As some of my readers know (those who are my friends off the internet and have talked to you recently), this weekend I got back home from another youth conference and this time it was PEAK. I’ve heard about this conference before and mostly I’ve heard bad about it because it’s such a big conference and many of the people who had sad bad things about it have never gone it to, but had heard about it “through the grape vine”. I, myself, had heard bad things about it but I had also heard it through the great “grape vine”. But I had also heard a ton of great things about it from people who had actually gone, and what they said over-road what the other people had said, in my mind. So, I had decided that if at all possible I was going to try and go to it. I’m very thankful and grateful that I was able to go!!! Even though I only got to go Thursday night and all of Friday, it was awesome! The focused a lot on the preaching and less on the worship since there was so many people there that when we did worship, you barely had much room.

The service was Friday night. The preacher was Bro. Cody Marks. The place was PEAK 2010, Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Spirit Bank Center. The message was for me and was awesome! The part that got to me the most was when he asked the congregation some questions and some of there were “Stand if you believe in one God”, “Stand if you back and support your pastor”, and a couple of other questions and most times almost everyone stood up. Then he asked this question “Stand if you are currently active in teaching a Bible study” and man that question hurt. Why? Because one I couldn’t stand up and two only about 1 out of 75 people stood up. Then the next question hurt so much that I cried because it hurt and all of a sudden I had a huge burden. He said “Stand if you have won someone to the Lord and discipled them and they’re still in church” then when he saw the amount of people who stood up, he cried like I’ve never seen a preacher cry while preaching. There was only 1 out of 150 people that stood up then (the ratios aren’t 100% correct, but they are my best guess)… It was horrible cause that was only a small amount of people compared to the 3000+ people that were there!!!! I cried and wept and began to pray cause the burden started to really press on me.

He preached for a little more, but had to stop cause the Holy Ghost was moving so strong. After a couple of other things happened and as many people that could fit in the front were down there, he asked for all the preacher’s sons to go on the platform and pray with each other.  I left where I was standing and praying with a guy in my church and went on up there. I started praying with some guys who I didn’t know, but then a couple minutes later I saw a guy who I was friends with and we started praying together. This went on for a while and then I don’t really remember what happened because some preachers came and prayed for me, and I became completely filled with the Holy Ghost all over and more. The next thing that I do really remember was laying on the ground and speaking in tongues, but my mind was going over a plan and ideas for outreaching for young people and teaching Bible Studies. I knew this wasn’t from my flesh because I had never really thought about this and honestly had no desire to do anything of the sort. Well the service ended a while later, or could have been a short time later cause I honestly don’t remember I was so out of it and full of the Holy Ghost.

After the service was over, I found a young man in my church who has brought some people from his school to our church and one of them is actually seeking the Holy Ghost right now.  I talked to him about trying to get a youth outreach together and learn how to teach Bible Studies. He was all ears and more than willing to do it, so I went away from our conversation feeling good! Well I got home Saturday night and was dead tired, in fact I went to sleep very shortly after getting home. That Sunday night when we was having youth service, two visitors showed up for the youth service. We had it and later I was to find out that they had actually been there before when I was out of town one time.  Then regular church service was going on and pastor was preaching really awesome, one of his best messages in a while (probably cause I haven’t heard him for a while, but needless it was a very AWESOME message!!!). But during his message they got up and left cause I found out later that one of them were “uncomfortable”, I could see why they were but I don’t know if that was the true reason why they did. But after the regular service ended with a awesome alter call (or after preaching), I sat down and talked with my youth leader about a ton of things. One was youth outreach, another was youth Bible studies, and another one was a name for our youth group.

The discussion with him was long and very good. We discussed youth outreaching and asked him what he thought of a different style of youth outreaching. I liked it because it’s not the norms of what we do on our regular outreach and you’re very sure of talking to someone (and they can’t slam a door in your face!!! lol). If you wanna know what he suggested, email me at: bradley (@) greywolf336 (.) com (this email is a different one then my personal one, so if you have my personal one email me there and I’ll answer the same). Then we discussed youth Bible studies and came to the conclusion that this was a must and we talked about different ones that we could do. We’re yet to make our final decision, but I’ve got one coming in the mail sometime soon and hopefully it’ll be a good one to do for the youth. As far as the name for our youth group, we’re undecided on a couple. But I can’t tell you, or it’d ruin the surprise on the one we finally did decide on and if we have something special for the launch of it.

Last night (7/26/10) I got a call around 5:45 asking what I was doing and if I was doing nothing, then did I want to go on some outreach. That call was from my youth leader, so since I wasn’t doing anything last night I agreed. We went to a pretty rich neighborhood in Lansing, KS and did some outreach there. I was starting to get discouraged because we didn’t have very good results. Nobody seemed to be answering the door, a couple told us that they had their own church and then didn’t want anything to do with us, and one person treated us like we were trash. I almost was ready to stop but then thought “that’s exactly what the devil wants us to do” and so we kept on. The last house that we did was worth the whole time we spent out there! This family had just moved into the area and the lady that answered the door seemed very interested, she seemed even more interested when we told her that we had somethings for our youth group. We told her that she’d have to see for herself what our church and church services were like! I’m praying that she and her family will come sometime!!!

