I'm not dead yet....

Don't worry, even though it's been over a month since my last post I haven't disappeared. I would like to offer some wonderful excuse as to why I haven't blogged in a long time, but basically it comes down to me being lazy and having a super crappy internet connection at the apartment in which I'm living.

Some updates:

- Still no job. Yep, unemployed life is starting to suck real bad. Honestly, I'm baffled by this, I spend most of my day-time at the Seminary library trying to apply for as many jobs as I can find and nothing! I've applied for positions as a senior pastor, youth pastor, with para-church organizations, with private Christian schools... pretty much anything which involves some sort of ministry and will allow me to use my calling, skills, gifts, and my education. Still nothing! I've had a few interviews, but they usually boil down to not having enough experience or making it down to the last cut before they choose the other person. True I have had two offers but one was a real bad situation and the other one didn't pay enough for me to be able to pay back school loans and still eat.

- With that said, I'm still in KY until I find a job or run out of money and have to move home with the rents or live out of my car.

- I'm also still reading Canonical Theism. I haven't finished it yet because I'm lazy and haven't felt like reading much lately. I do pick it up occasionally and I am then reminded why I think it's such a great book. As I read this book I realize that they (it's a collection of essays) are articulating what I have come to believe, but could not coherently express. I think I've mentioned it before, but the subject matter of the book is how and why we need to recapture the entire canonical heritage of the church. It's a great book, go read it!

- I'm still occasionally running sound for the company I work for in Lexington. I really don't want to work for them full-time, but my bank account will soon be informing me that I will need to put pursuing ministry on hold and work for them for a year or pursue living in my car. But either way I don't have to work the dreaded Questapalooza show this year, as I'm on assignment at another show.

- The evil Brett Favre did not end up in Minnesota so now my football season has been saved. I also had my fantasy football draft (for my primary league) and I think my team looks OK, but it also has the potential to totally suck. For our 12 team league here is my team:

QB: Tony Romo; Kurt Warner
RB: Reggie Bush; Michael Turner; LenDale White; Kenny Watson; Ray Rice
WR/TE: Andre Johnson; Jerricho Cotchery; Calvin Johnson; Drew Bennett; Ted Ginn Jr. (despite the fact he played for OSU); Robert Meachem; Eddie Royal
K: Ryan Longwell
DST: Patriots


Nothing else is really new in life, but there are some basic updates. Hopefully I'll get a little more motivation soon and be able to finish off Canonical Theism which will give me something a little more substantial to post about.

Well I guess I should get back to applying for jobs.


- Ben