Sunday Notes

I figured it was easier to post my notes for Sunday here than to find a floppy disk and copy them onto it. Since my printer is down, I'll just copy and paste the text from here onto the family 'puter. See ya.


"Discovering God's Will"
Part 2 - "Are You Ready for This?"
Nov. 20, 2005

1. Is there a difference between seeking God's advice and pursuing His will?
- Why do people often want to know God's will, but are not willing to follow it?

2. Which do you think is more difficult: discovering God's will, or following through once you know it?
- What are those difficulties?

3. Name at least two attributes of God that make Him a desirable source of advice for your life.
- Knowing these attributes, what (if anything) still holds you back from pursuing His will?

4. According to Proverbs 3:5-6, what conditions must be met in order for a person's path to be made obvious?

- Leaving what is comfortable, changing our attitudes, letting go of our sinful desires (and addictions?) This is what drives our fear against "Acknowledging Him, in ALL our ways". More often than not, we already know where these weak points are in our lives, but we either didn't know that those weaknesses were the barrier to knowing God, or we knew but did not want to give them up.
- It is our WILLINGNESS to learn, acknowledge, and follow God's providential & moral guidelines that we find God's will for us.

Brr.

Ya, it's cold here again. We haven't turned on the furnace here in the house yet, so I'm huddled up with my electric heater for the meantime. I wonder if Ben ever got around to ordering that heating oil...
It's been a slow night. No deep thoughts lately, although I still need to look at next Sunday's lesson a little more. Just telling my adoring blog groupies I'm still alive.

Weekend Warrior

Ah, the weekend. All my fun is had there. Unfortunately, it's supposed to turn cold up here by tomorrow evening, so that'll be a real outdoor-killer. I've had skiing/snowboarding mentioned to me, but after my miserable failure at skiing last year, I'm a little skeptical about going again. It's like biking, bowling, or skating: it take a lot of time to get good at, but once you've learned how it pretty much stays with you.
I get to (try to) teach the next lesson in ConneXion this coming Sunday. At least I don't have to give my testimony like I did 2 weeks ago; I had to keep stopping to collect my thoughts. The new visitors probably thought I was nuts. Ah well.

The AT in Boiling Springs, PA. 

Entering the Cumberland Valley- looking behind me (south). The AT is the green strip in the middle of the photo. 

Cumberland Valley, PA, on the AT, 11-12-05 

Elections

Well folks, I discovered this past week that there is an election for governor in my state tomorrow. Actually, I've know about it for a while, but have ignored it up until now. Anyhow, I figured that I would take a quick look at the candidates' web sites, find the differences in issues, and vote tommorow based on those. Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy. About 95% of their sites said [I]exactly the same thing.[/I] They're concerned about taxes, traffic, growth, etc, and they (if elected) will do something quickly and decicively to help "save" the state. The other 5% was about how their opponents are wrong (which contradicts what their websites say, of course.) And now my brain hurts again, which is bad considering I've had a headache for most of the day. I don't know what I'm gonna do tomorrow. Ow. I need a root beer float...

KiKat float, the Saturday night house special... 

update

Nothing too deep or thoughtful today, just keeping the blog up to date. I still haven't gotten the chance to go camping this fall, and it's quickly getting too cold around here, so I don't know if I still want to or not. If the weather's nice this weekend, then maybe. This week's been dull, and has gone by very quickly. Still, I keep busy after work between running (getting a lot of miles in lately,) ConneXion stuff (meal/Bible study tonight,) and chores around the house. And re-discovering Mario on my old Nintendo on Halloween night. We just got another roommate here in the DudeHouse, so between the three of us we could make things really interesting around here (insert squeaky laugh.) Spiritually, I've been pretty stable lately. No big questions or doubts, no deep truths or discoveries.

Anyhow, I'm hungry. Time to go fill up on dinner.

(edit, 8:30 PM) Go pickup a copy of "Lord of the Beans", the latest Veggietales video. The new silly song is the bast laugh I've had in a long time. Not to mention the terrible puns and plays on the movie and book.