Pumping Iron
I heard a good line today by one of my friends that I thought was pretty good. He said that working out was kinda like having quiet time. At first you don't really want to do it but once you get started you don't want to stop. Once you get in the swing of things and start doing it regularly it gets easier and you don't want to stop, but if you do stop and don't do it for a while it is hard to get back into it.
Just an observation about how lifting and having quiet time are connected.
Bible Study
Tonight was the first week of the discipleship group that I am going to be in this semester. I am really excited about this group because I think it will really help me with my walk. The guys in the group are really great and I think they will help me to stay accountable. Tonight we got our accountability parnters and wrote down what we want them to help keep us accountable with. I have never done this before and I think it is really going to help. There is something about being vulnerable with someone that you don't know very well yet. I think this is a good thing and will definitely help me to stay accountable to certain things. I am really looking forward to getting more involved with this group.
Back Again
I'm back up at fayetteville again this semester after considering some other options. It is good to be back. I missed being up here with everyone. I have to change some things this semester though, otherwise I won't be back again. I don't really know what to think about that. I'm not really nervous....I guess I'm just kinda anxious about it. Anyways...it's good to be back.
This is what it's like
As the christmas break is coming to an end I am actually ready to get back to school. I have had a lot to think about over the break about whether to return to fayetteville or not. I got myself stuck in a position where I let my grades slip and wasn't sure if going back to fayetteville would be the best thing. I have been thinking about this a lot and came to the conclusion that I am going to try it again. I know that I can do it and I want to prove it. I don't want to sit back and wonder if I ever could have done it.
Ahhh... I am just ready to get this all over with. Sometimes I wish that it would happen faster and other times I think that it is going too fast. Sometimes I just want to get it done, move on, and start my life. But then I think about it and realize that I have all the time in the world for that and I just need to relax and let life happen right now before it catches up to me and I am out in the "real world".
Blunt
I just picked up this cd
http://jamesblunt.com and it is pretty cool. I met a guy last week that was playing him and it was kinda catchy. Just thought I'd plug it. If you like acoustic stuff you might like this.
Notes
Here are a fewe notes from the conference last week...
What does it mean to lose your life? Hold your things loosely and surrender them to Christ... listen for him to call you...Anyone who loves *insert here* more than me is not worthy of me.
Fruit is good, Fruit Reveals, Being Fruitless is bad.
- The Parable of the Lost Things
Each centers on something important, each involves an intense search, each ends with a celebration.
- The Parable of the Lost Things Reveals the Heart of God
God's heart for the lost, God's seeking for the the lost, God's joy in saving the lost.
- The Christian life is an endless series of new beginnings.
- God exhists to glorify himself...We exhist to Glorify God.
- Application
Growth takes time, make your applications reasonable for who you are right now, get accountability
Crap
Over the last month or so I have felt like I have been in a spiritual drought. I just really haven't been able to make myself do anything even though I knew I was in a drought and wanted to get out of it. This past week at the stumo conference I feel like I was snapped out of it. The speaker at this conference was Sam Hannon. He is a U of A grad, former stumo staff, and is now a pastor at Fellowship in Rogers. It felt like all of his talks were aimed right at me. It felt like they were directed right at me telling me to snapp out of this crap that I am in. This week really challenged me to get involved on campus, act on my faith,and to let God handle all of the rest. I'm praying that this won't be like a lot of "church" camps or whatever you call them. Most of these get everyone all fired up and that lasts about a week or two and then disappears. I am praying that this will be different.
STUMO
The past 4 days or so I have been in Tulsa at a stumo conference. Since last year I have been involved with this campus ministry at U of A. Now when I say involved I really mean that I go to most of the weekly large group meetings and that is about it. I know about 5 people that go there and 3 of them I have known since high school. About midway through this last semester I realized that I haven't been involved at all. I wasn't in a small group and I wasn't reaching out to anyone there. I would go the the meetings and then leave when they were done.
So about halfway into last semester they were promoting their winter conference. I heard a lot of people talking about it so I decided that I was gunna go. I figured if I wanted to start getting more involved and reach out to people this would be a good way to start. It turned out to be just what I needed. I met a lot of people from my campus that I didn't know. I think this week was a good start to reaching out and getting involved with people more.
I will write more about the conference later.
