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0Current Tunage: Tunnel Rats – Line Finish
1 Corinthians 9:23-27 ESV
I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? so run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Please pray for myself, Noah, Todd, Ben, and Alex as we drive down to Chicago today for the Gospel Coalition National Conference 2009. Over the next three days we will be hearing from the likes of John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Tim Keller, CJ Mahaney, Josh Harris, DA Carson, and others. It promises to be a time of challenge, of exhortation, and of great fellowship. Pray for safety as we make the 10+ hour drive, for God to move in our hearts as we hear from His Word and His people, and for a renewed passion to bring His gospel to the world. All of us are at that in-between stage of “figuring out what’s next” and so I think it’s safe to say we’re all looking for God to do some amazing things in and among us as we gather with folks from around the world for teaching, prayer, and fellowship.
…oh happy day
1Current Tunage: Celldweller – Outland
Instrumental record from Klayton (aka Celldweller), entitled “Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head vol. 1″. Very, very good.
So, who’s going to The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference?
Jerry and friends are going to the The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference.
What does that mean?
It means:
-Funtime Road Trip with 4 buddies to the Windy City aka Chicago.
-Free ESV Study Bible (woo!).
-Challenges from the likes of Piper, Driscoll, Mahaney, Harris, Keller, Carson, and many others.
-Wonderful way to cap off my joint BA’s from Trent (which will be complete as of the week prior!).
-Time of sharpening and forward vision: examining what God has in store for the weeks, months, and years to come for myself and those I am responsible for (self, wife, children, friends, family, church, people in general).
-Good, good times.
Pray for safety, wisdom, and blessing as we plan, prepare, and traverse this adventure in April… for His Glory.
…disconnection imminent
2Current Tunage: Decahedron – Delete False Culture
Today, Jerry is in a Math Rock / Spazzcore mood. Decahedron and other Frodus-related projects fit the bill kindly.
I apologize for the dead air. Eight weeks of classes left, something like 8 million deadlines to meet between papers and projects and presentations. Lots of great plans formulating in the meantime – for example, in April I will be attendingThe Gospel Coalition 2009 Conference near Chicago, which I plan to attend with the strangest and most amusing batch of friends imaginable (T, N, and B). It promises to be good, good times. Other happenings of late include job applications (some governmental – imagine that), copious amounts of rocking out, and more than a little trepidation.
In the midst of it all, God is God – the Life, the Boss, the Maker, the Music, the Effervescent, the Truth, the Fighter, the King of Kings, the Shepherd, the Servant, the Master, and the only Way… home.
Recently I was reading in the Psalms, where I oft find myself in times where the simple act of trusting my God and King to be the most difficult action imaginable. I read these words, and have been pondering them in my heart since:
Psalms 139:2-6 ESV
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me – oh, that I would be mindful of it with persistence, ponderous of it with tenacity, and act upon it with courage.