by Josh Monda | Jun 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Oct 03
Posted by Josh
After lastnights VP debate Obama decided he had to change his tactics because of Sarah Palin so this is what he came up with.
This is satire.
Life, My Thoughts
Sep 16
Posted by Josh
Last-night on “Hannity and Colmes” Gianna Jessen shared some of her story.  If Obama was president at her birth she would be dead.  She handles herself well.  Check out the video.  This issue is going to heat up in this election especially with the fact that Sarah Palin’s baby Trig being born with Down Syndrome.  It is estimated that between 80 and 90 percent of all pregnancies diagnosed with Down Syndrome are murdered.  Watch the video below.
Life, My Thoughts, Spiritual Application
by Josh Monda | Jun 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well here we are with part 4 of our series on Who are you to judge?  Once again this is all coming from Matthew 7:1-6.  This stemmed from a conversation I had with a friend when he said that Matthew 7:1 was the most popular verse among teens (according to him).  So I wondered why and decided to launch this study on the verses found in Matthew.  If you want to use anything I have written be my guest.
What we are going to see today is that the judgmental critical person is actually deceived about themselves.  This is seen in verse 4 when it states ”Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?” Â
It is quite clear that the critical judgmental person has not given any thought to what they are doing.  How can we say this?  Well a person that actually puts thought into it realizes that they are just as human and just as sinful as anyone else.  This person has just as many motes in their eye as anyone else, and because of  this they have lost their right to criticize and be judgmental.
This person that is judgmental and critical is deceived on some many different levels here are a few.
This person is overlooking, denying, or ignoring that they also have sin.
1. Â When we judge others we exalt ourselves as gods. Â It is God’s right and who are we to take that right from Him. Â We are not worthy nor do we have the right to judge another (Romans 14:4; James 4:11-12)
2.  Our judgment of others only pushes a brother down and tears him to pieces.  It does not embrace him in compassion nor does it build him up.
3. Â When we judge others it becomes the beam in our eye. Â All sin is great including the judging and criticizing of a brother that has failed.
We also must take careful notice that the criticizer is not fit to judge.
The person that judges and criticizes is just as sinful as the next person but does not consider their own life.  However, it is interesting that this same person feels free to be critical of other who come short and fail, but refuses to look inward.  They spend a great deal of time condemning others, and then justify their own actions.
We also should not that the person doing the judging and criticizing is the weaker of the two. Â The person that is weak is the one who judges and criticizes the most, they do this because of their need to boost themselves over others all to feel good about themselves.
The critical judgmental person does not take time to examine themselves and this is for one primary reason. Â It hurts. Â It hurts to look deep within yourself and to see if their is anything that God needs to deel with and that is why so few people do it yet look at what God says “But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged” (1 Corinthians 11:31)
Many people are deceiving their own consciences when they judge and criticize others.  Let me give you a few things people do when being judgmental and critical they do these things because they think it makes it ok to judge and be critical (deceiving their conscience).
1. Â When they are judgmental and critical they try to be nice, and soft spoken, using soft words thinking this must make it ok to judge. Â
2. Â They will give some commendable strengths as well as passing along the other person failings. Somehow thinking this makes it ok as long as we pass something good along with the judgmental spirit.
3.  By prefacing the criticism with a statement that is it “constructive” we have all heard it.  Can you take “constructive criticism”?  Somehow we take what we have to say and twist and ad the words constructive to it and think that makes it ok.
I want this to be the last verse I leave with
There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes, Yet is not washed from his filthiness. (Proverbs 30:20)
Come back tomorrow as we see that this person that is being judgmental and critical is really a hypocrite.
by Josh Monda | Jun 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sep 29
Free Porn Book Porn-Again Christian
Posted by Josh
I was recently doing some online surfing and came across this free ebook on Mark Drsicoll’s site. Â This book deals with men and porn and is title Porn-Again Christian. Â All of the book is not there yet but it will be soon. Â Simply click on the link below and bookmark the site they also have an RSS feed. Â Warning this book will be very frank.
…some years ago I sat down and in one day wrote a small booklet about male sexuality that we published in-house. Since then we have gone through thousands of copies and literally cannot keep it in stock. I asked some Christian publishers if they wanted it, and they said it was too hot to handle and so they declined.So, I decided to just put it online and give it away for free. The book has had a small amount of editing and rewriting since its original version. We’ll give it away at the Resurgencea bit at a time in conjunction with the Song of Songs series I am preaching titled “The Peasant Princess.” Once the entire book has been put online, it will then be posted as a file that guys around the world can download and read on their computer, forward to their friends, or print copies of to hand out as they like.
