Archive for April, 2005

04.28.05

Scripture that Screams

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:37 pm by Perry

I wanted to share a passage from Lamentations that Gwen shared with me in Chicago over spring break:

    19Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
      20Surely my soul remembers
         And is bowed down within me.
      21This I recall to my mind,
         Therefore I have hope.
      22The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
         For His compassions never fail.
      23They are new every morning;
         Great is Your faithfulness.
      24"The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
         "Therefore I have hope in Him."
      25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
         To the person who seeks Him.
      26It is good that he waits silently
         For the salvation of the LORD.
      27It is good for a man that he should bear
         The yoke in his youth.
      28Let him sit alone and be silent
         Since He has laid it on him.
      29Let him put his mouth in the dust,
         Perhaps there is hope.

Yes, its true.  I still have hope.

04.25.05

Crazy Quarter

Posted in Uncategorized at 1:46 pm by Perry

This quarter has been terribly hectic.  I am not taking the hardest classes possible but it seems like I just can’t stay ahead.  My Psychology and English class are nothing more than busy work.  My Human Anatomy and Pre-Calc classes are something different though.  I spend more time in those two classes indvidually then I have ever had to do before. 

The quarter itself got off to a bad start.  The week before classes started Miriam’s Grandmother died.  While this wasn’t nearly as hard on me as it was for Miriam, it seems to have set a precedent for the ten weeks to follow.  It just seems like one thing after another has come up that requires so much time and attention that my attention keeps being drawn away.  Somehow all of this has to be mixed in to fit in between school, work, family, and misc. obligations.

I’m not trying to complain but it seems like I about to burst.  I just need a break.  Honestly, I haven’t gotten more than six hours of sleep in six weeks.  I guess this is part of college; being able to manage a number of different tasks and obligations.  I just hope that I can meet the standard because if I keep dragging behind like I am now than I am going to burn out.

04.14.05

The Bible Supports Homosexuality?

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:12 pm by Perry

The following is an article that Miriam discovered in Ball State’s daily newspaper, The Daily News.  Please read the article and give your feedback on what you think the author is saying and how he is saying it.  If you would like, and I do encourage it, use the link at the end of the article to contact the author or to post a reply on the newspaper’s web-site.  Enjoy

Biblical passages involving same-sex relationship do not exist

Russ Webster
April 14, 2005

"Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." - Ruth 1:16-17

Devoted Christians likely reflect on their moral codes — which are intrinsically intertwined with religious beliefs — when voting on controversial issues.

However, most Christians are probably in the dark about the more contentious Bible passages depicting profound same-sex love. Prominent same-sex bonds emerge between Ruth and Naomi (Ruth I and Ruth II), David and Jonathan (1 and 2 Samuel), as well as Daniel and Ashpenaz (Daniel I).

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04.13.05

Post from The Hub

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:52 pm by Perry

The following is a post I recently put on the hub:

I just wanted to share some verses that have influenced my studies a lot recently:

I had always heard, but never understood, what it means for one’s faith to bear fruit.  In my studies of Matthew I have moved by the way in which Jesus talks about the outward signs of one’s faith. This revelation has been supported by being active in Campus Crusade.  Seeing the devotion and faith of others is truly inspiring.  Jesus said that:

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit". (12:33)

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04.11.05

Humbleness

Posted in Uncategorized at 6:35 pm by Perry

At last Thursdays Real Life meeting I was excessively rude.  There was a speaker, her name slips my mind now, who spoke using Bill Bright’s circle analogies.  The whole time I was laughing, joking, and not trying in any way to be polite to the fact that she was exceedingly nervous about what she was doing.  I was so out of place, that she actually called out me and the people sitting around me for being disruptive.

Afterwards I was ranting about what I saw wrong with her talk when Jason O’Rourke jumped into the conversation to rebuke me and the person that I was talking to.  He made a point that I had not taken the time to consider because I was too caught up in my boastful knowledge of doctrine.  I failed to realize that all the doctrine and head knowledge I have has gotten me no where in my search for God.  All it has done is make me boast in myself and my understanding.  My behavior on Thursday made that obvious.

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