I have arrived!!!Wahahahaha!! Today was my first real work day with my new unit, not at all what I expected I can say that much for certain. I am on camp Las Pulgas which is in Camp Pendleton in California, way out in the boonies. All there is here is a small store and a gym other than that we are 15 miles away from anywhere. The plus side is I am on the first floor of my new Dorm, the rooms are bigger and the people I work with are pretty cool. They made me the training NCO today, should be an interesting challenge. Training NCO for the most part is a desk job which requires taking care of everyones administrative troubles, as well as making weekly training schedules. My job coming into the Marine Corps was being a switchboard operator which is really interesting to me. The trouble is that I am with an Artillery Battery now, artillery batteries are much smaller and more moblie than the Communications battalion I was with. That means the bulky Comm gear I am used to use I will never touch again. That also means when we go to Iraq I will be much closer to the action in order for us to shell the "terror" out of Iraq.
I have not set any goals for my time here yet, but when I do I will post them here and if you (if there us a you) Does anybody read this? Oh well, (sigh) if you do please read my goals when I post them and check up on me from time to time to see if I am meeting any of them. Oh yeah please pray that i can find a good church and fellowship out here as well as be a witness in my work place. Enough for now peace!!!

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I have learned to be content in all things......Ok, not really things are just looking up in Jamesland today. I wrote the other day about the "breakup" I think I sounded selfish and pitiful now in hindsight, that is the beauty of blogger we can laugh at how serious we take ourselves at times.
The Lord has truly given me peace concerning the decision to just be friends. I think that is because I had the blinders on and wasn't willing to look at reality. The reality is that me and Lydia make good friends but God is just leading us in different directions. Was I willing to compromise with my service to God? It appears I was almost ready too! I am so thankful Lydia was more righteous than me in making this decision.
I know I have been called to be like Jeremiah in his time. We are living in a post Christian time, in a post Christian world. All restraints and warnings from committing evil have been removed, because we as Christians are afraid to tell the truth. Because we have taken on the World's philosophy. Steadily, you can see and trace where we went wrong and where we continue to go wrong. You cannot tell your coworker that his adulteress relationship is wrong because it is not your business and after all who are we to judge others? Why continue to say peace, peace when there is no peace? The word "evangelical" has come to mean ignorant and bigoted in these last days. I am sorry to say we are not giving them much to work with.... Every group that I work with now seems to be saying how can we get interest in our ministry going? Next thing that happens is the Rock band comes in, the message of the cross is over spritualized and made to be a self help guide. The draw, or appeal to Christianity seems to be that we have everything the world has music, movies, cool clothes, finacial guides, dieting books the Christian way, And eternal life!!! Why not be a Christian? We have forgotten to be Holy. The people of Isreal spent 40 years in the desert learning the difference between holy and profane amougnst other things of course. They were distinct becuase of thier God first, then the Law, traditions, and unity. They like us exchanged the truth of God for a lie. The wanted a king like the other peoples around them. They wanted fantastic god's of prosperity ones which are easily controllable. We are the same as them therefore our ministry should be the same as the prophets of old. We need to look ahead to the enduring city. You must remember that men love darkness, they don't want there deeds to be exposed to them. So of course there going to be opposed to the cross of Christ. Men don't try Christianity and find it lacking, they try and find it too difficult. They hated Christ when he came and they will hate us, let us not become just another choice amoungst many. Let us tell the truth that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Christianity is exclusive, it is not easy, but it is the right way. "You" "Me" We are sinners, by God's holy standard. Let us stop comparing ourselves amoungst ourselves. We cannot worry about whether or not our ministry is bearing fruit or not. Our Idea of a good sermon should not be whether or not you felt good afterward. Are we so spiritually bankrupt that only the sensational will draw our attention? We are so desensitized! We see a commercial with starving children on the screen and change the channel thinking "I pay tax money so that programs are set up to help them, I am doing my part." It is not the goverments responsibility it is ours. Where is our sense of outrage at sin? Let us wake up we have been lulled to sleep in the cradle of the world with all of it's creature comforts. We need revival, revival which only comes with a proper understanding of Biblical truth. Where is our Martin Luther, or our Billy Graham? I dare say they are asking this same question. We are, I am ashamed of the gospel, because I both fear and love man more than I do God. "He loved the praises of man more than his God" I do not want this said about me. My desire is to serve God in fear and trembling. I will leave you with this; " I am not ashamed of the gospel, becuase it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile." been reading alot of A.W. Tozer, Francis Shaffer, and Charles Colson lately......needless to say I am a little fired up. Hopefully I have zeal backed with knowledge, this much I must pray. Keep your eyes on the Son....

Still writing from Oki. should be gone in a week though I hope. Things have been ok here just looking back on my blogs and realize that nothing I write in them reflects how I act during the day. Strange I have a very dramatic flair in me I suppose it is from my drama days. I was reading on Joanne's blog how she said she feels like a turtle on her back. I thought it was funny and also true of my own life. The reality is if it was not for Christ I would continuely be in this same state from day to day. I feel like I am always running behind, while others with apparent ease waltz through life. I really doubt this is the case but in my worse moments I would like to believe it was so. Man I can't wait to have my life as a normal person back! Military life is such a hassle I never realized the basic rights which could so easily be taken for granted. I am all the more thankful for them now I suppose so it is a good trade off. I feel good today and have nothing to write about just putting random thoughts down so bear with me if you happen to read this mess. Oh well I am done maybe I will write more later.