I hope this thing goes nuts and hundreds of thousands of guys read it.
In closing, I want to say two things. One, a lot of folks will not like the content or tone of this book and I love them and wish them well. You get what you pay for and this is free. Two, a lot of young guys (and some older guys too) tell me they have been helped by this content and if God uses it to help some guys I would be overjoyed with that. So, let the critics fire away and I’ll gladly take the shots for the guys who are walking wounded in an effort to help them get their shield up and sword sharpened.
Until we see Jesus,
Pastor Mark Driscoll
Porn Again Christian e-Book
Life, My Thoughts, Spiritual Application
Sep 17
What are we waiting for?
Posted by Josh
In my reading of “Confessions of a reformission rev.” I came across this.
I am still not sure if most pastors are aware that their churches are comprised of people they don’t yet know. Â Those people will never come to the churches so the Pastor must go to them.
This is definitely not the norm.  Rarely do we see pastors taking this to heart.  This is once again a difference between a missional church and other churches.  The missional church believes in the fact and clearly teaches that everyone is a missionary what more the missional church teaches how every member can be a missionary.  To often the pastor pawns it off on the people and the people pawn it off on the the Pastor.  However the Pastor and the people must work in concert with one another.  Both must be out meeting knew people.  People are not just going to show up at our churches anymore we have to go get them.
Here is a second quote I found
It was at this time that I realized that our church would never have a sign out front that said “everyone welcome,” because I did not want everyone.
Now perhaps we would say that Driscoll is wrong for this. Â But is he really? Â How many churches have this idea that everyone is welcome and sure they say that but in reality they do not mean it. Â In fact certain people show up and they quickly realize they are not welcome. Â What about the person that comes in and causes division in the church are they welcome? Â We can think of many circumstance where people may not be welcome cant we? Â Something to chew on.
Life, My Thoughts, Spiritual Application
Sep 12
Change and grow don’t change and don’t Grow
Posted by Josh
I am reading a book by Mark Driscoll who is the pastor of Mars Hill Church.  The title of the book is Confessions of  a Reformission Rev.  I will probably post about this book throughout the coming weeks as I find things in it that I find interesting.  I am definitely intrigues by the book and love the way Driscoll rights though for some I am sure he would be considered harsh and brash.  While reading the book it was speaking about change and something really stood out to me.
For a church to grow it must also accept that the church will change. Â The problem with most churches is not that they don’t want to experience conversion growth but rather that they don’t want to change, which negates their ability to grow and is a sin to be repented of.
Over the years I have been blown away by churches that refuse to change.  Not change just for the sake of change but change in order to be most effective where they are at.  Instead they want to keep things they way they are the same music, the same standards, the same lack of vision, the same programs, etc.  In reality this is sin and should indeed be repented of. Â
If the church does not change I am afraid the church will eventually die.  By our refusal to look at and do things in a different way we are telling others they really mean little to us and worse we are often telling our communities that they do not matter.  We are to often inward focused and rarely outward focussed.  Instead of evaluating our community and doing inventory of how we can effectively reach it we get stuck in the rut of doing things the same old way, and think by some miracle people are going to be drawn to our church.  Sadly this is primarily seen in the fundamentalist mindset and the churches refusal to change to a Missional mindset causes stagnation within the congregation and breeds discontent for the generation that wants to be an effective force in their community.
The message to the church has to be clear Change and grow don’t change and don’t grow.
Life, My Thoughts, Spiritual Application
Aug 13
Death By Love – Mark Driscoll’s New Book
Posted by Josh
All I can say is wow I read the chapter online from this book and it was moving and amazing. Â I do like the way Mark rights. Â You can check it out for yourself Here
Or you can just click play below if you have high speed it should work.
My Thoughts, Spiritual Application
by Josh Monda | Jun 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well here we are with part 4 of our series on Who are you to judge?  Once again this is all coming from Matthew 7:1-6.  This stemmed from a conversation I had with a friend when he said that Matthew 7:1 was the most popular verse among teens (according to him).  So I wondered why and decided to launch this study on the verses found in Matthew.  If you want to use anything I have written be my guest.
