tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228804162012-02-16T06:00:20.473-05:00This blog is a collection of my thoughts and experiences. Hopefully they will have a lot of truth in them. Hopefully that truth will be said in grace.livethelifetodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308946056879307354noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22880416.post-24293693426280575252008-10-19T16:13:00.003-04:002008-10-19T17:18:53.056-04:00

In recent weeks, I have found myself feeling pulled into what some might call a depression. Thankfully, I am not depressed, though I must say that not having a job and having to live at home with my parents, in addition to tumultuous events that have happened recently, have caused me to feel rather worthless at times. I struggle with the truth that I cannot let my worth be found in a job and

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So the value of the dollar is dropping, the stock market is going down more and more, there is talk of a recession and maybe a depression, and all the while things are getting more expensive, especially gas. That being said, it is about time that we find at least something that is cheap but still legal out there. I have found just that thing--cheap but legal music. This site is based out of

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I've been really slack about updating my blog, since I've been so busy recently. The near future does not look that much more promising in terms of time being able to update this thing. Anyway, I decided to share with you an amazing poem that I heard read by a student at Nyack College in NYC, when I went to visit New York in the beginning of April with my boss and some of the Harambee

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In my last post, I mentioned, among other things, that the South really has a problem with racism. Chris Like of TechMission and CCDA (he's "the other Chris" on my links to other blogs on the right) commented on the post, wondering whether or not I was just expressing a regional problem or a problem that was pandemic for most or all of the United States. It is difficult to make universal

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My time out in Los Angeles has been very educational. In fact, I have probably learned more about who I am and where I come from in the past few months than I had in all of my years in and before college. I've learned that I am a Southerner at heart. I've learned that I've got the brain of a German and the heart of a Scots-Irishman. I've learned that Anglicanism has become more than just the

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Happy New Year! While everyone else was celebrating, I was trying to sleep, though rather ineffectively. I didn’t get much sleep that night, because I was so anxious about falling asleep at the wheel. Go figure. The one thing that would keep me from falling asleep at the wheel is the very thing that I can’t get because I’m worrying about falling asleep at the wheel. Fortunately, I didn’t

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The second day of the trip (my birthday!), my dad was feeling kind of sick, so I drove practically the whole day. We left around 7 a.m., I think, and drove from the westernmost portion of Arkansas, through Oklahoma, through the panhandle of Texas, and through most of New Mexico. Once we got into Albuquerque, NM, we switched up, and my dad drove the last hour or so of the trip until we got to a

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We got up early this morning and drove into Arizona. About three hours into the drive, we stopped to look at the Painted Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park. The Petrified Forest itself was not all that impressive. Sections of the Painted Desert had what looked like pieces of logs strewn across the ground. These logs, however, were no longer actual logs but rocks that looked like

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We slept in later than the previous days and ate breakfast at the continental breakfast of the Howard Johnson's motel in Williams, AZ. As we finished it started to snow, though it stopped about five minutes later. We took some pictures of the Grand Canyon Railroad, which takes passengers into the Grand Canyon on a train, and of "Historic Route 66" in downtown Williams, which basically means a

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This is a continuation of our experiences on the road trip across the US. I will be posting this in reverse order, so just wait until I am done to read them all, or read them backwards.We got up from that crazy hotel we were staying in, and I looked out the back to see the parking lot end about twenty feet behind the building. Right behind us were a few large trees to the left of a junk yard

livethelifetodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308946056879307354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22880416.post-17042868300781721992007-12-20T00:11:00.001-05:002007-12-20T15:46:46.076-05:00

My friend Chris Martin says that I don't post to my blog enough. So I'm going to make another post so that he will have something to read, or at least he will have a link on his blog to another blog that sometimes gets updated more frequently than before. I thought this quote I got in an email was pretty good. The question I struggle with is whether or not I should pursue further philosophical

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Instead of updating everyone as to what has been going on lately, which I will have to do later, I'm going to write about what happened tonight. It involves the gospel, prostitutes, hip-hop music, and a "truth-speaking" sister in Christ. It's now around 1:40 a.m., and I just got back from a trip to South Central LA with a couple of the junior staff (high schoolers for the most part). We went to

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Yesterday, it smelled like a campfire outside; all of the LA horizon was a sort of hazy pink around sunset; the sun was a bright red color like in Highlander 2; and the kids weren't allowed to play outside because of the danger of inhaling all of the junk that was polluting the air. The health department called the school today to tell us that we had to close all of the windows and keep the kids

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I think I am now beginning to feel what the grind of ministry overseas must feel like, though I have a feeling that it is only going to get worse. Not having a car has been very difficult in terms of experiencing Christian fellowship (or any fellowship, for that matter). It has made going places that I need to go dangerous, since I often have to walk back into my neighborhood sometimes as late

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This week has been an interesting week, to say the least. God has really been working in my heart to show me a lot of things about stereotypes that exist among the races and classes of people in our country. I am also now a firmer believer in Original Sin and Total Depravity than ever before, having worked with little kids all week who have the devil living in their book bags, or

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A week ago from this past Monday, I received a phone call from Florance Haraway here at Harambee Ministries in "the hood" of northwest Pasadena, CA. I had previously applied to TechMission, a Christian branch of AmeriCorps, about a month or so earlier and had gone through the interview process, not really thinking that I would ever be chosen or asked to do an internship. I was not even sure if

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I guess this post is a sort of continuation of the last post. This whole semester I've been in five religion (or religionesque) classes as well as doing research into the religious implications of nanotechnology as well as being on leadership for Cru as well as...you get the idea. The events earlier in the semester that had to do with spiritual warfare also didn't help to make things better.

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I write this tribute as a memorial for Mrs. Carolyn Kammerer, who passed away sometime shortly before 11:00 Tuesday morning. She was a woman of God if there ever was one. Her and her surviving husband Mr. Henry Kammerer have lived tough lives together in the service of Christ. Graduating with him from Columbia Bible College (now Columbia International University), they went with Sudan Interior

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I now have a blog of my own on blogger. Yay!

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