I went to the show and it got shut down because there were too many people or something which is retarded cus Maylene and the Sons of Disaster drove like 7 hours to get there and Lee was sick as a dog. But after they shut it down a bunch of us went to Bennigans and it was a grand time. I finally got to hang out with Jenna and she's nice.

Then Sunday I went to church with James and Casey and Jenna came with me. I got to see Neil which was a happy suprise. I haven't seen him in forever. After that we went to eat at IHOP and I felt bad after cus Moes has a super cool deal on sundays where it's buy one get one free so it would have been way cheaper but IHOP was delicious still. I got the new black bean omlette with harvest nut and grain pancakes which are the best things I've ever put in my mouth. Then we went to James' house and watched O' Brother Where Art Thou. It was the first time I've seen it and I loved it. The soundtrack was amazing. And then I ended off a sweet weekend finding out that I'm going to get to go to see Coldplay with Jenna, Fletcher and some others. Yay

Casey, Me, Nick

Dang we're tough...

Group vocals. Orb decided to join.

We gangsta

dumb people

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:30:34 GMT

I find it very amusing that there are people who go on my livejournal, post as anonymous, and say stupid random things like "do your friends know you sucked me off at camp years ago." I just thought I'd point out and humiliate whoever it is that is posting these things. Here is the first place where this person posted: http://jiveturkey705.livejournal.com/1785.html and here is the second (which is my most recent before this post): http://jiveturkey705.livejournal.com/4894.html. If anyone has something to say to this person or about people like this please do. I just think it's really funny that they think they are accomplishing something. Oh and this is to "Anonymous," notice my current mood...

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:20:17 GMT

Soo my good friend Matt Hite took some sweet pictures of me on the beach wearing these glasses he found:

He found this postcard in a store shortly after taking the picture in the background. I don't know how it got out so dang fast:

Alban pissed on the floor

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:18:07 GMT

Ya so my roommate Alban pissed on the floor in the bathroom. His excuse: "I was trying to see how far I could get from the toilet and still get it in. When the stream was weakening I couldn't make it to the bowl in time." Ya and now there is a drying puddle of piss next to our toilet. Alban is retarded...

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:07:37 GMT

Dang I forgot to set my alarm last night and missed Core I today. Crap...

So yesterday Kayla messaged me (for those of you who don't know who she is, she's my ex-girlfriend). I think we're gonna finally be friends again. I've been waiting so long to be able to talk to her peacably and it's finally happening and I'm pretty happy about it.

Oh and today I'm gonna be out on the green (center of the campus) doing the Intervarsity table. It's gonna be pretty sweet. We're gonna go out and talk to people about Christ.

Charles Spurgeon quote

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:26:32 GMT

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as the knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

-Charles Spurgeon

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:54:49 GMT

So I'm faced with a few problems lately. Someone came into my life and I barely know her but I would really like to get to know her but I don't want to start possibly having some feelings for her if we do get to know each other. She lives in Ocala and that's what scares me. My question is how do I know exactly what God wants? Is it just a feeling I'll get after a lot of prayer? How can you distinguish whether the answer I get is just something that comes from me or if it is truely divine? I mean I know that if it is meant to be, then God will open doors and allow it to happen fairly easily, but what do I do until then? I have a problem with worrying a lot about things and thinking too much into things so maybe it is the best to just not worry about it until it does happen, but I don't want anyone to get hurt and I don't want to have to go through any pain if I do get to the point of liking her.

That was all just pretty much thoughts put down randomly but I hope you get what I'm saying. I need some advice. How do I know what to do? I'm confused....