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Be Encouraged!

February 23, 2011

Encourage yourself!This past weekend was my brother’s wedding, and it was a very nice and big wedding! Both my brother and his wife were raised in the truth, the Apostolic truth.

After this wedding my parents and I stayed the rest of the weekend and into Monday to make sure some things happened. While we stayed there I had fun fellowshipping and hanging out with other young people in that church. After church we (some young people) went out to eat and then wanted to hang out. We decided to go walk around downtown and just have fun. It was fun and good fellowship! I thoroughly enjoyed it and next time I’m there I want to do it again. :)

Then that night, church was superb! The spirit of God and presence of God was there so powerful that even preservice prayer was amazing. Worship service started and it just broke out from there, I know that I got the refilling of the Holy Ghost that night. It was a realizing service that I started to see a couple of things, which I won’t say since it’s not the right time to.

After service I met some people that were there the entire weekend, but for some reason I hadn’t meet them yet. I’m so glad that I did get to meet them be cause I became pretty good friends with them and have been talking to them. I was talking with one of them about somethings and that’s when another realization hit me.

What was that? I should be encouraged. How did this come about? Well in a round about way, by discussing what we wanted to do in life. We, the Apostolic youth who have been raised in the church, need to be encouraged because you’re not the only young person out there who wants to and has goals for being in the church.

1 Samuel 30:6 says “And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.”

If you’re a young Apostolic lady, be encouraged because you’re not the only one who has a dream of becoming a preacher’s wife. If you’re a young Apostolic man, be encouraged because you’re not the only one who wants to become a preacher or pastor with a Godly wife. If you’re a young musician who wants to play in church, be encouraged and practice and pray and if it’s the Lord’s will it will happen. If you’re a young Apostolic with any sort of dreams or desires, pray that God has His will and if your dreams are His will for you just be encouraged!

Some final words for this little post are to stay encouraged and stand for this truth! Don’t back down!!! Try and get as much fellowship with fellow Apostolic young people as they will normally encourage you and have fun. :)

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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2010 Colorado Hunting – PreHunting 2

October 22, 2010

Coulds Over Mountain Day two of being in Colorado, I’m dirty. No, no, no not a dirty mind! How could you think like that? I’m referring to being dirty as in dirt, dust, and no shower. Man it has been a blast so far!! Yesterday after we left the restaurant, we headed out to the camp ground and got to our cabin. Got everything unpacked and unloaded, including both four wheelers. Once everything was settled and in place where we thought we wanted it, it was time!

Time for what? Glad you asked! :) It was time four wheel riding! Not just any riding, but mountain trails riding! We left camp grounds around 4:30pm and didn’t get back till around 7pm.. In that time frame total fun happened! Went up through trails where the high mountain was on the left and a shear drop off was on the right and the trail itself was rockly bumpy. That was the fun of it, controlling the four wheeler and if you messed up  God help you. Another thing that happened while going on the trail was it started to sleet/rain. I had my sunglasses on and was glad I did cause it hurt my face at times, but it was fun!

We’re currently at Wal-Mart doing grocery shopping for stuff we forgot.. I’m tryping this up as I push the cart around lol I think we’re gonna go riding around more later, so I’m looking forward to it.

God Bless,
Bradley

P.S.: Enjoy the awesome picture I took with my phone, the Palm Pre!

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2010 Colorado Hunting – PreHunting

October 21, 2010

It’s October 21st, 2010 and I’m making this blog post from Silt, CO. We’re currently at Steffie’s Place which is a home restaurant and, according to Bro. Rick, is a “nice place and we should buy it”. You can tell it’s somebody’s home restaurant cause they offer everything from Mexican food to American to some Italian. We’ll see how good this place actually is.
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According to my thinking and math in my head, we’ve been traveling a total of around 15 hours. Going through Western Kansas wasn’t all that exciting and we acutally passed through it during the night last night, and then we stopped in Denver, CO for the night. We then got up around 7am and headed out traveling again. Once we left Denver, the country side started to get interesting cause of the mountians. I’ve took a couple pictures with my phone, but mainly took pictures with my camera… Hopefully attached to this post is a picture or two, and then once we get back I might post some of the other pictures.

Am I getting excited? Yeah, slowly but surely. More we go towards the place where we’re staying at, the more I get excited. It’s been feeling good to just relax and not really worry about anything!

