Saturday, December 27, 2003

It's pretty crazy...9 days have some how evaporated from me...I go back to Columbus tomorrow...I am excited to see everyone. I had a rather encouraging conversation over lunch with a buddy of mine that has been going through the med school process. I still am filled with fear and trepidation...however, I pray that God be glorified through all of it and that His will be done. Christmas with the Evans' was wonderful...Sunny So. Cal has been great...I feel some sort of urgency to make plans to come back but I don't know when that will be. Who knows what the future holds...?

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Back in Cali....It's so beautiful out here...but Columbus is really starting to feel like home. It's good to be back with the Evans family and listen to Paige engage in conversation...Kids grow up so fast.

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

I thought I would post this because I find it to be very powerful..."In some cultural contexts Paul's writings are read as telling us not to enjoy secular entertainments or bodily pleasures-or as commanding us to embrace whatever the current prudishness is. We take something out of our contemporary grab bag of ideas and assume that that is what he is saying. However, no sane, practical course of action that results in progress toward pervasive Christlikeness ever seems to emerge from such thinking...Both the secular and religious setting in which we live today is almost irresistibly biased toward an interpretation of these passages that condones a life more like that of decent people around us than like the life of Paul and his Lord." Dallas Willard. With that said...why don't we practice the Spiritual Disciplines? How did that get lost during our course through Discipleship? Why were they not emphasized when examining the life of Christ? Did we in our present day context and arrogance assume that becoming more like Christ could happen without ever attempting to partake in the practices with which he engaged himself? I have been humbled.....however, I will not allow this to paralyze me, I will not allow this to prevent a change of course...

Monday, December 15, 2003

Hmmm.....It's been quite a while and yet I still don't have anything interesting to say. As of right now the Underground Seminary is going through Willard's Spirit of the Disciplines. I find it very challenging in that it continues to stretch my spiritual growth. Much of what Willard is getting at is simply the necessity for us as followers of Christ to continue to live in a spiritual life that is holistic. Last week we practiced the spiritual discipline of silence. It was a great learning experience and a Discipline that I am trying to practice daily. This week was the discipline of study. Anyways, going back to Cali. for a about ten days. I am real excited. And I just enrolled in an MCAT class that starts on Jan. 10th. I am very nervous. as well as $2,200 poorer. Oh well, If you could all continue to pray for me during this endeavour that would be great.

Saturday, December 06, 2003

Check this out, it's freakin' hilarious.

Friday, December 05, 2003

Exciting news, Robbie and I started recording on Weds. Night. With any luck we will have about 7 solid songs recorded within the next month. However, we are taking a couple of weeks off during the month of December. I am having dinner tonight with Robert Caldwell and family to discuss possible community events that I can get connected with while I am here. I am very excited about this. I want to get plugged in to something on a regular basis where I am physically serving others and building relationships with people here in the community. Anyways, hopefully by the end of next week I can post a song on my blog using the audioblog. that would be pretty sweet. then people could post comments to my music discussing how much they think that I suck. Chelsea Kay has written some pretty amazing things on her blog...I suggest you all check it out. Stay tuned for my next blog...cause I just started reading Dallas Willard's, Spirit of the Disciplines.