The Adventure Begins

Well, the seminary adventure has begun…sort of. I arrived in California three days ago after almost a week on the road. As it turns out, just getting here was an adventure in itself.

Less than twenty-four hours before I was planning on leaving, my car (the one I was planning to drive across the country) was sovereignly struck dead by our good God. That led to a quick series of decisions and some research which, twelve hours later, resulted in my driving home in a new car. The Lord provided a brand new Hyundai Accent for a great price, and He did it in the space of twelve hours. That car, named “Eliot” after the great Mr. T.S., has since brought me nearly three thousand miles, literally over mountains and through deserts. After coming through those mountains and those deserts, I realized that my previous car probably would not have made it. Though I didn’t originally desire to have a car payment, the Lord was very gracious to let my car die at home and not in the middle of the Rockies or the Mojave, and He was very gracious to provide a very reliable, economical, “long-warrantied,” mode of transportation. I am grateful.

My journey, which began a week ago this past Wednesday, took me first to Mississippi to spend a couple days with some wonderful friends there. I left Mississippi and arrived a day and a half later in Colorado Springs to spend two nights with some dear friends there as well, and then I finished out the trip by traveling Monday and Tuesday through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and finally, into California. In total, Eliot and I traversed ten states and almost three thousand miles. Much of the drive was jaw-droppingly beautiful, and I often felt like I was driving through a post card. Two thoughts occurred to me several times: 1) this is a really big country, and 2) our God’s handiwork is literally stunning in it’s grandeur and beauty. If the creation is so grand, what does that say about the Creator?…

So, I am in Escondido now, getting ready to start “Boot Camp Greek” on Tuesday. I’m living about ten minutes from the seminary in a five-bedroom house with five other guys, three of whom are also incoming seminary students. It’s a great setup, and the Lord has been very, very gracious to provide all this.

To all of you who have prayed and who have given financially to help make this possible, thank you, thank you, thank you! I appreciate all of it, and I dearly covet your prayers. Please pray that I, and the other men here, would be faithful soldiers of our King, learning what He would have us learn so that we might more effectively give our lives in service to His Kingdom and His people through the teaching and preaching of the Word.

Again, thank you all for your love and generosity to support the work of the Gospel, the truly Good News, of Christ Jesus.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. They certainly don’t take the place of seeing God’s creation with your own two eyes, but I hope they will be enjoyable anyway. You should be able to click on any picture to see an enlarged version.

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