OK.. lets tell a little about me... well.. i'm 15/m.. i live kinda near the coast of NC.. i'm going into the 10th grade.. so if you have any cheatsheets.. tell me ;).. i'm a methodist and attend youth group at my church.. i love playing hacky-sac.. i'm an xSurfer and now my friend is teaching me to wakeboard.. you already know the kind of music i like.. God is really changing my life this year.. i used to be completely different.. i have been healed of chronic fatigue syndrom.. he's teaching me and my friends that we need to stand up for what we believe in and fight.. not to be ashamed.. i really like meeting new christian friends on the net and chatting with them.. so if you have time.. give me and email or page me through ICQ!.. (some of the people that have read all my pages on my site might notice that i'm repetitive!.. well.. so is the Bible, they want you to hear it! ALOT!.. the more you hear it, the better you will know it!)

Just to clarify some emails i've been receiving, and also it makes since, i want to put a section where i can just share what i believe. For starters, i believe in the rapture of the christian church. When the trumpet sounds.. i'm outta here dude. I don't listen to this music just because i think it sounds cool. Just as it is what is inside of the person that counts, the same goes for music. The LYRICS are what is the most important, no matter how it sounds. Back when i was first a christian i used to listen to some "evil" music, and alot of alternative songs (not just alternative) on the radio are pretty evil. Some people think that it just goes in one ear and out the other, those people are wrong! If you listen to alot of secular music you can't tell me it won't change you. The last thing a christian needs is to be changed by the world. I noticed when i was listening to secular music i would say bad things.. not towards people.. i knew that was wrong but if something happened like i screwed up on something i might say something bad.. but i realized that God made everything and when you condem something he made, that's and insult. Everything will work together for good for those who believe. The reason i gave up listening to secular music is that the bible says you should glorify God in everything you do, and christian music is glorifing God and it's kewl. You can't tell me that christian ska/punk/hardcore is that much different from secular other than the lyrical content. Most of today's secular music if it isn't classified as evil, it's classified as hopeless. The bands are sharing how they feel, which is ok, but since they aren't christians they are hopeless. They will never be satisfied with anything they do. Suicide seems to be the only way out for them. Also as it says in scripture (somewhere, i remember learning the verse,.. i just have a hard time remembering the location) words have power. Even if you are just joking you better be careful cuz the devil don't joke. He's in it to fight, kick,cheat, lie, steal. We must learn to take satan seriously and not be fooled by him. If we stay alert we can catch his tricks. He will try in many different ways, he may give you money.. so you can get abbsorbed in yourself and not focus on God. He might give you a girlfriend/boyfriend that will draw you away from God. As christians we must know that just as God has will always love us, satan will always hate us. When i was little i used to be scared of satan, i thought if i became too much of a christian that satan would REALLY hate me and target me the next chance he got. NEWSFLASH, satan hates you as much as he can already, he's already trying everything he can to claim you! The only reason that satan can't claim you already is that God is protecting you, yes, he even protect non-christians. God loves non-christians too! I don't believe there is anything wrong with a non-christian friend, just don't let them bring you down. You need to bring them up if anything. Although, if you make a mistake.. you can be forgiven! If Christ lives in us, satan will never win, he may test us, he may take our bodies, but he will NEVER have our SOULS! We [Christians] shouldn't worry about death, if God wants us still on earth he'll protect us, if we die well.. "sudden death, sudden glory!".

I like it when The Supertones say "i don't care about your haircut, can't we all just get along, not just get along but to really love and care, if you eyes are fixed on God you can't see nobody's hair" that to me discribes how i feel about hair and clothes. They are a perfect way to describe yourself BUT don't worry about what other people think. If you want to do something, do it, for God. Punks can minister TOO! I also don't believe in dressing up for church. I find it uncomfortable, and God isn't looking at what your wearing. My parents say i should do it out of respect. To who? the old people in the back of the church that fall asleep, and have hearing aids?.. They grew up in a different time, they are used to it. Let them fall victim to "peer presure" if they want. I know it is hard to not care about what other people think of you, i struggle with it all the time. I have found that my christian friends don't usually comment on the way i dress, i like that. We should stick together! If you don't have any christian friends, well, don't worry.. God will not deny you any desires in your heart if they are "ok" with him.. hehe.. but another thing The Supertones say is "Oh how i need someone to help me feel assured, i don't need anyone if your on my side Lord!". Isn't that like awesome?.. I know we are all going to go through a time in our lives when we are alone, but with God we can overcome it!

Another thing I like to talk about is HEAVEN!! If hell isn't enough to scare someone into being a christian, you would think that how awesome heaven is going to be would win them over. My friend Jesse (crash) used to be a VERY avid skater, but he found it keeping him from God. So, it took awhile but.. he gave it up! But i told him that it wasn't that God didn't like skating, he just wanted to keep him in his kingdom. I'm SURE that Heaven has the BEST skating parks, sidewalks, anything! That same thing can be applied to many other things that keep you away from God! If you are poor, or just struggling with money.. just think about Heaven. God will never allow anything to happen to you that you can't handle. satan may be taking your money, but don't worry!.. you can't have your money when your dead, you don't need money to get to Heaven, and even if you could take it, it's no use!.. Heaven is the one place that doesn't take VISA (for people not familiar with VISA.. it's a credit card type thingie). I really hate that commercial "VISA it's everywhere you want to be"... uhh.. nope.. ain't no VISA in Heaven! Another thing that i think is going to be awesome is meeting all you christian friends you meet online. Alot of mine live a LONG ways away (i.e. i meet a cool christian from singapore today!) and i'm sure i won't get to meet all of the in person but we'll have PLENTY of time to hang-out and do all kinds of AWESOME things!!!!!

This page is about informing people about a form of music that usually gets little attention, or the attention is gets is just it being made fun of. I hope this site and its links are useful to those that are trying to find out what these bands sound like or they are just trying to understand their views. Below is my testimony and what God has tought me through scripture.

I have been a Christian for most of my life, having been raised in a Christian home. I accepted Christ into my life officially when I was eight years old, on St. Patrick's Day. My mom had told me that all I had to do was believe that Jesus died for my sins and that he was the Lord of my life. That was her simple way of explaining it to an eight-year old. She led me in a prayer and after that I was officially a Christian. I was baptized when I was born and also later in conformation. I had always considered myself a Christian but for some reason I thought there was more to it, and there was. Basically I just went through the motions of what a Christian should do, doing whatever most people we doing. I went to all sorts of plays and concerts and various other Christian things and you could always tell the people that weren't ashamed of what they believed in. I wanted to be one of those people. For a while it began to be pretty lame. I was mostly into sports and physical activities. I played baseball and I made alot of friends in doing so. I never realized what baseball was going to mean to me. In the spring of 1996 I caught Mono. I didn't know it at the time but a later blood test revealed that I had it. I played all through the baseball season and I didn't know what was wrong with me. I hurt all over and was very tired. I know god had to have been helping me because I really don't see how I did some of the things I did in baseball. I made the all-star team and we won the state tournement. When I wasn't playing baseball I seemed to be sleeping. I took numerous pills and medications for it but nothing worked. I didn't played baseball at all that winter. I felt that a change was needed in my life. I don't know what it was but I began not to care for baseball anymore. I decided that if I didn't care for something anymore I should just quit, and I did. It didn't see the significance of my quitting baseball at the time either. As I got older I began to realize that the more active people in the church seemed to be having more fun. I went to youth group for a while but that for some reason seemed a little weird at the time. I stopped going for about a year or so. Then when my parents decided that it was in my best interest to move into the city to the Rose district (for those of you that don't know, Rose is a large highschool in Greenville,NC) for better education. At first I didn't want to at all, they only told me that I was going to Rose six days before school started. My old friends were all Christians but they were alot like me at the time. I really didn't feel like changing schools but I thought I guess I should for my education's sake at least. I knew that the adjustment would be hard and I would have to make new friends, then I seemed to realize what baseball had done for me. I played in the city league and I already had friends there so I really had nothing to worry about. This is why I thought god had me to play baseball and now he wanted me to move and change schools. Even though I haven't changed locations yet, I did go to Rose my freshman year, I met alot of friends and finally Jesse convinced me to goto youth group again. Ever since I've been going I've noticed a few changes. I used to always feel rushed and in a hurry, but god helped me realize what was important in my life and now that feeling of impatience is leaving. I am able to sympathize with people more now than I could in the past. I try to see other peoples point of view more now. My need for finding out what more there is to being a Christian is being met, and I'm still working. Now I realize that if I hadn't quit baseball I wouldn't have been able to go on the Jarvis Memorial United Methodists Mission Trip, because the week of the baseball camp that I have attended for the last 3 years was the same week and I know I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I also probably wouldn't have been going to youth group on Sunday's because Sunday was my only day of rest from baseball. I used to be so tired that I wouldn't feel like doing much on Sunday's. So really if I hadn't caught Mono I would still be that normal Sunday-School going Christian that didn't really do much. Now that I have more time I think god wants me to be more active in the church, and I'm working on it. I also seemed to be feeling a little better. I'm not quite as tired anymore and the Mono is gone. The Mono did leave me with Chronic Fatigue but I think that too is going away. I'm starting to see now what I had been missing earier in life and I think with his help I'm getting better. I know god had to have some part in that because I don't see how it could have been luck.