Then tonight (7/27/10) I was driving home from youth prayer and some fellowship with some people in our youth group, and then that question I first asked at the very start of this blog post hit me. I started looking around while I was driving home and realized that were a ton of people outside walking around. Something in me stirred and I wanted to stop and invite some to church, but sadly my flesh and it’s “shyness” kicked in and I didn’t. When I got home I felt very sick because I didn’t stop and the thought about maybe because I didn’t stop, someone would never hear this gospel and not have a true chance of going to Heaven. I made up my mind right then and there that I was going to try and do as much personal outreaching and personal evangelism as possible!

How? By overcoming my flesh and my “shyness” and talking to as many people as I can about church and about God. Inviting them to church and then if they like it or even show a little bit of interest, ask them if they would like a Bible Study. Where would I do the Bible Studies? I want to try to do them at public places, like McDonalds and other public places like that. Why there? Because more than likely they’re gonna be more comfortable there and who knows, someone might be sitting behind and act like they aren’t listening but they’re straining to hear what you’ve got to say cause they see you’ve got a Bible out.

I’m ready to start doing personal evangelism and with the Lord’s help, I would like to win at least 10 people within 2 months! But I need your help! (You my readers!) I want your suggestions on some other things to do to help me in outreach and personal evangelism! Have any? Contact me or send me an email at bradley (@) greywolf336 (.) com – If you do send any, I’ll be in great thankfulness of you!!!

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

P.S: Sorry for such a long post! It’s probably the longest one I’ve done yet! Lol – Also why does everyone think my birthday is Friday?? Lol I wasn’t born on July 30th….

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

Here’s just a quick update about something I recently did. As many of you know I love coding, especially website coding. Many people have asked me why I like it so much, and the only truthful answer I can give is the fact that it’s sometimes a challenge. I love challenges even if I get mad or angry while doing it. Why? Because after I’m done and get it working 100% correctly, I’m happy and excited about it.

With that in mind, you also know that I’ve coded a couple websites. Including but not limited to My Pastors, My School’s, My School District’s Welcome Center, and mine (new one in the process).

As of just recently, I can now add another one to that list. Also in a couple days from now I’ll be able to add two more, but for now I’ll just talk about one.

This picture is a screenshot taken from my phone (since it’s what I’ve typed up this blog post with) and it’s of the site I can now add to my portfolio. It’s for a real estate company as you can maybe see from the screen shot. It is a Joomla! template and it’s also a Joomanager theme. There was a little bit of a learning curve going from just coding a Joomla! template to adding and making sure that Joomanager worked and looked correctly. I was excited to do this site and glad that I got it done before my deadline. The link to the live website is: http://www.svcliving.com/ even though they currently don’t have it all the way up as they are learning how to use Joomla and Joomanager. Just thought I’d share this with you all.

And upcoming sometime soon is a post called “Who Are the Best Actors”. I’ve still got a ways to go before that post is complete, but I’m hoping it’s going to end up good.

God Bless,
Bradley

One hour till I leave for prayer at church and tonight I’m playing the bass during church.
One Lord, One Faith, and One baptism – Ephesians 4:5
One more day of school!!!
One more day of school food
One way to Heaven
One more year of high school for me left!
One year till I graduate from High School
One more month till I leave for Camp Niangua 2010!!
First year of going to Camp Niangua! And yes i’m 100% excited for it!!!

This list could do on and on, but since I’m leaving in about an hour (1 hour) for before service prayer, I had better start getting ready. I’m thinking of wearing one of my new shirts that I just bought, but can’t decide which one to wear… Guess we’ll see since they are actually going to be taking pictures tonight and I was told I have to put them up online. So, I’ll make a blog post about it after I get them uploaded to my church’s website.

(Pictures and more after the break!)

I haven’t got to wear them yet because they are yet to be washed. But I’m not sure when I want to wear them first because I want to wear them at a special occasion or youth service, youth camp, or youth conference.  I’m also wanting to find out what different ways I can/should wear each shirt. For example the “White on Black” shirt (the one pictured on the right), how should I wear it? One way I was thinking about wearing it was wearing a white tie and a black suit. What you think of that? And what are some ways you think these shirts should be worn? And what should they be worn with? How do you let me know? Email me or leave a comment or text me (if you have my number). Thanks,

Bradley
Hint: Click on a picture to view a bigger image of it and to see some images then what meet’s the eye. There are a total of six pictures, but as you can see only three of them are shown.

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