Beginning of the third week

I returned today from a visit home over the weekend.  God has blessed me with a great family; I very much enjoyed spending time with them.  Among the highlights of the week were an early celebration of my brother's birthday, a bike ride to a local coffee shop with my brother, and some good conversations with my sisters.  I came back to Iowa armed with some great recipes from Mom, and some wise advice from Dad.

I am enjoying my classes thus far. My favorite class at the moment is Dental Anatomy.  Most of the class consists of learning to sculpt teeth out of wax.  It is a good challenge; I have spent between seven and eight hours working on an upper left central incisor, and it still isn't quite right (the angles on the sides, where they come down to meet the gums, aren't quite correct yet).

I have met several other professing Christians in the class, and we plan to start a Bible study on Colossians during lunch breaks, either weekly or biweekly.  Two of us plan to alternate leading it this semester.  We then hope to expand the leadership next semester.  I would appreciate prayer for wisdom as we set  it up.

I am moving.

The summer has flown by! I and my family moved my stuff down to Iowa today, and I am scheduled to join it in a little more than a week. I am looking forward to school in Iowa. It is a new context in which to learn about God, and be one of His ambassadors. I would very much appreciate prayer over the next few weeks that God would glorify Himself through my time in Iowa; that I would be, as Piper says, a "white-hot worshiper" of God, and that He would display His worth, and the glory of His grace, through me and through his other kids whom He puts me in contact with. I would also appreciate prayer for the rest of God's people in Iowa City, that God would show off the glory of His grace to and through them, keeping them from error, and equipping them to clearly and accurately preach the whole gospel throughout their area.