This morning, all about salvation… well maybe just a little about it.

Tags: Morning Seminary, theology

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Tags: Morning Seminary, video

Refocusing (again)

Focus…

Focus!

FOCUS!

That was a running joke in college (and after for a bit), ever so often I remember it, since I sometimes get distracted from what I’m doing. Like now, lol, I’m helping Maggie get part of Handel’s Messiah the Hallelujah Chorus into a presentation on Beauty for her english class.

Of course now I’m listening to the whole thing.

I’m taking seminary classes for my beginning pastoral/deacon training on the weekends and it’s killing my time for things outside of it. So staying focused while reading 5 different books has been challenging. I kinda wish I had more time, Both Helen and I are sad that we’re not getting nearly enough time together as we used too. I’m also not getting in the guitar practice time that I used to. I still practice the scales though so I’m at least keeping up learning the movement.

Computer problems are what have really been problematic this week, we’re down to two! Not having time to fix Helen’s means she’s using the laptop and so we’re also screwed in that sense as well. All that also means is that I need to cut the grass too!

I did patch the roof this week. It was Monday and I almost decided that it was too late and I was too tired and it was Monday and that it would hold until tomorrow and … then the verse from the Bible popped in my head, “Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? ”

Actually all I remembered was, “Look at the ants, you sluggard! They do stuff! How long will you lie there!” I felt that God was giving me a mental kick in the butt to get the roof done. So I got home, got the buckets of tar and spent about 2 hours crouched down spreading tar, getting it all over myself and sweating buckets. I’m glad I got it done though. I think it was really needed for a bunch of reasons and so I’m glad I was convicted to do it.

Speaking of conviction, If you haven’t seen ‘em yet, I have started a series of videos on youtube, talking about the things I’ve been learning in seminary. I started it based on going over to my sister’s house one Sunday morning and seeing a TV preacher and thinking that there needed to be some response to the glitz and glamor of their presentation. Not that it’s necessarily bad, it just seems that the normalcy of everyday Christian life gets sacrificed to the desire to look good on TV.

So the link is: http://www.youtube.com/dzcowart

I may start doing them in the evenings as well though, someone commented that I’m much more coherent later in the day! I will post them here as well when I upload them to youtube so that they’re easy to follow.

Well, Maggie is off to class to give a presentation. I’m headed off to church tonight to help with watching the kids for Celebrate Recovery. It’s fun for me and really helps out the other workers. Wed. night a little boy came up and asked me if I would be back. It made me feel special to be remembered.