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...we all love smiths cookies. they are actually one of our greatly missed treasures from our former town...we have yet to find a place to equate their greatness down here...so when grandma showed up with enough for an army this weekend we were grateful and the kids were elated...jack o lanterns, bats and black kittens were neatly packaged by the dozens in the familiar white boxes with red writing...it's fun to have pieces of "home"...although it's beginning to fell like home here...we are at the 4 month mark and shannon tells me the roller coaster will last at least a year..i understand what she means because every time we have visitors noah is ready to jump ship, grab his kitten, and head north to what feels like home to him...the last two sunday nights have been painful goodbyes to people he holds in tight corners of his heart...i get it completely but still we try to be comforting but realistic at the same time....i found out from liz that our old house was listed yesterday for 246,000 what a blow when we bought loved and treasured it for 455,000...i'm holding fast to praying that god's plan for our family down here will continue to unfold and that i'm not moving unconsciously forward in my new world letting god's silence fool me as approval, we have been very blessed to have had things work out so beautifully, and i'm trying to remember, exemplify, and teach the kids to surrender our wills of this world and not be utterly consumed by it....our pastor is preaching on judgement day and it's powerful and theologically challenging...our pastoral staff also passed out 17-18 page papers on how to interpret the incorrect theology in "the shack" a profound widespread book christians are clinging to..i read it and found it...plot line intriguing and then when i realized it was fiction it ruined it for me i won't question any one's religious experience i'm not an expert... but to dream one up and create an illustration about it just didn't sit biblically right with me but i figured what's the harm in fiction right? it really didn't bother me but it didn't change my life either......jess was questioning from the beginning....well clearly our pastoral staff and others down here are more responsible for making things clear and they felt compelled to write this if you want to see it go to http://www.compassbiblechurch.org/ i think they will eventually have a link to the paper or you can order one (free) makes you think our pastor was concerned about people saying, 'it changed their view of god' and it being too post millennial i'll leave you with this, pastor mike said, 'If being open minded means leaving my bible closed i don't want any part of it'. I quite whole heartily have to agree.
...we all love smiths cookies. they are actually one of our greatly missed treasures from our former town...we have yet to find a place to equate their greatness down here...so when grandma showed up with enough for an army this weekend we were grateful and the kids were elated...jack o lanterns, bats and black kittens were neatly packaged by the dozens in the familiar white boxes with red writing...it's fun to have pieces of "home"...although it's beginning to fell like home here...we are at the 4 month mark and shannon tells me the roller coaster will last at least a year..i understand what she means because every time we have visitors noah is ready to jump ship, grab his kitten, and head north to what feels like home to him...the last two sunday nights have been painful goodbyes to people he holds in tight corners of his heart...i get it completely but still we try to be comforting but realistic at the same time....i found out from liz that our old house was listed yesterday for 246,000 what a blow when we bought loved and treasured it for 455,000...i'm holding fast to praying that god's plan for our family down here will continue to unfold and that i'm not moving unconsciously forward in my new world letting god's silence fool me as approval, we have been very blessed to have had things work out so beautifully, and i'm trying to remember, exemplify, and teach the kids to surrender our wills of this world and not be utterly consumed by it....our pastor is preaching on judgement day and it's powerful and theologically challenging...our pastoral staff also passed out 17-18 page papers on how to interpret the incorrect theology in "the shack" a profound widespread book christians are clinging to..i read it and found it...plot line intriguing and then when i realized it was fiction it ruined it for me i won't question any one's religious experience i'm not an expert... but to dream one up and create an illustration about it just didn't sit biblically right with me but i figured what's the harm in fiction right? it really didn't bother me but it didn't change my life either......jess was questioning from the beginning....well clearly our pastoral staff and others down here are more responsible for making things clear and they felt compelled to write this if you want to see it go to http://www.compassbiblechurch.org/ i think they will eventually have a link to the paper or you can order one (free) makes you think our pastor was concerned about people saying, 'it changed their view of god' and it being too post millennial i'll leave you with this, pastor mike said, 'If being open minded means leaving my bible closed i don't want any part of it'. I quite whole heartily have to agree.
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Good point about the book...I liked it as a "story" but didn't take it a Biblical truth. Made me think but also recognize error...ok for some but not for others!
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