Today I had lunch with Doc Smith. That is a cool thought. I wonder how many other college students go to lunch with the most esteemed professor at their respective school? Anyway, he was asking us (Tyler, Mike, Ralph, Andrew, Josh and I) about our summers and we talked about school, just small talk. Then he started telling our table (Tyler, Mike, and I) about a new course he is teaching at the church where he works. It is called 'Everything You Should Have Learned in Sunday School.' It is a course on Bible History.

I think that is a great idea. Not only is he one of the foremost experts in Bible History (so they are really in for it), but that is a subject often overlooked in churches I have attended. I don't know about most churches I suppose, but I feel like we sort of glance over the history portions of the Bible, and that is wrong! There are so many lessons to be learned from the Old Testament, in fact that has been one of my favorite things about FCC. Doc Smith classes are very demanding, but I have gleaned so much knowledge of the OT from them! Being familiar with the stories from the OT has really helped in my undrestanding of the New Testament! I am hoping to get ahold of this curriculum so that I can use it in the future so that we can learn in Sunday School what we should learn...The Bible!

Sometimes uncertainty can be good. I had lunch with Arron Chambers today. He recently resigned from Southside (where I work) and we were talking about our futures. He encouraged me to just let go and let God take the lead. It is something that I have heard my whole life, but I think I understand what it means more now than I ever have. To have models like Arron and Eli to follow has been such a blessing to me pesonally and to my ministry. I have learned alot from both of them, and one of the lessons I learned today was that I need to trust God even when I don't know what lies ahead.

Over the next several months alot will be changing with me. I graduate from FCC in December, and if that isn't enough change, I am getting married December 22! But as Arron said, not knowing what God has in store is part of the adventure. Peter Pan once said, 'to live will be an awfully big adventure.' I will take that one step further. "To live for God will be an awfully big adventure."

God Bless

So last night I realized something that I never realized before. It REALLY annoys me when people go through the '10 items or less' with 25 notebooks plus a shopping cart full of thing. I don't know if they can't count or they can't read. Either way, you shouldn't go shopping unless you can do both. Do us all a favor, if you have more than 10 things, go get in a different line!

:)

So I created a blogspot today. Never done that before. Just thought I'd try it out and see if I like it...so here we go.