Thursday, September 27, 2012

First Link Year Recap 9/24-9/27

First off sorry about the uncreative title. Figured I should make the title easily recognizable for Link Year grading purposes. Anyways...onward and upward we shall go. So I will start off with a quick recap of each day and then progress from there because progressing is useful if you are trying to get something done. Usually at least.

The first day of the week was Monday (Surprise surprise) and we had a thing called Mystery Monday. Basically the point of this is to make Mondays more exciting since they are the most dreaded day of the week. They succeeded in this by taking us Roller skating/blading at some place that I have forgotten the name of. But naturally this place had a rink where we could...well I'll leave that up to you to guess what we did at this rink. So once we finished doing this thing at the rink that I am leaving you to guess about we went back to the campus to chill for the rest of the day. The first Mystery Monday was a success with fun skating and roller blading. That sorta rhymed, unintentionally of course.

The next day was Tuesday (See a pattern here yet? It's called, "the days of the week") and this day was our first official day of Link Year with a professor. Don Ford was the professor and he spoke about settings goals for your life, both short term and long term. He also said something that I thought was really interesting. It was that only 1/2% of people between age 18 to 23 have a biblical worldview. I did not research his statement yet, but I would believe it's at least close to that number. The definition of a biblical worldview that he told us was that you had to believe absolute truth exists, the bible is inerrant, satan is real, you can't earn your way to God, Jesus lived a sinless life, and God is the creator and still reigns today. After hearing this I felt truly blessed to have so many friends around me who believe all these things.

On Wednesday (See former paragraph about the pattern) we had Jay Holden come and talk to us about our strengths. Last week we took this really cool test that showed our top 5 strengths and we even got a book about it to study our strengths even more. The best part was we got this huge spreadsheet type thing with everyone in the classes top 5 strengths shown. It's great to see that because now we know how to compliment each other and how to interact even better with everyone here. Great stuff right there.

Finally I have come to today. Yes indeed. The last day of the week with a professor to speak wisdom to us. Thankfully this day ended with a bang. No doubt in my mind that Darrell Shemwell was my favorite speaker we have had so far! He was pretty great. It didn't hurt that he mentioned two of my favorite theologians (Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon) and gave us a bunch of sweet reference books to look at the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic text in the bible. This is fantastic news. Also we get Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology book. The full version, not just the condensed version. This is pretty dang amazing. Sweetness.

So this is going to be my closing paragraph. Where I am supposed to wrap up everything in a nice little bow and send it to friends and family for Christmas. But...as some of you know, I have never been that great at wrapping presents. Bags with tissue paper are my best friends. Anyways I should probably get back to the topic at hand. Which is closing this post up. Here we go now. I learned a lot this week but I am just going to point out five main things that I learned.
1) Goal setting is pretty great, but I should never factor God out of my plans because He has His own plan for my life.
2) How crazy it is to think that only around 1/2% of people in that age range I mentioned earlier have a biblical worldview. Makes me want to go make sure people around me know the bible more.
3) Strengths are great things and we should focus on using our strengths more often than/then we do.
4) I need to take advantage of the time here at Link Year to polish off my rough spots.
5) Logos bible study software is awesome looking and I want to get it now!

Anyways I know that I said the previous paragraph was going to be my closing paragraph, but I decided to rebel against myself. Which is always an interesting fight. So here it is, my first Link Year recap. Hope you enjoyed the ride, exit to your left please and move along. Pick up any trash you left to be considerate for those who come after you. Thank you and goodbye.



Wednesday, September 19, 2012

A first for some things

So this is my first blog post ever. Which is weird because I never thought I'd blog. Just bear with me as I start this whole thing ah rolling. Let me just get this out of the way for starters...grammar shall not be a strong point for this blog. I hope that isn't a problem for you ("you" being no one because no one is reading this right now. Maybe in the future people will.) but if it is a problem for you, I have no apologies. None. Anyways...it is pretty weird to think that people will be reading my thoughts as I choose to put them up on here. I could make people think I am incredibly smart and bright by copying and pasting from smart peoples blogs. But I don't think I'll be doing that. For now. I guess I should say why I started this blog. Well it's for Link Year. If you don't know what Link Year is I don't know why you are reading my blog because I probably don't know you. So yeah...every friday there will be a new blog post up on here recapping my week, what I learned, what I thought, application to life, what I ate, my every single thought I had during the week, and my sarcastic things. Just get used to those. But I might actually talk about what I eat. Depending on how good or bad it tasted. For if it is incredibly bad tasting I will probably mention it. I also might sprinkle in little post throughout the week if I feel like typing that much. I am not a big word person or typer or wordsmith or stenographer or very magniloquent with words or facund with words. I am bombastic at times though. So this should be fun. Anyways I am going to go ahead and stop typing now. Because I have never written a blog post (something I am sure has been made obvious by this) I don't really know how to end this post. I kinda feel like when you are saying goodbye to a friend and then you both start walking in the same direction and then one of you stops to pull out their cellphone as if they actually needed to look at their cellphone but in reality they just wanted to stop so they wouldn't be walking with you any farther. Yeah...that doesn't really describe this situation at all. Not even close. But thought I'd throw it out their anyways. So yeah...I'm going to go ahead and pull out my cellphone now, just keep walking and move along...