Biography of Dwight L. Moody

Here is the first biography from LIFE Camp that I will post. May you all be inspired!

Dwight L. Moody

• He was born in Massachusetts in 1837
• At the age of four his father died leaving a wife, seven kids and twins in the womb.
• The children had to work on farms to earn their living and support their large family. They worked Monday to Saturday weekly.
• Moody worked for his uncle in Boston.
• His uncle's requirement was that Moody went to church with him. Eventually Moody became willing and often read his Bible.
• He accepted Christ through a Mr. Gemble who (I think) was a Sunday school teacher.
• From then on Moody fervently spread the gospel.
• Then he moved to Chicago.
• His two life goals were to make $100,000 (which was back then A LOT of money) and to preach.
• In Chicago, he reached out to the street children. He rented a pew in his church and brought random street kids.
• Eventually he was paying for four pews a Sunday.
• He reached out to 12 year old girls and brought them to Christ.
• Moody gave up his goal of making $100,000.
• At the age of 23 he left his job in 1860.
• He worked for YMCA (while it was actually Young Men's Christian Association and lived up to its name) and became a missionary.
• Traveled to England.
• His home was a victim of the Chicago fire in addition to his church.
• He built another church, but yet another fire destroyed it too.
• At the age of 54 Moody developed a terrible cough.
• He had been preaching three times a day but four times on Sunday.
• The doctor said that he needed to slow down or he'd die.
• On the way back from a trip to England, his ship began to sink with both Moody and his son aboard in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. At this point Moody had been considering what the doctor had said and thinking about minimizing his preachings.
• While aboard the sinking ship, Moody realized that God did not want him to slow down. So Moody trusted God to get him through his sinking ship and simply went to bed. Some time later his son awoke him to say that they had been rescued by another passing ship.
• Moody continued to work hard trusting in the Lord for seven more years. Then at the age of 63 Moody died.
• During his lifetime he had brought hundreds of people to Christ, started numerous Bible schools, etc.
• Most of all, Moody is a great example of trusting in God even in very hard times when your life is at stake.

I hope that you all were inspired by the brief explanation of Dwight L. Moody's life. I would love to hear your thoughts!

Caption This #3

Ready for another “caption this” contest? I hope that you all have been enjoying this as much as I have! I'm going to give you all a little longer than usual to put your captions in to hopefully get more entries. Here you go...may the contest begin in: 3...2...1...GO!

 

Yes, that weird flying girl is me a few years back—I do have that strange side to me you know....

Caption #2

Alrighty. After some thought I came up with a winner. Congratulations Grandma! Thanks for playing everyone! Here is the picture and caption. I will soon post your next picture to put your caption in!

I said, "Eat that hay and eat it now!"

 

LIFE Camp 2014!

Well, even though LIFE Camp was a ways back I am still doing a post about it. I have been blessed to attend this camp for four years now. This year, as I said in an earlier post, the theme was about the Armor of God. It was very thought provoking as a new Bible teacher took one part of the armor a day and spoke about it. Also, the people in biography as well as our chapel speaker each night spoke of the same part of the armor. I would like to share each of the biographies that we learned over the next few weeks by posting about one person at a time. We studied D.L. Moody, Charlotte Diggs Moon, William Tyndale, and Pete Flemming. Also each day we learned one hymn and a brief biography about its author. Some examples are I Surrender All, Take My Life and Let it Be, and A Mighty Fortress is our God. Perhaps I will also do a weekly post for five weeks each with a hymn. I would love your input as to if you would enjoy this or not. Here is a brief explanation of what a day at camp would consist of:

We wake up at seven. (Or at least that's the set time...) A few minutes to 8:00 we raise the flag to several patriotic songs and prayer and then march on to breakfast. After that there are three classes: Biography, Bible, and a new class dubbed Discussion. (More on that in a minute.) Then there is lunch which includes mail delivery, camp and cabin cleanup, swimming, and field games. Verse memorization, snack, and two hours of free time are next. Directly after free time, we lower the flag, eat dinner, and then rush over to chapel. To end the day there are night field games, snack, and devotions. And then, one of my favorite parts of the day, lights out! (Zzzzzz)

Although we are busy, it is a good busy. Most years instead of discussion we have missionary class but I think that I enjoyed discussion better. During this time, the entire camp (boys and girls) are divided up into several small groups. We talked about the part of the armor that we studied that day in more depth depending on your age category. Biography was my personal favorite class. I enjoy learning about such influential people in the Christian faith. Studying them helps to encourage me to follow their examples and being more open to God's plan for my life.

Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughts. I felt like I was encouraged in my walk. I had a super cabin and superb counselor. As a cabin we got into great discussions and truly had a blast. Sorry that I don't have any pictures but again thank you all very much!

Caption This #2

Ok, so here is your next picture to caption. The man in the picture is our family friend who gave us our horse and taught us a lot about horsemanship. Hope you guys have fun. At the end of this week I will post my favorite. God bless you all!

Caption #1

While, it was a very hard decision to pick which caption would win for "Caption This #1" I finally decided on  the following. All of your captions were great, however congratulations Calamity Rene! In the next few days I will try to post picture #2. Thank you all who participated and I hope that you enjoy the pictures to come! God bless you all!

