30 it UP

Woohoo!  I bet you guys were wondering what has been going on during quarantine with my Bible Study.  Well, let me just say, thanks to Facebook Messenger we still can video chat and continue our study of the bible.  Since quarantine has disrupted our lives, this small group study is something we all look forward to ending our week and starting our weekend with.  We had started this group with the intent to read the Bible from beginning to end, but life happened and we got stuck at nearly the end of Genesis.  That was when we started skipping around.  I already wrote a post about the short chapter of Jonah (hilarious, if you haven't read it click here).  I then discovered this great bible study companion by Josh Hunt .  This author has many books but so far our favorite to enrich our study time is the "Question-Based Bible Study Guide" series.  These books are pretty much amazing at digging deeper into the different chapters of each book of th...

At least three times a month, some friends and I get together for a Bible study.  Picture it, a Catholic, a Catholic/Presbyterian, and a Lutheran discussing the Bible in public space.  Openly reading Scripture aloud and having a thoughtful conversation and coffee (or sometimes wine).  Most people my age don’t do this sort of thing.  But you know, getting back to my Christian roots and all.  I came up with this wonderful idea at the beginning of the year; read the whole Bible cover to cover.  Sounds great right?  Even greater when you have friends doing it too. It was a great idea until my classes started and I got stalled in Genesis around Joseph (and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat). Yes, my Bible study has three people in it.   We are a hodgepodge of insight on many questions that may arise, plus three different Bibles.   Before my classes started back up, we were reading around 4-5 chapters of Genesis at a time.   I, pers...

It has taken me so long to actually sit down and write about this. At the beginning of this year I read a quote and it really resonated with me. "If I were to be prosecuted for my r eligion, I truly hope there is enough evidence to convict me."-- Coach John Wooden This has made me reflect on what has happened in my walk with Christ. In high school I was this shy, reserved girl who went to church every Sunday and believed. My friends did not share the same religious views as I did, but I was ok with that fact. Sometimes too ok with it. So ok with it that I let people change me and not for the better. After being made to fell "silly" for my belief in God and Christ, I lost my way. Had someone prosecuted me for my beliefs then, I would have been portrayed as innocent. There was not enough evidence to prove me guilty. Honestly, I was lost. Lost in what I believed, lost about who I was. Because I felt lost, my relationships suffered. Tensions strained between my fam...