Boston Marathon – April 15, 2:49pm
On April 15, 2013 at 2:49pm EDT two bombs exploded within 13 seconds and 210 yards of each other near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs killed 3 people and injured another 264. Within seconds, Twitter was lighting up people’s cell phones and computer screens with first hand accounts of the event including images and videos of the scene. zakłady bukmacherskie sts It was a full 10 minutes before any other news source was able to report anything. Read more
Recently while staying at a friends house, I was playing with my daughter and their two daughters and I witnessed an interesting dichotomy. As I lay on the floor, tired from moving out of our house, the girls started running around me. I reached out, pretending to grab one of them which began an hour long game. As you might imagine, the game was simple, try to run past Brian without getting caught. Every time they would run past, they would scream with delight. 
A lot is made about Christians managing to survive college and for good reason, depending on which statistics you read, 60%-80% of Christian students in High School leave their faith in college. 
I recently thanked a donor for his increasing financial support. His response told me he counted it a privilege to support us. He went on to say that as long as he and his wife had a job that they would support us. By they way he responded, I asked if he was expecting that to happen soon. He told me about three scenarios for how the company may decide to make cuts if the current economic trend continues. In two of the scenarios he would likely keep his job but in the third he could potentially lose his job. Then he said, “It’s the Lord that provides the ability for me to work, and the Lord who provides what we need.”
I am not a real big fan of coffee. In fact I don’t drink it and neither does my wife. Coffee has a smell that is unmistakable. It fills a room. When you leave a coffee shop everyone you meet for the rest of the day will know where you have been. Different coffee shops have different smells. My wife can even tell me which coffee shop I have been working at depending on the smell on my cloths. Folders had a whole series of commercials that finished with a little jingle. Why do I go to coffee shops? Primarily the wifi. Secondarily the tea. I love tea, but tea doesn’t have the same smell. It doesn’t stick with you the rest of the day. 
God is at work drawing people to himself. I am excited! Students are leaving their lives of sin and choosing to follow Jesus. Over the past two and a half years at Bemidji State we have seen 57 students make decisions to follow Jesus and I expect that we will see more. Nationally, InterVarsity is seeing one of the largest harvests in history. We are living in exciting times. What’s happening? I believe God is using a generational issue to raise up followers to fulfill his mission. The mission is to care about the world. Students care about injustice. The good news is that God does too! What’s going on?
When I was 5 years old, I was legally blind in my left eye. I remember one time when I walked up to side of our kitchen table. The table stretched out to my right. My mom was sitting at the head of the table eating breakfast.
What should I major in? Who should I marry? What job should I take? Where should I live? What should I do? The list of questions we ask God are endless. Inquiring minds want to know. At every stage in life we ask a new set of questions. I am asking, should I go to seminary? Where should I go to seminary?
