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| Praise GOD, the semester is almost over. There has not been a week that I have not had 2 major items to take care of whether it be two major tests, a test and a project, or a test and a report. By the grace of God alone I have managed to maintain an A in all my classes up to this point, but I'm not sure how I will come out of my finals this time.
It has been a really long time since I posted to this blog, but nothing much other than school has been going on. Therefor, there hasn't been and still is no news to share. Maybe something cool will happen this summer that I can post....
On a side note, for all the old school MGC BSUers, Eric Lane, BSU President 97-98, is getting married on 5-6-06, guess he didn't want to get married on 06-06-06......
Blessings to all......
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| Just to give an update....
Classes are going great....learning some fairly cool stuff. I am
beginning to see how I will use the stuff I am learning about
accounting, business, and marketing in both a work setting and to help
ministries later on. Amazing how God will put you right where he wants
you to teach you something. I am also having a blast at church, FLM,
and the MGC BSU. Speaking of the MGC BSU, I will be speaking there this
Monday for MNL!! I will probably start working, doing taxes, in
February to make some money--trying to save up for a tabletPC for
school, work, and ministry--and yes a tabletPC will work better for
that than a notebook due to some really cool features available only on
tablets.
OK, that's not much of an update, but I don't have much to share unless
you want me to talk about some boring business, accounting, or
marketing stuff. I do think that everyone who goes into the ministry
should be required to take the core classes for business majors....but
have someone tell them how it is applied to ministry.
Anywayz, here is my inspirational quote for the day...from my sister in Christ:
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You know,
so often we hear of Christians going overseas and dedicating their
lives to the 'mission field' - and I am thankful for that. But how
often do we look out our back door - in our neighborhoods, our
communities, our states - and reach out to those in our own land?
Sometimes reaching the world isn't found in day-long plane flights or
trips across the borders, but in reaching those right here that can
spread the Word as well. Just like there are forgotten generations,
there are forgotten peoples. Forgotten nations. Forgotten lands. The
poverty and anguish that we see on the tv on the nights we're up at 3am
aren't only in Africa or Indonesia. They're in Montana, South Dakota,
Arizona. They're right here, at our fingertips, but they are forgotten.
There is
burning deep within me to do something. Make a difference. Change a
nation. Give hope to the people who have never known it. And I know
that if God is calling me to that, making it my heart's desire, it will
be done. --Tulip in GA....aka "Kel"
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| No real news to post right now....just wanted to share this with you:
To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely
into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of
why Paul describes Christ as "unsearchable riches."
Ray C. Stedman
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| Waking up....
I just read some of the most terrible (terrifying and
amazing at the same time) information ever. It is amazing how God
answers prayer in His timing, for His Glory, and how it profoundly
changes us--shaking us to the core. I have prayed that God would judge
me quite some time ago....that prayer has been answered this day.
Woe is me, for I am exposed before an awesome, holy, and righteous God in judgement of my character flaws, and wrong thinking.
I had been excited about starting a discipleship ministry in Cochran at
MGC, and it has promises of expanding into Hawkinsville even before it
has really started. All of which is done by the grace and glory of God
alone. How arrogant and prideful I have been to call this my ministry.
I am but the vessel that God has chosen (not because I am worthy, but
because He is full of gace and mercy) to do His ministry--and I
am now terrified at the responsibility. For if I lose the ministry it
is nothing, but if the souls of those entrusted to me are lost to hell,
then I have lost everything.
I now ask that you pray against pride in my life. Pray that I walk in
His Grace cloaked in the mantle of Humility. Pray that I am ever
before Him in Grace and Judgement through the medium of the Holy
Spirit. Pray that we all learn that it is more blessed to give than
receive that we may overcome the lusts of this world, and that we do
everything for His Glory alone.
I am nothing, He is everything. Do not look to me, look to Him--I am
nothing. I am not wise that you should seek my counsel, I am not a
leader that you should follow me, I am a great sinner that deserves
hell, but I have found salvation through His Grace and Mercy on the
Cross--seek Him and follow Him.
Blessings to you all.....
saved by Grace alone
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| Some days you feel like a nut.....some days you are one....
So, I thought my classes were at 8 am this morning...got
up at 6 am to ensure that I had plenty of time to shower, eat
breakfast, get gas in my truck, etc....I get to the college and
suddenly realize my classes are not until 9:30 am--doh!! Oh well, I
should probably try to get used to getting up early to get a parking
space anyway. At least I'm not the only one--I was scheduled to speak
at the BSU on the 16th...which is a holiday. So, I may be speaking on
the 23rd instead--either way I am ready. It's going to be a wonderful
year!!!
More to come later when I have regained my senses....
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If you haven't got problems perhaps you should get on your knees and
ask, "Lord, don't you trust me?
Les Nixon
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