spiritual thought. chewing on lots since last time. Love Isaiah 1. Enough of your prayers and offerings, just stop doing wrong and start doing what is right. good stuff. read it. heard a good story in chapel. basically saw that often the task we may have before us is as meaningless as digging a ditch in a prison camp, but nevertheless, that is the task before us. do it heartily as unto the Lord. good stuff. thinking and talking alot about evangelism. not really "doing" though. need help. need to open my mouth. days. went to Belmont Ave on holloween with brooks, ryan and brennen and saw a costume contest. Lots of men dressed as women. brooks, who suggested that we go down there really wanted to leave, so we left. we barely won our first playoff game (flag football). our defense was amazing. i hurt my wrist. really need to exercise more. Gospel chior is so super and fun and worshipfull. went to starbucks last night with B, R, and B and listened to some live guy on guitar and vocs. saw a little shiny ball on the floor out of the corner of my eye. picked it up. it was one of those screw on balls for some one's tongue jewelry. put it back down. classes. getting some good grades these days. Thank you God. i know the bad grades will come. just preparing to praise God all the way. quote. the closer you sit to a chapel speaker, the less funny they are. benfeusi like an unstirred Caramel Mocciato, it sucked at the beginning and it sucked at the end. brennen and ben.
spiritual thought. amazing to think that God works EVERYTHING to good for those who love him. hard to grasp really. what does "good" mean? Stephen was stoned to death. Paul was stoned, beat and the rest. Christians are killed everyday for loving God. i think we may inoculate this verse when we use it to say that God will keep us unburnt in the furnace or that he will elevate us from prisoner to pharoah. death is gain. the day. took a Chrysler Spirit to thrift stores with Bob and Luke. In the car was a replica of a P-51 Mustang and i played with it. we drove pretty far south to a thrift store with the word "unique" in its name. It was half off day, but because we didnt get there until about 4pm we really missied out. left with a shirt that has a cow, a pig, and a chicken on it........(wow. i just sat and daydreamed about chasing Emu for about 5 minutes). Somewhat dissapointed, we left and drove far North to a thrift store with the word "village" in it. It was huge and duanting; clothes every where and the only guidance you had were little signs saying "pants, shirts, whatever." We didnt find much at the village either. i bought a Kmart t-shirt and a pair of womens pants (im a size 14, apparently). Shopping is a luxary that often requires patients and perserverance. on the way back we became hungry and Bob kept saying, "this way looks promising." Then we'd go that way and it would just be brick buildings with no lights. We drove by the salt company with a girl and her umbrella as its logo and the yellow taxi cab headquarters place. classes. just sleepy. quote. better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Mr. Eckel's dad.
spiritual. i am so glad that a cold and soar throat are the only physical problem i face right now. wonderings. sometimes i wish someone would put a gun to my head and have me choose between life or christ. this is probably a foolish thing to say. people ignoring you, tolerating you or just thinking you're a lunatic is not necisarilly preferable to death, though. i know these are probably just the words of a sheltered american christian, but really. one of the main things that keep me from sharing Christ with people on the street or whatever is not that i'm afraid they'll punch me or spit on me or bomb me or even heckle me, no. they'll just look at me and and tell me, "how can you claim to know the truth?" or something meanigless like that. i need to get over this. day. woke up with a way less soar throat. could not sing well in Gospel Chior though. slept a lot. ate cream of chicken soup with 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, 2 tbl spoons of black pepper and 3 tblsp of unfiltered honey. burned in my stomach and i couldnt eat dinner. soar throat is nearly gone. this is a direct answer to prayer. open house at the sisters' tonight. they did a super job. we were in our PJs. they were television and we watched them. they did a great job, and bless heidi's heart, she did a wonderful Strong Bad impression. i just wanted to kiss her. pirahana ate again today. talked to matt. brooks started his catering job today. brennen is at his parent's. quote. "the pirahna wont let it touch the ground. only humans are smart enough to have a 10 second rule."
