Resolve

Last week Pastor Ted encouraged us to resolve to be more like Jesus in all we do. He meant that we each have a choice to make on how the events of the world affect us. He based this on the example of Daniel found in Dan 1:8 where a young Daniel resolved not to eat the food the king prescribed. This food, although good for some violated the kosher diet that Daniel had committed to as a faithful follower of Yahweh.

Last night, Pastor John Fehlen, our Tuesday night speaker encouraged us to commit to a life of sincere and pure faith. Using Paul's second letter to the Corinthians as a jumping off point (II Cor 11:1-4), John encouraged us to maintain our Devotion less we become Distracted and end up being Divorced from our True Love.

God seems to be on a roll with the messages that He has brought to the school this term. Devotion, pure and undefiled. Commitment, complete and without reservation. Missing is the unnecessary hype and absent is the "whooping up" of emotions.
Are we emotional, yes but our motivation is the still small voice of the Holy Spirit.

What is He saying to you?

(I warned you that I would preach sometimes)

Snow, Oh No!

Well we woke up this morning to a world of white.  Brandy, the weather dog loves the snow. She romps and runs around chasing the snow flakes. Of course I had to check the roads and school closings to see if any schools in the area had closed. One school did close but they are at a higher elevation.  It really isn’t much snow but in an area that does not see snow very often it really snags things up.  It is almost ten in the morning and the “rush hour” is still ongoing.  Trees down and power outages are now the order of the day.

We see on the news that the great lake states are next on the stormy weather path.  Hope the family that lives there is surviving okay.

Hurry, I can't keep smiling! 

Notice my ribbons 

Hey nice tree 

It was Lola's suggestion

This whole bug about blogging was sparked by a comment my daughter made to me this last weekend.  The kids were home for the Thanksgiving weekend (at least the West Coast ones were) and we were sitting around the table chatting.  Part way through a funny story, as mashed potatoes came out of her nose, she snorted that “you should have a blog.” I am not sure what the two have in common but there ya go.

Now that Word can be used to blog with I may even find this easier to keep current. With the Christmas season close at hand, it may be the wrong time to try and start this additional task. But I will never know if I don’t try.  

Sitting in the Big Green Chair 

Musings

I have often wondered if it is worth the time to blog. My kids do it. I read theirs, they read each others and link to even more. So maybe it will be worth it. At least I will have a place for occasional ramblings.

The title "The Big Green Chair" stems from the fact that I spend most of my work day seated in a big green leather office chair. It is where I make many decisions and set the course for the ship I help to pilot. It is not a real ship of course, it is a small private Christian College. I hope that this blog may become some where for friends of the school to connect as well.

Occasionally I will preach from this pulpit. Occasionally I will complain from it. I do tell a fairly good story so once is a while I may entertain. I listen to the news and try to stay current with the happenings in my "corner" of the world. But most of all I will muse and ponder.

Where is this "corner?" It is in Beautiful British Columbia.

You will learn more of me as time passes.
That is if anyone actually reads this.