So much has happened since I last posted, I don't know where to start. The holiday season for me was a very strange combination of being good and really hard. I already wrote about the roller-coaster circumstances of wrecking my car and obtaining a new one ( Read more... )

I'm experiencing a strange mix of emotions right now. First, I'm excited and relieved that it finally worked out to get a good car here in Bozeman. I had to take out a small loan, but I think that I can pay it pretty quickly. Plus, I found a junkyard that would take my Honda and pay me a little bit for it ( Read more... )

Last night my brother Jared and I hung out with the cousin that we were looking for that I mentioned in the last post. His name is Jonathan, he's a freshman at Columbia Basin College in Washington. He's an amazing baseball player, he has a full-ride scholarship ( Read more... )

Last night my brother and I stopped by my aunt and uncle's house to see if one of our cousins was there. The specific one we were looking for wasn't, but seven others were. (There are twelve children in the family.) We ended up staying there for over an hour and a half, just playing with the kids. They are amazingly close in age, the seven at ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was reminded of a very interesting article about Professor Antony Flew, a world-renowned atheist for decades that has now reversed his position on God ( Read more... )

It's pretty amazing that I'm writing this journal now. If your read yesterday's post, you heard about my car wreck. Sometime while my car was still sliding, my trunk flew open and things flew out. Shortly after Scott and I got out of the car, Scott found my laptop case sitting on the shoulder of the road across from my car. Fortunately he ( Read more... )

Where to begin? I have had an interesting last twenty-four hours. About this time last night I was driving with my good friend Scott to Bozeman. We were coming back home to see family and friends over the Christmas break, and to get a few things done. Just fifty miles from our destination, while driving over Homestake pass, I lost control of my ( Read more... )

This afternoon I made the mistake of parking in front of my neighbor's house. Shortly thereafter, my neighbor parked both of his cars on either side of mine, each less than a foot away. It completely boxed me in, I could not have gotten out if I wanted to. Normally, I would have just been peeved about this happening, but this time I had to laugh ( Read more... )

The past few weeks were kind of stressful when trying to figure out what to do the next summer. For the past six months or so, I have had a growing desire to go overseas. This is really the first time that has happened for me, up until this point I have always been happy with ministry here in the U.S. However, I didn't feel any call to a ( Read more... )

As I read the Word the other day, I was really convicted. I John 3:16-17 says "We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him ( Read more... )