I am convinced that God uses waiting and uncertainty in our lives as powerful character building instruments.
Do we trust? Do we become anxious?
Do we allow Him to work the situation in our lives for good? Or do we take matters into our own hands and push for an answer and an outcome before its time?
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The ticking clock continues to be my enemy. Time passes me by as I seem to move in slow motion in certain areas in my life. Need to finish some course work and need to spend more time with the Lord. And in His Word.
But the clock does not wait for me… it just seems to go by quicker every day.
The new job has certainly helped me put things into perspective as has the work we are doing with the seasonal workers. Each of these is opposite to each other so I have had no choice but to begin taking inventory of what is important. I recognize (and I believe have recognized for a few years now) that I want to spend the rest of my life serving the Lord.
I just pray that in a few years down the road we can be in a position where we do just that.
Lots of things happening as we are looking for a new home church and I am still settling into my new job. Right now we are ‘trying out’ a very nice church in Burlington. It looks like the one … but we just want to be sure this is what the Lord has for us.
Just random words right now.
Will make more sense later… maybe.
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Sometimes you get expected human behaviour from people you never expected it from.
And then you feel sad or even worse -betrayed.
Does that make sense? Not really…
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Well… as always it has been a while since I posted anything personal. Lots to say but not much to say. I just removed the header image that I liked so much to give this site a less personal touch. Hopefully over the next few weeks as time allows I will be able to place a different header … less personal and just for fun.
BTW – I am terribly (in a good way) excited to be taking two courses in preparation to entering into a MTh program. One of them is Exegesis which is so but so much fun. I feel my heart tingling (is that possible) with excitement everytime I am doing my homework. To be honest with you I don’t know how I ever made it through life without what I am learning on this course (actually I do know… it is by God’s grace and His provision of good, sound and Godly teachers). Exegesis is both basic and critical. I am loving every moment and I can’t wait to learn a little more about it.
As you may recall it was a Hermeneutics course about a year and a half that put the bug to learn and study the Word of God in a different, deeper, more serious level.
From time to time I may post some homework up on the site… the only problem is that the levelling courses I am taking are actually all in Spanish.
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But before we let Bell and others write the present story, we must remember that there are also a “staggering number” of young people who want the straight up, unvarnished truth. They want doctrinal edges and traditional orthodoxy. They want no-holds-barred preaching. They don’t want to leave traditional Christianity. They are ready to go deeper into it.
I am one of these. Wanting to go deeper. Take me Lord.
Read the review of Rob Bell’s book. If you need to read the book. I have decided that at least right now I don’t need to. This and number of other reviews are enough for me to know what I may or may not be missing.
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The Gospel is too precious and important to be commodified in this manner. The questions he asks are too important to leave so tantalizingly unanswered. Universalism is a heresy, not a lure to use in order to sell books. This much we know, almost a month before the book is to be released.
I read Albert Mohler whenever I get a chance. And I agree with the things he writes. I also find myself agreeing with Justin Taylor who has been so criticized over the last few days.
I am only quoting the last paragraph here but you feel free to follow the link to the website and the full piece.
I don’t believe that Justin Taylor and others jumped the gun in their assessment over the last few days. Nor I believe that this will be the end of the Church. In a strange way I actually think that this is good. The ‘unmasking’ of false teachers is always a good thing.
Now the question is … what will you do about it?
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You are always proud of your alma mater. There is an affinity back to the institution that in some ways shaped you… your long hours studying. The friends you made (even if you don’t keep in touch with them). My time at the London School of Economics was the most difficult time academically (tough, tough) but also very rewarding to be able to complete my degree in spite of myself. I can honestly say that God helped me… 
I remember people breaking down and crying during final exams – something I had never seen at U of Toronto.
So here’s a little video about the LSE’s involvement with Libya and the resignation of its Director. I too wonder whether the PhD issued to Saif was real or not. Knowing LSE I would say that it is real… but the inquiry will tell us in due time.
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Así es. Cada día y cada hora.
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“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” http://bible.us/2Chr7.14.NIV
(We are now on Day 25… but the sentiment remains)
We are on the third day of a 40 day fast. So far I am not going all the way but I am trying to be sensitive to what the Lord may ask of me. I am giving up caffeine and all meats but want to do more. I desire a closeness that I currently don’t have…
The whole idea of ‘healing our land’ has been ringing in my heart for a few weeks now and I feel this fast to be the perfect time to seek God and ask Him to do just that. What needs healing?
My land.
I want this heart and this life (and my family and my church) to be productive and bear much fruit for the Lord. For this the land needs to be healthy…
Let’s see what it all means.
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