My New Job
…OK…I’M GONNA START writing here a bit more regularly since there’s just so many AWESOME things happening around me… and i want to share it! i’m quite sleep deprived at this point, but nevertheless for family, friends, and other of my readers’ sakes i’ll complete this post with due dilligence 🙂
so… i flew out to do a 3 day training for a new I.T. contract that I just acquired; all thanx to GOD! The work will last perfectly 5-6 weeks, just before my scheduled trip to Indonesia. I’ll be updating the computer systems being used in several healthcare facilities. So far the work has been tough, not because the work is too much, but… I have a hard time seeing the many sickly people onsite while being wrapped up in doing my job…because all i really want to do is leave the ‘stupid computers’ alone and just love on all the hurting people!! i want set the captives free! I started praying while updating one of the computers and I told God how I really was feeling… so He told me to keep praying for them. I know He is answering my prayers and will make a way for me to minister to these people in a much greater capacity without restraint. I will go to hospitals and the sick will be healed! even the dead will be raised in the name of Yeshua Jesus!! The captives will be set free!
*** Thank you for healing these many people JESUS Messiah ***.
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An Emblem of Love
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. – Isaiah 50:6
I am reminded of a young mother whose face was badly disfigured.
Her little girl was continually ridiculed by the children in school because
of her mother’s appearance.
When the little girl was old enough, the mother explained to her that
when she was a baby there was a dreadful fire in the apartment and,
although the mother was able to save the little girl, the mother herself
suffered very severe burns in the process. From that day on, the little girl
was no longer embarrassed about her mother. Every time she looked
into her mother’s face it was a reminder of just how much she was loved.
Is it possible that, in addition to the nail prints, there were additional
scars-perhaps where His beard used to be-that caused their difficulty in
recognizing Him? Are they still there? Does Jesus still bear the marks of
His humiliation?
In the Book of Revelation, John is propelled forward in time some several
thousand years and is granted a vision of the throne of God. In
Revelation 5 we find “the lamb as it had been slain,” apparently still
bearing the scars of the cross. They say that the only man-made things in heaven are His scars.
When Jesus returns to rule Israel, He proclaims,
“And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.”
The marks of His humiliation are also the marks of His glory.
Furthermore, I’m sure the most significant aspects of the cross were not
the physical or physiological aspects. I believe it will take us an eternity
to even begin to understand what it cost Him that we might be with Him.
He was born of a woman so that we could be born of God.
He humbled Himself so that we could be lifted up.
He became a servant so that we could be made co-heirs.
He suffered rejection so that we could become His friends.
How precious our Redeemer is! Have you really thanked Him lately?
or HAVE YOU EVER??
Copyright and exerpted from: http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/52/
Posted in BrenT's ThoughtS, Jesus Revolution and tagged best friend, humility, Isaiah, Jesus Revolution, joy, King of the World, love, Saviour, Yeshua by Brent with 1 comment.
i kinda want one of these
I stumbled upon this cool blog by Alpay Kasal who is quite an ingenious inventor.
Just take a look at the fun art and cool technology toys that he creates and consequentially gets to play with, such as the one in this video:
Posted in Art, Featured Websites, Technology and tagged Alpay Kasal, Art, creative, fun, fun technology, interactive mirror, inventor by Brent with 1 comment.
The Elijah Revolution
The Elijah Revolution:
After God sent me to participate in The Call – D.C. held in Washington D.C. on August 16th 2008, I became part of this exciting movement and dedicated myself to a lifestyle of prayer and fasting!
The Call – http://www.thecall.com/
Posted in Jesus Revolution and tagged abortion, end abortion, fasting, gay marriage, God, homosexuality, Jesus Revolution, laws of california, prayer. lou engle, prophetic, proposition 8, revival, stop abortion, the call, Yeshua by Brent with no comments yet.
Jesus is Awesome – The New Estatics Continues!
I’m going to indonesia with these guys in September!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqMVEsPGEN4&hl
Check out my travel page for more details about my our trip!
Posted in Jesus Revolution, Travel and tagged benjamin dunn, drunk, getting drunk, getting high, God, high, holy spirit, Jesus Revolution, john crowder, joy, joy revolution, miracles by Brent with 2 comments.
