Monday, March 5, 2007

Hello...from Texas!

Hello to everyone, and thanks for visiting our blog-page. Our purpose for setting up this page is to keep in contact with our close friends who have meant so much to us over the years. I hope to provide bi-monthly updates of what’s going on in Dallas and also a thought-provoking article, which tends to be more like a personal soap-box of things I have come across in the ministry. Anyway, keep in touch! We would love to hear from you.

Things have been going great, and we are definitely keeping busy since Christmas. The college class that I have been teaching at a local church is really beginning to take-off as Brandy and I have been able to spend more one-on-one time with our leaders. The picture shows two of our best...Shayne and Rachel. The hardest part for us lately has been juggling our time between a full-time school schedule and about 35 hours a week at the church. I am just finishing up a unit on ‘How to Study the Bible’ that has had a great response among the students.

One of my best classes this semester has been BE102 which goes through the first seven books of the Bible. My professor just finished tracing through Genesis while hitting on themes of faith, the promise and covenants, family loyalty, and service. After all, what good is the promise to Abraham when he is almost 100 years old without an heir? The answer is Faith. God is teaching Abraham to trust Him. It is amazing that the patriarchs had very little concerning the revelation of God, yet their faith seems gigantic in their circumstances. Here the Church lives with a completed Canon of Scripture where we know the character of God better than any of them. However, our faith in God seems to be miniscule compared to the faith of the patriarchs. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Brandy continues to love working with her 5th graders at Wylie ISD. There have been talks of her possibly teaching gifted and talented students next year, but we are trying not to get our hopes up. We’re really looking forward to having one of her friends, Shannon, that she taught with in Starkville over to the house for a few days during Spring Break. Her mom is also coming for the weekend which should be lots of fun. She just cut 10 1/2 inches off her hair, and I love it! In the meantime, she is meeting with three of our leaders in the college class, and it has been a blessing for us and them. Brandy adds a dimension to our ministry that simply would not be there if it was not for her caring, sensitive heart.

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