Hi everybody,
Kassie and I are now in Kingston! It's a small town in the thumb about 45 min-1 hr East of Saginaw.
I got an interesting job. it is a double job, kind of. A partnership. I am working "part time" for Youth For Christ and "part time" as a youth pastor at Kingston Wesleyan Church.
We are both really excited about it.
The church seems great and so does YFC. Actually, I am working with Jason Gaffke who is like an older brother to me.
The church provided a house for us. It is their Youth Pastor Parsonage. It is a nice little three bedroom house. Especially nice coming from apartments. You should come visit us soon.
We just moved in today. Well, we brought most of our stuff over yesterday with the help of my mother and Jeff Kettle and with the use of Bickle's trailer. We brought more stuff today, and this will be our first night here.
I found internet in one little spot in the house. It is not a great connection but at least it's something. It's right in the doorway to our spare room. I looked for it in most of the house and only found it here.
Well, if you want more details or anything, just ask.
God is good. Praise God!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Vanishing Act Review
An author I know once wrote a book called Vanishing Act; I once read it and now will review it.
Nora James is separated from her father and her true identity due to one horrible night. Now she must face the same bad guys again.
This time, though, she has help, and not just any help. Investigating the case is the handsome and capable FBI agent Nate Andersen. Can Nate figure out who he is trying to help before the enemy gets to her? Can they keep their emotions from putting them both in danger? You'll have to buy it for yourself to find out. You will also have to read it once you buy it. But first you might wonder, "What did Josh Hill think about this book?" How convenient that you can find out right here and now.
This book is great for those who enjoy this suspenseful romance. I tend to prefer more suspense with less romance, but for those who enjoy the romance more than the mystery this is the book for you. I like the books that are suspenseful because you don't know what's going on until it all comes together. This one is more suspenseful because you are wondering when the people will finally wise up to what's going on around them.
Like I said, though, for those of you who are reading for the romance, this will probably give you what you're looking for with a good story to go along with it.
By the way, the author's name is Liz Johnson, and she's a great person.
Nora James is separated from her father and her true identity due to one horrible night. Now she must face the same bad guys again.
This time, though, she has help, and not just any help. Investigating the case is the handsome and capable FBI agent Nate Andersen. Can Nate figure out who he is trying to help before the enemy gets to her? Can they keep their emotions from putting them both in danger? You'll have to buy it for yourself to find out. You will also have to read it once you buy it. But first you might wonder, "What did Josh Hill think about this book?" How convenient that you can find out right here and now.
This book is great for those who enjoy this suspenseful romance. I tend to prefer more suspense with less romance, but for those who enjoy the romance more than the mystery this is the book for you. I like the books that are suspenseful because you don't know what's going on until it all comes together. This one is more suspenseful because you are wondering when the people will finally wise up to what's going on around them.
Like I said, though, for those of you who are reading for the romance, this will probably give you what you're looking for with a good story to go along with it.
By the way, the author's name is Liz Johnson, and she's a great person.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
It's Good to Be Selfish
I was in a melancholy mood today after getting in an argument with Kassie and started thinking about God and selfishness and life and stuff.
I will not even pretend to begin to understand my thought processes or expect you to understand them, but I will try to explain what I can.
I was thinking about how the humans and everything else that God created was made to worship him, to give God glory. That's selfish, but I'm sure God has the right to be selfish since he is completely. I don't really understand all that stuff about God's glory and how it is a priviledge to give him glory and everything.
So, I was thinking I would rather not exist. I realized I am stuck. Either I follow God and have eternal happiness or don't follow God and have eternal bad. Since I didn't feel like following God and because I was thinking about what true free will means, I was thinking God should have given us an option just to stop existing. It would be like eternal suicide, not that we would be constantly dying but that we would be completely gone when we died.
I also thought about how Hinduism is kind of right about the cycle of rebirth (reincarnation). However, it isn't complete reincarnation, instead, I believe in physical reincarnation. Since matter can be neither created nor desroyed, the body breaks down into substances that fertilize the ground and maybe become part of a plant, and maybe that plant gets eaten and parts of it become part of the animal that eats it. So, maybe we are all kind of cannibals. I don't know the exact science of it, but it seems like humans must become something else or at least a bunch of little parts of other things.
As far as selfishness, going back to the idea that we either follow God and things end up good or we don't and things end up bad, I was thinking that we are supposed to be selfish. Except it is more of an ultimate selfishness rather than a temporal selfishness. A temporal selfishness says, "I want everything to myself," or "I want to do whatever feels good for me at the time." An ultimate selfishness, though, is more like, "I want to do whatever will make me the happiest in the end, which is to do whatever God wants me to do." Therefore, the discussion about whether one can do something completely altruistically maybe can take a different form. We may be serving somebody for the selfish reason that it makes us feel good, but it makes us feel good because it is what God wants us to do.
Like I said, I don't necessarily completely understand any of it, nor do I expect you to. I also realize these are probably thoughts that have been had by others. Let me know what you think.
I will not even pretend to begin to understand my thought processes or expect you to understand them, but I will try to explain what I can.
I was thinking about how the humans and everything else that God created was made to worship him, to give God glory. That's selfish, but I'm sure God has the right to be selfish since he is completely. I don't really understand all that stuff about God's glory and how it is a priviledge to give him glory and everything.
So, I was thinking I would rather not exist. I realized I am stuck. Either I follow God and have eternal happiness or don't follow God and have eternal bad. Since I didn't feel like following God and because I was thinking about what true free will means, I was thinking God should have given us an option just to stop existing. It would be like eternal suicide, not that we would be constantly dying but that we would be completely gone when we died.
I also thought about how Hinduism is kind of right about the cycle of rebirth (reincarnation). However, it isn't complete reincarnation, instead, I believe in physical reincarnation. Since matter can be neither created nor desroyed, the body breaks down into substances that fertilize the ground and maybe become part of a plant, and maybe that plant gets eaten and parts of it become part of the animal that eats it. So, maybe we are all kind of cannibals. I don't know the exact science of it, but it seems like humans must become something else or at least a bunch of little parts of other things.
As far as selfishness, going back to the idea that we either follow God and things end up good or we don't and things end up bad, I was thinking that we are supposed to be selfish. Except it is more of an ultimate selfishness rather than a temporal selfishness. A temporal selfishness says, "I want everything to myself," or "I want to do whatever feels good for me at the time." An ultimate selfishness, though, is more like, "I want to do whatever will make me the happiest in the end, which is to do whatever God wants me to do." Therefore, the discussion about whether one can do something completely altruistically maybe can take a different form. We may be serving somebody for the selfish reason that it makes us feel good, but it makes us feel good because it is what God wants us to do.
Like I said, I don't necessarily completely understand any of it, nor do I expect you to. I also realize these are probably thoughts that have been had by others. Let me know what you think.
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