Latvia Base Chapel 4 (3)

 Writing down my thoughts is a good option.

I should make kore of an effort to do that in my everyday.

Chapel with Padre Josh

Ephesians 6:10-24

The whole Armour of God

Context for Pauls letter, when he was in it jail.

"You won't hear  Padre chaplain talk for long without hearing them say resilience"

Names of the devil: schemes and a long time to project those schemes. Roaming the earth.

Modern cultures depiction of the devil, just a shoulder little devil. Trivializing him,

The spiritual battles are fighting against POWs, fighting against those who are caught and trapped by the lies of Satan. We are fighting against the one behind our fellow human beings.

The armour:

The belt of truth

The breastplate of righteousness, not our righteousness but God's

The Readiness given by the gospel of peace. Fitted to your feet

        The great comission Matthew 28

          Originally, not said as Go make deciples. But "As you go...." it's not just for missionaries, but for all of us.

The shield of faith, extinguishing the flaming darts of the evil one.

        When you are actively pursuing faith and are actively living for the kingdom of God, up uwlll receive troubles

The helmet of salvation

Story about Josh, his cancer at 49. It wasn't the going, it was who he would be leaving behind. Grandchildren in the future.

Take up the sword and spirit of the word of God 

Spiritually, we are waging a war, we need the sword (word?).

Playing the Bible while lifting weights? 

Pray for me so I will have the words to boldly proclaim the gospel. We are not at the point to preach, we won't be tbrkw into jail like Paul was. 

God has given us opportunities to give that blessing to others.

Grace be with all whi lo e our lord Jesus Christ, love incorruptible.

Praying for Josh as he returns home this week.

Communion.

Good music.

Planning for this week, Thursday 8pm Bible study, early with event after.

Bye for now.

Latvia base chapel 2

 

Pastor Jackson ______

Sunday services at 9 am

Thursday bible study at 8pm 2nd floor at the gym.

Reading from ephesians

We are equipped with the fruit of the spirit

Shorter notes because I forgot what time church started, and I had to stop by work this morning.

Thinking more about what to give to Brittney, push present, Christmas, new years, Thanksgiving, Halloween.

I'm not there for a long time, and we already have so little time on the phone together. I need to male sure I'm focused when we have that time together, it isn't fair to not be present when we have together time.

I've been thinking about names. But I don't have any good ones

Lawrence and Vivian are family relevant, for example.

Looking forward to next time.

Latvia chapel

 Long time no post

God turns danger Into a testimony

Pastor _____ Jackson?

Reading from Roman's

Reading acts 28

1  Trials do not mean God gS abandoned us

2. Human judgement is often wrong

My thoughts immediately wen to my own lateness and time planning.

Story about the pastors attempts to conceive

12years ago received the call, are you ready to receive a girl? 

3. Gods protection is greater

Story about snakes, 

Paul did not panic or complain.

God gave us our lives for his glory 

Testimony of hlta, prosthetizing in Switzerland nd spoke to 3 people who accepted Jesus A their lord ajs aax7our.

The new testament is a lot of what Paul did in diffefent places and with different churches.

Conclusion

No storm, shipwreck or viper can stop gods purpose in your life.

Two month break!

Wow, I can’t believe it’s actually been two months since I’ve made an update.

Well Christmas was great, pre-Christmas was great, the new year was also great.

Lots of games, finished some television shows, started others, spent a lot of time in Kingston, and also out of Kingston but within Ontario

Lots of discussions about growth.

I think a lot of my relationships are improving, but sometimes it seems like I’m not actually improving at all.

Financially, 2020 isn’t shaping up too great.

For physical fitness, 2020 is okay, but might turn out better if I do things differently. I might need to go to pjysio

I’m looking forward to what 2020 has in store for me, 

Church @ The Gathering 

Doug Caldwell speaking on Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes

We heard the song from The Byrds, based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-14.

Discussion about a time when we spoke when we thought we should keep silent or a time when we kept silent when we should have spoke.

Why do we feel this way? What told us we should or shouldn’t have spoken?