nostalgia
welcome to my online turf… www.brentchristian.com. it’s nice to be back after almost 8 years of not being online! i certianly couldn’t foresee (or even scarcely imagine) being away for so long! i have been a computer junkie since 9 yrs old and i ‘lived’ online well before the internet was widely available. while it seems the idea of even having an ‘online identity’ is still a rather new concept for many, i was keen to the idea back in 1993 which makes me seem old since it may be difficult for you to imagine life without the internet now, however i’m only 29 years old. my personal site started out hosted on my own server thanx to an old box running Slackware 1.7 and it died shortly after my last post on 7/7/01. i miss all the cool people and the good vibes of those who where web journaling back before the Pyra folks started calling us ‘bloggers’. if you check out some of those old websites courtesy of the way back machine you’ll see what i mean… or umm probably not, it’s one of those things where you like had to be there. anyways, i love/hate computers and have been working with them since 1988, i used to run up the phone bill dialing BBSs and actually miss those times (not the 1200 baud connection though, or monochrome screens). the sad thing was that i was still playing on BBSs when radiply more and more than just an elite few started to enjoy the ‘world wide web’ and with higher and higher speeds, mind you; while i was stuck out in a small rural town literally chomping at the bit. when i finally got set free from small town hell i started my own computer company during the dot com pre crunch era… ahhh where am i now ….and what am i talking about?? wow this is seriously ancient boring stuff, but i bet you read at least 90% of it. that is time you’ll never get back my friend, hope you don’t mind LOL!! next time read faster using spreeder.com. …ohh yeah, i would call myself the ‘internet rock star’ if that title didn’t properly belong to ben brown.
enjoy my new personal site www.brentchristian.com and thanx for visiting, you big reader you!!
peace out – brent
Posted in Biography, BrenT's ThoughtS, Technology and tagged 1993, 1995, BBS, ben brown, bloggers, brent christian, computer history, online, prya, slow connections, web dev, web developer, web journal, web log, weblog by Brent with no comments yet.
Alana Zanello
The name Alana \a-la-na\ is pronounced ah-LAH-nah and carries these beautiful meanings:
“precious; awakening”
“precious; offering”
“attractive; peaceful, harmony, noble.”
“the bright fair one, the beautiful child!!”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqL9PTbrb_c
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOECq7XK4Rk
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internet rock star?! huh??
hello, i’m brent christian (as if that wouldn’t be obvious)
i’m using this post as the oppourtunity, of which it certianly is, to clear up any confusion or delusions that you (the web community) or me-myself-and-I may have ever had or currently have concerning this matter.
I am NOT an internet rockstar.
Everybody, that knows, knows ben brown is the real ‘internet rockstar’!!
Although… I do have a history with both worlds…
as a geek >> internet
-or- (choose wisely)
as a band member >> rockstar
Posted in Biography, BrenT's ThoughtS and tagged adventure, austin, ben brown, brent, brent christian, christian, internet rockstar, monte peck, Music, rockstar by Brent with 1 comment.
Jared and Amy Christian Featured on www.couchsurfing.com
Check out my brother and his wife, Jared and Amy Christian on
CBS 7 – Your Eye on West Texas.
doing an interview about ‘couch surfing’ and using www.couchsurfing.com as a practical travel tool for aquiring alternative sleep/housing accomodations.  As you will see in the interview, they plan on using couchsurfing.com while on their world wide travel adventures. They will actually be living in 12 different countries and spending one month in each over the course of their travels!
More interesting info about their mission trip and involvement with the World Race can be found here:
Jared’s Page:Â http://jaredchristian.theworldrace.org/
Amy’s Page:Â Â http://amychristian.theworldrace.org/
http://updates.theworldrace.org/?filename=june-2009-world-race-route
http://cbs7.com/news/details.asp?ID=11900
Posted in Family, Featured Websites, Travel and tagged Amy Christian, couch surfiing, couchsurfing.com, Jared Christian, Jesus Revolution, Mission Trip, Travel, traveling, World Race by Brent with no comments yet.
The Economics of Giving It Away
If you are you guilty of looking to web dev projects as a means for producing your multi-million dollar money tree you’ll probably (or probably not) be interested in this facing-the-facts article from Chris Anderson, the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine:
The Economics of Giving It Away
(…I really like the article-complementing-image by John Kuczala, LOL)
It’s absolutely funny to me that companies are still figuring out which business models work and which don’t out here in the world wide web. Also amazing is that most people still don’t understand that real money made on the web has still not been realized in 10 years worth of flaming pies-in-the-sky and dot-com-hype. It’s especially strange to me that, after coming back from being almost completely unplugged from the internet world for nearly 5 years, i’m not seeing anything much has changed other than the amount of purpose driven, content driven, or/and otherwise just cool sites have been almost swallowed up in junk-for-content sites which are now over consuming what would have been perfectly good bandwidth… (it would have been a grave sin in 1995 to allow a lot of this www waste to be published).
I am really happy though to finally see standards compliant web browsers and design elements being separated from content.
Ohhh and now comes cloud computing!! LOL when it rains it pours?!
Posted in BrenT's ThoughtS and tagged 1995, brent christian, cloud computing, dot com, dot coms, economy, internet, internet startups, start-ups, tech companies, web 2.0, web design, web dev, web development, wired by Brent with no comments yet.