BiH, Trtorići kod Breze, 2008. Selo u kojem je živio Alija Sirotanović

BiH, Trtorići kod Breze, 2008. Kuća u kojoj je živio Alija Sirotanović

BiH, Trtorići kod Breze, 2008. Rudar koji je radio zajedno sa Alijom Sirotanovićem

Alija Sirotanovic Wikipedia english

Nastavlja se…

FOTO: Vranac Mahir

This tends to be the year I forget the most, so we will see what happens!

• The first year out of the dorms
• The first year I moved into the Mount
• Roomates: Kenny Hiser, Nate Reed, Chris Wilburn, Mike Breza, and Pete Emerick
• Playing call of Duty 3 with pete, harrison, and Mike constantly – capture the flag at verdun
• Became close friends with Adam Hoff and Mike Webb
• Went to Ohio State for football game with Pete
• Weekly Sunday Mount meetings began, as a house we met once a week to openly discuss grievances, how we’ve been doing, and we prayed for each other
• I perfected the chicken quesadilla
• Spring break: went on road trip with Adam Hoff. first to Nashville, TN. drove straight through the night. then to middle of no where SC to stay at a cabin on a lake. It was awesome. I love road trips and this one was top 3. broke into tennis courts, had dinner at blues bar, hiked trails in sight of waterfalls, relaxed, battled through the wretched state of Kentucky, and conquered the hills on Georgia.
• Started playing basketball every monday with Breza and Pete.
• Became great friends with Kelly. then too good of friends. then not really friends.
• Became friends with Ashley Sakenas
• Started to enjoy running outside often
• Ended up staying the summer in state college after this year to work at Ruby Tuesday. Good times….slow times, but good times
• Met the freshman: Dan Zecher, Mitch Hershey, Adam Jepson, and Ben Roberts….that’s when i knew ACF could recover from losing guys like Mike Breza, Pete Horning, Nate Reed etc.
• Loved every second of listening to Becky Zerr laugh
• Also loved the fact that the Mount was like the central location for anything that went down
• First year I co-led a small group with Amy Henning
• Anthony Barlich is the freaking man
• Getting to Christmas break and realizing I was just then only half way done. Good and bad news. haha.

Apparently, I just can’t remember this year, I guess I didn’t like it too much. In general I remember enjoying it, but when it comes to specific memories, less comes to mind.

addendum to sophomore year

• Road trip to Michigan with Nate Reed, Brian Blanchard, and John Smock. great game, should have one it. those two seconds will haunt me for the rest of my life. I hate michigan with everything in me
• Going to Samie Messerly’s with Mike Webb and a bunch of us watched the Orange bowl and celebrated in the hot tub, with stoagies, how could i forget that!?

Let us lay aside every pre-conceived idea and notion about one another and even about how our day or week or even our month has been going. Each of us need a personal revival.

You see this is God’s business!

I would like to declare that if we allow the Lord to have His way in our lives then we can receive the Lord’s favor and blessing in our lives. The Lord wants to cause a great revival in us as individuals and as a body of believers. The definition of revival is stated as the act or an instance of reviving. The condition of being revived. A restoration to use, acceptance, activity, or vigor after a period of obscurity or quiescence. A time of reawakened interest in religion. A meeting or series of meetings for the purpose of reawakening religious faith, often characterized by impassioned preaching and public testimony.

Are we hungry for Jesus? Do we want more of him? Are we satisfied spiritually? Being revived and desiring revival allows the Lord to do a work in our lives. You see we must become servants of the Word of the Lord. We must realize that when the great revivalist is among us he (Jesus) is there to help us. Remember that Jesus is here to help us. Jesus is our comforter!

The Greek word for comforter in the New Testament is Paraclete. The word paraclete as found in 1 John 2 verse 1 and is used to describe the intercessory role of Jesus Christ. In John 14 verse 16 Jesus says another paraclete will come to help his disciples.

In Jesus Christ there is freedom and liberty. In order to get the most out of a heaven ordained revival we must let go of things that are holding us back. The Bible says that today is the day of salvation. Well today let go of those things that are holding you back. We may be dealing with troubled relationships or unsaved family. We may even be burdened down with financial issues. I would like to remind you that He can and would like to help us with our problems. Jesus knows exactly what we are going thru. He will never leave is nor forsake us. He is not thru with us yet.

We have the momentum of the Holy Ghost behind us. The creative force of God is with us.