Today was a day that i had been waiting for since i have started this college. I knew that going into it, and any Christian college that it was going to be a good experience. And today was the first day that a teacher had told me that my way of thinking about Christianity was not the right way. Now he didnt say that i was going to hell or that i wasn't going to pass the class if i don't convert my thinkings at all, it was just we had difference of options. And not like im saying that this is the the first time it has happened with other things, this is just the bigger topic.
It was really cool to see i guess what other beliefs are about what the Bible says and all, which really interests me so it was really cool for sure, it was one of the first days that was really stimulating to my brain where it felt like i knew what was going on and that i was getting something out of college.
Now i love all my classes but music really and there ok, and ya i learn a lot from the other classes but a lot of it was just the basics, but really good to look at, so im really glad that im here, it makes me feel good when i know the money that is being spent on me actually like is money well worth it, and it makes me feel good cause it feels as if God is here saying your on the right path, which is really good for me right now,
im really excited that the semester is almost over thats for sure, ill get to be home for a few weeks so thats great, it was just like a little tease only being home for a few days on thanksgiving but ill take what i can get for sure.
I feel renewed today and it feels good
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
life
man why does life have to be so hard? some days i can feel as if im on the top of the freakin world and that nothing could take me off the top, then bam im back down to the freakin bottom of the world. I dont know why sometimes im on such a high horse and then im gettin stomped on. dang all i know is that the low points sure do suck, and its a lot harder to pull myself up than to be dropped thats for sure.
and why does it feel like God is so distant, when in my mind i should be the closet to him now than ever?
life, sometimes i just dont get it!!
and why does it feel like God is so distant, when in my mind i should be the closet to him now than ever?
life, sometimes i just dont get it!!
Sunday, November 19, 2006
i dont know what to put in this stupid title spot
ok so i just got back from church ya thats right the service starts at like 7 so i get to sleep in. I think that the found out that God can be reached at any time of the day, and its a lot easier for us (college age) to find Him later in the day.
I went to church at what is call The Stirring they have a little motto that is Community of Faith. Love and Hope. which is pretty cool. The guy in charge is Nathan Edwardson, he looks like he could be in his mid to late 20s or something like that.
The church is cool because its actually like a community within a church, the Church that meets there on sunday morning is Risin King, and then they do this at nite, for more of a way to connect to my age group of people, and its really working.
It was crazy this week becasue i havent gone in a while to it, but today the did a thing on lectio devina, its crazy because i am reading and going through this book that is called Enjoy the Silence, By Maggie and Duffy Robbins and its all about lectio devina, so its pretty cool, i think that it has been helping me out becasue sometimes it feels like i just cant hear God, and this is a good way in my day to get out of my surroundings and just take a quite time out and read the Bible passage adn really meditate on it and all. So now i think that today was great because it was almost as if God was showing me how much this church really connected to me. i really like the whole atmosphere and how it felt like they really cared about God and the things i care about a lot. just really cool,
So today was a pretty pointless day all day till i went to church, so im pretty freakin happy and feelin good right now, so praise the Lord for him being in our lives.
Peaceout
I went to church at what is call The Stirring they have a little motto that is Community of Faith. Love and Hope. which is pretty cool. The guy in charge is Nathan Edwardson, he looks like he could be in his mid to late 20s or something like that.
The church is cool because its actually like a community within a church, the Church that meets there on sunday morning is Risin King, and then they do this at nite, for more of a way to connect to my age group of people, and its really working.
It was crazy this week becasue i havent gone in a while to it, but today the did a thing on lectio devina, its crazy because i am reading and going through this book that is called Enjoy the Silence, By Maggie and Duffy Robbins and its all about lectio devina, so its pretty cool, i think that it has been helping me out becasue sometimes it feels like i just cant hear God, and this is a good way in my day to get out of my surroundings and just take a quite time out and read the Bible passage adn really meditate on it and all. So now i think that today was great because it was almost as if God was showing me how much this church really connected to me. i really like the whole atmosphere and how it felt like they really cared about God and the things i care about a lot. just really cool,
So today was a pretty pointless day all day till i went to church, so im pretty freakin happy and feelin good right now, so praise the Lord for him being in our lives.
Peaceout
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Just the highest points of NYWC
some things that really stand out in my mind from the weekend at the NYWC.
