I'm back, but up front...

HELLO AMERICA!

Sorry I haven't blogged yet about Poland. I've been back in the states since Sunday night, and I haven't stopped. I had some test and a paper due yesterday and I have been trying unpack and get things back in gear. I promise I will write when I have time. I have some great stories to share.

But for now I want to leave you with this thought:

If we know the Christ died for the sins of the world and rose again on the third day, and that unless people know that and know Him they will go to Hell; then why do we neglect to say anything to our unbelieving friends, or even the person in the coffee shop, or the person on the other side of the world. Why are we sitting on our hands Church?

Adam T.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Today I'm leaving for Poland and I just wanted to thank everyone and ask for continued prayer while I'm gone. It can go a whole lot further than any money you could give.

I look forward to sharing all my experiences when I get back.

May God keep you until I see you again!

Adam

Below is a blog for our team, so you can keep up to date on what we are doing:

http://fugepolandmissionteam.blogspot.com/

TOMORROW IS A BIG DAY!

Hey friends,

I know I haven't posted since the beginning of the month and tomorrow is the first day of March. February has flown by and I have been so busy, I haven't really had time to write. Which is sad because I love it so much.

Over this month I have been working on a couple of things. First I have decided to go to Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, NC! Which means I'll be staying close to home and won't have to leave any of my friends here. I have decided to get my masters in Church Planting and God has called me to eventually start a church, where I don't know and how is up to Him as well.

With that said, I am writing to ask for your prayers. Tomorrow I'll be preaching at my home church Day 3, to start the new series, Myspace/Yourspace. It's aimed at making every avenue of our lives God's. I am uber excited to get to share God's words with the people I share life with, even though I have to do it twice, both at 8:30 and 10:30!!! So, please pray for me tomorrow, that God's words will flow from my lips and I won't fall off the stage!

And lastly, I leave for Poland next Friday for ten days with Fuge. Pray for that, as I prepare and get all the warm clothes I can find.

I promise I'll be posting again soon!

Adam T.

Singing in the REIGN!

Howdy friends!

So, leading worship this semester for Baptist Campus Ministry has been really fun and I feel like the group is really starting to mesh and find our niche with one another as we lead others in worship. This week we are going old school and singing hymns from the good ol days, i.e. I saw the light, Joyful joyful, Solid Rock, It is well, and Come Thou Fount. We wanted to do Have a Little Talk with Jesus, but the girls couldn't carry the bass line. Last night as we were wrapping our minds around these songs and putting them together, there were a couple lines from Joyful Joyful that jumped off the page and punched me in the Adam's apple. You know how there are those central Biblical truths you know, but sometimes you need to be reminded and God does an awesome job at doing that! Well this is one of those times. The lines are:

Father love is reigning o’er us,
Brother love binds man to man.

Henry J. van Dyke smacked the ball out of the park in my opinion. (The guy who wrote the song) It was first published in 1911 and still to this day is relevant and true. But out of any lines in the song, those two rang the truest in my head and heart. Our Father God is reigning/raining his love down on us, and he does not give us love to squander, but instead to bind us together as brothers and sisters, every human being. We are called to embrace one another in love. To learn from each other. Sometimes we just want to fix all the problems and we get so focused on repairing that we forget the person involved. But instead I think God calls us not to solve all the probelms, but to sit with one another in those probelms and to experience it with one another, so we may know we are not alone in this. SO let us embrace the truth of these words.

Put down your busy-umbrella and feel God's love raining down on us and then go splash in some puddles with your brothers and sisters!

A.T.

YOU are potentially a BIG DEAL!

Hello gents and misses!

I have only about 15 minutes before my final class for the day starts and I wanted to spend this little bit of time to post something that I have been chewing for a few days - potential.

As I am preparing to leave for Poland, work camp again, and go to seminary in the fall I have start to ask God for guidance, I mean true guidance, not hindered by my own likes and dislikes. I feel so often that I never truly know God's plan for me. I know it is wrong to question the authority of God and his will, but I have come to understand that it is not wrong to ask God how things are going to happen and ask Him for a glimpse of why.

As some of you know, I will be preaching at my home church, Day 3, on March 1. I'll post more on that later, but as I am preparing for that I am praying, 'God how do I say your words, and give me a glimpse of why.' God answers the how often times but he sometimes doesn't answer the why. But for me in this situation and in situations to come he has given me a glimpse of why, more specifically why does he want me to stand up in front of people and open my mouth.

I am the guy who often talks to much, about nothing of any importance, and often sticks my foot in my mouth, so I ask, why me?

And in not specifically God has responded, 'adam, you have no idea of your potential in me and all I have in store for you.' See I am always looking at MY potential, not my potential IN GOD.

So this week I pray that you and I will find our potential in God and all that he has for us, because His plans far outreach our own.

Adam