Riddle me this ...

If Jesus is truly dead how do you possibly justify the fact that 3,000 people decided to follow Him just weeks after the resurrection. These were the people that would have seen Jesus' life, they would have seen Him die, and there is a very large chance they would have seen Jesus after He resurrected... If they personally did not see Him they would have known someone who had, guaranteed. They lived in a city that was buzzing with news of Jesus... If Jesus had NOT truly been resurrected everyone would have known it, it would have been disproved immediately and the buzz about Jesus would have died, even Judas the Galilean acknowledges this reality in Acts 6.

These three thousand individuals were not stupid, naive, or brainwashed, they were just an ordinary crowd in Jerusalem. They would have been people just like you and I. If I had someone preaching to me that Jesus had risen again I would go and ask my cousins, neighbours, friends, coworkers to see if they had heard or seen anything, and in all likelihood at least one of them would have either seen Jesus or knew someone who had seen Him post-resurrection, or not. Jesus walked on earth for forty days after His resurrection (Acts 1:3) which is enough time for many people to have seen Him.

If He had not risen from death there is NO WAY three thousand individuals would decide to follow "The Way" (what followers of Jesus were called before they were known as Christians). To follow The Way meant you would certainly be ostracized, you would have been cutting yourself off from the culture you had known your entire life and even risked death. Persecutions were rampant, Christians were killed for following Jesus, and if not killed certainly imprisoned or scorned. Thousands of individuals would never willingly choose that lifestyle if they had not been one hundred percent certain of Jesus' resurrection and Kingship.

So, again, riddle me this... If Jesus was dead, why would so many choose to follow Him immediately after His resurrection?

-kAt

Best Beatboxer You Have Seen!

World's Best Beatboxer

That is one of my friends beatboxing! Check out his video, vote it five stars because it is obviously incredible, favourite it and then continue to share it! If he wins he can get $250,000 dollars and that is incredible! He is a gifted beatboxer to say the least!

Share the love everyone!

-kAt

Closing Ceremonies To The Games

And Andrew Allen performing 'Amazing'
Hint, CLICK THAT^


Not too often do you get to see two friends on nationwide T.V!

Last night I had the privilege of seeing both Andrew Allen (perform his song 'Amazing' and it certainly was that!) and Nick Brush (who had the chance to Ski as a guide in the Paralympic games!) on nationwide television. Pretty cool! Ps. Nick is the guy in the front of the picture waving a flag and you can click on the "Andrew Allen performing 'Amazing'" to see Andrew's performance!

Blessings,

-kAt

LYC!

My musical family for the past year... Top row is Erin, Kevin, Mike... Front row is Evan, Scott and me!

Me and Kev sticking our feet up in the air!

The band playing!

First off, I basically copied this perfectly from my Program Ambassador blog, but I wanted to share with everyone my LYC experiences... So here it is!

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Every year our school puts on a weekend youth conference called Legacy Youth Conference for hundreds of youth from all across Canada. This conference is run from a core group of 15-20 student leaders that are on a team called CPT (Central Planning Team). Each member on CPT has their own specialty area from business, entertainment, atmosphere, registration and many others. I was very fortunate and blessed to be on this team this past year working with Erin Tjart and D'arcy Watsham in the areas of rallies and worship leading. The three of us have been planning the rallies and the worship for this conference for hours every week since last April. Two weeks ago today this conference took place and before we knew it the conference was all over! It is hard for me to believe that it has already come to a close! After countless hours of work, planning, dreaming and envisioning what this conference could be the reality that it is over is an interesting pill to swallow!


The actual weekend was a truly amazing experience. I had many opportunities over the weekend to just sit back and watch the hundreds of kids from all over Canada (and the USA) enjoy the conference. It was amazing to see so many hours of planning come to full fruition and see God do His work in the lives of those that were at Ambrose that weekend. A lot of truly cool things took place where God spoke into the hearts of the youth, youth leaders, youth pastors, Ambrose students and everyone else that was at the conference. I was so blessed to not only be one member of the team that helped shape and form the rallies but to be a leader on the worship team. The rallies were powerful times where God spoke through our speaker, Ryan Graham, and did a lot of soul work on the people there. I was able to see the hours and hours of frustration, joys, laughter and tears come together just the way God planned it... The conference that God wanted took place just the way He wanted it and I am so humbled that I had the chance to be involved!


Some of my favourite moments of the weekend were:

- Leading worship

- Seeing the creative ideas for the rallies come together and God use them for changing the lives of the people that partook of them

- The band's involvement with the youth from Catalyst youth group (Jon Morrison's youth group) and when I was given one of the cork's from their celebratory sparkling apple juice

- Being able to connect and play guitar with various students over the weekend

- Talking with youth leaders and youth pastors from all around Canada and being able to share the chord charts with the music we played so that they could take it home with them to their churches.

- Seeing all of CPT do just what they were most passionate about and do a great job of executing their areas to a high level!

- Being able to feel the support of the prayer team and other teams that greatly encouraged myself and those I was working with

- I loved being able to teach two seminar's on the heart of worship with Scott Cyr!

- Entertainment night was amazing, the "Lols" were flowing!

- The Riot on Friday night was an amazing opportunity to meet with many students and be ridiculous playing the various games. My favourite was the tiger tug of war type game!

- The extended worship on Sunday night was so freeing because I realized that the conference had come to full fruition and seeing everyone just worship unhindered and completely free praising Jesus. It was powerful. And very beautiful.


LYC was a truly amazing experience, thanks to everyone that was involved! Now it is time for me to continue in my efforts of catching up on sleep and the homework that was put on the backburner for the last month!



Blessings friends!

-kAt