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| I'm making an update so I won't lose my blog! I have a lot of memories to save on this and I don't want Xanga to delete it. Oh yeah...I am doing well :) | | |
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Luther
By Joseph Fiennes, Jonathan Firth, Alfred Molina, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Mathieu Carri?re, Benjamin Sadler, Jochen Horst, Torben Liebrecht, Maria Simon, Lars Rudolph, Marco Hofschneider, Christopher Buchholz, Timothy Peach, Tom Strauss, Gene Reed, Anian Zollner, Johannes Lang
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Deer Valley and the rest of the modern church must hear the truth. So here's what some friends and I did this weekend: Slice of Laodicea.com
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| So for the past few weeks I've been working for a van transportation service. We pick up inter-city individuals and families and drive them to local clinics. Some of the people are interesting characters, but most of them are fine. The good part is that it's a Christian organization, so I have the chance to witness to some of the people I drive. I've been excited about evangelism lately, so it's been a good opportunity to practice. Other than that, I haven't been doing much other studying for my online class I'm taking through Asbury Seminary.
What I really miss is having friends that I can talk to and hang out with. I miss having good, deep conversations with people my own age. Yet ever since last month's ordeal, I've felt mostly, if not completely, severed from the relationships I had at the church. If I do talk to some, I can never tell if they are truly being sincere or just acting out of an obligation to be nice. I really only spend time with family now, which is fine, but I really miss feeling like I have close, committed friends. I look forward to making new friends in seminary, which won't be long now. But for now, I'm enjoying the time I have left in Arizona. | | |
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Luther
By Joseph Fiennes, Jonathan Firth, Alfred Molina, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Mathieu Carri�re, Benjamin Sadler, Jochen Horst, Torben Liebrecht, Maria Simon, Lars Rudolph, Marco Hofschneider, Christopher Buchholz, Timothy Peach, Tom Strauss, Gene Reed, Anian Zollner, Johannes Lang
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It's been a long time since I've updated. A lot has changed in my world, and I've been meaning to write about it. A few weeks ago, I got the chance to visit some friends out East and a chance to visit Asbury Seminary. I'm excited for what God has in store for the future, but I need to touch somewhat on what has recently happened over the past month.
Since I cannot specifically write about, I'd like to tell a story in the same vein of "The Pilgrim's Progress"...
There once was a boy who was born into a small town in a low lying Valley inhabited by Deer. This small town happened to be a borough of a part of a larger Kingdom. The boy grew up in the small town, and was fairly well liked by the many townfolk living there. For the most part, he was a quiet and fairly unassuming boy. He eventually became a citizen of the Kingdom and when he came to the proper age, he went off to a foreign land to pursue his studies. After a while, the young man returned to the Valley, and found that his small hometown had become a city. Upon his return, he was asked by the town governor to work for the thriving city.
The young man was very excited to be in the governor's service, and was eager to use his talents for the greater good of the Kingdom. As time went on, the young man grew in his devotion to the King and his patriotism for the Kingdom only increased in passion. As this happened, however, the young man began to see that the governmental methods within his particular city weren't completely consistent with the laws and decrees of the overall Kingdom. The city rulers were granting full citizenship to visitors when such visitors hadn't renounced their former citizenship. "Such foreigners must renounce and turn from their old ways in complete and utter devotion to the King," the young man declared. Meanwhile,The governor seemed to be acting stranger and stranger as his obsessive control over the city grew. "I grew this small town into the glorious city it is," the governor asserted over and over. The young man thought, "Why, the city belongs to the King, not the governor, he is just the trustee."
After a while, the rulers of the city became aware of the young man's convictions and the governor immediately asked the young man to leave his position. The young man was confused. To whom would his full devotion be? To those who he had known most his life, or to the King that had saved and died for him? "The King," he decided,"but I must not yield to these men, for it is the King who I am serving anyway, and the city belongs to the King in the first place." Unfortunately, the young man was forced to give notice anyway. He and his family fled the Valley never to return again. "We did not leave the same Valley which we had so ardently known in the first place. But as always our devotion is to the King, and to the King only," they said to one another. And so the story continues, in another realm...but to mark the end of this chapter...
Goodbye. Once fair land of Deer Valley.
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