I went through a series of emotions this week for some strange reason. I was really depressed and withdrawn I guess I can attribute that to being sick for the better part of this week of which I am much better. I was also feeling down because again I came to the realization that once this semester is over that will be it for my college career here at Carson Newman which has been my 2nd home for the past 3 1/2 years. I try not to dwell on that but every now and then it creeps back into my sub-concious and when it does I just get into this mindset that seem to manifests itself in a depressive mood. I really gets on my nerves cause I'm never the one to be dragging around unless its due to lack of sleep.
Well its common knowledge to most of my friends that I'm looking at Southern as the seminary where I will go to futher my knowledge and spiritual training. A certain professor has been constantly bringing up "goings on" at Southern I've been picking up subtle hints that this professor doesn't care for the the current situation at Southern even though he says that no discouragement is meant I still get the feeling that he doesn't look to favorable at Southern as being a place to seek further spiritual instruction.
The current situation being that the president and the recent hired faculty are of the hyper-calvinistic persuasion. My first thought on this is obviously they haven't read the New Testament in a while and figured out that Christ's Salvation is for everyone. Secondly, I consider it a challenge to attend there just as I have attended here at Carson Newman. My faith and beliefs are not easily ammended and everything that I am presented with I apply it to Scripture and judge it according to that. The word of God is the final authority period...
feel free to leave your thoughts on this......
Friday, February 25, 2005
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
What the Dump!?
So apparently Tennessee is again lost the month of February and put May in its place....It was upwards of 65 today with bright sunshine, now don't get me wrong I love warm weather just when its in season.
A little update of the Common Cold battle what started as a stuffy head and nose has now maneuvered down south and put up shop in my chest which is less than fun hacking and coughing all hours of the night when I should be sleeping recuperating from the days activities. But no worries I've employed the services of Walgreens Robotussin so hopefully in a day or two I'll be on the up and up again.
To all of those who are sick that have been in close contact with me I apologize
Those of you who are within a stone's throw Jeff City come on out to Carson Newman and hear the CN Symphonic band's Concert @ 7:30, and if your life is totally boring and want to come back again to CN on Saturday @ 6 and 8 the Carson Newman's Men's Chorus is singing the national anthem before the Basketball games.
A little update of the Common Cold battle what started as a stuffy head and nose has now maneuvered down south and put up shop in my chest which is less than fun hacking and coughing all hours of the night when I should be sleeping recuperating from the days activities. But no worries I've employed the services of Walgreens Robotussin so hopefully in a day or two I'll be on the up and up again.
To all of those who are sick that have been in close contact with me I apologize
Those of you who are within a stone's throw Jeff City come on out to Carson Newman and hear the CN Symphonic band's Concert @ 7:30, and if your life is totally boring and want to come back again to CN on Saturday @ 6 and 8 the Carson Newman's Men's Chorus is singing the national anthem before the Basketball games.
Sunday, February 20, 2005
The Common Cold Strikes Again
Well since Friday I've been battling yet again a form of the common cold. Luckily its been isolated to just a stuffy nose and congestion, it usually presents itself in the form of a sore throat and all of the above. I've made some new friends over the weekend those being Nyquil and Sudafed and my bed. Hopefully I will be able to come back from band practice @ church tonight and get the homework done that is calling my name.
Well for the first time in my life I becoming a Duke fan just for tonight though as the Blue Devils take on the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest. I'm hoping for a Blue Devil victory with that the Tarheels will be in the drivers seat in route to an ACC championship.
It's all moving so fast...Specifically speaking the semester people are already looking forward to spring break which is a week and half away. Graduation which was just around the corner seems as distant as being a freshman again with all the assignments that I have staring me in the face.
I would definantly welcome prayer from everybody who visits this corner of the blogger world. Please be in prayer for me in accordance with school and some relantionships that have been developing between me and some people both here at CN and as far away as Maryland. Pray that God give me wisdom, patience and discipline; Also pray that I see God's will in all of this and pray that I take his course instead of the selfish route of my own.
Well for the first time in my life I becoming a Duke fan just for tonight though as the Blue Devils take on the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest. I'm hoping for a Blue Devil victory with that the Tarheels will be in the drivers seat in route to an ACC championship.
It's all moving so fast...Specifically speaking the semester people are already looking forward to spring break which is a week and half away. Graduation which was just around the corner seems as distant as being a freshman again with all the assignments that I have staring me in the face.
