Dexter at the Annual Phileo Party
I am currently the Website Coordinator of the UAlbany Campus Ambassadors. I am an information science major and a business minor. I enjoy watching anime and playing video games.
I have been with C.A. for about 2 years now and look forward to all of the upcoming years.
I was not even sure I was going to ‘Infusion’ this last May. Stephen and Kim had mentioned it to me. I wanted to go but I did not want to deal with the pressure of feeling the need to walk around with a fake smile plastered on my face, pretending to be happy. Because the truth is, I was not happy. I was struggling with all sorts of questions and doubts. There was an intense anger burning in the pit of my stomach because I didn’t know what to do with knowledge about the Bible and God. I thought, “I know about God and about the Word and all that, but what the heck am I supposed to do with it?”
There is so much I wanted to do with my life, and still do. I want to make a practical difference in people’s lives. I want to be a friend not a judge, and to give. I thought the Bible required me to be a judge, but I wondered, “How could I judge anyone when I was such a sinner myself?” My struggle was taking me all over the place intellectually and emotionally. I didn’t know how to be me and be a child of God at the same time.
I felt like an impostor to everyone. To my non-Christian friends I was Continue Reading…
During my summer before college I went to my first “party”. I had come to know Christ as my Savior when I was eight years old, but I had entered a temporary period of straying from my faith. When I got to college my friends and I would go dancing or to parties on the weekends. It was a lot of fun, but not necessarily what I wanted to be doing all the time. It was hard to stop, because my friends would always want me to go out with them.
I tried to fill my time with other things so I would have a good, legitimate reason why I could not go out. I started going to other school events; and I joined CA and Impact. I made many new friends with people who had other interests besides drinking. I began to hang out with them more often, so that I would not be tempted to go out. Just like my step-dad said, “If you want to succeed in life, surround yourself with successful people”. Proverbs 13:20 instructs us that “he who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm”.
I wanted to have a stronger relationship with God, and to be better example for others and better representative for Christ. With that in mind, I have been surrounding myself with spiritually strong people with similar values to mine. It was not easy at first, Continue Reading…
Growing up I had what now might be called an “ordinary” religious background. When I was young I went to church with my parents. I didn’t really understand what was going on at that point. All I remember now was communion, and all I knew about that was that I walked up the aisle and kneeled down at the altar to get some flat bread and juice. I got baptized when I was a toddler and never really understood what it meant. When we moved from that neighborhood to our next house we didn’t find a new church to go to. When we moved to the house after that we still didn’t go back to church. My family and I would often feel uncomfortable and maybe even guilty when others talked about their regular church attendance. Now that I’ve started to branch out and learn on my own I realize what I’ve been missing out on.
God reached me in a way that only He could. Last October I was sitting in the Cooper Hall common area reading one of my favorite sci-fi novels. It had gotten to a part where the characters were talking about God when I thought “I really need to get back to God.” If I had been left to myself I probably would have just sat there and never followed up on that thought.
As soon as I had finished that thought, I saw two girls going around in costumes. Continue Reading…
Whole series of books have been written on the immense subject of Biblical Interpretation. I will not attempt the impossible task of summarizing all of them here. Nevertheless, it is worth some investigation on our part to gain an understanding of how we should go about learning the true divine meaning of the passages in the Bible we find ourselves in to properly understand what God is trying to tell us. Continue Reading…
Hello and welcome to our new website!
There’s not too much here yet, but we hope to flesh this out with information about our group and our events, picture galleries of past events, student testimonies, tips and recommendations for further Bible Study, and all other sorts of stuff we haven’t figured out yet.
Feel free to poke around, leave comments on posts, or whatever. If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to let us know.
Hope you enjoy your stay! And Christ’s grace be with you all!
