Sunday, July 18, 2010

Baptism and things of lesser importance

First of all, I need to apologize for my lack of diligence in continually updating this blog. Now that the unpleasantries are out of the way, we can talk about the good stuff...

Jessica and I were baptized today. What an incredible experience. It is was so awesome to be able to share each other's testimony with the people of Veritas. I was on the verge of tears all morning as I contemplated not only the burden of my sin but the even greater grace of God that he would love someone as wretched me. I pretty much lost it when reading my wife's testimony. Reading the words my wife used to describe what the Lord has done in her life and the sin that he has rescued her from is a moment that I will never forget. I couldn't be happier of the fact that today I wept in front of some 200 or so people. It's a really cool thing to see fellow Christians rejoice in the life saving sacrifice of Christ. God is so good and so faithful!

The internship has been going quite well. This week promises to keep the excitement of baptism going. Not only do I get to preach my first sermon, which is pretty exciting, but also we have a trip planned to Sojourn Community Church in Louisville. We're headed down there to pick the leaderships brains as how we can improve the assimilation process at Veritas.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

first blog

So here begins my life of blogging...It's been suggested to me that I create a blog in order to keep people up to date on what's going on with my internship at Veritas Columbus. That being said, I hope that you will join me this summer as I dive into urban ministry. Throughout the summer I aim to keep you involved with the things that we are doing here at the church and also to share with you other things that are going on in life. Here we go.