tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215509772012-02-16T12:19:59.276-05:00"What are you doing after seminary?" "What have you two been up to lately?" In an attempt to keep family and friends better in touch we hope to throw out some thoughts, prayers, and pictures to update and encourage others.jason&bethanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127587489708563084noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21550977.post-8355938149915152522008-03-19T08:35:00.008-04:002008-03-19T09:03:17.478-04:00

Oops! Ok I'm a horrible person... ok maybe I'm just a horrible blogger. Anyway, let's throw this out... I was asked twice in the past week about this blog... and I was thinking, "blog?... what blog?... oh... yeah" Life has been very busy for both Bethany and I and I guess this was one of the first things to go from the list. So here's my question... does this actually update anyone on anything?

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Some video highlights from our mission trip to New York City.

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From Vacation Bible School - Gameday

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With a few friendly reminders from some who read this on occasion, it was brought to my attention that we hadn't updated or thrown any pictures on here in awhile. We are getting ready for VBS starting tomorrow and then we are a few short weeks away from going back to New York for our mission trip. The picture here is from a speaking opportunity I had at the National Day of Prayer. The summer

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Our nation was struck with a great tragedy this week with the shootings at Virginia Tech. There are countless stories pouring over the media from those sharing thoughts and perspectives. The one common thread running throughout the papers, radio, television, and web pages are the cries of the community for answers. We rightfully want to know who is responsible and if others are now safe. Many of

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Well things still haven't settled down much with Easter this weekend but we have finished race week and the student conference. The size of the race crowd was mind numbing with cars and campers literally as far as the eye could see. I preached in 26 degree temperatures (see picture) the day of the kickoff and thawed out later that week to join in an exciting Family Day. We had campers in our

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With all due respect to college basketball, I think the activity at our church the next couple of weeks will generate plenty of excitement as well. Raceway Ministries is in a full charge to make preparations for the people coming in to watch the races in Bristol. I have a great opportunity to speak at one of the early chapel services this weekend during the official kickoff to race week. There

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It has been a while since we've updated on anything so some of you would be interested to know what is going on this weekend. We are meeting with parents and volunteers to discuss some important issues for the student ministry at First Baptist Church. There is a growing sense of crisis in this thing called youth ministry. I'm not a big stats person but, when legit, some of these can be quite

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Last night we had our first missions team meeting for a trip to New York City. For Bethany and I it will be a return trip (our third) to serve in several ministries in Brooklyn and the surrounding areas. I love doing mission work in New York City because of the diversity you find there. We will encounter different ethnicities, cultures, and languages within a few blocks of where we are staying

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This is Kayli Madison Ling Alexander. If you are reading this any time in the next week I want to ask you to pray for her and my family members who are going to China to bring her home. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law left with their parents yesterday for a long flight overseas and will be returning home on the 17th. This has been around a three year wait and we are all incredibly excited

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Hey everybody! I have officially completed my first month of ministry at First Baptist Church and am very excited about where things are headed. We finished up our first Wednesday night series, "The Gospel According to Duct Tape" and are moving on to something new next week. We are starting some music and drama ministries and working on getting an E-Team (Evangelism Team) assembled in the next

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StarsGreat song and meaning from one of my favorite bands

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Bethany and I are settling into a new time in our lives. We've finally unpacked. (ok, so maybe we haven't completely unpacked but who has!?) We started work at the church and Appalachian the same day. Bethany works with new customer accounts for her company, which provides material for Christian bookstores across the country and the world. The group has changed ownership to a missions group

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We're finally back in town and will update on life and other things soon. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and celebrate the coming of Jesus our Savior!

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Hello everyone! We are finally starting to get settled in our home in Bluff City even though there are still plenty of boxes to be unpacked. We want to thank family and friends from Cross of Calvary and First Baptist that helped with the move. Graduation was a fun day and we will certainly miss some things about seminary. I'll be starting my new position January 1st so we still have some time

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Hanging out with our students and friends in Indiana. Love you guys!

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Seminary classes have officially ended and I am now down to a take home course and some finals. We thought we would share this picture from our Marriage & Family banquet. These are our instructors and friends Dr. and Mrs. Cutrer. They, along with others, have been a great help and encouragement to us during our time here. So while we break the tape on this race, the gun fires as we begin

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I wanted to let you all know, in case you didn't already, about some big changes coming up for us at the end of this month. God has led us to accept a ministry position at First Baptist Church in Bluff City, Tennessee. I will be starting there as an Associate Pastor on January 1st which gives us a much needed breather after graduation on December 8th. We are very excited about the opportunity

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It is not normally this often that I throw stuff on here to read, but I could not resist when I saw this article in Time Magazine. I think it shares the heart cry of what a generation is thirsting for and how many churches have missed out in providing it. It is certainly true of the students I have shared life and ministry with in Indiana. Isn't this where we should have been all along!? For

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Happy Reformation Day everyone! I recently had an article passed along to me from the Washington Post about the trends of online friendship and communication in American culture. I've been involved in several discussions about this lately from the practical to the absurd, but at the end of the day it is something that must be considered. You can read the entire article here, but there were

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I managed to survive my preaching experience at the seminary. No riots were started, no fruit was tossed, and as far as I know everyone survived. It was a really good experience but I am also glad to be finished with that part of class. We press on to the home stretch with a couple of major papers standing in the way before finals. As busy as things have been, I have found myself walking a

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I imagine this is about how well I would match up against Dr. Mohler also... enjoy!

