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Name: Kenny
Birthday: 2/25/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Getting to know God better!
Music - guitar, drums, djembe
Worship
Teaching
Good books (Bible, Screwtape letters,Through Gates of Splender just to name a few)
Expertise: Maintainance, dishes, eating, ping pong, store stocking, telling really really corny jokes
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Feeding calves (dairy work)
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
10/31/2004
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| I loved one of the first fully understandable faith and reason lectures...
Dr. Aikman was brilliant as usual :)
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| What career would you pursue if money was not an issue?Money isn't an issue in choosing my career :)
I'd rather spend my life running after what I was made to be, rather than just accumulating wealth that I can't take with me. Wouldn't you?
I mean, we'll spend the majority of our lives doing what? Spending money? No! Working in our careers!
So then, isn't it more important that you like your job?
I'd rather be fulfilled in my job than spend my workday waiting to finish so I can go spend money and then be fulfilled.
hehehehe.... ok, so I'm an idealist, and maybe this will all change if I ever get married. But, hey, I'm not right now; why not dive all-out all-in now?
Really though, why do we spend most of our time doing something we don't like (working and making money) so that we can spend a minority of our time doing something we like? (spending that money)
This may change, but if I had to choose my career today, this is probably what my list would look like:
1. Youth/College-age Pastor/Some sort of teen or college ministry/camps, etc.
2. Worship Leader
3. Missionary: China, N. Korea, Sudan, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Tanzania, Uganda, or someplace like that.
4. Statesman: Senator, Congressman, or someplace in local government.
Well.... you can see from my list that I'm REALLY going to be raking in the cash....
But that doesn't matter!
I'd rather see the light come on in a teenager's head when he finally realizes how God wants to use him than get a six-figure income anyday.
I'd rather lead a lost college student back to Christ anyday than have a comfy office with a reserved parking space and my own assistant.
I'd rather see God's people pour out their hearts before him than receive awards or commissions or commendations.
I'd rather tell the gospel to someone who has never heard it before and DESPERTLY needs it than make $60 an hour playing solitare.
I'd rather see the lives of millions of unborn children saved than simply be comfortable in a big house with a nice yard.
Wouldn't you? I mean, seriously.
I mean, even if I did get married, I'd hope it'd be to someone who feels the same way; then it still wouldn't matter that much, would it?
Oh God, let us live our lives to the fullest, spending them as You would have us, and never drawn away by useless things that do us no lasting good.
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| FrustrationOne of the most frustrating things for me is to hear someone admit that they don't have the best then and refuse to pursue it.
"Yeah, I know it'd be better to homeschool my kids, but I just don't have the discipline or patience."
"Yeah, I know I shouldn't be doing this, but I don't care." (ARG! This makes me mad....)
"Yeah, you've convinced me that speeding is a sin, but, you know, I mean, that doesn't mean I'm going to drive slower or anything..."
"I know music piracy is against the law... and I'm supposed to obey the law... but, well, you know..."
"I'd love to do something like that, but I'm just too lazy."
"I really respect that person's standards, but I just couldn't handle living like that."
ARG!
Why do we sell ourselves to mediocrity? Do we really realize that we only get one shot at this life? God has given us ONE life here on this earth; doesn't he deserve extra-ordinary lives out of each of us?
Why do we live like it doesn't matter?
I think sometimes we have a major loss of vision. I know I do. I forget to easily that DOING THE BEST, BRINGS THE BEST, and DOING LESSER BRINGS LESSER.
God's whole principle of "reaping what you sow."
God, I never want to allow laziness to rule me. Let me always refuse to be ruled by my passions and feelings and let me always be ruled by what YOU say is best.
I trust that every bit of instruction and guidance from You is for my good!
God, let my acknowledgment of my sin NEVER justify its existence. Let me be transparent before you; let me never hide the wrong things I've done, but let them be nauseating and sickening to me
Who are you going to sell out to?
Apathy or drivenness? Laziness or passion? Abundant life or mediocrity? The cross or the cushion?
We really don't have a choice; we will serve one or the other. I know who I want.
Jesus, take all of me.
Not that I have already
reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to
take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider
myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is
behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus. (Phil 3:12-14)
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| BookRemember that article about my school i posted earlier? It was part of a book.
Here's a transcript of a chatroom where Hanna Rosin (the author) answered some questions about her book.
It's things like these that convince me that I'm at the greatest school EVER. :)
Fairfax Station, Va.: I just wanted to say, I found your book
fascinating. As a liberal Jew, I'm disturbed by fundamentalism -- in
any religion -- and can say I probably would find your task of getting
to know these kids, well, creepy. But I got the feeling from your book
that however distasteful I found their beliefs and politics, these
people out on Route 7 have big hearts. I'm still creeped out by them,
but a little less so now.
Hanna Rosin: Hi. I hear these adjectives a lot from friends:
"scary," "creepy." I'm glad I at least convinced you they have big
hearts, which many of them do. There definitely were moments on campus
where I felt the atmosphere to be oppressive, like I wished one of the
students would just scream or blast some music or dye their hair purple
or do something utterly juvenile without collapsing in guilt. But
mostly I just stood in awe at their amazing combination of zeal and
discipline.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/09/17/DI2007091701617.html)
Hehehehehe... it's pretty funny...we do some pretty juvenile things ALL THE TIME. She just never got into a boys dorm late at night I guess.
Hehehehe... people scream all the time (during midterms), last year, my RA's room would shake while he was studying because of the music from the room under him, and last year all the Teen Camp counselors dyed their hair BRIGHT RED as a joke...
Yet, I’m flattered by her impression of us. I
hope we can live lives of shocking ZEAL and DISCIPLINE.
I've read a bit of the book (God's Harvard), and it's got a good bit of inaccuracies, but it's still shows through that although Rosin is philisophically totally opposite us as a school, she can't help but respect us.
I hope that's because of God's light shining through our lives.
I'm so proud to be a part of the God's work called Patrick Henry College.
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