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

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

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

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

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

I have three main beliefs in life and many other secondary beliefs. The very first and foremost belief in my life is that there is One God and His name is Jesus. In the Bible it says “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” and it also says “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” I’m an Apostolic and I believe without a shadow of a doubt that what the Bible says is correct and it is to not be doubted. Another main belief in my life is honesty. Once a person tells a “little white lie” they eventually have to expand that “little white lie” into a big one because people start asking questions about it. There is a saying that goes something like this, “if you tell the truth then you don’t have to remember what you said.” That saying is a statement and belief that I’ve built how I live my life on. The last main belief that I have in my life is love. Living life without love to me would be boring. I love my family, my one and only God (Jesus), my church, and I love my friends. Someone has to have love in their life or there will be something else in love’s place. Usually if someone does not have love in their life then they have hatred or strife. I view life as this little saying I have, “You only have one life to live, why hate and be depressed?”

Don’t know what credo means? The simple definition is: any system of principles or beliefs.

God Bless,
Bradley

Then there’s awesome church!!! I love my church (Truth Tabernacle) and love being an Apostolic young person! I wouldn’t and won’t trade it for anything this world has to offer!! As most of my readers know I am my church’s lead sound man. What does that mean? It means a lot of different things, but I’ll summarize it for you.. We have a very nice sound system and a very nice mixer, there are areas of it that we could improve on but you have to have money for that. We also have a very nice piece of equipment that let’s us record professionally. This was a somewhat expensive too, but it wasn’t too bad. In fact here in the next couple of months we (the other sound man and I) are thinking about adding onto this so that we can have all the drum mica recorded separately and not remixes like we are doing now. We make preaching CDs and we record all the special singing so that we can make a special singing CD and sell. We’ve made one in the past, but it was all remixed and so we couldn’t really make it sound better and more professional. (As a side note, if anyone wants to buy the first special singing CD please let me know.) Back in the sound booth during worship service we control the projector that displays the lyrics to the songs that are being sung. We also display the first scripture that the preacher reads. I personally am not a fan of this because some people no longer bring their Bibles, but that’s why we only do one scripture so that if someone really wants to follow the scriptures that the preacher is reading they will bring their Bible.

I’ve learned a couple things since I’ve made a blog post. One of those things is the fact that if you give God your tithes and then more than just the 10% that he requires, He will bless you. I’ve experienced that first hand. Ever since I got my job I’ve been getting paid every other week (I think that’s how it is) and so I get to pay my tithes to the Lord. Well the other week I was going to put the money into the offering and realized that I had money the a spot where I usually keep the money for tithes. I was confused by this cause I was pretty sure I had paid tithes last time.. Well just to be sure that I did pay it I put it in the offering. That week I got some side jobs to do that are earning me some extra money! It’s a total blessing from the Lord!!!

I’ve recently been getting some thoughts for articles. The thing is though that I’ve yet to have enough time to actually sit down and collect my thoughts together and write a good article. I want to do this so bad!! I’ll have to make some time to sit down and write an article. One that I really want to sit down and write badly is “What Will It Take – Part II”. I’ve got some other thoughts running through my head, but I won’t want to share them with you cause you might steal them. Lol :p

That’s it for right now.. I’ve got to start studying for a practice A+ test I’m taking tomorrow morning before I head out for a youth service that I’m going to in Guy, Arkansas.

God Bless,
Bradley

A couple weeks ago (12/13/09), I was lying on a pew face down praying and stopped praying for a minute. All was quiet, but wait! That’s not how it’s supposed to be! I laid there for another minute not praying and heard some adult voices praying, yet I was in a youth service and youth pre-service prayer. A couple of seconds went by and I heard something that wasn’t what I wanted to hear! The noise I heard was ever so loud that I’m surprised I didn’t hear it before, but yet that’s not what I had been listening for. After a little bit I finally recognized what I was hearing, this noise that I heard was people’s feet scraping the floor. You could have mistaken them for robots since they weren’t making any noise out of their mouth.

I thought to myself, “This can’t really be happening. I’m hearing this incorrectly.” And I didn’t want to look up because I feared that it was true. I finally did after a second or two, and my mind and heart was deeply saddened. I thought “My Lord, what is it going to take for all of us youth to bind together and have awesome pre-service prayer?!” I went back to praying and starting asking God what it would take for us to all to be in one mind with one accord, in unity and be on fire for him. While praying, I wondered if it would take us having a visiting young person in a regular church service for us to get on fire. It so happened that we had a visitor that was a young person (with her family), and I’m sad to say that we didn’t get on fire, nor did any of the girls pray with her.

I wrote down the thought “What Will It Take” and let it pass over me. Well, then December 18th, 19th, and 20^th, I was talking with someone from Louisiana; somehow,  it was brought up about the youth in that person’s church. This person told me about their church youth group and how they are all bound together and close. I found out that they weren’t like that a while back, but something happened and now they are close. When I heard the story, it worried me because I don’t want this to happen to my church’s youth group, but if it’s God’s will then it’s His will.