This is all for now. I’m hopefully going to post another update once we get an elk or something…

God Bless,
Bradley

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Class of 2011!!!

August 19, 2010

The light! Oh so bright! I almost can’t stand to look at it! It’s so painful to the eyes yet so exciting to my mind! What is that light?!?!

Oh wait! It’s the light at the end of the tunnel they told me would come one day! I’m not talking about the light at the end of the tunnel in Third Day’s song (even though that’s a good light!), but I’m talking about the light that equals High School graduation! :)

Today was the first day of my senior year! I’m officially a senior at Lansing High School and going to be a graduate of the Class of 2011! This year isn’t going to be near as hard as the other years I’ve had because I’m only taking a couple more serious classes and all the other classes aren’t hard. I’m praying and hoping it goes by pretty fast so that I can graduate and start going to college and then start my career… Not sure why I want to get my teen age years over so quickly, but I do.

Shout out to all Class of 2011!!!!

God Bless,
Bradley

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Trail Mix or Cake?

August 17, 2010

Trail mix or cake? That’s the question I want you to think about and which one do you use. You ask yourself “use?” because normally the only use that people have for trail mix and cake is to eat it, but I present to you a thought to make you think about something. Ready? Then read on!

Tuesday nights since PEAK have now started to be out nights for youth prayer meetings, and as of recently we started getting together and learn how to teach Bible Studies and practice teaching them. We’re using a youth Bible study that is made to be simple and is made for young people. It only really takes about 45 minutes to teach it, and it’s honestly pretty good!

It has an introduction part to it and our youth leader told us to try and not read directly from what they have wrote, but take the meaning of it and use our own words. Great idea!! But wait… I’m not that creative and good of something to say, but nevertheless I tried it. I don’t know where exactly it came from, but while I was practicing the Bible study with my partner I spoke some pretty good things for an introduction.

The introduction of this Bible study we’re using basically says people today treat the Bible as a mixed bag, describes the Bible, and that the Bible is a nicely laid out plan of salvation. How did I put it in my own words? If I can remember correctly here’s how…

The first part of the introduction talks about how people now days treat the Bible like a mixed bag. I decided to mix it up and use my own words, so this is what I said. People these days treat the Bible like how they treat a trail mix. They love those M&Ms, raisins, and peanut butter M&Ms yet they leave out the nuts cause those aren’t really that good. People pick and use which part of the Bible they like and which parts of the Bible fits the way they’re living now so that they don’t have to change any. The Bible warns us about that in Deuteronomy 12:32:

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

(Please note that these aren’t exactly how I said them earlier because I can’t remember 100% correctly what I said… Sorry!) The other part that I really used in my own words was the last part about the Bible being God’s plan of salvation for us. I’m sure you like a good cake like the picture up there looks! Well, behind every good cake is a good recipe! If you follow that good recipe step-by-step and follow all the directions, you’ll end up with a good cake. That’s like what God has provided us when He gave us the Bible. He laid out the plan of salvation for us in the Bible and if we follow it correctly, we’ll have the salvation that he wants for us. But if we skip one step, then we don’t get God’s salvation we get some messed up salvation that God doesn’t recognize. If you’ll fill in all the blanks and follow along with me in this Bible Study, you’ll hopefully see the recipe for God’s salvation for us! Let’s begin!

After reading this, which one do you use? Are you a Trail Mix person? Or are you the Cake person? Ponder it!!!

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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Effects of Stress

July 13, 2010

Many of days now it seems as if everybody is under stress, whether it be good stress or bad stress. I know that I am usually under a whole bunch of stress and a majority of it isn’t the good kind. I’ve noticed that while under stress, there are many things that happen to me. Some of those things include pimples, gray hair, not talkative, deeper concentration, and patient.

Pimples are a major effect for me. (pictures) Before camp I was all stressed out and my face was full of them. As camp dates got nearer, I got even more stressed out because some things happened. My face was looking very horrible and I almost didn’t want to go to camp because it looked so hiddious. I decided that going to camp would do me a huge favor and I would get closer to God. I’m very thankful that I did go because it was a blessing and I had so much fun there! (As will soon be described in a blog post.) While I was at camp, I wasn’t stressed out or stressing out about anything. In fact, I almost had a care free attitude and I was a very different person down there. People who met me down there didn’t and couldn’t believe that I was actually a shy person cause I was that different. That was all fun and good, but when I had to start heading home stress hit me. When I got home around 4 (or so) I looked in the mirror and could see three pimples already forming. I wasn’t happy about it, but that’s when I realized it was an effect of stress.

