Friday, February 24, 2006
So, yesterday I found out no Alaska summer project, and it's not because I got accepted somewhere else, it's because I e-mailed them and asked when I was going to find out. So next up is Yellowstone, and if I missed the 2nd deadline like I think I did, Yellowstone will be full up, same with St. Lous, so that leaves Lake Tahoe and Ozark Lakes. If I get any besides Yellowstone I think that I'd really have to sit and think and pray about what to do with my summer. Maybe I'll just stay in Columbia for a while and take summer classes. Maybe I'll go to Niger or Detroit. Maybe I'll get a job. I don't know. Though now my summer looks like it can only be a failure :(. So I had discipleship with Chris today and that went pretty good. We talked about alot of things including sarcasm, cussing, and me needing to watch my money, which I really do. Debating about conforming to the rest of my Bible study and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount in NIV (I'm pretty unreasonably against the NIV), and I don't really want to do this because after this semester Chris will be gone and the Bible study will be broken for the summer, but I still want to memorize for the summer and I'd do it in the ESV, so I think I'm just going to keep on keeping on with that. Oh, I got Creative Suite 2 yesterday, and proceeded to play on Photoshop for the entire afternoon, and I still suck at it. Good thing for ARTS 102 next semester. I am really looking forward to next semester and actually taking some Art Studio classes, photography, and more general education (I've come to hate general education classes). But yea, I need to get Chris to get on my about procrastination too because I am procrastinating right now. I have a 4-6 page paper due at 5 today and I've wrote a paragraph and a half of it (though I do have an option to do a different paper later). Procrastination and me go hand in hand and thats bad so I need to work on that. So, I think I am going to go read something....maybe Total Truth, I haven't read that in a while, or maybe some Tozer or some other theological giant (most people are theological giants compared to me at least). Mm Mm procrastination. Peace.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
**POSTED WITH AN UNLICENSED COPY OF VIJOURNAL
So I have known this for a long time. I am sarcastic, and sarcastic in a bad way. Come to think of it is there even a good way to be sarcastic? Probably not. I just know that I definitely need to "keep my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit" (Psalm 34:13). To all I have ever been sarcastic to, and maybe not offended or hurt, it doesn't even matter, I am sorry. So if any of you hear me being sarcastic, which I have no doubt you will because I am always sarcastic, call me out on it and help me eliminate sarcasm from my life because it has no place in that which is holy. Muchas Gracias.
So I have known this for a long time. I am sarcastic, and sarcastic in a bad way. Come to think of it is there even a good way to be sarcastic? Probably not. I just know that I definitely need to "keep my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit" (Psalm 34:13). To all I have ever been sarcastic to, and maybe not offended or hurt, it doesn't even matter, I am sorry. So if any of you hear me being sarcastic, which I have no doubt you will because I am always sarcastic, call me out on it and help me eliminate sarcasm from my life because it has no place in that which is holy. Muchas Gracias.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
**POSTED WITH AN UNLICENSED COPY OF VIJOURNAL
2006
Wednesday, February 22
So today, as usual I skipped ENGL 283. I skip it every Monday and Wednesday, and go to the discussion group on Thursday, because thats the only one that matters. I am sick also which blows. So after I woke up I started to work on memorizing Matthew 5:3-12, only to find out tonight at Bible study that I was supposed to memorize Matthew 5:1-12, but I hadn't had it 100% correct anyways so no biggie. But I did that for a while before talking online some and grabbing lunch. Chicken Finger Wednesday. So after lunch I jetted to HIST 111, which I only go to because of attendence and never pay attention to (This is where I think Mr. Reed my AP US teacher, even though I got a 2 on the exam, that was my laziness not his lack of teaching skills). After HIST 111 I went to work for what I intended to be 3 hours. Nope. Too boring. Only got through one before I bounced. After work I napped. 2 and a half hours. Mm Mm. Woke up from the nape at 6:30, and I continued working on memorizing the Beatitudes, and watched some Duke - Georgia Tech basketball, then went down to grab dinner and head to Bible study. Bible study is getting better and better each week, and I am completely saddened by the fact that Mr. Christopher Allen Martin is a senior and will be graduating in May, because I would love to have him stay our Bible study leader and now discipler for more than just this school year. But yea, in Bible study we went over Galatians 2:11-21 and talked about rebuking people (believers, non-believers, and elders) and created a systematic guide on rebuking based on the Bible. So here it is: It is God's place to rebuke those outside of the church (1 Cor 5:12-13). The rebuking of elders is to be done in private with 2 or 3 other men and its supposed to be more of exhorting them than harshly rebuking them (1 Tim 5:1; 1 Tim 5:19). Believers have the right to rebuke any in the church, though it is best to use discretion in chosing who to rebuke. And there are two ways to rebuke believers: 1. Publically if they have stained the gospel or continue in sin (1 Tim 5:20). 