Red Letter Revolution

Okay okay, so it is Sunday and not Saturday, but at least I’m not three weeks late again. Last Sunday was pretty good. I went to Kyle’s church again, and I’m trying to think through how I feel about that church. They are rock solid there in terms of doctrine, and I really like the worship there. They incorporate classical instruments sometimes which is really cool. The people are super nice and it is a friendly family like congregation. The only downside is the preaching. I just really dislike his style, and I find myself having a hard time caring about the sermon. I’m torn as to what to do. When I joined Windsor, it wasn’t because it was like what I thought a church service should be. In fact, it was quite the opposite. I’m wondering if it is really a matter of pride, and perhaps I should swallow mine and join up. That evening I went to Epic Life again. That’s the college service at the mega church that isn really cool. The leader is named Steven and he is really cool. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech. For those of you back home who don’t know, Caltech is populated almost entirely by geniuses who study Science. It was cool to try to understand him talk about the magnetic spin of electrons in Week 5, and I finally got to see him preach a sermon. I think he still gets nervous and his sermons need work, but he has a solid pastoral ability. After service, I decided to go out to dinner with a bunch of the people and try to be social. I don’t like being in those situations, but I have been making myself do it anyway. It was a pretty good time, even though there was this girl who kept sort of cutting me out of the conversation. I don’t think she did it consciously, she seemed to be really intimidated by me, but even though she was sitting next to me, she would turn her back on me and then lean out across the table blocking my view of the other people. I honestly had no clue what to do to help her feel comfortable and work my way back into the conversation, so I just conversed with the people on the other side of me as best as I was able.

I’ll spare you a lot of the day to day minutiae. Friday night was Reformation Day also known as Halloween. I decided to organize some grilling in the courtyard and we grilled some burgers. I think we ended up with like 11 or 12 people who had burgers. It was a great time, but I accidentally bought way to much meat so I have 3 pounds of ground beef and a bunch of patties in my freezer now. After we chatted and stuffed our faces with burgers, the guys went back to my place to play some Call of Duty 4. We actually had to take turns since we had 6-7 people there throughout the night. After 4 hours I was pooped, but two of the guys wanted to keep playing. They managed to go another hour before their wives showed up and lovingly dragged them home. Saturday was spent trying to read and working on homework. I did some extra study on Greek from an advanced textbook I have. I have a paper due Tuesday so that is what I will be doing all day on Monday. I might post the paper if it doesn’t turn out to be crap. Grace and peace to all of you, I miss you all. I will, by the grace of God, see you all during Thanksgiving break.