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Hi

Its me again. Lst night I was working at the JUST 10 event in Aston Park. J John, as usual, was a legend. The commandment this week was ‘THOU SHALL NOT COMMITT ADULTERY”. He was ace at talking about how to stay away from infedilty and stick to one partner for life. Very inspiring.

The elections stuff is getting on my nerves at the mo. Im not sure who to vote for yet but I really do believe it’s right to vote. Thousands lost their lives in the World Wars so that we could have freedom of democracy in this country. That means the right to vote has been won for us at a price.

The only problem is who to vote for. The parties all seem to spout such rubbish all the time. They are always bickering at each other and don’t really inspire you with confidence in their policies.

Anyway, pray before you vote and trust that God will help you to vote wisely. We have a good local MP called Caroline Spellman who is a Christian and goes to Knowle Parish Church.

Anyway, try this for fun:

Go to http://www.google.com , type in the word liar and click I’m Feeling Lucky and see what comes up….tee hee!!

See you later

Stuart 

ps. If you ever watch the news, heres a funny game. Type in this URL and play away.

http://www.deadbrain.co.uk/election2005/games/article_2005_04_20_5910.php

Hi

Things have been pretty normal the past few days. Lots of things to do as usual (which I don’t mind really although I do get tired) but nothing to report.

Isn’t God great?! He is without a doubt. Thats my experience and I know He is real and He loves me becuase…..I know!!

COME ON!!

Stuart

ps. Heres something to think about…..Anyone can build a nest but not everyone can lay an egg! Hmmmmmm…!!

….and finally

As everyone knows, God hates fags. So isn’t it time you got the message?

Maybe you’ve tried everything. Hypnosis, nicotine patches, ultra-ultra lights, coughing in tongues. Well, how about the ultimate aversion therapy? Just gaze into the bearded face and tear-rimmed eyes of the one who has been successfully inducing guilt for centuries. And pray the Penitent Smoker’s Prayer: “Jesus, gimme a light, willya?”

Cough up for the Jesus Ashtray: only $12.

….only in America!!

I love Sundays! I didn’t when I was a kid because then everything used to be closed and everything went quiet and there was nothing to do but…..now though I get to spend it with my friends at Church which is fabaroony!!

Maybe the idea of church sounds boring to you but I want to say that Church is never boring. You see, if you think about church as a Sunday morning meeting, perhaps in an old, cold building then you’d probably be right but if you think about it as it’s meant to be you’d be wrong.

Church is family. In fact it’s the body of Christ (another time for that one!!) and meant to be the family of Christians on earth. It’s amazing that when you become a Christian, you get brothers and sisters all over the world which is ace!!

I love meeting with my ‘brothers and sisters’ cos its great and God does amazing things when we are together.

We had a Baptism meeting on Saturday night and there were 6 people being baptised. Each one of them shared their story of how they became a Christian. In each case, their lives had been in a mess but Jesus came in when they asked Him to and sorted them out. COME ON!!

Real lives changed by a real, and personal God. I find that incredible.

Then this morning in our church meeting, we had about 9 people who have decided to join our church, Solihull Christian Fellowship. It was great to hear their reasons and a bit of testimony. I was particularly encouraged because a family joined becuase of an event we ran in the park 4 years ago. Random but COME ON!! God is great!!

Anyway, Looking forward to another day tomorrow. Please God, let me get chance to share with the guys I take to college about You. AMEN!!

Goodnight

Stuart

….Meanwhile, back in the corrupted world where people don’t consider themselves valuable…..

Do you know that you are valuable? Its important to realise that you are ace! You are an incredible human being! You have worth! You should love yourself, not in a vain, bigheaded, pompous sort of way but in realsing that you are here for a purpose that no one else can fulfill; only you! You are unique. There is no one that has been born like you or ever will be.

Do you know that the chances of you being here at all are about 1 in 350,000,000!! Thats because one sperm fertilizes an egg and in one ejaculation a man produces between 3 to 500,000,000 sperm. AWESOME! That makes you special and incredible!

Jesus Christ said in the Bible that the 2 most important of the 10 commandments were that we should 1st, LOVE GOD WITH EVERY PART OF YOUR BEING & 2nd LOVE EVERYONE AROUND YOU AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF.

If you don’t love yourself very much then you wont be able to love those around you very much. The key must be the 1st one. Loving God and allowing Him to change your life through His amazing love and by the power of the Holy Spirit thus allowing you to feel how special you really are.

So may people consider that sex = love and satisfaction and intimacy etc etc etc but it doesnt.

Loving yourself enables you to love others realising that actually that is the most important thing. We don’t need to look any further than God for love ‘cos He is Love.

Prayer:

Dear God

Help me to know how valuable I am and how much You love me. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and let me have a real sense of You being close to me.

AMEN

COME ON!!

Stuart

Some people have too much time on their hands!! They invent things like this site:

http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/index.html

It’s great fun and you can morph your photos like the ones ive done here of myself:

Great fun, very clever,  but absolutely pointless!!

Stuart

Welcome back. Had a good day today on a Sexual Health day in Olton learning about the law surrounding sex and about STI’s etc. It really is a subject Im fascinated by and am passionate that young people not only get the facts but have chance to reflect and make wise choices regarding sex.

Relationships are vital to life! We all need them and want them. Whether it’s with moms and dads, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, teachers, youth workers, friends etc etc etc. We are born with a need for relationship.

If you ask anyone what they look for in a relationship I would think the list would include things like: love, trust, openness, honesty, good sense of humour, same interests, faithfulness, security, happiness etc.

Its a very positive list. In fact in the many times Ive asked poeple this same question, you never ever get negative words. No one ever says, for instance, “I want to get hurt in a relationship!” or “I want to be abused in a relationship!”…..surprise surprise!!

