The Last Christian Generation

I definitely just finished reading "The Last Christian Generation" by Josh McDowell. What an interesting book. Lots of challenging things, many things that will help me out. This guy presents some very interesting ideas, that I think are right on (some are even true of me). I'd tell you what some of the things are, but I forgot them at the moment and I can't find them in the book! Anyways, it's a good book, you should read it.

Sick

I feel like I'm getting sick. Pray for me, guys. I dont wanna get sick!

Proverbs 3:5

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding"

No, I didn't accidentally post my memory verse of the day here. This verse has been on my mind like all day everyday since last Tuesday. I don't know why. I've heard people make references to this verse like 4 times since Tuesday, so I find that very odd too. There's gotta be a reason this verse is on my mind. I'm just going to keep thinkin about it, and let you know what I come up with.

Chapel

This weekend I led chapel for the dishcrew. The dishcrew consisted of some members of TNT, the middle school youth group at ACC. Of course I ran into some problems (I can never seem to have a worship session where everything goes smoothly...) but we still had a great time. Some of the songs we sang were Trading My Sorrows, You're My Friend, Blessed be the Your Name, He Reigns (probly my new fav song behind trading my sorrows), and It is You. We had three chapel services, with Justin, Sarah, and Tessa each speaking at one.
At the end of chapel today I asked them if they learned anything, if they learned anything that will change their lives. I kinda got some responses, but not really that much. I don't really know these kids, but I know these chapels helped build them up. It's discouraging when nobody really says they learned anything, but it's encouraging to know that we've been planting little seeds in their mind that will sprout up when they get older.

One side note about this... We met in the Erickson room, which I inconveniently found out doesn't have a projector. So I had to type up the songs to make some transparencies... only to spend an hour looking for some blank transparencies unsuccessfully. I searched the office from top to bottom, except for one place. There was a hidden storage shelf on the bottom of the copier where they were. I found that out the next morning, just in time to make the overheads for the second chapel.

A new blog...

http://meditatenightandday.blogspot.com/

Character Creep

I've been thinking lately about the character Creep. The character Creep is from a book I read this summer with Jon, a book called "Deadly Viper." The idea behind this character is that everything creeps into your life. Things don't happen overnight. If I remember correctly, the book talked about how sins and evil creep in. Lately I've been thinking how the character creep can be good.

You know when you go to camp during the summer, and you get that great spiritual high, then you go home and it's gone quicker than you got it? Yeah, everybody knows what I'm talkin about. When I think of my grandpa, Henry Nelson, I think of a man with a life in spiritual high mode. He loved God so much, you could just see His love pour out through him. He didn't get that way overnight, at a camp during the summer when he was a teenager. It was a life-process. He slowly grew in spiritual maturity and closeness with Christ.

Some people have their life-changing experiences, maybe a car crash, a house fire, or some other near-death experience that changes their life forever. But for the 99% who that doesn't happen to, I think we need to remember the character creep. Everything creeps into your life. That one sin you've been stuck in for years, you gonna let it creep in deeper? That dusty bible on your bookshelf, will you let that creep into your life?

You pick what creeps in. What do you pick next?

Summer Staff

Part of the NBI program is participating in the summer camps. We just got applications for summer staff positions. I'm really stuck on what to apply for. I can see myself doing all the jobs... just not happily or effectively for the whole summer. Here's the list of possible jobs:

• Staff Director: basically I'd be the counselor for all the guys on summer staff. I'd work with them, hang with them, set up chapels, lead daily devo's with them... babysit them pretty much (or so I'm told)
  
• Program Team: leads dinning hall stuff, chapel stuff, plan and run any games or activities. hanging with campers during free time
  
• Climbing Wall
• Maintenance
• Shift Cook
• CA outfitter
• Tech Team
• Dishroom
• Canteen
• Coffee bar
• Wrangler
• Craft Room
• Health Care Supervisor
• Lifeguard
• Housekeeping
• CA Guest Services

We were told to circle ones that we were willing to do, which I italicized here. Then they ask for your two top preferences. I bolded the two that I'm leaning towards, but I'm just so unsure. I want to do something that I'd be good at, would enjoy, that would challenge me, that i'd be effective in... and yadda yadda ya. Any ideas at what you think I should do?