Impact

Impact for the Kingdom of G-d!

That thought has been running through my head.

As true believer of G-d, our lives should make an impact.

We should be shaking the gate of hell in fear and breaking down wall that cause this block between people and Christ.

We don't have to be a fancy TV preacher, or even a pastor at all to make an impact!

G-d will use whoever is willing to be used by him. If G-d will use a donkey.....

Its giving up everything we think....our opinions on how things should be..... sucks!

We need to break away from our mind set, grab the heart and mind set he wants us to have.

Our main thing to do here on earth is to Live for G-d!

He is not going to let you have a boring life with no fun.....that is Budda or some other false god....that with a little "g"

The boring life comes from looking back on your life twenty....fifty years and realize that up to that point you had "fun" but made no impact that meant something.

As believer we MUST make an impact....

It is hard, scary, tough, painful, takes A LOT of FAITH but in the end it is worth it.

I've had to step away from friends, social status, "fun" worldly times.

I tell you, to this very day it is so easy to run back into the world than live for G-d.

But I never had so much fun and encouragement since I truly followed Christ.

Most Christians "follow" Christ but wander off so much......because we want to do our thing.

Why even bother by calling yourself a Christian if you are not going to fully follow Christ. You are only fooling yourself.

We need to come back to the fullness we lost in the garden.

The oneness with G-d.

To truly know what it means to dwell in his presence.....Always!

Are you ready to make an impact for the Kingdom?

Even if you never get notice....are you ready?

Written By: Kenny Leonard
Myspace: www.myspace.com/go_deeper
Email: soul_leader02@hotmail.com

CrossPointe Youth Website

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Randomly Weird Feelings

Ok, I know I do this quite often but here is another one, this on is going to be different from most any others. First off, if you reading this period, Thanks for taking the time to either be nosy or you just enjoy reading my notes/blogs

Ok so first of all, I'm 100% tired of giving into my selfishness and giving into the temptations put in my life. I am doing everything within my power to fix this but that main thing I need to do is just open my heart to God, give him my life. I live my life the best I can for MY GOD but I am only human. As I sit here tonight trying to think of things to do my first lesson/sermon for my youth group I can only think of all those worldly/sinful things I have allowed myself to do.

Right now I am listening to a song call "How he Loves Us", the Kim Walker version, if you haven't seen it you need to youtube it and just listen to the words . But its talking about how God loves us so so much. I mean think about it, he died a terrible death, he suffered, and what did he suffer for? He was beaten, and form my understanding you could see his organs through his ribs he was so badly beaten. Not only did he get beat, but carried a wooden cross that later he would be nailed to by his hands and his feet across a town and up a mountain. Then once he got to that top of that hill, he laid there on that cross and willingly let these men hammer nails through his hands and feet. then they hing him up mocking him, as he hung there suffering. Eventually he suffocated fro his own blood. That is so gruesome but that is the truth. Jesus, the human version of MY GOD did all this and for what? He did all this because he wanted to be an example of how to live a perfect life, how to have faith and work miracles. He healed so many people, loved everyone so much and he died for us, for all of our sins. "He became sin, who knew no sin", that is from Chris Tomlin's song Jesus Messiah.

Jesus became our sin so all we had to do is believe in him, believe in his father, except him into our heart and we are saved from an eternity of HELL. he lived on earth for us to follow his guidance and do the work of God as we are created to do. Anyway, Jesus went though all of that so we can act like he isn't real, so we can be selfish and disobey his every command. Why are we so selfish? Why is there so much hate, violence, sex, drugs, anything that is not of God? Why are people so selfish?

Anyway, so think about it. "How he loves us" The lyrics say this

Oh, how he loves us so, oh how he loves, how he loves us so.

think about that, this song is my favorite song and its not about anything but God love for you, Gods love for me. He Loves You, He died for you, he even went to hell for 3 days for you and me. Think about that for a little bit. Jesus went to the worst place ever, for YOU and for ME, and yet we don't believe in him or we just don't care about it. The name Jesus has lost its meaning. JESUS LOVES YOU as do I. Thanks for reading, I hope this has touched your heart and will also make you want to change your life. JESUS LOVES YOU!

Written By: Josh Hewett
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Email: Joshhewett@gmail.com

CrossPointe Youth Website

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Idols Upon Idols

idols upon idols

I was just in the middle of going over some research my little brother James put together....which is good. It is a research on why he believes in what he believes.

Other Christians should take a step back and really understand why they believe in what they believe. If you ask most they really don't know...

"Its because I always grew up in church and been around it"---STUPID...Their is so much more to it then that....

I'll save that topic for another day....maybe!

Just into looking at what James sent me, he put a verse from Jeremiah 10:12

Usually when I read a verse I read it in context so I have to read the verses before and after. Even sometimes read a couple of chapters before.

I read Jeremiah 10:11

Thus shall to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

G-d is talking to the house of Israel. Israel is a perfect picture of us now....WE DON'T GET IT!

So many time G-d has to come to the house of Israel for harden hearts and seeking after idols and not him.

Just like us even today. We don't have to bow down to a golden calf for some dressed up piece of wood with silver, gold and clothes on. This is what the house of Israel is having as an idol!

So what is our idols?

Cars? Friends? Video Games? Work? Money? Girlfriend/Boyfriend? Family? TV? Shoes? Clothes? Staying up with the Jones(young kids ask your parents)? Doing work in church for attention? school (doesn't mean drop out)?

What is your idol?

Idols are simple....what ever you put before G-d is an idol.

I'm sure we all have idols including myself. I'm not a perfect guy here....

These thing have made a place among us as a "god" because it consumes us and controls us.

