God is able.: December 2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

Well it has been

way too long since i have written. We just finished up the third semester here and everyone is heading home for the holidays. We finally got some snow when december rolled around and it does not seem to be stopping anytime soon. The class that we just finished was a language techniques practicum where we learned many techniques for learning language and had a few weeks to practice those techniques.

My roommate and i did Spanish with a lady that is on staff here. It was challenging but also a lot of fun. We made a meal together and made Cafe con Leche (coffee with milk). Also, one day we went to toronto to a market with several different ethnic shops.

We have been studying the Bible chronological in our morning study and I am also teaching chronologically to the kids at kids' club. One thing that has really been impressing me lately is the fact that God always keeps His promises. He is faithful always. He has never failed to follow through on any of His promises throughout history and we can trust that He will continue to do as He says. It is such an awesome privilege to serve the Creator! Someone commented the other night about God and love. They said, 'who better to teach us about love than the Creator Himself?!' Wow. And He showed us that loving by dying for us and taking the punishment for our sins.

1 John 4

⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Ephesians 4.1-16

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.