Some people would laugh if I told them that I have gray hair at this young of age, but being 100% honest I do. How? Because of stress. Back before I started running the sound system, I had a nice one shade of brown hair color. Now you look at me and you’ll see that I have gray hair inside of my brown hair. I look a lot older now but I’m not complaining!

When I’m under a lot of stress and pressure of things, I tend to talk very little! In fact I would rather not talk at all when I’m under tons of stress because I might release some pressure out and yell at someone, not really meaning to. If I want to communicate with someone and not have an worries about telling, I write things out or type things out.

Since I’m not very talkative when under stress and pressure I do a lot of thinking and tend to have deeper concentration. If you look back at some things I’ve posted, you might notice that they tend to be a little deeper (*cough* Brianna *cough* :-p lol) and easier to read. One of those articles I think was the “What Will It Take”.

One of the last things that I’ve realized stress does to me (there are many more, but these are the main ones) is I can be very patient. To some that can come as a surprise since under stress and pressure, people tend to lose their patience and explode. I have been told that I’m one of the most patient people someone has meet, and especially an IT guy. I’m praying that the Lord helps me keep my patience and not lose it, especially when I get under a ton of stress and pressure!

Please don’t be grossed out too much by the pictures posted below, as they are pictures of pimples right after I got back from Camp! Shows how much stress does effect my face and looks.

God Bless,
Bradley

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Sun Burnt!

July 12, 2010

It’s summer, it’s July, and it’s almost Akron Youth Conference time. What does that mean for me? Vacation! So far this summer I’ve already had one one week vacation and that was going time well spent at Camp Niangua! (And I do plan on making a post about that camp, but it’s going to take some time since it’s the best vacation and best thing that has happened this summer!) Well, this week I’m on another vacation and this time it’s for Akron Youth Conference. I’m excited for it, but defiantly not as excited for it as I was for Camp Niangua.

You’re thinking, so what does that have to do with your title “Sun Burnt!”? Thanks for asking! Lol – Before we go to Akron Youth Conference, we take the weekend and Monday for our real vacation and relaxing time. This year we decided to go to the beach/lake. That was a good idea and I supported it! Except for the fact that now I’m deadly burnt.. Some could call me a red Indian I’m that bad.

My whole body almost feels like it’s on fire, but thankfully it’s just my face, arms, and feet! Here are some pictures what they look like, and to forewarn anybody my feet are the most horrid thing you’ll probably ever see!!! Lol – Here are the pictures…

As you can probably tell, I got really sun burnt!!! The only one that’s going to hurt me is my feet because of my soaks and shoes rubbing them and hurting them. Hopefully I get used to them by the time Akron Youth Conference rolls around, which is actually tomorrow night at 11pm. They are having a lock-in instead of a banquet like they used to… I’m worried honestly because I don’t know that many people and I don’t know if there are going to be many people there. I guess we’ll see. I might make a post about it, but not sure yet. Good night and everyone else try not to get sun burnt if you’re out in the sun for too long! Lol

Bradley

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Apostolicbook Entry 3

July 9, 2010

About four months ago I posted Apostolicbook Entry 2 and was hoping that by now we would have our first Alpha testing going. Has that happened? No. Why hasn’t it happened? Because we could never decide on a layout we wanted and none of us could design a logo worth keeping. Also, during this time we lost one of our team members, Jared Hilton. Has that affected us any? Yes and no. No by the fact that we all really weren’t motivated and yes because he did have a good idea or two.

A week or two ago I talked some with Aaron Ogle and we decided to try our hand at things again. After a couple tries of trying to create a logo, I gave up and told him that we needed to find an Apostolic graphic artist. He agreed and I started looking, and it was God that I found one (and a very good one at that). Apostolicbook now has it’s very own graphic designer. What does this mean for us and for everyone else? The world!! Or at least it seems like that.