Tony Jones- Wow what an amazing guy, i have read a book by him and i knew that he was a great guy, but as i met him and went to some of his seminars, it was probably the best thing in the world for me. He really knows his stuff, and what hes doing, and hes freakin smart. One nite we went to a diccusion about theology of post modernism, and it was awsome, some stuff went way over my head, but here is something said by him that makes me think: maybe Jesus' divinity was hidden from Him all his life until His 3 years of ministry, and thenit is slowly revealed to Him. WHAT!!!! thats not what i have been tought my whole life, crazy but dang sounds a lot more logical to me after talkin about it, but im still not done thinkin about it.
Doug Fields- just a really great guy and knows what he is doing, just someone that i really look up to a lot more, because hes just like me, hes funny and messed up on stuff, he just made me see how you can have fun and really love God and show others that you can have fun and be a Christian too.
Tony Campolo- Man first of all he is the oldest coolest person in athe world. it just felt like everything he was saying should be wrote down and put into a book, which he prolly has already done, but he is just out there living his faith and its cool to see such and old guy have so much fire in his life, most ppl that have had a stroke and are that old are living in a retierment home (he does this) and just sit around and wait to die (he isnt doing that) and it shows me how if this old guy can be doing it why not me.
Shane Claiborne- ok if you know who i am at all, you know this guy is the freakin man!!!(as james put it, rob bell to james is like shane claiborne to me) well it may not that bad because as of right now i havent started dressing like shane, even though i am done buying sweatshop clothes thats for sure. But i think that the craziest thing that ill tell you about him was that he took the money that he was earning from talking at the convention and put it all in to 1 dollar bills. after this he put a stamp on everyone that says "love" on it and he said that he prayed over every one of them, and i dont think shane is lying so he prolly did it. then he spread them out in front of the stage, and told us that we need to go out and pretty much become Christians, to go out into the world and love, what i heard was go out there and take care of the ppl that God is wanting us to take care of, but yet so many ppl just look over. he is just such a role model in my life now and for a little while now, oh ya i also talked to him and freakin shook his hand and talked to him, hes a lot taller than i thought. so ya crazy cool.
dave crowder band- all i have to say is dang the church that he plays at every week im guessin is huge, but ya they were awsome for sure, instant fan from the weekend for sure
the whole weekend was great, i know im missin a lot but sometimes i get tired writing and being on the computer this long so ya, but ill never forget hiding under the bleachers with jeremy, or seeing lacy shake like crazy on stage with illusionist, or gettin lost going from the elevator to my room,
it was an all around great weekend and i think i learned so much in the weekend it was pretty crazy, i just want to say thanks for the church for giving me the oppertunity to be able to go down there for sure. wow ya thats a lot sorry if you read it all
peaceout
Tony Jones- Wow what an amazing guy, i have read a book by him and i knew that he was a great guy, but as i met him and went to some of his seminars, it was probably the best thing in the world for me. He really knows his stuff, and what hes doing, and hes freakin smart. One nite we went to a diccusion about theology of post modernism, and it was awsome, some stuff went way over my head, but here is something said by him that makes me think: maybe Jesus' divinity was hidden from Him all his life until His 3 years of ministry, and thenit is slowly revealed to Him. WHAT!!!! thats not what i have been tought my whole life, crazy but dang sounds a lot more logical to me after talkin about it, but im still not done thinkin about it.
Doug Fields- just a really great guy and knows what he is doing, just someone that i really look up to a lot more, because hes just like me, hes funny and messed up on stuff, he just made me see how you can have fun and really love God and show others that you can have fun and be a Christian too.
Tony Campolo- Man first of all he is the oldest coolest person in athe world. it just felt like everything he was saying should be wrote down and put into a book, which he prolly has already done, but he is just out there living his faith and its cool to see such and old guy have so much fire in his life, most ppl that have had a stroke and are that old are living in a retierment home (he does this) and just sit around and wait to die (he isnt doing that) and it shows me how if this old guy can be doing it why not me.
