What Am I Doing
To save time I will answer the “so what do you do question” and “what are you up to lately” right here and update it as needed.
Christian
Constantly striving (well sometimes I fall off the wagon) to become more Christ like, grow and use my gifts to edify the body of Christ.
Husband
I’ve been married to my wife, Joy, for 8 years. If I stop and think about what kind of “helper” she is to me it just makes me shake my head in disbelief of all that she does. Our marriage has changed a lot. We both want more from our marriage, but we can look back and see that God has grown us already so much.
Father
Joy and I have 4 children. Right now they make up all the odd numbers between 0 and 8. 7 and 5 year old girls, 3 year old boy and 1 year old baby girl. Like my marriage, there are a lot of areas for me to grow in with regards to being a father, but I am progressing in Him. My children are precious and delicate; The weight of Gods call for me to be a father to them as He is to me is awesome.
Software Developer
I work for the Port of Seattle doing software development. I didn’t go to college – just God’s grace on my family. We used to mainly do Java, but now it’s mainly .NET C#. Web development, web services, mobile development, desktop and on it goes!
Student
I’m currently learning Greek. Slowwwwwwllllyyy learning Greek. I’m also going through a read the bible in a year plan and every day I try to read a sermon or two, a theology article and some good blog posts.
Small Groups
Our family participates in 2 small groups through our local church right now. One of them is going through some discipleship material and the other is a straight bible study. The first one has more older folks in it which my wife and I really need and appreciate. The second one is mainly folks our age and has been good for fellowship.
Blogging
I made a concerted effort recently to start getting my thoughts down on paper, er, blog. It’s been good. I haven’t posted as much as I’d like, but it still has caused me to wrestle more with my thoughts when I do post. I am not under the delusion that I have anything new to offer – there are so many men who are exponentially more qualified and gifted to teach then myself – but I think a good test for whether or not I am “getting it” is if I can re-explain it in my own words.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Hey man, we’re following each other on Twitter. Anyhow, I just started with Greek as well. Are you doing it on your own or through a seminary?
February 20th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I am doing it mainly on my own, but in the context of some folks who meet together every other week with an Elder who knows Greek well. I asked the Elder a few months ago if he’d do this in a few months if I found the people. He said yes and a few months later I found the folks. What about you?
February 21st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I am doing it on my own, mostly using Mounce’s “Basics of Biblical Greek” & the corresponding grammar cards. My main purpose has been to prepare myself for starting at Covenant Seminary this summer and not get totally thrashed by Greek. I just started a few weeks back.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:02 pm
That’s awesome man and what a great school! Basics of Biblical Greek will be the next step for me. The book probably came with this, but you can find Mounce’s Greek lectures on his site here: http://www.teknia.com/classes/
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
what about being my best friend on the list?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Sorry James. Priorities man. :)
March 20th, 2009 at 4:57 am
I noticed that you didn’t attend college. I am graduating high school and seriously considering going into a computer related field as my career. Would you be able to tell me how you accomplished this? What advice would you give someone considering this industry?
March 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Ryan I have absolutely *NO* advice on how to do what I did. It was totally God’s business. Now, any questions about the Bible? :)
March 21st, 2009 at 9:50 am
Thanks! :)
March 25th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I will be praying for you and your family. I love to pray and God is always listening. Thats the wonderful thing about being a believer. The power of prayes is amazing
March 31st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Hey mate
Thanks for the follow on Twitter. I knew some of the Aussie guys at the boot camp. Hope you got lots out of it.
As a fellow learner of Greek this year, I feel your pain!!
Peace