I would definantly welcome prayer from everybody who visits this corner of the blogger world. Please be in prayer for me in accordance with school and some relantionships that have been developing between me and some people both here at CN and as far away as Maryland. Pray that God give me wisdom, patience and discipline; Also pray that I see God's will in all of this and pray that I take his course instead of the selfish route of my own.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Good Talks
Last night I had a good ole'fashion talk with my friend Jayme. Its totally awesome to talk to her cause we could be discussing something totally serious and without missing a beat in the conversation something totally random with enter the conversation. So last night was nothing less than normal. We talked about many a thing how life was treating us in our respected places she in Maryland and Me in Tennessee.
She confided in me somethings that to say the least got me thinking after I hung up the phone which by the way the phone call lasted a good 1 1/2 its like the fourth longest phone conversation that I've ever had. She was very adamant about not wanting to complicate my life by telling me things. But honestly they're good things and and a good thing shouldn't bring about strife and struggle so I know as your reading this JAYME; don't worry it's not a complication.
So Andrew Peterson is coming to play @ Third Thursday Cafe tonight at Carson-Newman so gonna definantly head to that cause yeah its Andrew Peterson...Hello!!!!??
So I've definantly been listening to this song by Tim Mcgraw: Live Like You Were Dying I don't know if this is a new song but I really like it. Which odd cause I usually don't care for the majority of country music
She confided in me somethings that to say the least got me thinking after I hung up the phone which by the way the phone call lasted a good 1 1/2 its like the fourth longest phone conversation that I've ever had. She was very adamant about not wanting to complicate my life by telling me things. But honestly they're good things and and a good thing shouldn't bring about strife and struggle so I know as your reading this JAYME; don't worry it's not a complication.
So Andrew Peterson is coming to play @ Third Thursday Cafe tonight at Carson-Newman so gonna definantly head to that cause yeah its Andrew Peterson...Hello!!!!??
So I've definantly been listening to this song by Tim Mcgraw: Live Like You Were Dying I don't know if this is a new song but I really like it. Which odd cause I usually don't care for the majority of country music
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Ink and Blood
Well today I took an excused/unexcused break from classes to go with Dr. Ballard my Hebrew Prof. Rick, and Phil "rabbi" Stokes to the Ink and Blood: History of the Bible exhibit that is being held in the old convention center in Knoxville from Feb 5th til April 17th if your interested in learning about the history of how the bible that you hold in your hands today got there and what it went through I suggest you go and take a look.
Being the Fledgling Hebrew Scholar that I am; I had high expectations about the portions of the dead sea scrolls contained within this collection. However my expectations were a little too high in my opinion when I got there and examined what they had.
Most of the fragments were about the size of quarter to a half dollar some even small as a dime specks of papyrus and were so black from age that you couldn't even begin to read the inscriptions so you had to trust what the the little placard said it was.
I also came to discover that it was more about translation and production of the bible and William Tyndale was hailed as one of the greatest people in the history of the bible
the scale at which things were displayed was: hebrew and greek texts,TYNDALE
Being the Fledgling Hebrew Scholar that I am; I had high expectations about the portions of the dead sea scrolls contained within this collection. However my expectations were a little too high in my opinion when I got there and examined what they had.
Most of the fragments were about the size of quarter to a half dollar some even small as a dime specks of papyrus and were so black from age that you couldn't even begin to read the inscriptions so you had to trust what the the little placard said it was.
I also came to discover that it was more about translation and production of the bible and William Tyndale was hailed as one of the greatest people in the history of the bible
the scale at which things were displayed was: hebrew and greek texts,TYNDALE
Monday, February 14, 2005
Sunday, February 13, 2005
The Cleaning Lady is On Strike
The clean dishes situation has slowly gotten worse over the past 2 to 3 weeks. The past two times that it has gotten this bad I've taken it upon myself to wash the dishes out of the goodness of my heart.
I'm starting to love this newly discovered blogspot: http://ihatemyflatmate.blogspot.com
this is where this picture comes from
I'm starting to love this newly discovered blogspot: http://ihatemyflatmate.blogspot.com
this is where this picture comes from
Friday, February 11, 2005
Its Useless Trivia Friday
> SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
>> A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.>>
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the childreaches> 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a fullmoon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or, purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and earsnever stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;otherwise> it will digest itself.
just some little interesting facts for your Friday......
>> A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.>>
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the childreaches> 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a fullmoon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or, purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and earsnever stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;otherwise> it will digest itself.
just some little interesting facts for your Friday......
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
The Ups and Downs
I don't think there is anyone who walks this earth that doesn't love friendly competition. I also find it funny to see how much we gloat over the loses and victories of our respected teams even though we had nothing to do with outcome of the game.