Shane Claiborne- ok if you know who i am at all, you know this guy is the freakin man!!!(as james put it, rob bell to james is like shane claiborne to me) well it may not that bad because as of right now i havent started dressing like shane, even though i am done buying sweatshop clothes thats for sure. But i think that the craziest thing that ill tell you about him was that he took the money that he was earning from talking at the convention and put it all in to 1 dollar bills. after this he put a stamp on everyone that says "love" on it and he said that he prayed over every one of them, and i dont think shane is lying so he prolly did it. then he spread them out in front of the stage, and told us that we need to go out and pretty much become Christians, to go out into the world and love, what i heard was go out there and take care of the ppl that God is wanting us to take care of, but yet so many ppl just look over. he is just such a role model in my life now and for a little while now, oh ya i also talked to him and freakin shook his hand and talked to him, hes a lot taller than i thought. so ya crazy cool.
dave crowder band- all i have to say is dang the church that he plays at every week im guessin is huge, but ya they were awsome for sure, instant fan from the weekend for sure
the whole weekend was great, i know im missin a lot but sometimes i get tired writing and being on the computer this long so ya, but ill never forget hiding under the bleachers with jeremy, or seeing lacy shake like crazy on stage with illusionist, or gettin lost going from the elevator to my room,
it was an all around great weekend and i think i learned so much in the weekend it was pretty crazy, i just want to say thanks for the church for giving me the oppertunity to be able to go down there for sure. wow ya thats a lot sorry if you read it all
peaceout
Ill never forget my first time
I know i havent really posted anything in a really long time, but i have some important things to say now so ill write a little bit about it.
Even though its been a week ago, with my church we went to the National Youth Worker Convention, the people from SACC that went was James Heather Jeremy Jason Lacy and me. there were about 17 of us total that came all together from our conference all to the convention.
I think ill just do a little quick write about each day, and some interesting facts and stuff from the day.
THURSDAY-
I woke up at 4 in the morning. Took the taxi to the airport which wasnt bad adn then found out my plane would be delayed, the battery didnt get charged the night before, as long as it was not going to crash i was happy. so im off to san fran got there in time made my flight to OC, found Jason with the biggest bag in the world for a 5 day trip, he didnt even pack that much to college. whatever.
we all made it safely to the airport and stuff, so we were off to the hotel/convention center. we checked in and everything was good, i slept in a room with jason and jeremy, which is another story in itself, thats for sure.
so my first class of the day was by Chirs Flomsbee, he is like a big wig with the Sonlife ppl. He told us all about what Sonlife is doing, and then talked all about Developing Students who share in the mission of God. He was really good at talking and made it a really fun thing to do casue we were there for 5hrs one day and 3 the next. I learned a lot of great stuff adn it was a really good time that was for sure. They teach about the Great Commision and the Great Commandment and how they see those like almost as the root and then thinkgs break off of that, which is really neat and pretty much how i see things as, they just made it sound a lot better than i could ever.
ok this is going to be way to long of a thing so im going to do it a little different and just hit some high points in the week, well the highest points in the week cause they were all great.
Even though its been a week ago, with my church we went to the National Youth Worker Convention, the people from SACC that went was James Heather Jeremy Jason Lacy and me. there were about 17 of us total that came all together from our conference all to the convention.
I think ill just do a little quick write about each day, and some interesting facts and stuff from the day.
THURSDAY-
I woke up at 4 in the morning. Took the taxi to the airport which wasnt bad adn then found out my plane would be delayed, the battery didnt get charged the night before, as long as it was not going to crash i was happy. so im off to san fran got there in time made my flight to OC, found Jason with the biggest bag in the world for a 5 day trip, he didnt even pack that much to college. whatever.
we all made it safely to the airport and stuff, so we were off to the hotel/convention center. we checked in and everything was good, i slept in a room with jason and jeremy, which is another story in itself, thats for sure.
so my first class of the day was by Chirs Flomsbee, he is like a big wig with the Sonlife ppl. He told us all about what Sonlife is doing, and then talked all about Developing Students who share in the mission of God. He was really good at talking and made it a really fun thing to do casue we were there for 5hrs one day and 3 the next. I learned a lot of great stuff adn it was a really good time that was for sure. They teach about the Great Commision and the Great Commandment and how they see those like almost as the root and then thinkgs break off of that, which is really neat and pretty much how i see things as, they just made it sound a lot better than i could ever.
ok this is going to be way to long of a thing so im going to do it a little different and just hit some high points in the week, well the highest points in the week cause they were all great.
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