Gerald (the youth minister at Country Woods Baptist Church) spoke out of James tonight and it was great! James is a good book to dig into and see how we should act as believers. it's pretty heart making/breaking stuff. cuts to the core. and that is how we are suppose to read it. he made a statement tonight that hit me in a profound way. he said, "there is no way that you can read scripture and not be changed". (I'm pretty sure that he said it in a different way, but that's the Daniel abridged version) that is such an amazing truth. i read the Bible so often as a kid and never really was engaged by it, but now that i know how powerful and life changing it is, i am so captivated by it. i love God's word.
"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17
i also had a great night with friends. it was free coffee and cookie night at the cafe on campus, and you better believe since there was the word "free" in front of the event then i was there. we had a good time laughing, playing jenga, phase 10, and apples to apples. tonight was the first time i actually played apples to apples. i had a really fun time. i like my friends here. i am so blessed. i think God knows what he is doing.
"Dear friends, do you think you'll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, "Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!" and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup--where does that get you? Isn't it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?" James 2:14-17
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