Bradley's Blog

April was a very quiet month for me on the internet and especially on my blog. Since my last post (New Computer?) I’ve had a couple interesting things happen and quite a few good things happen.

Of the many good things that have happened, my favorite one is the fact that I get to officially get to go to Camp Niangua! This camp is hosted by Diggins Apostolic Church and the pastor is Bro. Herion.  I wasn’t going to be able to go because we had heard from somewhere that you had to go with a youth group and you couldn’t just go by yourself. Well that information got denied/shut down because it wasn’t the truth at a Youth Rally that Bro. Riggen’s church in Olathe, KS (New Life). After the service was over they had some activities like basketball and I think they had kickball, I was saddened because they didn’t have any volleyball (lol)!! I was watching some people play basketball because I prefer to watch and not play since I can’t play (I’m not good at it) and I got to talking with a young man from Bro. Herion’s church (I can’t remember his name for some reason).  We got to talking and as time went along more and more people came over and started talking with us. By the time they were ready to leave, I think there was their whole youth group that went to the youth rally standing around in the circle. While we were all standing around talking and having a good time, their youth leader came over to me and asked me if I was going to Camp Niangua. I told him I wanted to and then I told him why we thought I wouldn’t go. He immediately shot that idea down and told me that I could go since I was going to be going by myself. I got happy about that news because I really wanted to go! Something awesome happened at that youth service, but I’ll keep that for myself right now. Lol

I went that Sunday night or Wednesday night after the Youth Rally and talked to my pastor and asked him if it was okay for me to go to Camp Niangua. He said it was and when he told me that I could have jumped and danced for joy because I was so happy!! Needless to say I came out of there smiling and people was wondering what I was so exuberant about. Haha The rest of this story is just that I filled out the forms, had my pastor sign the form(s?), and then mailed it with the money. So I am officially going to Camp Niangua!!!!

The only news that I want to share with the world (there is a ton of more news that the whole internet/world doesn’t need to know since it’s private stuff) is the fact that I’ve picked up a project or two. The first project I’ve picked up is a website and that’s kind of on the back burner since I’ve got to do a lot of research before I can actually do it. The other project is an idea that came to me a couple weeks ago. This project is to create a script of one of the stories in the Bible. (No I won’t say what it is because someone else might take my idea.) After me and the person who is more than likely going to be helping me write this script get done, I’m going to take it and record it and make it a dramatized version. This is going to be a learning experience for me because this will be the first dramatized project that I have done. Why do I want to do this? Because my pastor (Pastor Chalfant) has wrote some very good novels and I asked him if he would like to have them as audio books and then maybe a dramatized audio version of it. Creating a dramatized version of his novels would be very long process and I want some experience before I do this.

Do you have any ideas for scripts for me? Or have you wrote and good scripts that you would like to have made into dramatized audio versions? If you do, then please feel free to email me at: admin [at] graywolf336.com. I would be more than happy to try it out, but it would take me some time before I actually could get it done.

Before I go, here’s a link to some images of me when I was younger than I am now. The image up above is the most recent picture I have of me right now and it’s honestly not very good in my opinion. Here’s the link: My baby pictures

Enjoy and God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

Well.. School has started back up and the first full week of this semester is drawing to a close. What do I have to say about it? HARD!!! Why do I say it’s hard? Because I have two English classes right after each other, then I have Precalc.

If you go and visit my PhotoBlog, you would have seen a picture of my schedule. The url to that certain post is: http://www.picshere.info/?p=9 and there you will see the picture. As you can tell it isn’t any where near as easy as last semester!! But with God’s help I will survive it and make good grades, so please pray for me haha

But why the title “Books, Books… Reading”? The reasoning is because in those two English classes I’m reading different books in them. The book I’m reading in my “20^th Century Literature ” class is title All Quiet on the Western Front. The    book we’re reading in my “Contemporary Literature” class is titled Where Are The Children?. Some of you probably haven’t read any of them, but the book All Quiet on the Western Front is a very graphic novel!! One of the scenes in that book is this:

…The fire lifts a hundred yards and we break forward. Beside me a lance-corporal has his head torn off. He runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain.

I have a weak stomach for stuff like that, and whenever I read that part I started to feel light headed (like I am right now after reading that while typing it). This book is getting very good yet at the same time very graphical and that almost makes me want to stop. But since it’s for a grade I’ll keep on reading it. Haha

Well this is all for right now.. I do have some thoughts in my head for a couple of articles I’m thinking of writing. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you would know what one of them is. But that’s all I’ve wrote for tonight haha

Good Night and God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

You’re probably thinking what I weird title this post is, but the the more unique you make them the more interested a reader is. But this article isn’t going to be long like the rest of mine are, it’s going to be short because I’ve got a church dinner to go to here in a couple of minutes. And I’ve got to set up a little sound system there, so I’ve gotta be there early than normal.

But what I am really posting about is this picture. This is part of the code for ApostolicBook. If you click the picture you’ll see a bigger image, and then see how many “divs” there are. Looks confusing? Yeah it probably is to you if you don’t know anything about code and if you haven’t seen the whole code of the website (which is almost all of my readers) then it is confusing. :p But that’s a ton of “divs”, why so many? Because ApostolicBook is going to be a table-less website design, it does require a bunch of “divs” that are styled by CSS. I enjoy doing it because it’s challenging to me and my mind! What you think of this many “divs”?

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

P.S: Aaron Ogle is another person working on ApostolicBook and Jared Hilton is helping us out.

I was at lunch last Monday (November 2^nd) listening to some people sitting beside me. I got disturbed because they were talking about this certain person that we all know who is not only a pot head BUT also big into going to church. He is not apostolic.

They were talking about how this certain person smokes pot, does acid, and other things like that. Then someone spoke up and asked, “Isn’t he big into going to church?”

The original person talking answered, “Yes, he does, but he says ‘God created it, so why not use it and do it?’.”

Another person spoke up, who also does drugs, and said, “Exactly!”

My mind immediately started going 100mph thinking! Here is what I was thinking, and what I have to say to that.

The first thing that came to my mind was Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. In Genesis 2:9, the Bible says,

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

God created the ground to make plants and trees which then produced fruit and food. Then in verses 16 and 17 of chapter 2 it says,

“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest there of thou shalt surely die.”

You see, from the beginning of the human race, we’ve always had rules to obey and follow.

God created everything that was in the garden of Eden, but did he make everything for Adam and Eve to eat? Obviously from scripture the answer is no. God created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it wasn’t made to be eaten by the human race. Then what was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil created for? That’s a question I’ll leave open for pondering since I don’t know the answer (even though after talking with some people, I have something in my head of what I think it might have been made for, but it’s probably not the true answer since we’ll never know until heaven!).

Now back to my original thoughts. Since weed, pot, and drugs were created, does that give mankind the right to smoke, chew, or do anything of that sort with it? I feel the answer is no for three reasons.

One reason is because of the garden of Eden example. The second reason is because our body is God’s temple. Second Corinthians 6:19-20 says,

“¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

If our bodies are the temple for the Lord God to dwell in, then why would we want to destroy or alter our minds or modify our body to our liking by doing drugs? The third reason is because everything was created for a purpose.

So, here are some questions that I present to you. If God created it, then was it made to be used by mankind? Or did He create it for a different purpose? Did God put something in us so that we know what we can and cannot do of the things that are on this Earth?

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton