JoshKrebs's Xanga

Shocking!!!

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:36:02 GMT

I know, I know, you haven't heard from me in forever and you're wondering why I randomly picked today to start writing again. Well, perhaps it is because I have a few moments . . . or because I rarely see any of you and wanted to get back in touch with the outside world. Either way, I hope I haven't lost all my subscribers!

I have been thinking about something of late that seems important enough to talk about. Why are we protestants? Before you get the stake and a torch, I am not asking this leading to the error that some have made of returning to catholicism, but rather asking why Christian young people today seem stuck on being a rebellious without any real direction or understanding. Are we rebels without a cause? I think much of the younger generation of Christians today are. They rebel because young people rebel, not because there is actually something in particular they are trying to change.

Seriously, you can call yourself a 'Jesus freak' all you want but you just look like freaks to me. You who are so stuck on not doing things traditionally that you throw out the baby with the bath water. On the other hand, you who want to do things traditionally, you're really just scared to death of rocking the boat. There is an important medium to be found, and it is found in purpose. Let's do everything we do for a reason that is both pure in motive and thought out well. Martin Luther may have been the greatest rebel ever to be a part of the church, but he was not happy to be rebelling, it was a thing of great seriousness to him.

Christ was a rebel. Well . . . yes and no. Christ did go against much of the thinking of his day, but this was in order to bring people BACK to what they should have understood all along. Christ was teaching something new that should have been very clear to the people of his time from the old. We are not called to be "new" or "cool" or even in some sense "relevant". We are called to follow Christ and what his Word says. Which will probably make the world see us as "old fashioned" and "out of touch" and "irrelevant", but the Bible says we will be hated and right now we're just ignored.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:16:14 GMT

Your results for "Christian Traditions Selector"
URL: http://SelectSmart.com/plus/select.php?url=denomtradition
Send your comments to Pete, the creator of this selector.

Percent

Rank

Item

(100%) 1: Presbyterian/Reformed
(94%) 2: Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic)
(93%) 3: Congregational/United Church of Christ
(62%) 4: Anglican/Episcopal/Church of England
(62%) 5: Lutheran
(61%) 6: Eastern Orthodox
(54%) 7: Seventh-Day Adventist
(44%) 8: Methodist/Wesleyan/Nazarene
(44%) 9: Roman Catholic
(39%) 10: Baptist (non-Calvinistic)/Plymouth Brethren/Fundamentalist
(36%) 11: Church of Christ/Campbellite
(32%) 12: Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God
(25%) 13: Anabaptist (Mennonite/Quaker etc.)

This quiz would actually have gotten me just right if it had not been for one question: How do the Church and State relate? Because I do not believe it is possible for a government to function and completely remove itself from all matters of conscience, religion, and sexual morality--thus I fell in the line of the magisterial reformers.

The Glory of Salvation

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:32:17 GMT

Lately I have noticed that my xanga is looking extremely neglected-and that I haven't made a theological post in nearly forever-thus I have decided that, on this beautiful Sunday afternoon, I should take up the task of theological insight.
On a CD entitled Depth of Mercy I heard a song that I have never heard before. I was riding home from church and I was listening to one of Katie's CDs-one which I hadn't heard-and I heard a song which expressed salvation in such an inter-testamental way, bringing to bear the totality of Scripture, and I had to share it.
It is entitled "Wedding Dress" and some of you may be shocked that I have never heard it before; I am shocked that more churches do not sing it. It is, in my own estimation, one the best Christian songs I've heard.
The lyrics are these:

If you could love me as a wife
and for my wedding gift, your life.
Should that be all I'd ever need,
or is there more I'm looking for?

and should I read between the lines,
and look for blessings in disguise?
To make me handsome, rich, and wise
Is that really what you want?

I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress
and I run down the aisle,
and I run down the aisle.
I'm a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold
and I run down the aisle to you.

So could you love this bastard child?
Though I don't trust you to provide.
With one hand in a pot of gold
and with the other in your side.

I am so easily satisfied
by the call of lovers so less wild
that I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood.

These are gripping lyrics, and shocking as well, but no less shocking than the words of Scripture itself. I fear that many may hear this song and be unfaithful to God by denying the beauty of His words. Thus, I intend to show that these are God's words.

Hosea 1:2-3
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD." So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel!
   Exult not like the peoples;
for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
   You have loved a prostitute's wages
   on all threshing floors.

We are not God’s children through birth, we are God’s children through adoption in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 1:14, Rom. 8)

Furthermore, it is Christ who sanctifies us as His bride. (Eph. 5:22-33, Rev.19:6-10) If you cannot admit that we are nothing more than whores and bastards without Christ-that this language is necessary to explain the shocking nature of Salvation-then you are allowing an uptight, legalistic mindset to blunt your view of the violent grace of God.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:12:03 GMT

Interesting, I never could have figured this one out by myself!

Religion/Theology

100%

Psychology/Sociology

100%

English/Journalism/Comm

88%

HR/BusinessManagement

81%

History/Anthropology

81%

Education/Counseling

75%

Visual&PerformingArts

63%

PoliticalScience/Philosophy

56%

Nursing/AthleticTraining

38%

Physics/Engineering

25%

French/German/Spanish

25%

Mathematics/Statistics

19%

Accounting/Finance/Econ

13%

Biology/Chemistry/Geology

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:32:42 GMT

Okay, so I was tagged for this survey, but the first question is really odd for a guy to answer so I'm modifying it.

