Thursday, December 6, 2012

Bonjor, or as the french say Bonjour. Glad to be back on the keys in the wold of the blogs. Now lets transition to this Monday in Branson, Mo. This Monday our mystery monday was going to the K-Life party barn in Harrison, Ar, 30 minutes away. Though I was grateful for the giant swing and foam pit, I was even more grateful when we left for Neighbor's Mill, Arkansas' healthiest restaurant. This restaurant is owned and operated by a Christian family and it is delicious, I highly recommend it. So on to the meat of the week. On Tuesday, Kyle Unruh, the president of K-Life, the youth group type ministry of Kanakuk Ministries, came and spoke to us. Kyle is a very blunt man, but I loved it because he challenged us with the truth. The first topic he spoke about is greatness. He feels that my genration get's a bad rap and that we are not set up for greatness. So he gave us tips and challenged us to hold to these tips so that we would be successful and impact the wold for Christ. Next he gave us advice from a viewpoint of a father about dating and marriage. This was fantastic because he showed us his struggles and successes of dating marrage to and gave Biblical and practical solutions to the problems he had in his dating career and has in his marriage life. This was inspiring because I am starting to get the picture that dating, marriage and love, is not just about feelings but about fulfilling God's commandments and applying Christ's love. On Wednesday, we had the director of KAA1, Antoine Mack, come and speak to us. This was a special treat because he took the science of social psychology and applied to time perspective to help us conquer temptation. The issue of time perspective was discovered by one of the world's leading psychologist, Philip Zimbardo. Antoine took this revolutionary, and fairly new, idea and said that temptation is all about time. Temptation is the persuasion of now. This is because if we have realize the consequences of giving in the future then we will not surrender to these consequences. Also, another good point he had was that, Scripture links us to the Truth which is outside of the limits of time. I found this profound because truth will never be affected by time and will be true for eternity and I believe that God and his works are truth, so that means no matter what time or circumstance God is true. Powerful. My God has no limitations and is always true. I am blessed to be a follower of Him. In conclusion, I am thankful for the Godly and powerful leaders that take time to invest in us and challenge me to be great, apply Biblical and practical truths to dating, mariage and love, to take science and apply it to faith so that it may point us closer to God, help us undersand and have greater faith in Him. God is great and he is sovereign (Ephesians 2:10), until next time.

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