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My cell phone is a better preacher than I am, at least it was today. We are presently covered up with plenty of obligations (too many to name) and the future is up in the air right now. Sleep has become increasingly rare and the "get'r done" pile keeps outweighing the "got'r done" pile, I'm sure many of you can relate. But the point of all that is we're not stressing. This is not because we're

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I want to ask a special prayer for our church (Cross of Calvary) as we are attempting to join ministries with another church in our area. We have been having joint services and activities together recently and things have gone incredibly well. The churches had split about 10 years ago, but people on both ends are reconciling because of Christ. He is the only one who can bring about true unity,

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Life has been very fast paced for us and change is in the air. First, a big praise that Bethany got a position working evenings/nights for the hospital. She enjoys it and I've even been able to join her a couple of nights. It also makes it easier on us having one vehicle, although we are still adjusting to a crazy sleep schedule. Another good change is literally in the air... Fall! I am

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We want to ask our friends out there to pray for Bethany's grandmother Becky. She is in the latter stage of Alzheimers and has not been eating lately. We want God's will most of all in this situation, whether that means a healing of her body and mind here and now or a permanent healing through Christ's redemption in death. She is a wonderful lady who has faithfully served the Lord for many

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I remember as a kid singing about the joy joy joy joy down in my heart and when the teacher responded musically, "Where!?" we would always follow... "down in my heart!" Maybe as we get older the question goes from where to why. We talked in our Bible Study tonight about what true joy is and how it differs from what the world around us is selling. I would define joy as an unconditional and ever

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Hello everyone! We are both doing well but are really busy. I'm trying to play catch up on some school assignments since we were out of town the first weekend. Bethany's job opportunity finally got posted so hopefully we'll know one way or the other what will happen with that. For a thought this week I'll refer you to an older article by one of my heroes of the faith dealing with life,

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The Fall Semester started this week and promises to keep us both pretty busy. The class list includes: Marriage & Family, Ministry of Proclamation, Church History, Missiology, and the Cooperative Program. The biggest challenge will be trying to read the 20 books that come with those classes and retain the basic info. More importantly, I am really focusing on just getting prepared for long term

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Evangelism LinebackerThe answer was there all along right in front of us... check out the newest discipleship program coming to a church near you!If video doesn't work... try here

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One of the best things about my short break is getting to take in a lot of baseball. Since the stations up here don't carry many Braves games, I've had to take more drastic measures to get my fix. After going to a Chattanooga Lookouts game and a quick trip to Atlanta, I get to taken out to the old ballgame again this weekend in Cincinnati with my family! This is all pretty exciting for

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The growing struggle for churches in college ministry is alarming. The statistics out there are showing that the majority have strong spiritual or religious beliefs but a very small percentage of them are found plugged in to a local church. The church we attend is starting another college/career/?? class to help out our students. One of my close friends living in Chattanooga is beginning a

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Does anyone else read the small print at the bottom of the screen when commercials are on? I don't know if it is just me but I figured I would ask because today it enlightened me to a startling truth I had never really considered and felt like sharing. Here it goes... there is an Orbitz gum commercial with Snoop Dog being sent to Hell, or something like it, for his bad language. The gum girl (

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I hope you all are having a good summer so far. As some of you know, we've been busy between summer classes, work, VBS, trips, and so on. Bethany got an invitation to go to a women's conference in Chattanooga, TN next weekend and I'm going to try to tag along to visit some friends I haven't seen in forever. I'm finishing up a major project over the next week for one of my summer classes then I

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We have had a wonderful time at Vacation Bible School this week so far. We are doing a theme set in Bethlehem during the time of the birth of Christ. The adults and kids alike are enjoying it so much. (I might be having more fun than the kids!) We are all dressing up in costumes and imagining that we are back in Bethlehem. As you can see in the picture in the upper right, Jason and Eddie

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Well, there's the 1980 United States hockey team upsetting the Russians in the Olympics. Buster Douglas shocked the world when he KO'd Mike Tyson in 1990. I guess these things just happen. The seminary faculty played the students today and somehow emerged victorious. But seriously, we had a great time this weekend at a family day just hanging out with friends. I think I was 1 for 2 at the

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A great illustration of our struggle and fight as believers taken from one of my favorite scenes in Lord of the Rings.