spiritual. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 COR 12:9) thank God for his mercy, yes, but his grace, i am especially greatful for. classes. wrote "but be filled with the Holy Spirit" rather than "insteaD be filled" so i lost piont on Life & Ethics Quiz. also i know obedience is the sign of our love for Christ. duh, i know that, but i dont remember studying it so i scratched it out and put something else. that makes me very, very sad. the day. slept poorly. woke up every couple of hours and each time i woke up i noticed my throat getting soarer and soarer. woke up with a very soar throat. felt icky. God's grace is sufficient. messed up on my LFE & ETHCS test. God's grace is sufficient. thought to myself, oh well, i'll just skip christian missions and sleep." remembered i get a full grade increase if i have perfect attendance (ah, Balonado). went to class, miserable. God's grace is sufficient. Thought, "oh well, i'll just skip Chapel and sleep." It was department Chapel day and those are mandatory. went to chapel, miserable. God's grace is sufficient. wanted to get out so i went to Belmont Ave. with ian north, brooks fuller, and ryan epp (cool, i know their last names). went "thrift" shopping, but not really. these are more like "vintage clothing" stores, so they've caught on to the fact that kids want these clothe. a shirt i may have spent max 2.50 for at a real thrift store was like 12 bucks. yikes. didnt get any clothes. just didnt have the energy to clothes shop. bought used bjork and lenny kravits albums and Orange County DVD which i will watch only in keeping with the SLG :P quote. "My sister floor RA said you can take these [Ad posters in "L" Cars]." -ryan epp
spiritual thought. note: the term "excercise saving faith." used by "Lordship Salvationists." "have saving faith." used by "Belief Salvationists." each term avoided by the other user. the day. this morning, alarm was still set for a nap taken yesterday. previous night had gone so well. got so much done and was prepared for today. then this happend. woke up at 8:10am. first class is at 8am. As i was throwing clothes on i kept asking, "Lord, what am i supposed to learn from this?" Learned: at no point in time am i even a little bit in control, God is the One resposible for every success, including the such minute things as getting up on time. almost lost a toenail. many people feeling like the weather: meloncholy. amber is ill. Pippy is Rachel. skipped first chapel today in light of morning. spent that time doing all the things i had no time to do in the morning and folding the clothes i threw everywhere. "the blue aerogramme" = the sky (unknown). classes. personal evangelism mid-term was the kind on which you find yourself sifting through a number of correct answers for the one that the teacher accepts as "correct." i think i did well. watched a documentary in OT for the first time. it was one of those anthropological films you find on the History Channel like "Mysteries of the Bible." it was on the "Exodus." had some good stuff in it and also had us rolling in the isles. it is foolishness when man tries to show that the Bible is historically accurate, but fails to attribute the events recorded therein to Him who the Bible also accurately records was responsible. there is every place for anthropolgy and archeaology in surveying the scriptures, but there is a clear danger in trying to explain everything by natural causes. quote1. "I look in her bright green eyes of light and answer her as the smell of clean soap toothpaste rushes at me, "Yes." -brennen and kate
spiritual thought.thank God for his grace, yes, but his mercies...oh, thank you God for those so much. wonderings.chapters 1 and 2 of Job may have shed light today on a little topic i like to call the "free will of man." obviously this doesn't end the controversy, but i thought it was interesting that that Satan himself, who probably knows more about man, sin, and God than any human ever could still thought it possible and a worthy cause to attempt to change the heart of Job. It is as though Satan knew it was changeable. He did not say to God, "Well God, you and i both know that it doesnt matter how hard i try, if it isnt your will for Job to curse you then he never will." He didn't even say, "Well you and I both know that everything i, Satan, do is only somehow just "part of your will anyway." i think it is safe to assume that Satan genuinly felt he had a shot at winning this bet. If anybody could recognize a raw deal i would think Satan could and would have seen it here. Satan still works this hard to try and bend our wills today, yes? the day.book, books, books. ate stir fry for lunch, autopsy for dinner.slept, read, and wrote inbetween. emergencu vehicles in front of crowel tonight. many people like brennan for example started OT review papers TODAY. crazy. it is due tomorrow morn. talking about an entire overview of basically Joshua through Sonog of Solomon. yeah. crazy. classes.Bolonado sent everyone's grades to everyone through e-mail. yes this is illegal, but it was a mistake and it was actually his TAs mistake. he apologized and told everyone not to look at other people's grades. quote.dont let the acts and behavior of satan be the basis of your theology.benfeusi
spiritual thought of the day. we often talk of "being real" or "the real you" as being the part of someone that identifies with the realities of sin and satan and so forth as having an unfortuneate but definate impact on one's life. it'd be neat if the "real somebody" could be the part of someone that identifes with christ in his death, burial and of paramount importance, his victorious ressurection unto new life which for the believer is lived out by the power of the Holy spirit. wonderings. thought alot about the bowels today. 1) I wonder if the uncomfortable tumults of the tummy nearly all moody freshmen experience their first few weeks here are not so much because they've been introduced to an entirely new type of sustinece (i.e. SDR meals), but rather could it be that there is a 100 year old bacteria living in the water supply that takes newbies some time getting used to?. hmmm. 2)A new term for something having to do with BMs but not sure when exactly it can be applied: "Deployment for Enjoyment." classes. peter was responding to literal stick fugures of fictitious "seekers" as they were being drawn on the blackboard in PE today as though each was an actual photo of some real person in need of a savior. He gave "spiritual" 'oohs,' 'ahs,' and grunts of affrimation. i laughed and pointed this out to him. i think we agreed that this unusual behavior had something to do with his having done so well on the quiz we had taken at the beginning of class. history. today is Lacey Bada's B-day. sat in as part of a live audience for a Josh McDowell radio broadcast this evening in AA. very good stuff. almost asked him a question about the objective truths of scripture and the traditional preferences of a culture nearly dead and how to balance the two (if balance is the right word) in the context of youth ministry. didnt ask though. Montana is improving, but still needs prayer that damaged parts of his digestive system would return to their normal functions. saw the Culby 12 piranahs eat live goldfish for the first time today, an exciting thing to see. were parts of it sad? yes. will i watch next time? most likely. is there blood? no. do they eat every part? they can and do, but not always. quote. "pooh seems to sprout wings and fly in that class, so i'm sure you'll do fine"-benfuesi