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It's the last Saturday of the semester. I have one final on Monday, and another one on Tuesday, and then I am out of here! Yesssssss!! I'm so excited to go home and to see my brother and sister-in-law and my other family and to just be HOME! Amen.
This has been such an awesome semester. I loooove the dudes in my dorm, and I've made so many awesome new friends. My classes have ruled, and I've learned a lot and I've matured a lot as well.
I've also changed a lot, as well. I love who I am right now and where I'm at. For starters, I've changed my major. I am no longer planning on going into youth ministry, and have switched into the pre-seminary track. I've totally had a shift in passion and what I want to do, and I'm now preparing to go into a college ministry--working as a pastor on a college campus. I'm really excited about this and am very anxious to get a taste of this next semester through the ministry we're starting up at my church. I'm so excited about this all and have been so motivated to read lots of stuff on my own and become knowledgable in the areas that I feel I will need to be strong in, and also becoming more knowledgable in the Bible and in theology. So awesome. I'm still in the midst of figuring out what exactly I believe and why. I'm not gonna be one who just absorbs everything every professor says and takes it as truth, but figure out where they are coming from and why they are saying what they do and why they believe what they do. It's much more real to you if you figure it all out for yourself.
So yeah, my reading list for Christmas break is thus:
-How The Republicans Stole Christmas by Bill Press (already started this one..it's good)
-Grace Unknown by R.C. Sproul
-Dispensationalism by Charles Ryrie
-Defense of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til
-Defending Your Faith by R.C. Sproul
I'm not sure if I'll get through all of them, but I'm gonna try.
I haven't been writing much lately. Not really sure why. I probably could if I tried.
And as always, women are a tricky bunch. Being who I am, though, I think I'm willing to fall flat on my face in failure rather than to allow what I really want to pass me by. But I know what I want, and nothing less. But I'm in no rush.
Much love,
-Pete
This has been such an awesome semester. I loooove the dudes in my dorm, and I've made so many awesome new friends. My classes have ruled, and I've learned a lot and I've matured a lot as well.
I've also changed a lot, as well. I love who I am right now and where I'm at. For starters, I've changed my major. I am no longer planning on going into youth ministry, and have switched into the pre-seminary track. I've totally had a shift in passion and what I want to do, and I'm now preparing to go into a college ministry--working as a pastor on a college campus. I'm really excited about this and am very anxious to get a taste of this next semester through the ministry we're starting up at my church. I'm so excited about this all and have been so motivated to read lots of stuff on my own and become knowledgable in the areas that I feel I will need to be strong in, and also becoming more knowledgable in the Bible and in theology. So awesome. I'm still in the midst of figuring out what exactly I believe and why. I'm not gonna be one who just absorbs everything every professor says and takes it as truth, but figure out where they are coming from and why they are saying what they do and why they believe what they do. It's much more real to you if you figure it all out for yourself.
So yeah, my reading list for Christmas break is thus:
-How The Republicans Stole Christmas by Bill Press (already started this one..it's good)
-Grace Unknown by R.C. Sproul
-Dispensationalism by Charles Ryrie
-Defense of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til
-Defending Your Faith by R.C. Sproul
I'm not sure if I'll get through all of them, but I'm gonna try.
I haven't been writing much lately. Not really sure why. I probably could if I tried.
And as always, women are a tricky bunch. Being who I am, though, I think I'm willing to fall flat on my face in failure rather than to allow what I really want to pass me by. But I know what I want, and nothing less. But I'm in no rush.
Much love,
-Pete