Army Chaplain

I Tim Ice, am excited to announce that I have been accepted by the U.S. Army to be a Chaplain candidate in the United States Army. What that means is I am going to be a Lieutenant, and when I finish school be a Chaplain. Until I finish school I am considered a Chaplain Candidate, which means I am basically waiting, not able to be used yet because I do not have a masters. So needless to say I am excited and just wanted to let people know about the future ministry that God has opened up for me.

Tim Ice

Books I read reasontly

I have as most students been assigned some mandatory books to read this semester. I have read three books on preaching. Two book I read for another class taught that Christians can be demon possesed, and another with some weird views on what prayer is. Overall the preaching books were the best books I have read resontly. MacArthur's "Preaching" book is a book I would recomend. Secondly, I would recomend Calvin Miller's book on "Preaching" for a look at how to preach from narative passages. He is not concerned in that book with the Pauline epistles or other New Testament epistles that lend them selves to propositional preaching but with the parts of the Bible that are narative. If you are wanting to preach these two books would be a good combination for starting to understand homiletics.

Tim Ice

Ministry focus

Young adults,

This is Tim Ice. I have been thinking about a outreach for the young adults group. I think it would be a neat idea to focus the young adults ministry towards Lynchburg College. I think it would be good to focus our efforts of evangelism upon the students of Lynchburg College. I choose Lynchburg College since most in our group are college students so we would relate well. Secondly, I think it would be good to focus our efforts upon a specific group. Any thoughts?

Tim Ice

VBS Follow Up

I think that the gospel resinated with several of the children. While no one came forward to talk to me. It was evident on two girls faces that they understood and were disturbed by the fact that they needed to have their sins forgiven. Hopefully this seed will mature into salvation. VBS has been a fun and crazy time.

Tim

Salvation vbs

Tonight is the last VBS night and we should all be in prayer for the salvation of those in attendance. Tonight Andrew and I will be doing a message focused on the Gospel. THe gospel has been going out all week and I am sure of 4 children that need to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Tim

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Instability can often come upon us. One thing that I prided my self in was the ability to just work through hard situations in life. When a moment of adversity came upon me my attitude was to lower my sholder and run through it even if it took a lot of work. However sometimes I feel like even I get beat down too much. That even though I tell my self I can get through whatever it is because its life. The reality is that I fail a lot. I fall flat on my face so many times. Its not the falling that is so bad. Its always been my fear of not being able to get back up. Is this perhaps what God wishes to teach me. Is a great fall that disables my ability to get back up what God wishes to give me, in order that I might learn with my heart that it is God who enables me to make my way through these hard times and even the easy times? I have been told that I see black and white more than grey. I find that this is true most of the time. Most of the time the black and white is good. However some grey is some areas of our lives may be what causes us to depend on God more. The inability to truely know may push us to admit we are nothing compared to our God.

Daniel chapter 4 and my life is what has inspired this posting.

Tim

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