We started another session of Bible study last night. A group of girls and I usually do two a year, with short breaks in between. So if feels a little like going back to school when we start one. I always liked school, so I'm saying this in a postive way. This time, we're doing Beth Moore's, "Daniel," which I can already tell is going to be a lot of work. But that's okay, because I need it.
Lessons learned: I am living in a modern-day Babylon.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Still breathing
Every Thursday night I have Bible study with a few friends of mine. There are technically five of us, but usually four make it.
Those girls are lifesavers.
The Bible study part of our Bible study is amazing. We learn a lot, and the author of the study, Beth Moore, never fails to amaze me with her insight. But that's not the only thing it is about. Tonight we had decided to make potatoes out of the blue, then sat and talked before we watched our video. I think I laughed more in that hour than I have in the past week.
It was a tough one, but these girls are a breath of fresh air when it feels like I'm suffocating in a room full of smoke. We listen to each other's dramas, tell each other honestly what we think, then somewhere we find the humor in it.
Lesson learned: Potatoes make great therapy.
Those girls are lifesavers.
The Bible study part of our Bible study is amazing. We learn a lot, and the author of the study, Beth Moore, never fails to amaze me with her insight. But that's not the only thing it is about. Tonight we had decided to make potatoes out of the blue, then sat and talked before we watched our video. I think I laughed more in that hour than I have in the past week.
It was a tough one, but these girls are a breath of fresh air when it feels like I'm suffocating in a room full of smoke. We listen to each other's dramas, tell each other honestly what we think, then somewhere we find the humor in it.
Lesson learned: Potatoes make great therapy.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Waking up
Today, I attended an all-day conference with Christian speaker Beth Moore. She was actually speaking in Texas, but the event was fed through satellite to more than 500 churches all over the United States and in Canada.
About 150,000 people watched her. She said she and her ministry team were "floored" to hear how many people were tuning in: "I'm talking carpet fibers in the nasal passages," she said. She cracks me up.
She is actually the author of two different Bible study series I have done with groups of friends. I finished the last one in December. They are a little different than your usual sit around in a circle and discuss a chapter of your favorite book in the Bible. They involve five days of intense homework and a video of her speaking each week.
I'm not exaggerating to say they were each life changing in their own way. She is a phenomenal speaker and writer, who is so good at weaving in analogies, her studies of Hebrew, humor and her own testimony to make you get so much more out of what your reading in the Bible than you ever would have if you just read it on your own.
This particular conference came at the perfect time for me. I wasn't even supposed to go originally, but Sarah snagged me a ticket at the last moment. It is eerie how whatever the topic of her sermon is always applies so closely to whatever is going on in my life at the time. Today's was truly core-shaking. So much so, I went home in a sort of exhausted release and slept for three hours.
I wish all my friends and the people I love could have watched it.
I'm actually seeing her live in a couple of weeks at a conference in San Francisco. I'm looking forward to another wake up call from her and other speakers who will be there.
Lesson learned: So many.
About 150,000 people watched her. She said she and her ministry team were "floored" to hear how many people were tuning in: "I'm talking carpet fibers in the nasal passages," she said. She cracks me up.
She is actually the author of two different Bible study series I have done with groups of friends. I finished the last one in December. They are a little different than your usual sit around in a circle and discuss a chapter of your favorite book in the Bible. They involve five days of intense homework and a video of her speaking each week.
I'm not exaggerating to say they were each life changing in their own way. She is a phenomenal speaker and writer, who is so good at weaving in analogies, her studies of Hebrew, humor and her own testimony to make you get so much more out of what your reading in the Bible than you ever would have if you just read it on your own.
This particular conference came at the perfect time for me. I wasn't even supposed to go originally, but Sarah snagged me a ticket at the last moment. It is eerie how whatever the topic of her sermon is always applies so closely to whatever is going on in my life at the time. Today's was truly core-shaking. So much so, I went home in a sort of exhausted release and slept for three hours.
I wish all my friends and the people I love could have watched it.
I'm actually seeing her live in a couple of weeks at a conference in San Francisco. I'm looking forward to another wake up call from her and other speakers who will be there.
Lesson learned: So many.
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