It has been a long time coming...

Wow.. I have really slacked when it comes to writing these past two weeks. I really have no excuse. Life has been up and then down lately. I got a unpaid internship called "Coug Guys and Gals". It is pretty sweet. I get some free Wazzu gear and a free sports pass. All I really do is on football and basketball game days I talk with boosters for the school, as well as future students about the athletic department. It is really cool and I am excited about it. I also interviewed for a job at the student rec center but ended up not getting it. It was a real bummer but the lady said she recommended me for another job position so I get another interview with them tomorrow.

This past weekend I got the chance to go on a camping trip with all the guys in the Nu House. It was a trip that was way over due. It was a great time of guy stuff. We sat around and camped in a Farrugut State park. It was great. Made all of our food on the fire and sat around and smoked some stogies and pipes while talking about Jesus. It was awesome.

Our last Young Life club was great. It ended with a bang! We had about 75 students there. I am really excited for what God has in store for next year. The excitement for next year is gonna make college young life huge! Here is a pic of some of us before club... How many Young Life leaders does it take to figure out a power point?



This last week I had some great times with Jesus. Over the camping trip we had about 30 minutes on our own and it was great. We talked about a trio of verses that I have read a bunch of times but I hadn't looked at them as much as I did that day.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it but whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. What good will it be for you to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul? Or what can you give in exchange for your soul?" Matthew 16:24-26

When it says deny yourself, it really makes me think of the areas in my life that I still hang on to, that I haven't given fully to God still. When God says take up your cross I think he wants us to think about what Jesus did for us and how he carried that cross for us. He wants us to be like Jesus and carry all the brokeness, and heartache and just give it up to him. God wants us to lose our lives for his sake. He wants us to give him love...

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

If we don't fully sacrifice ourselves to God as Jesus did for us, we will never experience what God really intends for us. We will never experience what Love and Life is.

Those three verses in Matthew are just filled with stuff that you can chew on for a while. The word is active and alive that is for sure!