Liberty University Infiltrated by Ivy Student
I am a grad student at Liberty working on my Master’s in Professional Counseling.
I recently saw this article and thought it interesting!
25 Random Notes about me . . .
Facebook has a note going around where people put down 25 random things about themselves. I am giving in and writing down MY 25.
1) Married to Anna for 11 years.
2) Have known her for 15 years.
3) I met her in Canada at camp
4) She is my best friend–for REAL
5) I am a proud father of three amazing children
6) The oldest of three bothers.
7) I love to blog (www.myepicjourney.com)
8) I LOVE to read but only non-fiction
9) I want to be a professional fisherman when I grow up.
10) I am not sure I will ever grow up
11) I am currently working on a Master’s in Professional Counseling
12) I am Pastor of Student Ministries at Grace Point Community Church
13) I have been Youth Pastor for 11 years in 4 different churches
14) Our Student Ministry is called EPIC
15) I LOVE my students!!
16) I LOVE my leadership team MORE!!!!
17) I love Ohio but not the Buckeyes
18) I love the Indianapolis Colts–A LOT!!
19) I grew up in Nashville, Indiana
20) I have an amazing sister we adopted when I was 24!! She was 25!!!
21) I love to hunt–animals!
22) I don’t like to fly
23) I am not a big fan of traveling altogether
24) I weighed 165 lbs. when I entered college. I no longer weigh that!
25) I pooped my pants–in public–at a funeral. I was 24 years old!
Are You Listening
Clinton and Ohlschlager, in their book, Competent Christian Counseling, share six (6) ways that listening is done poorly:
- Inadequate listening. Becoming easily distracted. Tuning out!
- Evaluative or judgmental listening. Instead of JUST listening, sometimes we listen to tear apart or to constantly evaluate.
- Filtered listening. Picking out ONLY what we want to hear and not focusing on the WHOLE story or explanation.
- Rehearsing instead of listening. I do it all the time. Just ask Anna. Thinking about your response before the one sharing is done with their message.
- Sympathetic listening. This is projecting your concern beyond what is needed. Becoming emotionally responsive the is “over the top.”
- Interrupting. Stopping someone before they are done.
Our society does a horrible job at listening. May it not be true of us who call ourselves followers of Christ.
“He who has ears, let him hear.” Matthew 11.15
