Live What I Believe! (Wait, What's That?!)

Until I came to SWU I had always just gone along with what my family or my church believed, and I just assumed that I believed the same thing. In Freshman Seminar last semester, we were told to question what we believe and to not go off of what those around us believed. That has bothered me to this day and will probably continue to bother me until I finally figure out what it is that I believe. It has been really hard recently to figure out this one question, one question that could make or break me. The class that has pulled my brain in so many different ways is Intro to Christian Education with Doc. That class has made me think harder about how I feel on different issues than any other class that I have ever taken. Being here at SWU has also pulled my brain in so many different directions. I feel that I go home, everyone thinks one way, I come back and everyone looks at the same issues differently. The song by Casting Crowns "Somewhere in the Middle" kind of defines how I feel on several different topics that tend to rise up all over the place.

Give Me Your Eyes

Today in chapel we were shown a video of the horror that is happening in Darfur, Sudan. That video broke my heart into pieces. It's hard now to think that in just a few days or weeks many people who saw that today will forget that it ever happened. I refuse to let that happen in my life, I refuse to become apathetic toward all the junk going on in the world. I pray that God will continue to break my heart for what breaks His. We as Christians should not turn our back on everything happening over there in Sudan.

Prayer for the Lost

Many times over the past month this song has come to my head whenever someone talks about how they can't do anything else to help a loved one come to Christ. This song by Stellar Kart really says the prayer that many people have on their hearts.

"Jesus Loves You

"Tell me what do you believe in

Does your life have rhyme or reason

Something in your heart that makes you care

I hope that you don't mind me asking

But I have got a burning passion

I need to know forever you'll be there

I can't make it clearer

Put it any other way

If you can't see the simple truth I do

Then there's nothing in this world that's left to say

But Jesus loves you

I know I don't have all the answers

And I have wasted many chances

To prove to you a faith that lives inside

I'm praying there will be a breakthrough

Cause I can't be the one to save you

God knows how many times I've tried

I can't explain

But I can't deny

So many times for you

I've cried

And to see you on your knees tonight

I cant make it clearer

Put it any other way

To know you know simple truth I do

And to know that your forever has been changed

Cause Jesus loves you