Brandon Smith
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Hope College |
| Location | Kokomo, IN, United States |
| Introduction | i think the best way to live is the way of jesus christ. i think so many christian churches in the u.s. and so many who say they are christians don't look a thing like Jesus christ. i think we've forgotten who jesus is (i also am guilty). i think many who hate what they know about christianity would love hanging out with Jesus Christ. i think there' an Enemy roaming this world screwing up what God has made beautiful and causing confusion, deceit, and hatred in the hearts and minds of everyone he can. but i also think love wins. i think the Enemy has been defeated on the cross of Christ and since the fall of man God has been on a love mission to restore creation to shalom...the way it was intended to be. And i think everyone is called to join in on this love revolution...this is the reason i wake up everyday. and it's a BEAUTIFUL and JOYFUL and PEACEFUL and MEANINGFUL way to live! |
| Interests | love, shalom (peace), faith, hope, justice, freedom, equality, healing the oppressed, the fatherless, the widows, the orphans.... the kingdom of heaven stuff vulnerability. honesty. being REAL. listening Wal-mart, PEANUT BUTTER, laughing hard, card games (euchre, hold em', gin rummy, hearts, dominoes, spades), reading, movies. I love PEOPLE. And i love Hope College. |
| Favorite Movies | Goodwill Hunting, Pursuit of Happyness, The Cinderella Man, Men of Honor, Chronicles of Narnia, A Few Good Men, Enemy of the State, best disney movie eva...ALADDIN (lion king is awesome too), The Usual Suspect, Collateral, Basic, Jerry McGuire, Elf, Anchorman, Zoolander, most denzel movies, i heart will ferrel, mel gibson action movies....basically anything action-packed or funny or psychological or sociological and I'm in! |
| Favorite Music | Hope's own...The Travis Kingma Band, David Crowder, Jeremy Camp, Shawn McDonald, Mat Kearney, Grits, Falling Up, Lifehouse, Switchfoot, Todd Agnew, Hillsong... Also a lil' gospel: Kirk Franklin, J Moss, Fred Hammond, Deitrick Haddon. And then: 3 doors down, matchbox 20, Dave, jack johnson, Jason Mraz...and my new thing is jazz and the blues: Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, Michael Buble |
| Favorite Books | The Living Word of God, The Secret Message of Jesus by Brain D. McLaren, Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, Desiring God by John Piper, The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee, Blue Like Jazz, I am not but i know I AM by Louie Giglio, Worship as a way of Life by Giglio, Lee Strobel stuff (case for christ), Letters of a Skeptic by Stephen Boyd, Anything Bruce Wilkinson (The Prayer of Jabez), Phillip Yancey (The Jesus I Never knew), Max Lucado is awesome (A Heart Like Jesus), Charles Swindoll (getting through the tough stuff, Paul), C.S. Lewis, Revolution in World Missions by Gospel for Asia founder K.P. Yohannan (read it... the book is FREE!) |