The Journy of Paul

Greetings fellow travelers I am truly saddened. Many of the people I shepherded through six mission trips to China are no longer friends with me on Face Book, mainly because of differences in political or sociological beliefs. It appears those of us who call ourselves Christian have become like the Jews, we have Pharisee, Sadducee and Sanhedrin, in other words divisions in religious, political and social spheres. It is hard enough not to have divisions within the religious sphere, add the other two and we are in serious trouble. Paul speaks to the Church of Corinth about unity. He often speaks of unity in the body. One other point he makes is that we are not to be of the world; in the world we have no choice. When you couple this together you have water and oil. We interpret the bible differently. Most of us intertwine our personal political and social beliefs into how we view passages in the bible. This is the oil and water metaphor. If one is insensitive to an extreme regarding ...

Several years have passed since I last posted to this blog, mainly because I haven’t been on the mission field since 2008, at least not the foreign mission field. This year has been a journey for me, testing my faith. December of 2015, I was hired as a temporary full time instructor where I teach at. This was only a two term position, 6 months that is. I also applied for a tenured instructor’s position. During this time, I helped build three new math classes, and worked on a separate apprenticeship class. I was told if I did not get the tenure position, I’d be hired on full time temp for the foreseeable future teaching the new apprenticeship class. Other full time tenured instructors were coming up to me telling me I made it, I was in; then came the fall. First, I didn’t prove myself to the President and Vice President of the College, at least not enough to win the position. This was on me, got it. Then I was informed that I would not be given full time temp and would not be teachin...