Five Things in My Wallet
1. A picture of my gorgeous fiancee Katie
2. My class schedule
3. Lots of receipts
4. My Lifeway discount card (good on all items)
5. The combination to my UU P.O. box

Five Things in My Freezer
1. I don't have one so the next four answers are just interesting things I've found in various freezers.
2. one shoe
3. a baseball
4. oatmeal(uncooked)
5. a silver ring

Five Things in My Closet
1. Clothes
2. Shoes
3. Swords
4. A .50 cal muzzleloader rifle
5. Two Radio Controlled Airplanes

Five Things in My Car
1. My Dad
2. My homemade metal knight's helmet
3. A flat tire
4. 8 bags of clothes on their way to goodwill
5. A dual plug power converter

And I tag...um...Kelly Mi...Mik...Mikh...my sister, also let Taras fill out one and post on your xanga or get his own. I also tag...um...three other people whose names have been changed to protect the innocent. We will simply refer to them as John, John, and Jane.

JUNE SIXTEENTH

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:39:47 GMT

Just three hundred and eighteen days until I will be married to Katie Mathis. Three hundred and eighteen days until freedom! I love you Katie, MUAH!

Yes, I am now engaged.

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:29:20 GMT

    I have been asked by several people to confirm that I am indeed engaged. Why? I have no idea. It certainly should not come as a surprise(unless you were expecting her to turn me down), and you no doubt read about it on either Katie's or her Mom's xanga, saw it on facebook, or recieved a phone call about it. Nevertheless, I certainly don't mind bragging about the fact that I am now engaged to the most wonderful, smart, drop-dead gorgeous woman in the entire world. I am very happy to confirm that Katie will be my wife as of June 9 2007, provided we can find a location for that date. (For a picture of the ring, see Katie's xanga)

Version for My Female Readers
    How did I propose? Well, I am now working overnight freight at an Academy Sports and Outdoors in Nashville, TN. When I got off work at 7 am on Thursday morning (July 6th) I went home and slept for two hours, finished packing, picked up my car from the shop, and left around 12:30 pm the afternoon. I then drove from Nashville south on I-65 through Birmingham where I turned west and crossed through Mississippi, almost running out of gas in the middle of nowhere(Mississippi, though my home state, is the middle of nowhere). I drove through Slidell, Baton Rouge, Baumont, and hundred other towns, stopping every few hours to rest. I reached the outskirts of Houston, TX around 2am. After a stop for gas and a restroom break to the three and a half Mellow Yellows I'd drunk in the previous two hours out of my system, I arrived in Katie's neighborhood around three.
    After making sure that I did indeed know how to get to her house, I drove over to Wal-Mart and was asleep by about four thirty. I waited for Katie and her Mom to leave for work around 9:30am and then went to her house for a quick nap and somemore planning. All of this time Katie had no idea that I was in Houston, she thought I was at home in Nashville and was going to be painting at my house this weekend. Around five I surprised her at work, showing up with two roses and myself, when she saw me it took her a few seconds to realize that it was me, then she was literally speechless for thirty minutes(which if you know Katie, that quite a surprie).
    I then, without telling her where we were going, drove her to Kemah, which is on Galveston Bay and the Gulf. We ate at The Aquarium, which is a restaurant full of aquariums that you can look at while you eat. We sat next to the main tank and ate a delicious dinner. After that we spent some time walking around on the baordwalk looking out at the fading light on the ocean. Then, at 8:55 pm, I proposed.
    I told her that I didn't think she could possibly know how much I loved her, and that I thought it would take the rest of our lives to show her, and that it was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and knelt down, slipped the ring on her finger, and asked her to marry me. No too eloquent, not too long, but how I felt nevertheless. I think her exact response was: "Yes! Yes of course I will Josh!" And she hasn't stopped looking at her ring since.

Version for My Male Readers
    I proposed Friday, in Kemah, TX, she said yes and we're thinking next June.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Wed, 03 May 2006 17:51:23 GMT

Introducing the new and improved Joshua Krebs!!

I have now finished the greater part of my homework, 50+ pages and two tests last week, done my final bit of major traveling until semester's end, Katie and I flew to Houston for her best friend's wedding, and I have a new outlook on life. It is called "A time to sleep". That's right ladies and gentlemen, I am now able to get nearly EIGHT hours of sleep without feeling guilty about not doing enough of my homework. In this never before seen juncture of university education and common sense I can now give you a semi-awake, semi-inelligent, semi-living human being affectionately know as 'me'.

In addition to this amazing offer I will also include in the offer my amazing baseball skills:

Unfortunately for all concerned this product has been sold out since January 22 and had been on back order. There was only one made and it is spoken for, sorry for the inconvenience. Not really. If fact, I'm glad no one else owns this product. Because Katie's the best. And...yeah, so there!

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:16:09 GMT

Hello, Friends. This is Katie. Josh's xanga is getting pretty boring, but since he's extremely busy studying for a test and writing pages and pages of book reviews and research papers, I thought I'd save him the trouble of updating and update his xanga for him. Josh was going to stay up all night last night doing homework, so if you see him, be nice to him. Maybe ask him about the atonement. He should know all about it after today.
Ok, want to hear one of my new jokes?
What do you call a Hawaiian college student that is extremely into his studies?
give up?
An academia nut!

and here's a funny comic strip for you to read:

I also took a quiz for Josh. Hopefully he hasn't taken this one before. Here's what his results were:

You Are a Chocolate Chip Cookie

Traditional and conservative, most people find you comforting.
You're friendly and easy to get to know. This makes you very popular - without even trying!

What Kind of Cookie Are You?

Ok, that's all! I hope this entry has been fun for everyone to read!

p.s. You can thank me later, Josh.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:03:42 GMT

You Are Sunrise

You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary.
You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward.
Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You're often cooking for friends or buying them gifts.
All in all, you know how to love life for what it is - not for how it should be.

What Time Of Day Are You?

Hmmm...interesting. I'm not sure about this...what do y'all think?