Back to School!

     It's Tuesday afternoon and I am back to school after a great 4 days at home. Besides getting to see my wife, Darla, and family, we had a great Church service at FBC and my small group that meets at the Fischer's home is awesome! I am so grateful to be involved in two great small groups, my Sunday School class and the small group at the Fischer's. Both are so encouraging to me! If you read this and are not in a small group at FBC, I encourage you to find one and get involved!
     Tuesday's is a long day for me. I get up at 4:30 am, having done most of my packing the night before. I get ready and left by about 5:10 am. One thing I have to be really careful about is not leaving books behind that I might need in Louisville, so I end up having a bag for my clothes, a book bag, and a backpack with notebooks, ipod stuff, etc.
     The trip is about 2.5 hours from Allendale and is exactly 143 miles. Today I redeemed the time by listening to an excellent teaching by Dr. Joel Beeke on "The Puritan Reformation Family" recommended to me by Casey G. (thanks Casey!) Sermon Link and then I listened to John MacArthur. Before I knew it, I was at the Seminary. I got here a little early so I could put my stuff in the room and get the laptop and everything set off. Then it's off to Chapel.
   Chapel meets every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 am. I get credit for attending this for one of my classes, but I would attend anyway as this one of the aspects of Southern that drew me to this place. It's hard to describe the feeling of being here (in Chapel), but it is both casual and respectful, friendly, but worshipful, calming, but intense, comforting, but very challenging. I have been here 4 times now and I can honestly say, they of them are some of the top messages I have ever heard. You should make the trip over sometime, just to attend Chapel.
     After Chapel, I have Personal Spiritual Disciplines and then Systematic Theology. That takes me to about 2:30 pm. Lunch? Usually an apple in between classes. Today after Systematic Theology, I met for the first time with my Accountability Partner. This is a requirement for the Personal Spiritual Disciplines Class and we met for about an hour.
    For the rest of the day, I will write this post, read and study for Church History quiz tomorrow, do some grocery shopping, study, visit the Health and Recreations Center for exercise for an hour or so and then back to study before bed.
That's my Tuesday at Seminary! That's it for now. Love you all.