Summit Ministries

Today was the second Monday of the class and for me the hardest day of the week. Last night we watched a movie called "Obsession." It was about the ideas and culture of radical Islam and for me it was an eye opening experience. I woke up this morning about six to the sound of my room mates alarm clock going off for about the 7th time and truthfully I wished it had not gone off at all because I was still struggling with the truth of Islam. I couldn't understand how a culture could be wrapped up in a lie so much so that they were willing to kill themselves in "war" for their god. At this point I really wanted to turn on God for allowing these people to fall so far in their deceit but I simply could not do that—not after all God had done for me.

When my room mates and I finally decided to get up we quickly threw our room together for room checks (we forgot to make one of the beds so we only got a 21) and went to breakfast. After this I spent some time alone with the Lord on the front porch before class. In this time God led me to Psalm 46:10 which says, "Be still and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in all the earth." This verse comforted my soul in that God has the followers of Islam in His hands and that all I need to do is be still and trust God has not forgotten them and hears my cries for them.

Our first class of the day was about pornography; we learned about the damage that pornography does to the individual as well as to the family. We also learned about the 5 C's or basically 5 things to do when you or someone else is struggling with pornography. This class really opened my eyes to how much freedom people in the porn business have today in TV and the internet and truly how easy it is for anyone to have access to porn. If things don't change now I can't help but wonder what it will be like for future generations.

After this class we had three sessions on Evolution vs. Creation. To be truly honest, these classes were not huge eye openers for me but it was a very good review. It is amazing to see how much scientists have twisted things in order to prove evolution; for example take Lucy: her skeletal frame came from two different locations and were just assumed to be from the same species and her skull was not even complete. A lot of her design was really just scientists taking "creative liberties." This shocked me because I have been to many museums where she and other "missing links" are shown as fact even though there is only shreds of proof for these links. This was the last set of sessions before lunch and free time.

During free time I retook the Bible test with many of the other students; not because I failed it but because I have this weird love of Bible trivia and wanted to see how well I could do a second time. After that I hung out with my room mates, played chess, cards, and then listened to a friend play cello (she is really good by the way).

Then it was class time again, in the evenings we have a world views class with Dr. Noebel and tonight's was about right, center, and left. We learned about who falls in the left (or the liberal side) and who falls in the right side on issues such as education, the Bible, property, etc. Over all this was a challenging day mentally, and spiritually but God provided and I have grown in ways I never thought possible before I came to Summit.