Last night we had a so called “business meeting” that lasted from around 8 till 11 (my time). You’re thinking “Wow that’s a long time!” and you are correct, but we needed that. I think we all went away from it feeling very accomplished. We got several things much needed out of the way. Of those things, the main one I’m happy about is our logo! It’s very sweet looking and most defintally will be recoginzable any where. I won’t give any details of what it looks like (and won’t post pictures of it), as it’s not time for that. :) Cause like the Bible says, there’s a time and place for everything!

We did a lot of other things about Apostolicbook last night, and they are all very important too. The last thing I’m going to say is this… Be sure to start checking our Twitter, Status blog, and our homepage for updates! Cause who knows, sometime soon we might reveal a little here and there!

This is all for now! Hopefully you can tell I’m ready to start doing stuff on Apostolicbook!!! :) God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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How I Wanna Be Remembered

July 8, 2010

I saw a billboard on my way home today from Guitar Center that was from a company advertising how much they charge for complete funerals. This thought crossed my mind and started the gears in my head to turn. I started thinking about how I would want to be remembered as and what I wanted to be remembered for doing. It’s an interesting topic that really has made me think and that’s why I wanted to write about it.

How do I want to be remembered like? I want to be remembered by people in the world as someone who was different then everyone else, and there was just something about him. What do I want that “something about him” to be? That I was an Apostolic young person (or just an Apostolic). To the world I want to be remembered as someone who was nice, you could tell him something and not worry about it getting spread around, dressed nicely no matter what the event or place was (like no shaggy look), and loved church and Jesus!  I also think it’d be cool to be remembered as someone who could help out with computers problems and be a patient person.

How do I want to be remembered in the church/Apostolic people? Mainly someone who was on fire for God and knew how to pray and worship. Those last two things are something that I need to work on if I really want to be remembered for those. Some other things that would be sweet to be remembered by is that for church I was always dressed top of the line no matter if I was just at my home church or I was at a church camp or at a conference. Another thing I would like to be remembered by is that I could figure out a sound system and help a church sounding good.

There are some other things that I would love to be remembered for doing, but they aren’t as high on the list of things as above. Being able to code almost any website design thrown at me would be something neat to be remembered by, but it’s such a small thing that it’ll probably be the last thing remembered of me. Being a good photographer would be something else, but I haven’t taken many pictures in my life to be remembered of it.

I know this post seemed to be mainly about me and it’s very rare that I’ll talk about myself this much, but that thought really was stuck in my head and I had to get it out. Later I will be making a post about a little phrase Bro. Ben Weeks said when he was preaching at a night service at Camp Niangua, “Don’t judge me by my snake bite.” Very good meaning behind it and I’m praying that God helps me write it and do justice to it. Hopefully it’ll be wrote by a week from now.

God Bless,
Bradley

P.S: Brianna, was this “deep”? :p lol

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New Shirts

May 7, 2010

For those of you who are following me on Google Buzz, here’s an update on the link I posted a while back. But for those of you who aren’t following me on Google Buzz then here’s some news for you! :)

White shirt trimmed in black. Black shirt trimmed in white


I was searching online for some new shirts/clothes to buy and get for myself since I’m in need of some new clothes. Well I’ve always like this style of clothing where the shirt is one color and the collar, sleeve collars, and front pockets are a different color. I search on Amazon.com and many other sites, but usually the shirt was very expensive and the shipping was an insane amount too. I finally decided to search on Ebay.com for these type of shirts and to my surprise they weren’t as expensive and the shipping wasn’t very bad (especially if you got combined shipping). I had to wait until I got enough money to buy them because at that time I was sort of broke. Well that time has come (payday!) and now it’s gone. I have bought these two shirts that I have pictures of!! Hopefully I will get them by the end of May (hopefully a lot sooner!) and that way I can wash them and make them comfortable if they aren’t already. At camp that I talked about in my last post called Life, I do plan to wear one if not both of these shirts.

So what do you think of these shirts? Like them? Dislike them? Think I was stupid for buying them? Don’t really give a care about them? Wish you had them? Wondering why I have so many questions? (lol)

Also one more question before I go (it’s late when I’m posting this!!!), how should they be worn? Casually or dressy? Like should I wear them how the pictures above suggest? Or should I wear them with black dress pants and a tie? Or how about a suit and tie and these shirts? Or could be both ways? I’m very much open to suggestions! Throw them at me!! :)

Good night and God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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