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17 December, 2012 - Lorem_Ipsum | 0 Comments

My name is Drew Leach. I aspire to be a christian game designer and currently attend college at LA Tech as a 4th year in Communication Design. I have been a christian since 9th grade so that was..... 8 years ago? Geez I'm old. lol I love a good discussion about anything the bible says because anything that challenges my faith always strengthens it. I DO NOT know everything or even anything close to it. But i love learning every new aspect of Gods personality and love searching for them. So ask away!

I am a leader in a christian fellowship called Chi Alpha and have been for 3 years now. I lead a lifegroup weekly which is our sort of bible study. It is named such because we believe in discipleship. Jesus shows us that a group of 12 men can drastically change the world.

I play all kinds of games but my pc isnt exactly up to par to play most. I am primarily a console gamer. I prefer ps3 but currently have a 360. my game library (for console) is very slim but i play competetive and co op, everything from mass effect to halo and battlefield.

I cant wait to hear from the community and will be posting things that i talk to my lifegroup about hopefully every weekend. more or less anyways. :-)

Have a good game and give God glory for your victories. :-)

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R2-P4NDA 3 Feb, 2013 @ 2:01pm

My favorite part about this scripture doesn't come up til 1 Corinthians 14:

"Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification."

A primary reason Paul says this, I believe, is because in order to phrophesy, which is not some mystical occurance, you have to here from God. You converse with Him when you pray, so why not ask what He's saying about a person, or situation, and relay the info? That's all prophesy is!

R2-P4NDA 3 Feb, 2013 @ 2:01pm

The cool thing about the gifts is that everyone has the ability to opperate in all of them, yet each person "specializes" in usually only one. Sometimes you'll be annointed to heal, maybe this annointing is an assignment for you for 5 years and God says "go heal somebody". After those 5 years you could be given something else to do, the annointing shifts to another gift, which He will always prepare you for. God will never give you something to do without the provision to do it, it's a principle that can be found all over scripture. That being said, don't feel stuck in one gift, take them all for a spin and see what happens.

Lorem_Ipsum

3 Feb, 2013 @ 9:17am

So last week in life group we started a series about the gifts of the spirit and soon we will be moving toward activating and practicing those gifts.

Our main scripture was 1 Corinthians 12:6-11 which names all the gifts of the spirit. We got side tracked on a few things and I suppose I'll post those tangents later because they were equally if ot just as good as the message.

The biggest thing that stood out to me when reading this passage was the way that the bible separates healing and miracles. The reason, I believe, this is is because healing shouldn't be a 'miracle' for a Christian. Healing should be the average, the everyday for every Christian. That was just a little something to chew on. :-)

It says to one he gives the gift of wise advice to another special knowledge, another great faith. To another the gift of healing, to another the gift of miracles. Prophesy, discernment, other tongues and interpretation.

More later. Post your thoughts!

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