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Counselor

Well, I took a leap of faith and found another counselor on Saturday.  This one accepts insurance right then and there.  He’s in the office with the psychiatrist.  He’s from Chicago and also specializes in sleep studies as well as psychology.  I’m not sure if he’s a Christ-follower or not.  He says the Bible is [...]

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Time to Get Off My Ass (Thanks American Idol)

Part I I debated whether or not using ass in the title of the blog.  Some might think it’s too strong a word.  But in this instance, as you’ll see in a few moments, I don’t think it is. I’ve been apathetic.  A BYX brother and I were talking Monday night and we’ve both fallen [...]

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Carrying vs. Leaning

I was talking to a guy while eating lunch at the Paw Print yesterday. He asked me how I was doing and I went a little bit into my struggle with depression. Obviously I know him or else I would have said I was just fine. I was telling him I was trying to learn [...]

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Bittersweet Answer to Prayer

Once again, it seems that I’m slow to recognize God’s answers and spiritual truths. It seems God has answered a prayer of mine I had prayed for years. It’s not all pleasant either. But, I think it will grow me, if I let it. Let’s go back to HBU days. I was/am in an awesome [...]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The Problem with Living Sacrifices

I was doing some thinking the other day and thought about this. We all hear in church that Romans 12 tells us to be living sacrifices. When you sacrifice an animal, you put it on a table (maybe strap it down), cut it, let it bleed on the table, then roast it or whatever. It’s [...]

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Follower of Christ vs. Christian

I’ve been thinking about something for a few days now, well maybe longer than that. On Facebook, I’ve seen people put follower of Christ or Christ follower for their religion. I started thinking about that name. I’ve also heard the term in looking at the emerging church. After posting about not liking traditional church, and [...]

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

The Church

I was in the bathroom tonight and started thinking, the bathroom is a prime thinking place. I picked up a book off my shelf to look through while I was in there and the book was Dear Church about a high school teacher, earning her seminary degree, takes letters she and other “20 somethings” have [...]

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Thick Head & Thick Heart

I’ve kind of discovered something about me, spiritually, that is hard to fix and understand. It kind of sucks writing about this because it makes me vulnerable, where I don’t like to be. But, hell, I’ll write about it anyway. We all know what being hard-headed or thick-skulled (if that’s a word) means, but I’ve [...]

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

The Struggle by Steve Gerali – Part 1

This book was interesting. I was afraid to blog about this book because of what the book is about: masturbation. But, I’ll be as delicate as I can. I wasn’t sure about this book because of the guy’s theology. Some of it I don’t know what to think about. Introduction: Watch Out for that Armored [...]

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Wild at Heart Chapter 10

A Beauty to Rescue   This was the most difficult and emotional chapter for me to read. This blog entry will probably reveal the most personal stuff about me. People, maybe even friends, might choose to ignore me or change how they feel about me by reading this. But, I guess there’s nothing I could [...]

Monday, June 4th, 2007