Book #31 Deuteronomy
More stomach pains today between meals, what's going on! Hard to focus on lectures. Interesting laws though, once you know the reasons behind them! Phil's doing a great job...
Ahead with my work too which is always a good feeling. Need to introvert now after a very extrovert day!! x
Monday 31 March 2014
Day 132/252 - Monday 24th February
Hard to get back into base life again. But good to be around so many people that I love and love me!
Day 129/252 - Friday 21st February
Travelled home for long weekend, Dad's birthday :)
Good to be in home town again.
Quiet and feeling peaceful.
Good to be on my own...
Good to be in home town again.
Quiet and feeling peaceful.
Good to be on my own...
Day 128/252 - Thursday 20th February
Andy showed us a map of the journey the people of Israel took from Egypt to the Promised Land, he asked us to answer these questions and then stick the paper on the map... I stuck mine right on the edge of the Land.
Day 127/252 - Wednesday 19th February
So pleased with how many charts I got done tonight!!
Surprising been as I slept off a splitting headache for two hours this afternoon. Lectures this morning were great but intense... many themes coming through about God. The rebellion of the people is nuts, but when I look at my own life I can hardly talk, it's easily to judge the Israelites!
It's been a pretty sobering day. The consequences of the first generation in the wilderness, deep sadness,
But as Andy says: Tomorrow there is HOPE... the second generation rises up!
Surprising been as I slept off a splitting headache for two hours this afternoon. Lectures this morning were great but intense... many themes coming through about God. The rebellion of the people is nuts, but when I look at my own life I can hardly talk, it's easily to judge the Israelites!
It's been a pretty sobering day. The consequences of the first generation in the wilderness, deep sadness,
But as Andy says: Tomorrow there is HOPE... the second generation rises up!
Day 126/252 - Tuesday 18th February
Tiring day but good!
Surprise party for Rula and Said who get married this week.
Great lectures from Andy who manages to make Numbers interesting!
It's all about God's army with Him as General in the centre, gong out with them in their midst.
The first rebellious generation and the second obedient generation. Fascinating stuff!
Especially interesting that the forty years in the wilderness is not even mentioned!
Surprise party for Rula and Said who get married this week.
Great lectures from Andy who manages to make Numbers interesting!
It's all about God's army with Him as General in the centre, gong out with them in their midst.
The first rebellious generation and the second obedient generation. Fascinating stuff!
Especially interesting that the forty years in the wilderness is not even mentioned!
Day 125/252 - Monday 17th February
Finished Horizontal, had
good day with girlie chats even though mega tired. Some big questions came up
in class like… does God make people ill for punishment? Eek. I am shelving that
one for now!
Sunday 2 March 2014
Day 124/252 - Sunday 16th Feb
Started my PT's... hoping to get a head start...
All of this book is repetition don't know what they are going to teach us this week....
Balaam's donkey is a fun story :)
All of this book is repetition don't know what they are going to teach us this week....
Balaam's donkey is a fun story :)
Day 122/252 - Friday 14th Feb
Such a lovely girls night tonight at my old flat, with Sheila, we watched the Adjustment Bureau, ate icecream and it was gooooooooooooooooooooood! (Especially because I finished my assignment before woop!)
Day 120/252 - Wednesday 12th Feb
Chad is great, he's a super genius but with a friendly face which helps! Slightly overwhelmed with all the Laws but it is interesting.
More drama with the Unclean Application... Most of the girls are unhappy, but it's a good way to find out the stipulations of the Laws because you need to!
Had an evening question and answer session with Chad today, was really fascinating we could ask him anything we wanted... plus we had LOADS of snacks :)
More drama with the Unclean Application... Most of the girls are unhappy, but it's a good way to find out the stipulations of the Laws because you need to!
Had an evening question and answer session with Chad today, was really fascinating we could ask him anything we wanted... plus we had LOADS of snacks :)
Day 119/252 - Tuesday 11th Feb
Today I was told off for not making my Unclean badge - quite rightly so because I made two for the girls unclean by accident - they hugged me before realising I was 'one of those' and therefore I made them unholy until eve. So I figured if I have to made a badge I might as well make it cute, so I fashioned this on PS... :)
Also - the big decision on all of the SBS's lips was.... do I eat bangers and mash for tea? (Intentional sin of eating Pork, oh the drama)
Also - the big decision on all of the SBS's lips was.... do I eat bangers and mash for tea? (Intentional sin of eating Pork, oh the drama)
Day 118/252 - Monday 10th Feb
Book #29 Leviticus
Today we began Leviticus with Chad Lewis... extremely clever man... extremely fried my little brain.
This is our Assignment this week...
Yep, we are living out the Levitical Law this week..... and guess what? As Rachel would say "The way of women is upon me".... oh goody.
Today we began Leviticus with Chad Lewis... extremely clever man... extremely fried my little brain.
