Live Loud

Something that I’ve been learning a lot about recently is living loudly.  No, I’m not talking about your little brother.  But I’m sure we all know at least one person who IS loud in that way.  And maybe it isn’t such a bad thing – maybe it’s just misguided.  Okay, maybe I’m sounding a little weird [...]

Young in the faith

Last night, I had an awesome conversation (what some might call  ’iron time’), with one of the other students.  For his take on this, read Ross Dyer’s blog called: “Take off the dress you fool!”  We were being real with each other, and asking questions like: “What do you see in me that needs to change?” [...]

I can hear myself getting fatter!

Today was pretty sweet; both in the literal and figurative sense.  Literally,  I got to eat an amazingly delicious,  yet disgustingly fattening (but oh so delicious) paczki.  If you know what that is, I promise I won’t make a cheesy spiritual connection about getting ‘spiritually fat.’ If you don’t know what that is, it’s a Polish, [...]

My War With Me.

Thinking back, I can remember the final day of Xmin last year.  It was awesome to be able to take a deep breath and know that I had accomplish what I had set out to do.  Yeah, there were definitely some tough times.  I was stretched and challenged during those eight months more than I ever had [...]

Jump, Jump.

I has this friend for a while.  Actually he was a friend of a friend.  Anyway, he was really energetic and always all over the place.  Some of our friends would complain about him being so jumpy all the time; but I’m pretty sure, when we hung out, he had the most fun out of [...]

A Roller-Coaster called Faith

“It’s the little things that keep us going.” Those were the words that a man I met at the gas station the other night said as he walked away.  I had only given him maybe 47 cents, but I also cared – and he was thankful. I have been seeing so many opportunities to love [...]

Secret Surprises

The other day work was pretty slow, so a co-worker and I were trying to get some extra cleaning projects done.  We were moving things, and sweeping things and rearranging things.  We were doing a lot, to a lot of things.  At work, we have a back room, where there is a list that has [...]

Getting Ready

It has been super exciting listening to everyone talk about the change that is taking place in REAL Church now that 2011 is finally here!  This weekend has been coming up so quickly, yet it seems so far away at times.  We’re keeping our Sunday Mornings at the Magic stick, and we’re adding a Saturday [...]

No Shellfish for Jim

“You know, some of them are just really impractical… like not being able to eat shellfish. Did you know they weren’t allowed to eat shellfish?!”  One of my co-workers, who says he reads the Bible everyday but doesn’t attend church, was just getting done telling me about how he was trying to follow the teachings [...]

It’s better to give than to receive.

Have you ever given up or denied yourself something for the good of someone else? “Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death [...]