Demon Hunter’s New Album

Demon Hunter is coming out with a new album.  They say this album will be their best album yet.  But every bad says this.  But I believe Demon Hunter in this case.  Every album they put out is better than the last.  They are constantly working hard to improve everything about their music.  Ryan Clark, the lead singer for the band, posted his excitement for the up and coming album on frontpage of their website demonhunter.com on  Jul 21, 2007 – 5:15 pm: We are getting really close to wrapping up the album. I know I told you we were more excited about this new material than ever before we started. Let me just say that, although EVERY band ALWAYS says their most recent record is their best, this new record is without a doubt Demon Hunter at our very finest and most creative. We’ve really pushed the boundaries of the music we’re used to playing in Demon Hunter, and I believe, in metal music in general. It’s a very diverse record. I tend to view Demon Hunter as a fairly diverse band to begin with, but there is some material on this record that covers some very new ground. I sing in ways I’ve never sung before. The guitar tones are different than any previous record. There are songs that are FAR faster and more brutal than we’ve ever done. Overall, I feel this record will undoubtedly make you all pleasantly surprised. That’s all for now. Stay tuned! -Ryan  Hunter fans get ready for awsome new Demon Hunter material coming to a store near you!

Everday Is A Gift

It is easy to take life for granted .  You can become relaxed and complacent when going through your day to day tasks.  But you and I must remind ourselves that our lives are  gifts given to us by God.  Our lives are in God’s hands.  God takes and gives life.  So let us all remember that any of our lives could be taken by God at any time.  And if we are given long lives, may we not waste the extended amount of time we are given.  No matter how much time we have left on earth, let us use it wisely and be thankful for God’s gift to us-the gift of life.

Hey Guys

Right now I’m just hanging out.  I’ve had a great summer.  I’ve been able to relax and hang out with some awsome friends.  I’ve also boxed up everything in my room.  My family is moving.  We have a few houses that we are trying to narrow down.  I’m also going back to college in a few weeks.  Life will dramitically pick up once I’m back to college.  My college years are moving faster than a speeding bullet.  I only have 4 semesters left of college.  I’m siked about focusing in on my major.  And I am even more excited about entering the proffesional world of work.

Minisode Network

There is a channel on myspacetv.com called the Minisode network.  On this channel you can watch classic television shows from the Sony Pictures television archive  such as Charlies Angels, T.J. Hooker, Who’s the Boss, Fantasy Island and the newer cancled show Dilbert.  The channel is called the Minisode Network because they convert 23 minute television shows and convert them into 5-6 minute “minisodes”, showing only the most important parts of the show.  So you can watch about 4 or 5 shows in the time you would have normally watched 1.  I like that fact.  Many of these shows have simple plots anyway so I like the less important parts being taken away.  Check out the channel by visiting www.myspace.com/minisodenetwork.  Or visit myspacetv.com and click on minisode network.

Stuff

We live in a materialist society.  Although I apperciate all that I have, I do not want to be consumed with my possessions.  So I have consciously made the decision to no longer be a pack rat.  In the past I would fret about not using some of my stuff.  But I soon came to realize that if I got rid of junk I do not use, I do not have to fret over not using it.  Plus, getting rid of things helps me to refocus my attention to more important things like how I can better serve others.

The Business of Media

The media loves to build up public figures and tear them down.  It’s a clever way to make news to get ratings from someone and then dump them when they want to move onto someone else.  Paris Hilton is a perfect example.  They built her up with her show and then tore her down with extensive media coverage of her spending time in jail for disobeying a court order.

 The media, particulary the television media, does not present the world how it is.  The media presents “news” that is fashionable, entertaining and popular.  If you want to get a glimpse as to how the world really is you have to look towards certain non mainstream websites. 

 All in all the media is simply a business with a primary goal to make money at the expense of being an informative, engaging news service.

John Rambo

I’m a huge Sylvester Stallone fan.  I own several of his movies on dvd and was glad to see him back in theaters with “Rocky Balboa”.  I am also looking forward to his latest film “John Rambo.”  I think the Rambo films are some of the coolest action films ever made.  So I am greatly anticipating the latest Rambo film.  You can check out the John Rambo blog which I run by visiting www.johnramboblog.blogspot.com.  This blog contains pictures, news and information in regards to the latest John Rambo film.

Zachary is with Fred

Martin Luther, a bold member of the Reformation, the lyrics he scribed reflect his worship of the Living God

Martin Luther was a mighty servant of God and recognized the Power of Grace that God the Father extended to us by sending His Son Jesus Christ to pay for our sins. Most people remember Luther’s stance during the reformation period in Wittenberg, Germany. I had the privilege of visiting Wittenburg last year and learned alot…. I hope to share photos of the visit later. For now, read the following lyrics Luther wrote, the lyrics that we know as the hymn “A mighty fortress is our God” were written many years by a German monk desiring to be a bold servant for the Living and mighty God we are privileged to worship today.

Lyrics-
A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our Helper He amid the flood
of mortal ills prevaling.
For still our ancient foe
doth seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.

Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right man on our side,
the man of God’s own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is He;
Lord Sabbaoth, His name,
from age to age the same,
and He must win the battle.

And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God hath willed
His truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo, his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.

That word above all earthly powers,
no thanks to them, abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours,
thru Him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill;
God’s truth abideth still;
His kingdom is forever.

Independence from Britain

Happy 4th of July everyone!  I would like to thank everyone who is serving or has served in United States armed services. These people fought and continue to fight to keep our freedom alive.

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer,
James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton