Since we have both friends and family native to the Detroit region, I'll keep this short...

THE CARDS WON THE WORLD SERIES!

The Logsdon Clan would have disowned us if we didn't put something on our blog about the world's greatest baseball team.

A few moments ago, I sat in my study and stared at The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew, and then, I stared some more.....So, instead of doing the smart thing-going to bed, I convinced myself that cruising the blog-o-sphere would be more profitable than studying any ancient language at 1215 am (Anand, my starbucks connection, lied- he didn't give me decaf after all). An upon glancing at our own site, I realized that I had not posted in a while. So, Here you go.

Yes, I'm still alive and still a student (which means I'm half awake). As to how that is going... We are in week six of a fourteen week semester. This is extremely encouraging because I am more than a 1/3 done with this semester and have about 7% of my reading, papers, and quizzes completed...

Seriously, I am loving my classes this semester. The reading is very profitable and the languages are... challenging. In addition, I have the privileged of preaching on Oct 21 at our church in Williamsburg. There are a few texts in 1 Peter where God calls Christians "sojourners" and "strangers." What a theme to describe us! No matter our situation in this life, we know that this is not our true home. Our true home is with Jesus. In light of such a title, Peter tells us how Christian/strangers are to live in verses 2:11-4:11. I'm excited to dig into these passages. Needless to say, you won't see me post on the blog for quite some time.

well the "decaf" has worn off, I'm hitting the sack. 'night.

This past weekend TJ and I and some friends went to the annual Neptune festival here in Virginia Beach. The festival is a celebration of the locals gaining the beach back from all the tourists. Every year on the beach they have a sand sculpture contest. There are sand sculptures like you’ve never seen. What these people can do with sand is amazing! We also were able to see the word’s largest (record-breaking) sculpture. Unfortunately we don’t have a pic because it was dark by the time we got to it. In addition to viewing the sculptures, we ate some delicious New York style (whatever that means) pizza. We also enjoyed some ice cream that we ended up walking like three miles to. Actually, it wasn’t that far – although it seemed like it. This special ice cream place that T.J. wanted to go to was on the other end of the boardwalk. Oh well, I definitely needed the exercise anyway. Overall, it was worth the walk. We had a great time. And to end the evening, we sat on the beach and enjoyed a beautiful fireworks display.