The Bethel Rebel: Life according to Johnny Ginsberg

I wound up getting up from bed at 3:30 AM this morning.  Just as well that I did.  As anyone in Minnesota knows, it’s better to reach your designation before the snow hits the Earth.  Thank God, it hasn’t majorly snowed here yet.  I will bet you a tinker’s dam that it will wind up [...]

I just want to take a moment and be grateful and thankful for the kindness of some people.  There’s a great lady who works at Carol’s and works for IHOP.  Her warm and inviting nature, coupled with large doses of her kindness and generousity and selflessness, make her very good at her jobs.  Mom and [...]

I think that I have more information to wander and sift through that I am, frankly, overwhelmed with this.  I need to study stuff for my class, keep up with news on TV and online, and also be sure I have some kind of balance between being alone and being with people.  Yesterday was Garrett’s [...]

Yes!  The Heart of a Warrior Advance  is scheduled to take place on September 26-28, 2008 at Big Sandy Camp.  Go to Greg Bourgand’s link on the right of the page to learn more.   I am so happy that the Advance will be happening.  I was privileged to be at the HOAW Advance in 2006, [...]

Garrett Steven Menke’s life was brief, but it was full of love, support, and positive things as well as challenges.  His family loved him very much, and he was so full of strength, but also was filled with the Peace that God so lovingly gives to everybody.  A better story of his life is found [...]

My praise and thanks to our loving and Almighty God for the blessings He has bestowed on me.  Thanks for allowing me to expand and define my knowledge in learning how to study His word, and also for the friends and others that the Seminary classes whom I will work with, am working with, and [...]

I started to read one of the textbooks for my Hermeneutics class.  I am thinking, “What a fascinating idea this is, but can I understand it well enough to succeed in class?”   What I’m learning is that Hermeneutics is a science in itself.  It starts with exegesis.  Exegesis is studying the text and learning how [...]

The first open house at my townhouse for this year will be this Sunday, 13 January.  Somebody…anybody…Pllleeeezzzze buy this place.  Please? Please? Please with sugar, cherries, ice cream, whipped cream, and sprinkles on top?  I so need to get on with my life.  It would be good to move.  Be sure to contact Keller Williams [...]

It’s been a great week for me.  Monday I’ve already written about.  Infuse on Tuesday went well, albeit that we had to be a bit creative about registering men for the event that night.  Wednesday I met with the Rehab Services job counselor.  This guy seems really to care, and wants to help me find [...]

My first day of class at Seminary went very well.  My day started when I got to Bethel at about 10:15 AM.  While waiting to meet my friend for chow in the College Dining Center (Saga to us oldsters), I read the first chapter of one of my textbooks for class.  At 11:35, my friend [...]