A gut feeling?

Experience?

Conviction?

A nudge?

The value in the altercation?

With a nudge, do you get judged once? More than once?

What if you don’t respond right away?

“Why are you bringing this up now?”

The moment is fleeting

Is there a touch of fatalism?

Another reason why I find it helpful, Jesus said “my hour has not yet come “ (in John particularly) 

Where does Jesus get this feeling? Where is he looking? Where is he not looking?

He’s not looking at his watch, he’s not looking at a calendar, he’s not looking at Chronos time

The Greek meaning of chailos 

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Being aware of this time develops over a nighttime

Give it more credit, it’s more than you’re feeling.

Story about Law Students struggles.

Second year applying for a thing. An article publishing.

But God said to Doug, don’t apply. This is t the right time.

Third year came around and God still said No.

Then he applied in January, and he got in this amazing firm full of people who were the right people to know.

It was a change, but Doug listened to Gods timing.

How do you know that the people who are saying that you’re wrong, and you are right?

A gut feeling.

God is a god of new beginnings. He will create something different if you miss the first one.

He is with us and is for us.

The difference between discernment and decision making?

Announcements

Queens clubs

And

Young Adult Bible Study.

(Backup) Week 4/5 of November I suppose

November, uhh

Last weekend I went to New York City for Anime NYC, awesome experience but short lived because I basically went right back to work.

Church @ The Gathering

Week 5/6 with Bill Morrow

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The Gathering's six-part Book of Job series led by the Rev. Dr. Bill Morrow (Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Queen's School of Religion) continues this Sunday, Nov. 24.  

Part 5 in the series focuses on the question: "What is Yahweh's Perspective?" (Job 38:1-15). 

If you wish you can read Job 38–39; 40:6–41:34 ahead of time.  All are welcome.

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Yahweh is

What is the point of job 38-41

How would a suffering person benefit from the Yahweh speeches?

1. Is the world truly anthropometric?

Are chaos and order irreconcilable opposites?

Does the crested order perfectly reflect the character of god?

Spot the differences

Is the same dirty is job chapter 2 and in job 38-41?

No Satan, jo return to discussion in heavenly court.

The 38-41 deconstruction does not help the overarching persona of the book as a whole.

This particular god in 1-2 is a god who cannot he trusted, even by the wholly righteous to not behave cruelly and arbitrarily.

Destroying his servants welfare to serve his own narcissistic interests.

We lose something through the divine presentation of Yahweh’s speeches

According to Yahweh:

Two perspectives

Job 1-2 consults wi tu members of his heavenly council

Has absolute power

Job 38-42

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Suffering and the exodus

“After a long time the king of Egypt died, the Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to god. God heard their groaning and god remembered his covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob. God looked upon the Israelites and god took notice of them.”

Exidus 2:23-25

God is known as shadday, and reveals himself to Moses as Yahweh

The behemoth and leviathan.

Bill thinks that the mythical monsters that the people of the time believed existed in the world.

The creatures symbolize a certain degree of chaos in the natural world. Whether or not they exist the idea is important. These are the zenith of the argument that is in ch 38, Yahweh is taking responsibility that there is random and chaos in the world.

The differences of the ch 1-2 job god and the 38-42 job god.

These writers are trying to find an idealistic and aspect of gods. What is god and what is his repationsuop to suffering. What is his relationship in this world.

Sugfrstinf that job discovers new aspects of god.

Gods omnipotence is potential, it is not always realized.

In the psalms it is understood that god is always able to interfere with the world. These psalms would not make any sense if the assertion of divine creative power was not realized. Thus gods omnipotence is potential, it is not always realized.

God is clearly indicated that he limited him self in 38-41.

This doesn’t mean god is unable to override them, thus exodus reference.

Corporation universe works out how it works out

Questions:

Cinderella Question:

The concept of jobs god changes

To what extent is what happens to us in life the will of God?

That’s all for now!

(Backup) First Gathering in November

A solid month since I’ve been to the Gathering?

Lots of Sunday events, crazy.

