Linus Soh

new pictures are up. Check out:

• Spring Life Seminars (April 8-9)
• Family Picnic (April 10)
• Esther’s Birthday Party(April 15)
• XTG: Great Falls (April 16)
• Spring Scavenger Hunt (April 22)
• Spring Sailing (April 29)

Twentyfifteen

Oh yeah…it’s coming….

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Questions from
1) How have you been disillusioned by religion?

I guess that means on what you mean by disillusioned. If you mean “how has my faith changed the way I see the world”, then I would say I see people differently than I did before I became a Christian. Before, I would never consider others and never think that they, too, have a life with problems and disappointments. They too have things that they are excited about. My compassion for people has grown.

2) What is your biggest personal spiritual dilemma or challenge?

My biggest spiritual dilemma is really believing that God cares more about people than I do. There are people in my life who I believe have made huge mistakes. Mistakes that they will most likely regret later in life. And I can’t change their minds. Only God can. I have to be willing to let it go and let God be God. It hard for me to let them go in my heart because I see the hurt that they don’t see.

3) When was the last picnic you went on? Describe it.

The family picnic three weeks ago! Pictures will be up soon! It was great! I got to meet a lot of the parents of the students I minister to. I found it encouraging. Found out some really cool stuff too in the process.

4) Where are you going?

In life? Hopefully, the bathroom sometime soon. But also a life where I can glorify God and be excited about it.

5) How have you honored your parents?

In the transition into being a graduate, I have included them into the big decisions in my life. I don’t always take their counsel, but I do make sure I ask them.

There you go!

How can I stand here with you
And not be moved by you?

Could you tell me
How could it be
Any better than this?

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You can find my counter on my web site. Code stolen from a bunch of different places, including gmail and the JavaScript Kit.

Feel free to copy and paste my code to your personal web site.

So I got this wedding on June 4th. And I need a date. Not for the sense of not going alone. But in the sense that I think its weird if you go to a wedding by yourself. Maybe I’m wrong here. Who knows.

I guess in the overall scheme of things, I’m looking for a dance partner. I’m not too worried. I’m probably to get someone at the last minute.

No worries.

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I finally listened to this song today. Man, I never realized the power of the lyrics:

It’s crowded in worship today
As she slips in
Trying to fade into the faces
The girls teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
Farther than they know

But if we are the body
Why aren’t his arms reaching?
Why aren’t his hands healing?
Why aren’t his words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren’t his feed going
Why is his love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way…

A traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat
And quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgemental glaces tell him that his chances
Are better out on the road

But if we are the body
Why aren’t his arms reaching?
Why aren’t his hands healing?
Why aren’t his words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren’t his feed going
Why is his love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way.

Jesus paid much to high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the body of Christ

But if we are the body
Why aren’t his arms reaching?
Why aren’t his hands healing?
Why aren’t his words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren’t his feed going
Why is his love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way.

I wonder how many people walk away from God because of his own people. I wonder how many strangers get the cold shoulder from its own body.

If we are indeed the body, why aren’t we more motivated to seek the lost and lonely? Why must we continue to be reminded that there are people out there who have yet to have heard the Gospel? Some as close as our next-door neighbors!

Why aren’t feet going?

I will lay it down
I will let it go
I will let you in between
Me and all these things
Just to feel you near me…

It really hit me last week that I’ll be leaving for Hawaii in two weeks!!! I’m so excited! This is the best to finish off a semester. Kick back in Hawaii and just take it easy for 7 days. I’m looking forward to it! I’m also hoping to be able to blog during the vacation. Perhaps I will do something similar to what I did during spring break.

So before this time, I have four papers to write and two exams to take…no, scratch that. FOUR exams to take.

I’m hoping to have all my papers done by the end of this week, so they aren’t hanging over my head. So there you have it!

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Today at church, we did a prayer and worship time. I really enjoyed it because we need to pray as a church more often! It was great because I got to meet some really cool people and I’m hoping to meet with them sometime this week.

I began to realize something cool this morning: I will be full-time with MCF. Jeff will no longer be the only full-time staff. MCF will have doubled it’s leadership. I find this really exciting! Jeff and I have chosen new a President and a Treasurer…another sign that my time is slowly drawing to a close.

I’m going to miss this place…at least as a student.

I ordered the Korean translation of Wild at Heart for my dad. I really love this book because it really spoke about the heart of true man of GOD. When I first read it two years ago, I wrote to John Eldredge and asked him if he would consider translating it to Korean so that I could give it to my dad.

And now there is!

I’m hoping the same thing will happen with my dad that happened with my mom. My mom and I read together The Purpose Driven Life and it really allowed us to connect differently since we were reading the same thing.

Now I don’t know where my dad is spiritually. He says he is a Christian. I’m not sure how much is being lived out. When I see him, I see an uninspired man. And I hope Wild at Heart rejuvenates him. I know it did for me.

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I’m feeling really under the gun because I have four papers due in the next two weeks before I go to Hawaii. I’m excited that I’m going to Hawaii but not all that thrilled that I’ve got hoards of papers. I’m going to be working on a couple of them today. Hopefully get them out of the way.

I also need to make a decision on what to do about being on GCM staff. I’ve already been hired to be on staff, the question is Full Time or Part Time.

I’ll make a decision soon…