This is our Assignment this week...
Yep, we are living out the Levitical Law this week..... and guess what? As Rachel would say "The way of women is upon me".... oh goody.
Day 117/252 - Sunday 9th Feb
Skyped with family and friends today.... so nice!! :) Feeling more alive. Roll on Leviticus... (did I really just say that?!)
Day 116/252 - Saturday 8th Feb
Felt like a work machine
today, finished work early but cried over my Tabernacle-to-scale drawing!! (It's funny what so much charting does to you!) weep!
Pushed through, all good. Loved Exodus, why was I so scared to tackle the Torah!!
Read Leviticus too so I could
have a Sabbath, hope it works J
Day 115/252 - Friday 7th Feb
My conclusion this week is: Doing
SBS is the best decision I have ever made (I'm not even exaggerating).
From Exodus I've learnt this week
about Identity, how to be in the image of God and who he created you to be. And
purpose, how to go forward in what God has called you to do.
My favourite part was when Moses was
at the Red sea in 14:15 and he is asking God
what to do next. God basically says to him - why are you praying? You know what
I have called you to do now step out in faith and move forward.
I've realised that I put so much
emphasis on making sure everything I do is right by God when I just need to
chill out and just live life in the desires he put in me, move forward in them
in faith and trust that God will show me the next step when needed. He will
surely stop me if I am going in the wrong direction but the worst that can
happen is that it doesn't work out, then I can try something else.
The worst that can happen if I don't
step out is that I never step into what I'm called to be and stay in the safe
and comfortable where everything is manageable. I think more and more I am
called to impact through Media, mainly film. I get so passionate about the
influence of Media and how it portrays life/truth badly that I need to do something
about it. Just like how Moses had something in him that he hadn’t quite
understood yet.
Another aspect was progressive revelation,
this idea of God revealing to Moses step by step what he had called him to do,
he does this with Abraham in Genesis too. God is merciful and loving he doesn't
give us a bunch of details and facts for our lives right away because it would
be too much. He calls us step by step and we can follow/trust what he has
already deposited in us to go forward.
From the beginning of the book we can
see Moses had in him a call to be a deliverer, he stood up for the injustice
when he killed the Egyptian and he saved the Priest's daughters at the well, he
had in him this desire to save people but he was misguided until God directed
him. I like that thought that we have an inherent call in our lives, something
that gets us aggravated or passionate towards some injustice. That is God given
and reveals something he has put in us to use for people in this world.
I want to be brave and pursue God
with film in Media to make a change in the industry.... somehow.
Day 114/252 - Thursday 6th Feb
Exodus notes… charting charting
charting…
'At
this point Moses doesn't know what to do, they are facing the wilderness of the
Red Sea . He has no knowledge what God will do
but he knows that he is with him. He has just told his fearful people to fear
not but he is silent, possibly praying asking what he should do. The Lord
responds quickly and strongly, he asks Moses why he cries out to him, he says
he needs to tell the people to go forward. Then he proceeds to give him
instructions and the sea parts. What God was saying here was that Moses didn't need to ask what to do next he just needed to have faith and step forward. God asks the rhetorical question to make him
think. God was trusting Moses with the abilities he had put in him, he was
maturing in his faith and God could see that. Now what God needed was his
people to step forward even into the unknown and he would do the impossible by
parting a giant ocean. God’s faithfulness is revealed by the line that says his
people went through the sea on dry ground. He even gave them a dry ground to
walk on!'
Mini Application (Not so mini):
Sometimes we wait at our
own personal Red Sea and ask God what to do.
He has already led you there and yet you do not make the first step because you
do not know what will happen. What God says is that you can take that first step
and go forward knowing that he will provide for you dry ground to walk upon. He
will not leave you or let you drown he will not just carry you across he will
part the obstacles so you can safely cross. The other thing about crossing the
Sea means there is something on the other side, which brings hope and a
promise. They were not called to live in the middle of the sea but through to
the other side. We can have this faith too and confidently step out into our
calling.
Day 113/252 - Wednesday 5th Feb
We had so much fun today learning about all the different Pharaoh's and Egyptian gods - so many!!
It was interesting because the plagues were directly connected to the gods they were worshipping.
Even...
It was interesting because the plagues were directly connected to the gods they were worshipping.
Even...
- Plague two: Frogs.
- Sound of frogs was associated with the
blessings, because the flood of the
- Represented fruitfulness, assuredness of the
harvest, you could be killed for killing a frog
- Goddess Heqet – wife of Khnum
- Personified, darkness, water
- 'If you like frogs I am going to make more
frogs than you can handle.'
- Now everyone has to kill frogs, the irony of
God!
This is for real!
In the afternoon we had a question and answer time with Manny... It was more about Identity and Calling than anything else and it was inspiring. I've felt for the first time in ages like I'm heading towards more clarity in what my purpose is and it feels fantastic. It gave me a lot of confidence today to look ahead without fear of the future... Thanks Manny!