Picked up Maria from Toronto two weeks ago, went to the Murder mystery with QBGC last week on Sunday, and before that I think I was spending a lot of time with Brittney, so that’s been my Sunday’s for October.

Now I’m focusing on fixing my car (ha ha), cleaning my future living space downstairs, and ... whatever else I’m doing.

Church @ The Gathering

Bill Morrow speaking

Part two in a six part series on Job

“Did the devil make him do it?” Job 2:1-10

Agenda

Plot and characters

Testing motif

Utility of faith

Question

Outline of job 1-2

Who is job?  Who is Satan?

’Job is blameless and upright one who fears god and turned away from evil’

Job is the only one who gets this good of a review. 

He’s basically an all star, religious icon

Then he loses everything, and he is currently losing his health

Who is the Satan?

Hebrew root word ‘to be an adversary’

The gospels are especially prominent in mentioning Satan.

John 17:14-15

Satan was coming in from the field for a board meeting with ceo  universe.

He is Yahweh’s chief spy. Head of the security and intelligence.

The following chapters contain the war of words

It is an imaginative way to show Gods thought process,

The nature of the test. The benefit of not just, mwhy do bad things happen to good peoples

What ya Job about

The nature of faith:

Game theory and the Bible

Do we believe in God because God is useful?

Does everything that exists have to have a utilitarian value?

Questions:

Satan definition?

Not gods adversary, but he has an adversarial role.

Sometimes is called diabolus, the attorney general (prosecutor)

There to prosecute, not to persecute.

There is no obvious benefit to this test, but what about the act of refining.

What about the testing of Jesus?

Different from the testing of job. A different job world, Satan Is gods enemy in the testing of Jesus, not so in Job.

The blamelessness of Jesus and the blamelessness of job are not to be equated.

Job was the foremost of the people of the east.

Moving job away from god through circumstantial change.

How much was the book of job made with circumstantial irony?

Jobs family getting removed early on. Replaced with ‘new’ ones later on. They are a background to the story.

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Timeline for Satan’s transition between job and Jesus.

Next week:

Traditions answers to why suffering comes on to people.

questions:

If “Jesus is the answer,” what is the question?

That’s all for now!

First Gathering in October

Sooooo,

Another break in between different posts.

Umm, last week was Tanendenega reserve. That was an excellent opportunity and I learned a lot. I didn’t really write it down, also I need to copy the pictures from Lisa...

Other topical things, QAC Queens Anime Club is going well, my car is still broken, my bike is also still broken, I’m going to Brittney’s grandpas 80th birthday next week (😬😬), 

I had a busy week last week, lots of running to work, walking to work, etc.

Still haven’t fixed the car, I don’t know if I’ll be able to fix that in a reasonable amount of time. I might have to not have a vehicle for a little bit. Fixing the bike will solve these problems 

Watched some TV with the couple I hosted, That 79’s Show in Netflix.

Church @ The Gathering

Speaker: Meghan Louprecht

Personal Counselor & Social worker.

Reading from John

Shining light into darkness

Mental health and well-being resources at queens and beyond.

Continuum model of mental health.

The distinction between being mentally unwell, and having good mental health. And between hCinf no symptoms of mental illness vs a serious mental illness.

Statistics mental health in Canada

Fast facts from the 2019 Canadian national college health assesssment:

What is, and isn’t, helpful.

Not recognizing the seriousness, or letting people feel shut down when they come forward.

“How can I _____ when I feel this way?”

Coming from a place of fear

“In the beginning was the word...”

We, as Christians, need to step toward acknowledging people and their struggles.

Your mistakes do not define uou

You are not alone

It’s ok to not be ok

You matter

What’s going on?

What do you need?

Resources at Queens:

Online: SWS Site

“People are the experts of their own experience.”

Give them space and let them articulate themselves.

Giving them an audience for someone to listen.

Citing the Christian community as a place that connects you and gives you an additional protective factor.

Questions:

When have you felt or noticed “there’s a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in?”

When have you felt part of a community - what made that happen for you?

That’s all for now!