July 18, 2008

Projects to Pray for

Projects to Pray For

  • Pastoral Internship -
    • Discipling teenage guys from the church
    • Meeting with a couple of them on Monday evenings
    • Communicating with another one over email in theology and starting a kid's club
  • Preaching through the 1689 London Baptist Confession on Sunday evenings
    • Met with a speech therapist to see if I could improve my voice with any technique or practice
      • Open my mouth wider and keep it open, practice saying “aaa” while breathing out and hold it
      • Pray the therapist gets saved when she comes to listen to me
  • 2nd Namibia Pastor's Fraternal in January 2009
    • We just had the first one the second week of July, awesome
  • Continuing elders' meetings tackling issues in the body
    • Currently in the middle of a season of home visitations
    • Looking at reforming our worship platform and order in light of some Tim Keller teaching
  • Getting around to the other churches in our area for possible preaching opportunities, service opportunities, and cooperation in ministry
  • Hoping to show our love to the community through distribution of the warning tract with the teenage guys mentioned above
  • Planning on some men's teaching seminars
    • (Not really related to me but a women's conference is being planned by Erin and the women for Rhonda to come and teach in October)
  • Looking at starting a church-wide Bible Doctrine group with Erin

  • University Mission -
    • Writing papers and tracts for distribution students
      • Jesus and all aspects of giving - correcting some false views of local christians and preachers
      • Jesus and work - preaching the Bible's view of work
      • 95 Theses on Men, Women, and Sex - a take off of Martin Luther addressing sexuality related problems from a Biblical perspective and in an intelligent comprehensible ay
      • The gospel and all aspects of who Jesus is
  • Brainstorming and dreaming about what a reformed baptist meeting on campus would
    look like
    • Serious about the Truth
    • Serious about Living
    • Serious about showing you the Way
      • Just an idea so far
  • Keeping up with the guys I've met, communicating with them, meeting new ones, and hooking them up with resources
    • Currently dealing with all spheres of Christian life and ministry from apologetics to deep theology to practical living and of course all aspects of the gospel
  • Looking at mass production of CDs for students

  • Sovereign Grace Theological Seminary -
    • Just turned in my first two assignments at the end of June
    • Working on next two assignments due end of July
    • Pray for more instructors who really fit the mindset, calling, and vision of Sola5 for the seminary
      • Waiting on further coursework for 4 out of 5 classes
    • Applying teaching related to pastoral calling, Biblical interpretation, Greek, reasoning in thinking, and all the books I have to read for a reading class (currently What if Jesus had never been born; great)

  • Household -
  • Completing a parenting class on godly parenting with a group of other parents at Eastside
    • Need to get some welding / construction work contracted
    • Pulling up all the gardening in the front yard to plant grass for bigger area for kids to play on
    • Looking at getting a second vehicle by February and sooner if Lord willing
    • Converting garage/office to partial guestroom
    • Dealing with winter
    • Forming bond with one set of neighbors for the gospel
    • Having people over as often as possible without closing family time, family dates, dates with Erin, and father/son time with Keano

  • Devotion -
    • Reading book by book through NIV
      • Haven't read the NIV since 2003 when I switched to ESV
      • Finished the NLT (2004 edition) this year because that's what we were using in Okahandja
      • Switched back to NIV this year because Eastside uses it
      • Just found out pastor intends to switch church to ESV soon
      • Never stopped carrying and referencing my pocket sized ESV :)
      • Still using ESV for family devotions (365 Jesus stories)
    • Reading Old Testament war books from NCV in interesting magazine Bible format (recommended for discerning readers only) with Keano who doesn't read them himself yet
    • Still involved in my New Covenant and Covenant theology study
    • Looking at prophetic books for clues on the whole partial-preterist AD 70 thing
    • Studying preaching in Christ-Centered Preaching with Ted Hall's group in America


  • Big dreams -
    • Radio program / station
      • Recently bought a little radio
      • Very few stations in Namibia
      • There is a Christian radio station point?
    • Newspaper
      • The Internet age hasn't really hit Namibia
      • Newspapers very popular, not overdone, lots of people reading the little drivel there is
      • No Christian publication like a newspaper
    • Perhaps God will raise up a like-minded person/people from here or who come over and start these and not get kicked out of the country for it (anything that does not fit the two majority church denominations
      will not go over well). Between myself and people I know already, coming up with content would not be a problem

posted by Todd Leroy @ 14:21

July 17, 2008

Info & Article Need

I have a great immediate need for concise and powerful articles on the historical Jesus (how do we know he really lived?) and how the Bible was written (authors, time span, unity, etc). I have a couple of books and long written materials that I can summarize and I will work on that but if you know of any ready-available internet or short pdf resources, that would be perfect. Please send to leroyh@gmail.com or another address if you have it.

posted by Todd Leroy @ 18:57