G-d put it plan when he spoke to the prophet:

Thus shall to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

This things we are consumed by, didn't make the very universe we live in. The very air we take in.

G-d is so much bigger!

"It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain,
and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them"

Jeremiah 10:12-14

Written By: Kenny Leonard
Myspace: www.myspace.com/go_deeper
Email: soul_leader02@hotmail.com

CrossPointe Youth Website

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What Is Love?

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. 5 It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Cor 13:4-8 (ESV)

I was listening to “Came to My Rescue by Hillsong” on Youtube and in the video I saw a picture where “LOVE NEVER ENDS” was pointed out and I thought I want to find out where that is in the Bible and read on it a little, I don’t know why it struck me but I wanted to read it. So I did, and I found it was located in 1 Corinthians 13:8. I read the entire chapter 13 to find out why the writer, in this case who would be Paul I believe, would write Love Never Ends. As I read I found out that LOVE is not only a very powerful word, but if you have true love, nothing will get in the way of you the one you love. Nothing can get in the way of you and the one you love.

I think these verses describe and define love perfectly. This may not help you understand the feeling, but it will help you understand that love is way more than just a word. As I was sitting in church yesterday morning Pastor David said he hates the word Christian because it has been watered down so much, because someone who does not live a Christian lifestyle calls themselves a Christian just to give themselves a religious label. I would say the same thing about the word love, I don’t hate the word but as we all know this to has been watered down, because a 13 or 14 year old tells their boyfriend or girlfriend they love them when really, they have no clue what love is or maybe even means.

I don’t have an inspiring words, I just wanted to share this with all of you. Read the above passage a few times if you have to, but read it and make sure you understand it. And when your done, think about the word love and hopefully, your view on this word has changed. God Bless You All!


Written By: Josh Hewett
Myspace: www.myspace.com/Joshhewett
Email: Joshhewett@gmail.com

CrossPointe Youth Website

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Passion=Passion?

I rarely share what I pray about or encounter with Christ in prayer. I was just praying and all I heard the Spirit speak of was PASSION!

We hear about passion all the time. It really made me think of how the creator of this universe/world is passionate about us.

If Christ wasn't passionate about a relationship with us, he would have never went through what he did. He would have never taken whips to his back or have a crown of thorns on his head. He would have never let someone put nails in his hands and feet. If he wasn't passionate about us, he would never got up from the grave.

It shows you how our God is passionate enough to send his son to be murdered for our sins against him.

Its crazy how we are not Passionate for him the way we should. Some of us have passion but its this average, just to get by passion. I'M GUILTY! Trust me I am!

The creator of all this nature we look at and the universe we admire. That he is personally passionate to have a deep intimate relationship with each and every one of us.


In the middle of thinking that....my prayer to God was simple.

"God I know the passion I have for you can't equal the passion you have towards me, but my desire it to seek after having your passion."

Lets truly have a passion for our God! If you call him your Savior, Lord then ACT LIKE IT. Have that deep PASSIONATE desire for him!

Written By: Kenny Leonard
Myspace: www.myspace.com/go_deeper
Email: soul_leader02@hotmail.com

CrossPointe Youth Website

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What kind of friends do you have?

1 Corinthians 15:33
NIV - " Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."
NAS - "Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."


From this scripture you can get what you want from it but this is what I get. First I put 2 different versions of the same verse because they both help you understand it differently. I like the NIV where it says "Do not be misled" but then I like the NAS "Bad company corrupts good morals" to me this is what it means. If you are trying to like a Godly life but your hanging out with people who aren't Christians or people who say they are and don't try to live the lifestyle then they will influence you. I have seen this a lot and actually I have done this myself before. To anyone who is reading this please try to improve who your friends are if you want to live for God.

Here is a small story about something that happened to me and one of the first times I ever have seen God show me what he meant besides just telling me through other people. I was at my hotel room in Pigeon Forge in Tennessee. I randomly woke up at like 6 even though I had only slept for a few hours I was fully refreshed as if I had slept for 10 hours. Anyway, everyone was still asleep and I wanted to just go sit on our balcony and talk to God.

After getting dressed I went outside and sat down. TO explain what I was looking at, there was a big creek or small river, how ever you want to say it, in front of me. And as I sat there I began to just talk to God. Not asking for anything, just thanking him for being the God he is and for everything I have been given. As I sat there I saw 1 duck fly into the river. a few minutes later about 6 more ducks flew into the river and swam over to the other duck that was alone. one by one the ducks began to fly off but the first duck to come never left. within 5 or 6 minutes the duck was alone again. then again one by one a duck would fly in and swim over to the lone duck. before he swam away there were like 6 other ducks together then they all flew away together. This is what all this means.

God sent the ducks to me to show me what would happen to me as I got closer to him. The lone duck was me. He showed me that at one time I had no friends meaning when I was a baby. As I grew up I began to get loads of friends but I didn't have a relationship with him so I began getting the wrong friends. Then when I decided to have a relationship with God I started losing some friends. the closer I got the less friends I had until I felt like I was all alone in this world. But as I continued living my life for him I started making new friends. and by the time the all the ducks flew off together I had more friends and better friends then I did before.

The moral of this story is the closer you get to God, the less friends you will have, but you will in the end have more and a lot better friends than the ones you will lose.


If you read this please comment and let me know what you think. I hope in some way this has touched you and will help you somehow in your life. GOD BLESS!!

Written By: Josh Hewett
Myspace: www.myspace.com/Joshhewett
Email: Joshhewett@gmail.com

CrossPointe Youth Website

www.CrossPointeChurch.cc/Youth