What we are going to see today is that the judgmental critical person is actually deceived about themselves.  This is seen in verse 4 when it states ”Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?” Â
It is quite clear that the critical judgmental person has not given any thought to what they are doing.  How can we say this?  Well a person that actually puts thought into it realizes that they are just as human and just as sinful as anyone else.  This person has just as many motes in their eye as anyone else, and because of  this they have lost their right to criticize and be judgmental.
This person that is judgmental and critical is deceived on some many different levels here are a few.
This person is overlooking, denying, or ignoring that they also have sin.
1. Â When we judge others we exalt ourselves as gods. Â It is God’s right and who are we to take that right from Him. Â We are not worthy nor do we have the right to judge another (Romans 14:4; James 4:11-12)
2.  Our judgment of others only pushes a brother down and tears him to pieces.  It does not embrace him in compassion nor does it build him up.
3. Â When we judge others it becomes the beam in our eye. Â All sin is great including the judging and criticizing of a brother that has failed.
We also must take careful notice that the criticizer is not fit to judge.
The person that judges and criticizes is just as sinful as the next person but does not consider their own life.  However, it is interesting that this same person feels free to be critical of other who come short and fail, but refuses to look inward.  They spend a great deal of time condemning others, and then justify their own actions.
We also should not that the person doing the judging and criticizing is the weaker of the two. Â The person that is weak is the one who judges and criticizes the most, they do this because of their need to boost themselves over others all to feel good about themselves.
The critical judgmental person does not take time to examine themselves and this is for one primary reason. Â It hurts. Â It hurts to look deep within yourself and to see if their is anything that God needs to deel with and that is why so few people do it yet look at what God says “But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged” (1 Corinthians 11:31)
Many people are deceiving their own consciences when they judge and criticize others.  Let me give you a few things people do when being judgmental and critical they do these things because they think it makes it ok to judge and be critical (deceiving their conscience).
1. Â When they are judgmental and critical they try to be nice, and soft spoken, using soft words thinking this must make it ok to judge. Â
2. Â They will give some commendable strengths as well as passing along the other person failings. Somehow thinking this makes it ok as long as we pass something good along with the judgmental spirit.
3.  By prefacing the criticism with a statement that is it “constructive” we have all heard it.  Can you take “constructive criticism”?  Somehow we take what we have to say and twist and ad the words constructive to it and think that makes it ok.
I want this to be the last verse I leave with
There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes, Yet is not washed from his filthiness. (Proverbs 30:20)
Come back tomorrow as we see that this person that is being judgmental and critical is really a hypocrite.
by Josh Monda | Jun 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well we found out few days ago that my wife had to go on bed rest. Â I knew something was wrong when the we got to the hospital and the nurse was checking everything out and said this is not good we have to admit you. Â So after what was the second stay in the hospital and with Micah John at almost 31 weeks the Dr. said no activity you need to rest. Â No big deal right. Â Wrong this turns out to be huge deal.
The plan for us was to move on the 23rd of this month to MO that is now 3 weeks away and I am so in trouble. Â My wife and I kind of motivate each other and to be honest there are days I don’t want to do anything but there is so much to do. Â It is so overwhelming. Â I actually have alot done and maybe I am over exaggerating but it seems like so much to do by myself. Â What is awesome is that some of the ladies from the church have set it up for us to have meals all week long that is so great. Â I mean I like to cook but to cook, clean, pack, take care of Sarai it is alot. Â Now I know how my wife feels. Â
Ok so what makes it even harder is if my wife does not have the Micah before we leave then obviously we cant leave and if she does have him before we leave then we probably cant leave.  Crazy I pray God why would you be keeping me here longer there is a reason I pray He will show me.  Anyway so we will be sending everything well most everything we own to Missouri on Memorial Day weekend and Tzigane and I will head to Missouri with Micah later.  Well at least that is the plan for now.
Another thing moving is stinking expensive. Â I mean to rent a truck it is nearly 900 bucks plus our gas ouch. Â Plus our other vehicles that is not cheap. Â In addition my lease is for one year which is until July ouch again. Â
Well if you read this blog it is just kind of an update on things that are going on in my life which is no big deal ha. Â
Keep praying for Micah John Monda he is now almost 32 weeks. Â Pray for my wife because I pretty much keep her in bed all day. Â Pray that god will give us direction.