2. Privately if they have sinned against you personally (Matt 1:15-17). After talking about rebukation (yep, that's a coined word of mine) we talked about the differences of justification and sanctification and how justification is God wiping our slate clean and justification is the act of becoming holy. After this we decided to memorize 10 verses a week so we can have the Sermon on the Mount memorized by the time school lets out. Hopefully, that will happen, though I am never as diligent as I should be. Our Bible study is now meeting Monday mornings for breakfast for discipleship and are going over spiritual disciplines from a book by Donald Whitney (who I guessed wrote the book, because I heard him talk at Providence Baptist Church in Greenville, SC a ways back). Next week though scares me. Because we are going to be confessing every sin we can ever remember commiting to Chris, and just thinking about that reminds me of what a horrible person I am and that I am glad that I don't have to be a good person to be saved because I am a wretched, wretched man. But no matter how nervous I am about it, I trust Chris not to judge me and feel that this will be an amazing experience. Well, thats pretty much the run down of whats happening.....Peace out.
2006
Wednesday, February 22
So today, as usual I skipped ENGL 283. I skip it every Monday and Wednesday, and go to the discussion group on Thursday, because thats the only one that matters. I am sick also which blows. So after I woke up I started to work on memorizing Matthew 5:3-12, only to find out tonight at Bible study that I was supposed to memorize Matthew 5:1-12, but I hadn't had it 100% correct anyways so no biggie. But I did that for a while before talking online some and grabbing lunch. Chicken Finger Wednesday. So after lunch I jetted to HIST 111, which I only go to because of attendence and never pay attention to (This is where I think Mr. Reed my AP US teacher, even though I got a 2 on the exam, that was my laziness not his lack of teaching skills). After HIST 111 I went to work for what I intended to be 3 hours. Nope. Too boring. Only got through one before I bounced. After work I napped. 2 and a half hours. Mm Mm. Woke up from the nape at 6:30, and I continued working on memorizing the Beatitudes, and watched some Duke - Georgia Tech basketball, then went down to grab dinner and head to Bible study. Bible study is getting better and better each week, and I am completely saddened by the fact that Mr. Christopher Allen Martin is a senior and will be graduating in May, because I would love to have him stay our Bible study leader and now discipler for more than just this school year. But yea, in Bible study we went over Galatians 2:11-21 and talked about rebuking people (believers, non-believers, and elders) and created a systematic guide on rebuking based on the Bible. So here it is: It is God's place to rebuke those outside of the church (1 Cor 5:12-13). The rebuking of elders is to be done in private with 2 or 3 other men and its supposed to be more of exhorting them than harshly rebuking them (1 Tim 5:1; 1 Tim 5:19). Believers have the right to rebuke any in the church, though it is best to use discretion in chosing who to rebuke. And there are two ways to rebuke believers: 1. Publically if they have stained the gospel or continue in sin (1 Tim 5:20). 2. Privately if they have sinned against you personally (Matt 1:15-17). After talking about rebukation (yep, that's a coined word of mine) we talked about the differences of justification and sanctification and how justification is God wiping our slate clean and justification is the act of becoming holy. After this we decided to memorize 10 verses a week so we can have the Sermon on the Mount memorized by the time school lets out. Hopefully, that will happen, though I am never as diligent as I should be. Our Bible study is now meeting Monday mornings for breakfast for discipleship and are going over spiritual disciplines from a book by Donald Whitney (who I guessed wrote the book, because I heard him talk at Providence Baptist Church in Greenville, SC a ways back). Next week though scares me. Because we are going to be confessing every sin we can ever remember commiting to Chris, and just thinking about that reminds me of what a horrible person I am and that I am glad that I don't have to be a good person to be saved because I am a wretched, wretched man. But no matter how nervous I am about it, I trust Chris not to judge me and feel that this will be an amazing experience. Well, thats pretty much the run down of whats happening.....Peace out.
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