Hey guys this weeks song is "Outshout the Lies" and I want to take a second to talk to you guys about what this song means. With all the sin and craziness in the world that is going on today, sometimes its hard to stay focused on what is true.  So this is a song where we proclaim that God is more powerful than all of the stuff that is going on in the world. We want him to help us outshout these lies that the world tries to tell us.

In 1 John it says:

1 John 3:20 "whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything."

I just want to let you guys know that no matter the lies and the madness this world throws us, our God can always help us outshout them. Make sure to check out this week's video for more information! Thanks guys!

-David

Who do you hang around the most? In some very few cases you might say your family. But to be completely honest, we hang out with our friends probably more than anyone. Think about it…you spend all day with them at school, and sometimes, you probably do homework together. On some days you might hang out after school, and you’re probably together on the weekends too. The point I’m trying to get across, is that the fact that we hang around with friends so much, means that they actually have a lot of influence in our lives…probably more than we realize. I have even noticed that some of the ways I talk, and think, and do other things are very similar to the ways my friends do all those things. I don’t do it on purpose…It just naturally happens because I am around them so much. Well, things have always been that way and it even talks about friends in Proverbs. Check it out…

The righteous choose their friends carefully,
but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 12:26

We need to choose who we hang out with wisely. The last thing we need is someone pushing us to go against what we know is right. If you have friends that encourage you to go with the way of God, then that’s awesome! If not, maybe you need to pray and ask God to send some of those people into your life. God wants what’s best for you, so be careful about who you hang out with!

The more and more I look at my life and the lives of other people I can’t help but notice a common theme. We are always doing what we all believe will make us happy. It’s a normal thing, we are all made so that we gravitate to what makes us feel good. We are constantly searching for something that will satisfy our hearts. But the problem is we are always looking to other people,  other media to show us how to be happy. But we CAN NOT! let the world tell us what we have to do to be happy and to be normal. We find ourselves falling under the greatest misconception of all time, that we have to do and have to live like the people around us to make us feel good. When we find ourselves falling down the path of everyone around us, we will find out that it is a bottomless pit of destruction. Everything in this world will leave us wanting more and more and more until we drive ourselves insane. The way I look at it, if you think sin is fun, then just look what the cause of our sin did to Jesus on the cross. He was beaten and whipped and nailed to a cross all because of the same sin that today we are looking at and saying no fair I can’t do that. You know as a follower of Christ, I choose to not follow along with the things all the high schoolers are doing right now not because the Bible tells me I shouldn’t, but I do it for the fact that it isn’t worth it. It will never make you feel the joy and peace that you can feel when you fill yourself up with the living water of Christ! Look what is says is John:

³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. -John 4:13-14

We find this verse in John chapter 4 where Jesus is talking to a women who has been caught up in adultery and has been caught up in the world. He is sharing to here that if she keeps doing these things she will get thirsty for them again and it will never stop. But Jesus is telling here of the true living water that if she drinks she will never get thirsty again! Jesus is giving us the same opportunity today!! So please join along with me if you are tired of letting the world bring you down, sometimes we can feel the burdens of the world because we find ourselves doing, watching, listening, and saying the things that are of the world.We have to lift our eyes to something higher, something greater than anything this world and the people in it have to offer. We have to find ourselves focusing on what is true, the living word of God.

We have to live our lives for something much more.

-Noah

Hey everyone!!! Sorry we haven’t had a blog in a while, we have been busy with writing and recording this new album. We all are so excited for all of you guys to hear new album! It comes out in ruffly 4 months. The name of the album is “Shockwave.” Basically in a nutshell “shockwave” is and album that not only challenges but screams for a change. The theme behind “shockwave” is that we have to start a shockwave in our own lives and spread it to everyone else. What is a shockwave? A shockwave is a huge in your face shock that completely changes you. The change is to be not only a shock within our lives but it is to be a wave throughout the world. The songs on this album reflect the views of this thinking. The songs will have deeper meaning, and they will be songs that deal with problems we all face in life, and answers on how we can fix these problems. This album not only should be an outreach to nonbelievers but this should be a wake up call for believers. So let me speak for all the guys when we say we can’t wait for you guys to pick up this album! We will keep you updated.
-Noah

I keep seeking and searching to find the answer. Sometimes I don’t know why I am searching for it, but I still do. I don’t know if it is because I feel like I am not worth anything,  or because I feel like I am not good enough to exceed the standards of the people around me. But I continue to strive to be like them, to be like someone else. When my life starts to get consumed with who I am, and who I want to be. Then I have to ask the question; What am I living for?

Well, what are we living for? Think about that, even if we say sometimes that we are living a life for God. But in reality, our number one priority in life is just ourselves. Don’t get me wrong, it is not an easy task to do. It’s easy for us to forget that there is a bigger purpose for our lives than what we have right in front of us.

A selfish life lived for yourself, will just lead you down a path of happiness. Without God to fill in the gap in our lives, every single one of us is incomplete. Now as we often times try to fill that gap with our own selfish things. Like having girlfriend/boyfriend, being the coolest person in school, what we do on the internet, or just following the party crowd. Whatever it may be… it is just something we use to make us feel better about ourselves, but it ends up making us feel worse.

But there is a way, this way is a way that will make us feel content no matter what situation we are in life.

If we follow through with the plan that God has for our lives, and we have Him in our hearts. He will fill the gap.

God has so much more for our life than what we possibly could imagine! We just have to follow him with everything we have, even if we have to sacrifice some things.

We have to fill the gap in our lives!

-Noah