This person’s church youth group used to have a good amount of young people, but not all of them were into church. Yeah, they might have been going to church, but if a young person is going to last, they need to be into church. I was told by this young person that they had about half of their church leave this past year (2009) and because of that the young people are all close. This person said to me, “ever since half of our youth group split up, the remainder of us are sticking together like glue and we keep each other up”. When I read that, I was amazed and thought to myself, “Wow!!.. I wonder what it will take for my church’s youth group to become close like that…”

So, I now present you the reader with some questions that I wish you would answer in your mind and then if you want to, email me the answers that you have come up with. What will it take for the youth to be on fire for God? Why did I hear feet scraping the floor, instead of voices lifted up in prayer? What activities can be done to get young people involved in church and love church? Why do young people wait on pastor’s to ask them to do something instead of asking their pastor what they can do?

This article has been heavy on my heart for a while now, and I pray that I was able to express in words what I really wanted to say. It’s been burning in me so much, that I doubt I did a good job of expressing it.

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

First off, I got the idea to create a social networking site just for Apostolic young people around a year ago this month. I searched around a while for a script that made it easy to set up a social networking site that looked good and was easy for people to navigate around. Another thing that I wanted, was a script that took a person’s age and if they were under a certain age it wouldn’t let them join. After searching for a while, I finally found a pretty good script that did almost everything I wanted it to do, except I couldn’t figure out how to not allow people to join if they were younger than the certain age.

I found that script about four or five months after my first thoughts of a social networking site for Apostolic youth only. I had originally called the site “Apostolic Youth Connected” (a.k.a. AYC). Well, since I couldn’t restrict people who put in a date that stated they were under the certain age, I decided to stop messing around with the script for a while (it was also the end of my sophomore year and finals were taking place). So, since that didn’t work out and my school studies were requiring too much of my time, I decided to stop working on it for the time being. But before I stopped me and Aaron had already bought a domain name and set up a Twitter account, we also had decided to change the name to “ApostolicBook”.

Summer came and so did some major decisions. Aaron and I decided that since we had spend the money on the domain, we would try to get this going again, but this time we decided that we would build our own script up from nothing but our ideas and knowledge. It was decided that Aaron would do the main PHP, MySQL, and other server coding, while I would help him with that a little but mainly do the main CSS and styling of the website. As the summer went on we really didn’t get much finished, expect Aaron got some things here and there on the back-end done.

Recently there has been some major work being done on ApostolicBook. On September 29^th, 2009 Aaron and I talked about what we wanted to do and how we want things done. After much talk and some research we decided that we would have a document online that was shared between the two of us (if you’re wondering, it is stored on Google Docs). We then set a couple of dates to get things done by a certain time because I knew we probably wouldn’t get stuff done if we didn’t set dates.

The first two dates we set was on October 6^th and October 13^th. On October 6^th we set that we would have the Initial Design Document completed, which included the basic features, first version of our color scheme made up, and the first sketch of the user profile layout. For October 13^th, we have set that we will have the “First layout draft complete”. This includes a first draft of every page that we have come up with right now in our Initial Design Document.

The first draft of the color scheme has been chosen and the picture to the left are a few of the colors chosen. I’ve only included a few of the colors, cause if I did show you all of them, what would be the point of having a first launch date? Ha-ha

As ApostolicBook is under development, is there something that you as a user would like to see? If so, then please speak up and leave a comment on here or send us a direct message on Twitter.

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

Please watch this YouTube video of a trailer of a move that is coming out about 2012 and "what’s going to happen":

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As you saw in that video, they predict that the whole earth is going to be flooded because an astroid or "Plant X" is going to swing by out planet and mess up the magnetic poles. Which in turn will make earthquakes, huge tsunamis, and the earth to go crazy and flood the entire earth.

I don’t and won’t claim to know the Bible good or barely at all compared to people that I know. But I have read the whole book of Revelation and I do know what God promised Noah and the human race after God flooded the whole earth for the first and last time. In Genesis 9:14-16 it says, "¹⁴For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. ¹⁵For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. ¹⁶And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth."

From that scripture, God has promised the human race that He would never flood the whole earth again. I personally know that God keeps His promises and doesn’t not keep them. We can see His promise that he made to Noah to this day by the "bow" He set in the sky, we see it when it rains. His promise to us can be seen by the beautiful rainbow in the sky.

I personally believe that the 2012 isn’t going to happen, but it really makes me wonder if it’s related to any judgments that were prophesied in the book of Revelation. In Revelation 6:12-17 it says, "¹²And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; ¹³And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. ¹⁴And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. ¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" In verse 12 it says, "…the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;". Please do NOT take me by my word, but I think that 2012 "ending of the Earth" could very well be the opening of that seal, but that’s only if the rapture has taken place and the church is out of here. Which means that if it actually is (which I have no idea, these are just my thoughts) one of the opening of the seals, then the rapture will have to take place here some time VERY soon or else the time frame won’t work out right. I also don’t think anything will happen if the church isn’t out of here, because then that give credit to the world and those that had originally "prophesied" it.

So that leaves me with this question, what do you think about this 2012 theory and how it relates to the Bible? Some believe in it (2012) with their whole hear (like the two girls in my science class), while other laugh at it. Will it really happen or is it just a joke and hype for someone to get rich?

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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