More Like Month By Month

When I started this, I really did mean for it to be a daily thing, and I am going to honestly try harder to make it a daily thing even though I think the people that read it could probably be counted on a single hand.

A lot has changed in the past month, for the good and bad. You can try and figure out which is which.

1. Relationships have changed. The summer is always rough whether it is going back home where I don't have a good group of Christian friends, or in San Marcos when people do their things at camps. There is still a good group here in San Marcos, and I am growing with them. The crazy thing is that they are moving on with their lives soon and I am not. It's a scary thought.
2. I have spent a lot of time in some excellent Podcasts. Podcasts really are excellent because you can "almost" attend church around the world. Over the years, and especially this past year I have listened to the Austin Stone podcast weekly. There are other ones that I listen to including Mosaic in LA, The Village in Dallas, John Bevere's church, Joshua Harris's church, and other various podcasts like "The Boundless" show which is amazing.
3. GRADUATION. Wow it is a scary thought. I graduated, and a few days later attended my mom's graduation. It was a whole gamut full of emotions. It was bitter-sweet.
4. I still have no direction regarding a job or school. Right now my life is up in the air. It's pretty crazy.
5. I couldn't go without saying that American Idol is over for now. Another bitter-sweet moment. At least this one will come again next year.

You might have noticed that I really enjoy podcasting, and The Boundless Show has become without a doubt one of my favorite ones to listen to. It is basically people sitting around talking about relationships for the most part, but there are other things thrown in there. They talk about singles groups in the church, and Christian online dating and everything that goes along with that. They also talk about movies like "Juno" and video game addiction. Overall this is just a really great podcast that I suggest checking out.

The Boundless Show got me thinking about podcasting and college. I have had so many interesting conversations with so many different people over the past few years that it may be easy to me to recall them right now, or even in the near future, but man it would be nice to have some of that on audio that I can save forever. I am thinking of hosting, or maybe just participating in a podcast with my Christian friends. I really don't know how to do any of this, or even what kind of equipment would be needed but I really think this is something that I want to do. 

My friend Javier Garcia really had been on me lately about how my day by day wasn't really living up to it's name. I am glad that I have a friend like him that cares enough about me to want to read this and really push me to post more.

Podcasts and Scripture

I enjoy reading. I have a huge collection of books in my room. Most of them pertain to sports, christianity, and politics, plus the random ones like the biography of Selena. Theres no denying that I enjoy going to half price books, and could probably max out a credit card there if given the chance. There is so much knowledge to be gained from books. Think about it. Think about how many books there are in the entire world, and how their pages are filled with the exact things you are reading now, words.

I even read my textbooks for school. Hard to believe, but it's true.

Why though is it so hard to read scripture sometimes? I fall into pits where I simply just don't read. I would rather listen to a podcast of a sermon, or watch a sermon on tv, talk scripture with someone, hear others opinions on scripture, etc, but when it comes to actually sitting down with a bible and reading the Word of God, I often find it to be a challenge.

So, when people ask or allude to the fact of "being in the word" I often find myself in an awkward position. I am in the word because of the things that I do like listen to podcasts and even CRU meetings from over schools, but is that actually being in the word?

I guess that its good to do those things like podcats, but that shouldn't be your only source of scripture. Podcasts are great, and I have grown a great deal just listening to them on a daily basis walking to class instead of listening to music.

The true way to grow though is to actually read,memorize,and teach scripture and the best way to do that is to literally sit down and read it from an actual bible.

Why is it so hard to do!?