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My inbox has been flooded and my phone has rung off the hook. Thank you to everyone who made this (my first birthday away from home) a special one. I can't thank you enough!

Labels: People

Posted by Sean Walker at 11:59 PM | Permalink | Comments

Dr. Richard Ross is the reason I chose Southwestern Seminary over New Orleans Seminary. Basically... he's the man when comes to Student Ministry (hence the reason I'm at Southwestern)!

Here he is teaching a seminar on how to mobilize parents to impact their children for Christ. It's so powerful. If you're a parent, or ever planning on being a parent, this is worth your time. While in this seminar he's speaking to pastors about how to impact the parents in their churches, the understanding of these truths is still the same and changed even the way I plan on being a father in the future.

Here's a link to some info on Dr. Ross. Click here.

Labels: Church, Family, Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 1:09 AM | Permalink | Comments

I think this is the funniest clip ever from any TV show I've ever seen.

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Posted by Sean Walker at 1:42 PM | Permalink | Comments

See You At The Pole is this week, Wednesday, September 26th. For those of you still in school this is a worldwide annual event where inter-denominational Christian students gather at the flagpole of their school on the last Wednesday of September at 7am to come together and pray for their school, their state, and their country, and its leaders. It is also a chance to make a statement to your fellow students about WHO you are and WHOSE you are.


Here's the blurb off of SYATP.com

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. -John 17:20-23

It's tough being a Christian student today. We're forced to make a lot of choices about who we are, and who we're not. We're supposed to be deciding on our future, when the present is hard enough to deal with.

We have a lot of dividing lines drawn for us. They're invisible, but we see them clearly every day. The grade we're in, the kind of grades we make, overachievers, underachievers, geniuses, slackers. The groups we hang with--jocks, preps, goths, sk8rs, gamers, or geeks. As a Christian, the church we attend, how we pray, the way we worship, and how we interpret the Bible. And yeah, even in 2007 race can still divide. Many of us are asking, "Where do I belong? Who cares about me? Why don't I fit in?"

See You at the Pole™ isn't about groups, grades, clothes, or churches. It's about praying. It's about all of us coming together and laying aside all the labels for one day, simply to call out to God, just as Jesus did in John 17 and say, "Lord, may we be one in you--whether jocks, preps, geeks, Pentecostals, Baptists, Catholics, freshmen, or seniors--may the world believe that You are real and have sent us to touch other through you, regardless of the dividing lines drawn by a broken world!"

So are you in? Are you ready whatever group you're in, to join us in the circle?

Join your generation of faith on Wednesday, September 26, at 7 a.m., GATHER at your school flagpole, UNITE in the name of the One Who died to save you, and PRAY for your school, friends, and families. COME TOGETHER, just as Jesus prayed we would.

Labels: Jesus, Unity

Posted by Sean Walker at 10:44 PM | Permalink | Comments

For some reason my blog crashed last week. I lost all of the sidebar things on the right side of the page, so I'm slowly building them back, trying to remember what all I had there. One of the things I lost was my list of links to other people's blogs. So if I had you there and I haven't put you back, please let me know.

Thanks!

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Posted by Sean Walker at 12:50 AM | Permalink | Comments

"And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, "Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all." And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them." Mark 10:13-16

Tonight at church we had a class where we teach our kids the foundations of faith. One of our children's pastors teaches about Adam and Eve and sin, and Romans 3:23 and then explains God's plan through Jesus, and then leads the kids in a prayer if they want to accept Christ. Well after that, they give the parents a chance to have some one-on-one time with their kids to make sure they understand salvation and Jesus and all of that. Well during this time, my fellow pastors and I are walking around answering questions that any children might have.

One child raises his hand and I walk up to him and kneel down next to him and he asks me, "Where did God come from?"

I responded, "That's a great question. Now this might be difficult to understand, but, God has always been. He has no beginning and no end, so he's always been around."

And obviously he didn't understand that b/c I don't even understand. It's unfathomable that God doesn't have a beginning and an end. So realizing that he didn't understand I thought that I'd make the point that God is so big and so great that there are some things about Him that we'll never understand. So I said, "Do you have any ants in your yard?"

"Yes."

"What if you went up to one of those ants, and you wanted to explain to it how a computer works. Do you think that ant could understand?"

"I'd have to become an ant to explain that to him!" he yelled out loud!

And I just sat there and went, "Wow! That is exactly right!" He couldn't of said it any better, and pitched it right down the middle for me to say, "That's exactly what God did for us. God is smarter than anything else EVER! And b/c he wanted to tell us how much he loved use, he sent his son Jesus to tell us, so that we could understand his love for us."

I was trying to teach him that God is mysterious, and he was unintentionally, and ever so brilliantly, reminding me that...

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14

that...

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich." 2 Corinthians 8:9

that...

"Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." Philippians 2:8


What a great God we serve that he would humble himself and become like an ant, just to tell us that He loves us and He paid the price for our ridiculousness lives and selfish sin, so that our relationship with Him could be restored once again!

He demands and deserves nothing less than our lives!

Labels: Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments

"You are not always protected from the hard things in life. You will have the difficult times in life. What God will do is not protect you from, but secure within those times, for there is never a moment when you are separated from the love of God, and the harder life gets, the greater the outpouring of God's love becomes in your life."

Dr. Chuck Kelley, who is the President of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, spoke this morning on Romans 8 and Mark 14 preaching on the difference between eternal security and eternal safety and what in the world is going on when life just hurts. It's so good!

Click here to watch it.

Click play below to listen.

Labels: Faith, Jesus, School, Sermons

Posted by Sean Walker at 11:15 PM | Permalink | Comments

It's 65 degrees this morning in Fort Worth. Just thought I'd give a shout out ot all my friends and family back home in Lafayette who's current temperature is.... 82.

:)

sTw

Posted by Sean Walker at 10:03 AM | Permalink | Comments

I snagged this off my friend Heath's blog.

Best story ever told, with some amazing art to used to tell it.

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Posted by Sean Walker at 10:27 PM | Permalink | Comments

Spreading some more blog love... I found out today that there is a site that links together bloggers who are at SWBTS. It's basically a links page to SWBTS professors and students. So if you want to read some of my professors and fellow students blog's, click here.

Labels: School

Posted by Sean Walker at 3:44 PM | Permalink | Comments