ATTENTION!!! i have had a miracle in my life, as i stated before, i had cronic fatigue.. HAD!!.. not anymore!!.. woo hoo!!

God has now taught me a few things about life, for starters, no one should judge other people, for they too will be judged. I don't care what people think of me. God has given me a sense of righteous anger. If you put me down I will take it. If you punch me in the face I will take it. If you kill my family I will take it. You just better hope that God doesn't send me to humble you. The one thing that I HATE most of all is a "poser" Christian. Some people think they are saved and really aren't. Christian must ask God for the right time to "turn the other cheek" and the right time to FIGHT BACK! When I say "fight" I don't always mean to go out and punch someone, but really to fight in other ways. You can fight Satan by putting up a webpage, helping older people, leading for friends/family to the lord, and many other ways. Satan can do whatever he wants to your body, but he can't have your SOUL! You MUST be ready to die for your faith. Anyone that doesn't enter the kingdom of heaven it was OUR (christians) FAULT! We should give god the glory in whatever we do, be it sports, acting, military service, music, and ministering to people. Satan is not allowed to mess with us christians, not that we our human selves are stronger, but God has given us the right through him. He will however allow Satan to test us, but if our faith is strong enough we will not fall. We must KNOW the ENEMY and LOVE the MASTER!

All things will work together for good for those who believe! Don't expect to always be rewarded on earth, wait for HEAVEN!!! I can't wait to get to Heaven to meet my friends and people that read this page! IT WILL BE SOOOO AWESOME!!

Ok.. the bible says not everyone will make it to Heaven, so i know that not everyone will become a christian. I guess i have to accept that, but i will go fighting. I want you to be there with me in Heaven. I promise i will respect you and if you think i have done anything that doesn't respect you PLEASE email me! I try to get on the computer everyday to check my email, i'll read it! i just want a mutual respect for eachother, i won't call you any names except ones like "non-christian".. but if you aren't a christian.. then i'm just speaking to a group of people, it's not out of disrespect. "Little kids" call people names.. it's just when they get older that they "expand" their vocabulary.. your words aren't going to bother me so don't bother. I just want to say that i love you (i try at least) you don't have to love me, but if you are a christian.. you better love me.. you can pick your friends, but your stuck with your relatives!! ;)

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