Its a psychology thing it has the do with the association/disassociation condition. We pick a team to follow we cheer them on at every game. Here's where the condition comes in Those that get caught up in the moment of cheering for their team become so associated with the team that in our minds we literally become a member of that team and are controlling the future outcome. When your team happens to win the phrase most often heard is "We Won!!!" However when your team loses the disassociation immediately sets in and we become as distant as fan of the winning team. The phrase most often heard with this is "They Lost"
Well tonight the team that I follow suffered a tough loss and its one of those games you hate to lose because the margin of victory was 1 lousy point.
I will tip my hat to Duke and their athletic ability, but I will also say that you can't hope to win a basketball game committing 22 turnovers.
UNC I will always love you!!!!!
I'm a Tarheel born, I'm a Tarheel Bred, and when I die I'll be Tarheel Dead so it's Rah Rah For Carolina, Rah Rah For Carolina, Rah Rah for Carolina, Rah Rah Rah
Its a psychology thing it has the do with the association/disassociation condition. We pick a team to follow we cheer them on at every game. Here's where the condition comes in Those that get caught up in the moment of cheering for their team become so associated with the team that in our minds we literally become a member of that team and are controlling the future outcome. When your team happens to win the phrase most often heard is "We Won!!!" However when your team loses the disassociation immediately sets in and we become as distant as fan of the winning team. The phrase most often heard with this is "They Lost"
Well tonight the team that I follow suffered a tough loss and its one of those games you hate to lose because the margin of victory was 1 lousy point.
I will tip my hat to Duke and their athletic ability, but I will also say that you can't hope to win a basketball game committing 22 turnovers.
UNC I will always love you!!!!!
I'm a Tarheel born, I'm a Tarheel Bred, and when I die I'll be Tarheel Dead so it's Rah Rah For Carolina, Rah Rah For Carolina, Rah Rah for Carolina, Rah Rah Rah
Tonight is The Night
Tonight is the night that TARHEEL and DUKE fans butt heads for the first time.......
GO CAROLINA w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO CAROLINA w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
My Thoughts on Certain Issues
the past few days have been trying to say the least. I have been caught up in this array of high emotional turmoil ranging from extreme desire to extreme depression. I'm not describing my emotions as of late as far as concerning me I'm doing quite fine what I speak of is that of other people and what I have observed. How is it that these emotions always seem to involve memebers of the opposite sex.
I find to be truly ready to persue any relantionship one must be content and satisfied with oneself and also not letting the relationship with Christ become a "ball and chain" that you drag around. You must also be content and satisfied with the love that Christ has for you regardless of others. Secondly, in any relationship must start slow very slow approach it from the the angle of wanting to gain a friend first then given that you and the person that you are interacting with share similiar interests and all that other stuff then and only then can you begin to slowly test the waters.
I used to think that dating someone, and being with someone would be all that I ever would need. I neglected to remember that in Christ I'm found and made complete and that he satisfies any need, want, or desire that I would ever have. After coming to that realization wanting to date someone became something that yes I would enjoy doing but I didn't need it to define myself.
In writing this I'm reminded of the Church of Ephesus in the book of Revelation God's word to them was a word of praise concerning their hard work and perserverance, but God held but one thing against them they had forsaken their first love.
That would be my prayer for those who read this post to remember that we are first called to love and become more like Christ each day then we are called to love each other.
Do Not Forsake Your First Love!!!!!!!
I find to be truly ready to persue any relantionship one must be content and satisfied with oneself and also not letting the relationship with Christ become a "ball and chain" that you drag around. You must also be content and satisfied with the love that Christ has for you regardless of others. Secondly, in any relationship must start slow very slow approach it from the the angle of wanting to gain a friend first then given that you and the person that you are interacting with share similiar interests and all that other stuff then and only then can you begin to slowly test the waters.
I used to think that dating someone, and being with someone would be all that I ever would need. I neglected to remember that in Christ I'm found and made complete and that he satisfies any need, want, or desire that I would ever have. After coming to that realization wanting to date someone became something that yes I would enjoy doing but I didn't need it to define myself.
In writing this I'm reminded of the Church of Ephesus in the book of Revelation God's word to them was a word of praise concerning their hard work and perserverance, but God held but one thing against them they had forsaken their first love.
That would be my prayer for those who read this post to remember that we are first called to love and become more like Christ each day then we are called to love each other.
Do Not Forsake Your First Love!!!!!!!
Thursday, February 03, 2005
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