Intimacy is something else we need and we can find that in relationships but many people try to find that by having sex. What they actually fins is disillusionment and hurt. They think that sex is what they need to feel fulfilled but when the buzz is over, they feel empty and unfulfilled. However, sex in a loving, stable relationship like the one mentioned above can be fulfilling, exciting, amazing and all that,  because its not the be all and end all but rather the relationship is the important thing.

The negatives of sex are the things like STI’s, abuse, rape, pregnancy (for some), being used, pain etc. The positives could be pregnancy, closeness, excitement, excercise!!, fun, satisfaction, orgasm and loads more.

In a solid realtionship where there is trust, faithfulness etc, the negatives should never happen and the positives will be better. Orgasm is the high point of sexual excitement. Easy to get to for a man!! and yet takes longer for a woman so if she feels comfortable, loved, secure etc she will get there more often.

Relationship is vital to sex. Sex does not make a relationship work. Without sex you can still enjoy the fulfilling relationships!!

Young people need to know this and understand that they have a choice. They can wait for that right person who they can form a meaningful realtionship with before committing to sex.

Gods plan is that we find the right person and get married and then have sex. That way, you dont get the negatives and you get the positives! Gods ways are ALWAYS!!! the best ways.

Tune in soon for another episode of “ONE SPERM IS ALL TAKES TO FERTILISE AND EGG”

Stuart

We were in Solihull School yesterday doing a year presentation, followed by 5 sessions on Sti’s (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).

This is one of the most fulfilling and worthwhile things I have ever done in my life! For the past 5 years I have been to dozens of secondary schools spekaing about sex,sti’s, relationships and self esteem. I love it!

I love it because the information given in these sessions enables young people to consider their lives and the place sex has in them. So many young people (and older to) consider sex to be, at the best a pastime or something you do when you are bored or when you feel like it. The truth is so much more than that.

Sex is great and meant to happen but with is comes the need to to be wise and make wise choices ‘cos, as with every choice we make, there are consequences. Over 90,000 teenagers become pregnant in Britain each year and most are unwanted and unplanned. That makes me sad when you think that life is so precious yet we can ‘make babies’ and not even think beforehand about the resulting responsibilties!

Apart from pregnancy there is the looming epidemic of STI’s in this country. I say looming but indeed it’s already here. Thousands of people infected with Chlamydia, Gonnorheoa, Syphillis, HIV, Genital Warts, Genital Herpes etc. These things are real and ANYONE CAN GET THEM IF THEY HAVE SEX!!

These are percentage figures for rise year on year.

Its about making wise choices. Relationships are vital in this area to. We need realtionships……

Tune in to the next enthralling episode of ‘ONE SPERM IS ALL IT TAKES’….coming soon!                           

Stuart

Well, there we have it; a new Pope.Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI. A German….(5-1 5-1 5-1).

Im not part of the catholic church and all that (although catholic can sometimes be an expression for the church as a whole of which I am part…..) anyway!!…but Im glad they have a new one. Its been good to hear some good words about enagelism and telling people about Jesus coming from the Catholic priests and cardinals etc. I must admit I am a bit dubious about the Catholic church but Im sure there are some good bits of it in fact I know there are.

I dont understand though, they were talking today on the news that they hope the new pope can take the church forward with young people etc and yet….. they appoint a guy who is 78 years old…..they are up for change then….NOT!!

Anyway, I heard today also that anyone who is a baptised member of the church can put themselves forward for Pope. Loads of dosh, great homes, loads of adoring public but you have to be celebate…Ill have to give it a miss!!

This cheesy image is one of many you can find at http://members.aol.com/JesusImages/index.htm - well worth a look for a good laugh yet a little sadness at the same time that someone still thinks this is what Jesus looked like!!

Hmmmmm!!

COME ON!!

Stuart

It’s Beth’s birthday today. She is 14 years old. Flip! I must be getting old.

I still rememebr the day she was born like it was yesterday. I love her to bit’s. I think we have a great father and daughter relationship which I really enjoy. We share a sense of humour which is possibly not a good thing but we have fun anyway.

She is beautiful.

Speak to you soon

COME ON!!

Stuart

ps. She’ll kill me when she sees this photo!!

Me and Sue had a great weekend away in Oxford. The hotel was a bit srange at times but ok. Squeaky beds, naff tv, cold food, foreigners all over the place, strange old woman (I think she was the owner) chatting up young blokes at breakfast, but ok!!!

On Saturday, we visited Blenheim Palace which is the home of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his family and also the birth place of Sir Winston Churchill. Its an awesome place as these places go and we had a great time on a guided tour with other people and a rather posh lady guide.Blenheim is named            after one of battles fought and won by the first Duke of Marlborough several hundred years ago and this was against the French. There are some great old tapestries hanging in the house which tell the story of us beating the French and I found it quite amusing when the group behind us were all French and having a tour with an English tour guide who was speaking French. I was just thinking how much fun you could have with that one!!!!

Sir Winston though is a hero of mine. God raises up great leaders at crucial times in History and I believe he is one of them. I’m not saying he was a particularly holy sort of person but that God used him. If it wasn’t for his determination not to try and make a truce with the Nazis, we would never have won the war and would probabaly now be speaking German and working as slaves!!

He was an incredible person with many failings (who hasn’t!) but it was a little bit emotional seeing his grave in a little church yard down the road foad from Blenheim palace and thinking how much of a large figure he has been in our countries history and how much we we have to thank him for.

On the other hand of course, he was nothing campared to Jesus Christ who made the ultimate sacrifice for us when He died on the cross and gave His life for us. He died in our place. An awesome thing which takes a lot of understanding but is the best news you will ever hear. Check it out!!

Anyway, Ill speak to you later.

COME ON!!

Stuart