A few things about this last year:
1) I've come to realize that I wasted a lot of time and that I am prone to sloth/sluggishness if I don't have a gameplan. Even if I don't follow it to the minute, I'm better off having one to direct my day in general as I tend to get more accomplished.
2) I am called to counseling as a profession. I don't know where I will be living or who I'll be working for (other than the Lord), but I know my field.
3) I am also called to do more with media, but I'm not sure what direction I'm supposed to go with this, so it's on the back burner for now.
4) Currently, I'm working full-time on the golf course at Wichita Country Club and looking for a second job, possibly waiting tables or working at Borders.
5) I'm freaking out about money. Again.
6) This fall, I'm going to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School to pursue a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. And it's going to cost almost as much as Jewell. :P
That's all for now. I'm really tired and pent-up and worried. Not fun. I was having a great day until I started looking at numbers and how much I fall short. Please pray for me that I will have a peace that passes understanding in the area of finances.
Faith, Hope, and Love,
Chris
15.5.08
28.4.08
So, I think that this is the right direction...
I set apart a day or so last week to decide where I was going to go, what I was going to do, and I surrendered it to the Lord.
I knew that I was at a crossroads, for I had three or four options for the coming year: I could continue living in the house I'm living in now (HAUS), go to South Korea for a year to teach English and travel and save money for grad school, or I could go to Chicago to begin training for my life's calling.
After a surprisingly short time, God showed me that I had not been yielding to Him or trusting Him at all for my financial situation.
So here's the current plan: I'm going to Chicago to start training in Chicago. I've looked a bit at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Trinity in the Chicago area is the one that I'm planning to attend in the fall, and I hope to get some sweet summer jobs out of doors, and I hear that there are some sweet pay available there. We'll see what happens.
I'd like to earn enough to get a moped, especially a Vespa. That would allow me to get to the train station with almost no gas. I'd need to refill far less often, and how cool would that be to have a moped? No, that's a side idea.
The main thing is to try to get through grad school with as few loans as possible. I'm going to write a letter to several members of my church back home asking for financial support because Trinity doesn't offer as much as I'd thought.
That's all for now...more soon.
Faith, Hope, and Love.
I knew that I was at a crossroads, for I had three or four options for the coming year: I could continue living in the house I'm living in now (HAUS), go to South Korea for a year to teach English and travel and save money for grad school, or I could go to Chicago to begin training for my life's calling.
After a surprisingly short time, God showed me that I had not been yielding to Him or trusting Him at all for my financial situation.
So here's the current plan: I'm going to Chicago to start training in Chicago. I've looked a bit at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Trinity in the Chicago area is the one that I'm planning to attend in the fall, and I hope to get some sweet summer jobs out of doors, and I hear that there are some sweet pay available there. We'll see what happens.
I'd like to earn enough to get a moped, especially a Vespa. That would allow me to get to the train station with almost no gas. I'd need to refill far less often, and how cool would that be to have a moped? No, that's a side idea.
The main thing is to try to get through grad school with as few loans as possible. I'm going to write a letter to several members of my church back home asking for financial support because Trinity doesn't offer as much as I'd thought.
That's all for now...more soon.
Faith, Hope, and Love.
8.2.08
...to weakly go where every man has gone before!
To the Church:
Where did we lose track of Christ? When did He become a hum-drum, ho-hum case of doldrums? When did we decide that we were more important than our Cornerstone? We are dull, both in luminescence and in sharpness. We are growing weak in every way. How can salt regain its taste if it loses its saltiness? Do people hide a city on a hill? It can't be done, can it?
But we are snuffing what light we have in local bodies of believers; we put our lamps undercover instead of putting it on a stand; we're ashamed of the Gospel or we've become so desensitized that it no longer has effect. The world's eyes are still on the Church and on our forebears, the nation of Israel! What do you think that they think?
How about you? Are you really a part of the Body of Christ or a feel-good postmodernist, unwilling to take a stand for the truth, unwilling to admit that none of us are worthy of our Creator but for the blood sacrifice of Christ? Are you unwilling to tell people that they have to submit their lives to Christ to be saved and gain heaven? Are you a person who lives truly in submission to Christ, or are you one who loves to subvert Him to your desires? Before you answer, think about these questions:
1) What do you spend your time thinking about each day?
2) What do you spend your time doing each day?
If your answers to these questions are consistent with each other, good, you're being honest.
Now, if your answers to these questions are consistent with each other and focused on Christ, then you're probably on the right track.
However, if your answers to these questions are consistent with each other and focused on you and/or your interests, concerns, well-being, then I encourage you to reconsider where you stand with Christ. He said that anyone who wants to come after Him must deny himself, pick up one's cross, and follow Him.
Final question:
Does your faith cost you anything, or do you believe a soft thing that lets you stay comfy where you're at--is it actually a journey of discipline and dying to yourself or a journey of emotional highs?
Faith, Hope, and Love,
Christ-bearer
Where did we lose track of Christ? When did He become a hum-drum, ho-hum case of doldrums? When did we decide that we were more important than our Cornerstone? We are dull, both in luminescence and in sharpness. We are growing weak in every way. How can salt regain its taste if it loses its saltiness? Do people hide a city on a hill? It can't be done, can it?
But we are snuffing what light we have in local bodies of believers; we put our lamps undercover instead of putting it on a stand; we're ashamed of the Gospel or we've become so desensitized that it no longer has effect. The world's eyes are still on the Church and on our forebears, the nation of Israel! What do you think that they think?
How about you? Are you really a part of the Body of Christ or a feel-good postmodernist, unwilling to take a stand for the truth, unwilling to admit that none of us are worthy of our Creator but for the blood sacrifice of Christ? Are you unwilling to tell people that they have to submit their lives to Christ to be saved and gain heaven? Are you a person who lives truly in submission to Christ, or are you one who loves to subvert Him to your desires? Before you answer, think about these questions:
1) What do you spend your time thinking about each day?
2) What do you spend your time doing each day?
If your answers to these questions are consistent with each other, good, you're being honest.
Now, if your answers to these questions are consistent with each other and focused on Christ, then you're probably on the right track.
However, if your answers to these questions are consistent with each other and focused on you and/or your interests, concerns, well-being, then I encourage you to reconsider where you stand with Christ. He said that anyone who wants to come after Him must deny himself, pick up one's cross, and follow Him.
Final question:
Does your faith cost you anything, or do you believe a soft thing that lets you stay comfy where you're at--is it actually a journey of discipline and dying to yourself or a journey of emotional highs?
Faith, Hope, and Love,
Christ-bearer
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