Robb + Jessie Married & in the Badger State
liverpool FC and our class trip to dublin
Trent’s latest post!
Also, go here to check out pictures. - Robb
Hey guys, it’s been about a week or so since I last posted, let me fill you in on the events that have transpired….
Well, I want to start off by saying that I finally made it out to a pub to catch an authentic Liverpool FC match on the BBC. For those of you who don’t know what Liverpool FC is, they’re my favorite English Premiership Soccer Team. It was a great game against first place Chelsea which we won 2-1. The great part was that it was the semi-final match for the FA Cup (which is an intra-league tournament) and now Liverpool, against odds, has made it to the final. Go Reds!!!!
That aside…. Our class this weekend took a trip to Dublin. I have to tell you, it is a pretty amazing city. The first thing we did there was went and took a tour of the Kilmainham Gaol, one of the oldest jails in Dublin. It was pretty intense to see the cells and execution sites of alot of prominent figures in the course of modern Irish history. The one thing you notice is how cold the jail was. Apparently alot of prisoners just died of hypothermia when winters got really bad. Our tour guide also gave us some info on the sentencing of prisoners and how they intensified during the Irish potato famine. He gave us a prison report about a 10 year old boy being thrown in jail for 1 year stealing 3 eggs. Like I said, it was a pretty intense tour.
courtship
Last night I went to a talk at Mars Hill about relationships. The biggest thing I learned was that I have a long way to go before I’m in the right place to be married.
Sometimes the old man in us dies hard. Here’s to Jesus who takes our sin and saves us!
“By the mercies of God, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
- Paul
For those of you interested in good “rules” for relationships from a courtship-modeled, complementarian viewpoint, here is a handout that was available last night at the lecture:
easter in belfast…
UPDATE: Trent has now posted pictures from Ireland.
Go here to check them out. - Robb
Hey guys, really hope all your Easters went well…. here is a little window into mine.
So, I was planning to go to 3 services here in Belfast, one Anglican, one Presbyterian, and one Catholic. I was planning on doing this because my independent research here is on the effects the doctrine being preached in the churches of the respective communities is having on the peace process here in Northern Ireland. Unfortunately I was only able to go to one service as the busses only ran once every hour and in transit it took about 2 hours to get to the church and 2 hours back.
The service I went to, however was really interesting. I chose of all of them to attend the Roman Catholic church as I had never been to one and thought I might as well seeing as I’m in Ireland. If you’ve never been to a Catholic mass (especially one as eventful as Easter), you should. It’s Intense! Stand up, sit down, kneel, stand up, “and also with you”, sit down, do the cross, receive holy water sprinkles, stand up, kneel, do the cross, and a slew of other rehearsed phrases you have to regurgitate at different points during the mass. I just copied the person next to me and I did ok.
Thank you, Robb.
For the box,
And the note, candy & books,
I enjoyed the candy (me, eating a Jr. Mint),
