First Post

"Blog is a word that you hear people say right before they throw up or start boring you." -me

(..yeah I quote myself. I'm either arrogant or a genius.)

I already have a private blog that I use occasionally, but I think having an open version has its benefits:

1. I'll be connecting with all of my respected friends who are out there expressing themselves.
   
2. It can serve as an e-ministry to some (as God has used the blogs of others in the past to aid MY spiritual growth).
   
3. This blog will be an all encompassing answer to the "how are you doing?" questions that I receive and can't answer for whatever reason.

As far as subject matter goes, I'm thinking this blog will document my spiritual growth as I have learned the painful lesson that I have not arrived, and I won't arrive at my destination until Jesus takes me home.

Where am I right now?

I'm living at home after graduation...working at Indiana Wesleyan University. I've been the interim youth pastor at my home church, Living Hope, for almost 3 months. I'm enrolled in a bachelors of science in management program at IWU online which will finish in under 2 years. After that, my plan is to work with a church plant in Utah called Elevation Church (www.elevation.cc). I want to go the "tent making" route by finding a job in the community and seeing what God will do as far as raising up a church of Jesus followers.

Until that happens, it's been made obvious to me that I am still very much in school. I couldn't wait to finish Bible College my senior year so I could get out in the world and apply the stuff I had learned, but I quickly found out that school is still in session. Let's get my learn on...