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"The Passion of the Christ" ranks as the most controversial film of all time, according to Entertainment Weekly. "The magazine ranks the 25 films that have most shocked, disgusted and divided moviegoers, in its June 16 issue, on newsstands Monday." Now isn't that interesting? If you've seen the movie, it followed the line of scripture pretty well with the exception of a couple of Gibson's

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Bethany had surgery on her thumb to remove a piece of glass she got stuck in it from work. She was wiping a tray that someone had used to get rid of a glass they had broken but neglected to tell anyone. So when you eat somewhere be sure to tip your waiters and waitresses and don't leave shards of glass for people who clean up after you! Everything went fine and she'll be able to use that part

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On May 19th, Bethany and I celebrated our five year anniversary. It's hard to believe that five years have passed so quickly. I'll take an opportunity to share with you all what you already know... I have a wonderful wife. She has been caring and supportive beyond what I deserve. I thank God for her every day and am grateful we get to share in this journey through life together.

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Et tu technology? To quote the infamous Charles Brown: "Good grief!" I've experienced several problems with anything technological this past week, from ordering online, e-mails, and even our toaster. I'm not really on here to gripe about it (ok maybe a little) but there is one change I need to fill everyone in on. My e-mail is currently having several problems so I've opened another one at

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... and hasta la vista Hebrew! I took my last final Tuesday so another semester is now history. With four more classes in the books I find myself already picking up more books for the summer J-term. The nice part is being done with languagues and getting to focus on some other areas in the summer and fall terms. Graduation is in December assuming all goes well with classes between now and

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This past week I had the opportunity to attend the Together for the Gospel Conference in Louisville. There was so much at the conference that it would be impossible to write everything that I took from it. It was a blessing to meet and listen to so many heroes of the faith. Albert Mohler was a member of a group of preachers that brought in R.C. Sproul, John Piper, John Macarthur and others

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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and celebrated the Resurrection of our Savior. Never lose the awe and wonder of it all!IN CHRIST ALONEIn Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song This Cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease My

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We really enjoyed getting to spend some time with friends at a college retreat this past weekend and getting to know some new faces. We hope to see you again soon."Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases." - Psalm

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Midterms are taking up more time than I have but I will share a portrait someone made of the two of us, isn't it nice? I think I'm looking for Bethany's legs. We look forward to seeing some of you in TN next weekend.

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A while ago I had a funny conversation with a neighbor out by the mailboxes in our apartment complex in Southern Indiana. The man was young and seemed to be fairly fresh out of college. At some point we got into talking about absolute truth versus relativism. He unashamedly laid out his views of moral relativism and how one set of beliefs is just as good as the next. "It's all relative

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The school semester is running at full speed and I already have an idea of my summer schedule which is most likely going to consist of 3 classes in a 4 week period. With the course requirements and preparational reading, I'm sure I've bitten off a little bit too much at once but it will allow me to graduate in December and not get caught with one class in a semester to finish. It will be even

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There's no escaping it, life can be tough. I have been reminded time after time the past couple of weeks that there are many people out there experiencing hardship and suffering. It seems everywhere I turn I have seen faces filled with pain, voices over the phone battling depression, and even read e-mails typed with a sense of real desperation. My attitude of Mr. Fix It doesn't hold up too

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I'm really enjoying my job at Harrison County Hospital. I am currently working in the Cafeteria. They have trained me for two different positions and next week I get to start training on another one. Eventually they will train me for every position in the cafeteria. The most recent position I trained for has allowed me a wonderful opportunity that has shown me the reason why God led me to

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The Spring semester is off to a fast start and classes are going well. This promises to be my busiest semester to this point but I know I'm really going to enjoy the opportunity to learn from experienced Pastors and church leaders. One of our classes involves journaling "devotional thoughts" to encourage or challenge others in Christ. So in addition to life updates I'll include some of those

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I guess I'll explain these pictures and share a few thoughts that I hope encourage you today. I was going through some of our photos from a mission trip to New York City last summer and came upon this one taken from the fairy. We were standing there admiring the beauty of the sunset and I told one of our students to hold his hands apart like he was holding something small and fragile... a

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One of the ministries we're involved in is the youth worship night known as "Submerged" to those in the Southern Indiana area. Submerged is a worship night geared for teenagers that moves around to different churches in the area. It's been growing for some time now and we are all really excited about what is going on. Feel free to look around on the website www.submergedinworship.comYou'll

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that's us... Bethany is the one on the right... except in the picture she's on my left... I mean she's on the... I mean on my... um, I gotta go 

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Well we finally gave in and have found a good use for some free cyberspace in keeping up with family and friends. So if you've wandered in from cyberspace feel free to join in with thoughts or discussion but this isn't really for that. Otherwise its my hope to check in and check out with others through this and e-mail. But to those who are drifting in or want to know a little about us here it

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