Comments on: Trash Talk http://jimmyholbrook.com/2009/10/trash-talk/ Pastor Jimmy Holbrook Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jimmy http://jimmyholbrook.com/2009/10/trash-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-477 jimmy Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:41:00 +0000 http://jimmyholbrook.com/?p=463#comment-477 Carrie you are a trophy of God's grace! Thanks for sharing. Carrie you are a trophy of God’s grace! Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: C. Pitts http://jimmyholbrook.com/2009/10/trash-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-476 C. Pitts Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:21:52 +0000 http://jimmyholbrook.com/?p=463#comment-476 As far as trash talk goes I learned the ugly truth of that spirit in prison. Living with over a thousand female inmates for 4 years I learned to control my tongue. The tongue gets us in so much trouble. That was one of the reasons I was so afraid to give my testimony at church last year. I was scared about what people would say about me. My Grandma (who is a very active church member elsewhere) told me not to tell my story because people would always talk about me behind my back. She even went as far as to say they wouldn't let their children play with mine! Because of mistakes I made over 14 years ago! She is very close with her "church friends" and I have to wonder how you grow within the body of Christ if you’re always worrying about what so and so is saying about you. I knew sharing my testimony was what God wanted me to do and He gave me what I needed to conquer that fear. You know what? If they talk, they talk. It really doesn't matter to me because I'm in line with His will and as long as I stay that way nothing else really matters. Same goes for you (Jimmy). Yes, I think some people are intimidated by you. When I first met you I felt that way a little bit. I think because I had an idea in my head of what I perceived a pastor to be like. I thought about the preacher I grew up listening to as a child. He was much older, very conservative, wore a suit every Sunday and tip toed around a lot of the dicey topics. He was always smiling and I felt like he wanted to say the right thing to everyone. I know a lot of preachers only give sermons on what they think the body of believers wants to hear. After all, if you make someone mad you could lose a good giver in the church. I'm saying all that because I have never felt you are that way at all. You are a straight shooter even when it's not the most comfortable topic to preach on we still need to hear it. Just like last Sunday. Man, I needed to hear that. Thank you! I didn't realize my own sin would really be causing a trickling effect within our church, but I get it. You always break things down in the word in a way that we can understand then apply it to our lives in today's world. Your passion is contagious! It has brought me so much closer to God and that in turn has changed my whole life including my marriage and the way I parent. Thank you for stepping out and being different even when it's not what "fits the mold". It gets me fired up about Jesus every week! As far as trash talk goes I learned the ugly truth of that spirit in prison. Living with over a thousand female inmates for 4 years I learned to control my tongue. The tongue gets us in so much trouble. That was one of the reasons I was so afraid to give my testimony at church last year. I was scared about what people would say about me. My Grandma (who is a very active church member elsewhere) told me not to tell my story because people would always talk about me behind my back. She even went as far as to say they wouldn’t let their children play with mine! Because of mistakes I made over 14 years ago! She is very close with her “church friends” and I have to wonder how you grow within the body of Christ if you’re always worrying about what so and so is saying about you.

I knew sharing my testimony was what God wanted me to do and He gave me what I needed to conquer that fear. You know what? If they talk, they talk. It really doesn’t matter to me because I’m in line with His will and as long as I stay that way nothing else really matters.

Same goes for you (Jimmy). Yes, I think some people are intimidated by you. When I first met you I felt that way a little bit. I think because I had an idea in my head of what I perceived a pastor to be like. I thought about the preacher I grew up listening to as a child. He was much older, very conservative, wore a suit every Sunday and tip toed around a lot of the dicey topics. He was always smiling and I felt like he wanted to say the right thing to everyone. I know a lot of preachers only give sermons on what they think the body of believers wants to hear. After all, if you make someone mad you could lose a good giver in the church.

I’m saying all that because I have never felt you are that way at all. You are a straight shooter even when it’s not the most comfortable topic to preach on we still need to hear it. Just like last Sunday. Man, I needed to hear that. Thank you! I didn’t realize my own sin would really be causing a trickling effect within our church, but I get it. You always break things down in the word in a way that we can understand then apply it to our lives in today’s world. Your passion is contagious! It has brought me so much closer to God and that in turn has changed my whole life including my marriage and the way I parent. Thank you for stepping out and being different even when it’s not what “fits the mold”. It gets me fired up about Jesus every week!

]]> By: d. hunt http://jimmyholbrook.com/2009/10/trash-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-475 d. hunt Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:43 +0000 http://jimmyholbrook.com/?p=463#comment-475 It's so easy to be critical in this evil world. Its all over the media whether it be judging someone's words or actions to even the simplest things that should mean nothing like a fashion sense. Negativity as a whole encompasses everything we are a part of and it seems to be getting worse and worse. Once your entangled in it, lets say starting with your tongue, its like being in a spider web. It sticks to which ever part you draw to remove it. Your thoughts to your tongue to your actions. I love this quote. "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." - Thoreau It’s so easy to be critical in this evil world. Its all over the media whether it be judging someone’s words or actions to even the simplest things that should mean nothing like a fashion sense. Negativity as a whole encompasses everything we are a part of and it seems to be getting worse and worse. Once your entangled in it, lets say starting with your tongue, its like being in a spider web. It sticks to which ever part you draw to remove it. Your thoughts to your tongue to your actions. I love this quote.

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” – Thoreau

]]> By: Katherine http://jimmyholbrook.com/2009/10/trash-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Katherine Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:04:24 +0000 http://jimmyholbrook.com/?p=463#comment-474 I'm totally with you. On talk- I think there are 2 kinds. Constructive (to build) or destructive (to tear down.) Every word we say has consequences in one direction or the other. My Grandmother Raglin, in describing why she admires my Grandpa so much, said "The thing about James is, you never hear him say anything ugly about anyone- because he does not condemn. Other people sense that, and they love him, and want to be better as a result." That is pure Christianity. Jesus Christ came not to condemn the world, but to save it. I’m totally with you. On talk- I think there are 2 kinds. Constructive (to build) or destructive (to tear down.) Every word we say has consequences in one direction or the other. My Grandmother Raglin, in describing why she admires my Grandpa so much, said “The thing about James is, you never hear him say anything ugly about anyone- because he does not condemn. Other people sense that, and they love him, and want to be better as a result.”

That is pure Christianity. Jesus Christ came not to condemn the world, but to save it.

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