Dear Readers,

Today starts the beginning of a new style of blogging. I start with this, it is a pledge to you the readers, to my fellow students, to the faculty and staff of Cascade College. I refuse to let this mystical place die. I pledge with all my heart, strength, and mind to do everything in my power and the strength God will provide to save this place. 15 years ago upon this plot of earth Cascade College came to be. After 15 years according to people with check books it has ran its course. This is my time to be pissed so deal with it. But i see some thing different I see the Cade bursting into flames, and out of it a Phoenix will rise and join the ranks of the other Christian colleges and Universities. The words Goad used to comfort us on monday were beautiful, but i do not see cascade as a dying Hezekiah (i spelled that first try with out looking, see what we learn here). I see the story of Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah, we can change God's mind. Abraham went back and forth between God and the cities to find holy men. Well I have decided to take the position of Abraham, i have been pray and showing God the good, and fruitful things Cascade has to offer. I am praying specifically for Him to change his mind. I have a plan to save this place, all i ask is for you to stand with me. My friends i am going to need you more than ever, my colleagues here at cascade i am going to call on you in ways you think are harsh, i beg you please stand with me, and finally the staff and faculty all i ask from you i a prayerful mind and your love and compassion. thats all i got. i love you all.

these words are now more significant than any other time in my life...

Pray Hard and Hold On to Jesus.

forever and ever Amen.

Monasteries and Taxes

So today has been an odd day, the two things that have been floating around the old nogin are the taxes i have to get and fill out the whole fafsa thing and The early church in the 4th and 5th centuries. i dont have any philosophical thought today i just wanted to share the things on my mind. it is 5:51 right now and well im bored and i dont want to have to fill out my fafsa. Also i got to go home for the weekend...which it turns out is far more stressful than anything else, dont get me wrong i loved seeing everyone and usually i am refreshed after returning home but i just have a heightened irratiblity right now. usually i feel bottlecaps about this place (see http://hisnameisspencer.blogspot.com/2007/08/cade.html for that reference) but this time i am just washed out. i must now grudgingly go do my fafsa stuff

pray hard and hold on to Jesus

Justin Martyr...

is the man. So i may be a huge nerd or i may be just expanding in my knowledge of the early church fathers. But i know for sure that this guy is awesome. Although his thoughts on bringing the lost to Christ are a bit out there with his "bridge building" ideals i find myself in accordance with him on many of his writings. "He was schooled as a philosopher, studying under a Stoic, an Aristotelian, a Pythagorean, and a Platonist, until he met an old man who in Socratic method raised questions only the "Christian Philosophy" could answer." Everett Ferguson's Church History V.1. I Justin's second Apology he states "Whatever things were rightly said among all men are the property of us Christians." I love the way that sounds all things that are truths of this world (look out Post-Moderns) yes truths are property given to us by the Risen Son of God the Father creator of all things. Epic thought.

thats all i got for now i must get back to writing my paper on this guy.

peace.

and may the force be with you....
but mostly with me.

Check It, Yo!

So heres the thing, <---(lets be honest thats better than "dear")

right. so my lasts post was in May...im super lame, there is so very much i can tell you yet i dont think that my words can rightly explain everything that has happened this summer. From leaving for P-town at the beginning of June and not being home in like 5 months, to the incredible yet exhausting summer at PSP (just ask me about it), being homeless for two weeks, living in a tent at a friends bosses house, to coming back to the Cade. It has been one of the most wonderful summers i have ever had. The people i met, the relationships that have flurished and the relationships that have come to be. But now is the time to just reflect. Its already fall break here at the Cade and i have so much homework to do (which i have most of it done). I miss the people i met this summer, Raleigh, and Jess, Josh and katina...there rest of you fools i see on a fairly regular basis so dont whine. God has roughed up my life this summer...this year really, giving me so much to think on and try and put into practice. And i know im not good at it and that i have failed in a lot of ways but i am still working on it still striving to be living for the God who created all things. The biggest thing is that suffering even to the point of death is the real definition of glory, Jesus was in his full Glory when he was on the cross. We here in the states dont know what suffering is and well i think that makes us soft. Dont get me wrong i dont think that we need mass persecutions like in the early church but i feel we need to constantly challenge our selves in what we believe and re-organize our thoughts even if the out come is the same we need to challenge ourselves. its so late and i am still up i want to go to bed but im also very hungry...lame so i am peaceing out. so to all those out in there in cyberland good night and God speed.