Day 112/252 - Tuesday 4th Feb
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Notes from Exodus:
'Moses kills a man for doing something
that was not right and later on we see him saving young women from shepherds.
It says that he stood up and saved them. There is something here that is
shown about his character. Moses had not yet been called by God and he did
not know what his purpose was but it is clear that in his identity he is a
deliverer. This is even more emphasised when we know that he was on the run,
Having fled from
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Man I love this book!!!
Day 111/252 - Monday 3rd Feb
Book #28 Exodus
Yep Manny is here! Teaching us this week...amazing
doesn't even cover it!
I wasn't excited for the Torah at all...but I am taken along with these people who are going through so much dramatic life changing , mind blowing journey to their Promised Land.
The Big Picture is about: Identity and Purpose of YHWH and Israel.
This is what awaited us today in class...
Day 110/252 - Sunday 2nd Feb
Tried to take a Sabbath
today but ended up doing a lot of stuff that didn’t really give me energy… I
rode my bike… so good but shattered now! Watched Frozen – SO good!
Have no idea what this week will bring with Exodus...
Day 109/252 - Saturday 1st Feb
Genesis is by far my favourite
book so far.... It's completely stacked with epic historical stories, love
stories, war stories, family stories..... As I'm doing my work I just see it
all play out in front of me. Loving it!
I wish I could make movies like these stories because God's truth is so deeply into the messages of each stories, I want everyone to know about them!
Day 108/252 - Friday 31st Jan
Been sick all week and got Antibiotics today…
finally I can get better from this sinus infection!
Keep going Grace...
Responsibility
is the biggest theme that God has spoken to me about throughout this week. I’ve
seen in everywhere from Adam and Eve in the garden and their blame they put on
God and the enemy, to Noah’s son Ham not being respectful and his sons having
to cover him up, to Tamar taking responsibility for her line and getting
pregnant by Judah. Then finally Judah
Day 107/252 - Thursday 30th Jan
Notes from Genesis - Judah steps up:
Through
doing this Judah Judah
'To have a character worthy of greatness you need to be willing to sacrifice yourself. You may not have to put your life on the line, asJudah
'The family is in a terrible
position they need food desperately and instead of a trip to
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'To have a character worthy of greatness you need to be willing to sacrifice yourself. You may not have to put your life on the line, as
LOVE this book!!
Day 106/252 - Wednesday 29th Jan
Notes on Genesis - The Fall :
'Here we see two different responses to the
questions God asks Adam and Eve when he finds out they have disobeyed him and
eaten of the tree he had told them not to. God asks them “Have you eaten of the
tree I told you not to?”, God already knows but he wants to know what they will
say. This shows his relationship in communication. He is giving them the
opportunity to respond. Firstly Adam responds by saying he has taken the fruit
only because the woman that God gave to him gave him the fruit. The women says
she was deceived by the serpent. Both of these responses put blame and
accusation onto someone other than themselves. They do not only blame others
for their own actions but they take no responsibility for themselves. Adam
blames God for giving him the women who in turn made he fall and Eve blames the
serpent for tricking her. They both knew God and they were both made in His
image and yet they both were tempted, gave in and then blamed others.'
Day 105/252 - Tuesday 28th Jan
Genesis, creation….eee! So many theories, so much brain power, what do I think?!!
Day 104/252 - Monday 27th Jan
Into to Torah – Andy – a
whole new world…so excited for this! :)
Got given a delicious
slice of gluten free carrot cake today…YUM! And gluten free macaroons and was
told my course fees are reduced…. A good day.
Day 103/252 - Sunday 26th Jan
Book #27 Genesis.
Reading
Genesis today. Genesis = EPIC. So long…
Not sure how I’m going to
chart this but the stories are awesome!
Feel like I’m coming down with
something…don't want to get ill again, not when we're starting the Torah!
Day 102/252 - Saturday 25th Jan
Running in hailstorms is only fun
with Georgie! We went out for a coffee and had fun running through the streets of Nuneaton to Nero's... :)
Day 101/252 - Friday 24th Jan
True story! But I passed, yay!
Had such a fun time tonight the whole SBS went bowling and for icecream afterwards... celebrating the end of the
new testament! We did it guys! Love these amazing people God has put in our class together and so thankful to be a part of it! Now we can go to sleep and for once not have to wake up and finish assignments or revision....
Day 100/252 - Thursday 23rd Jan
Pray for me! By tomorrow morning
I need to have learnt all of the info on these flashcards of the 26 books of
the new testament... Each has key verse, to and from, date and location, main
reason, main idea, historical background and the structure (that's the chart bit). As it so happens this non
morning person is the first one to go in at 8.30am... Let's see how my brain
handles that one! Thanks in advice for any prayers for this challenge! Xxx
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