Dream: Oh, yeah, like I really care if you have the Carrot Stick in your hand. Nope, not gonna back up.
Sister: Awww come on! Parelli said this should work!!!

In the Sight of the Lord

Today my dad did a blog post that challenged me and could effect every reader. It is really thought provoking if you take your time reading it.

Who is your audience? In other words, who are you seeking affirmation from, acknowledgment, or to please? Is what you are doing "pleasing in the sight of the Lord"? May you all be blessed!

Click HERE to visit the post.

Caption This #1!

Hi Everyone!
Recently a blog that I really enjoy has started something that called "Caption This". I asked if I could use the idea and she said yes. It works like this: every other week (maybe a little sooner or later) I post a picture and in the comments, you put what you would caption it! It could be funny, serious, just whatever you want! Then at the end of one week (on average), I will pick my favorite caption and post it with the picture. Then the following week, I will post a different picture. And so on and so forth. I hope that you guys have fun! Just post your caption in the comments and sometime this week I will pick my favorite one!

Here is the first "Caption This" picture!

What is Dream and my sister thinking?

The Leibster Award

I have been awarded the Leibster Award! A big thank you to Jesseca Dawn (www.akansaswind.blogspot.com) and Calamity Rene (http://wildinwashington.blogspot.com/)! 

Here are the rules to the "game":

a. Acknowledge the blog that nominated you: Alrighty. Check.

b. Answer the 11 questions the nominating blogger created: Done.

Here are the questions from Jesseca, followed by the answers (I'll answer Calamity's at the end):

1. What is your favorite season?

Winter for sure!

2. What do you enjoy doing most during that season?

Well, my birthday, and Christmas, and being with my family while it's cool and we can have our wood stove burning.

3.Do you play any instruments? If so, which ones?

No, but I am learning keyboard.

4. What is your favorite style of music?

I enjoy contemporary Christian.

5.Who is your favorite author?

My Grandpa—Randall Reinstedt

and Susan Marlow

or Lauraine Snelling

or Martha Finley

or Jerry Jenkins and Chris Fabry

or Dandi Dally Mackall

6.If you could do anything you wanted, what would you choose to do?

Hmm, probably go on a back-country trip on some horses.

7. What is your favorite animal?

HORSES!

8. What is your favorite thing to do around a campfire?

I'm not sure. I guess just hang out with my family.

9.Who do you most enjoy spending time with?

My family for sure.

10.What is your favorite riddle?

I don't really have one. But IF I had to pick one, I would say this: A woman lives on the seventh floor of an apartment building. Every morning she gets in the elevators and goes to the level one, goes to work, but when she comes home, she presses the button for the fifth floor, and then walks up the rest of the stairs to her room. Why doesn't she just hit the seventh story button when she is going home?

(You guys can guess and I will post the answer later. )

11. What is your favorite radio drama? (If you listen to any)

Jonathan Park, or Adventures in Oddysey.

These questions were from Jesseca Dawn. At the end of this post I will answers the other questions form Calamity Rene.

List 11 bloggers with less than 200 followers that deserve some recognition. Here it goes:

Calamity Rene: wildinwashington.blogspot.com

Jesseca Dawn: akansaswind.blogspot.com

Erick Reinstedt: erickreinstedt.blogspot.com

I can't come up with any more. Sorry!

Write 11 questions for them to answer.

1. What do you like to do most?

2. How many siblings do you have?

3. What pets do you have?

4. What church do you attend?

5. How many followers do you have?

6. What is your favorite color?

7. What is your favorite joke?

8. What is your favorite animal?

9. What is your dream profession?

10. Where is your dream to live?

11. If you could go to any time period, when would it be?

Notify them they've been nominated. I will do that right now. If any of you want to, I'd love for you to answer these questions as well!

The qustions from Calamity Rene:

1. You just got awarded a million dollars. What are you going to do with it?

Good question. Well some I would tithe, some of it would go to missionaries, etc, some of it would be to travel, part of it for a horse ranch and lots of horses, and some just for whatever.

2. What time period would you travel to if you could?

I'm not sure. Probably the time of Jesus.

3. If you had to pick one, who would you pick as your favorite fictional character of all time?

Eeeeek! I can't pick! Well, I would have to think about that!

4. Who is your favorite Bible character?

You sure pick good questions! Mmmmm, Jesus of course. But other than him, I really like David.

5. What's your favorite book series?

Another hard one! Most likely Circle C Adventures and the High Hurdles or Winnie the Horse Gentler.

6. Who's your favorite author?

See Jesseca's questions

7. Do you have a favorite movie?

Not yet. But some I like are “Healed by Grace”, “Secretariat”, and the Narnia and Star Wars

8. What's your favorite past time?

I SUPPOSE riding!!!

9. What do you want to do when you get older?

Ooooooo. Someone who works with horses and kids. Also a mom and wife.

10. What's your favorite wild animal?

I like polar bears, wild horses (hehehe. Does that count? :-D), and dolphins.

11. If you could ask God one question, what would it be?

Yet another difficult one. The hardest of all...probably something about the end times. But I'm not sure.

Jesseca Dawn and Calamity Rene: Thank you. If you could, just even in a comment answer the questions I asked, I would love to get to know you more. If you want to do it in a post that is fine too!

The New Testament!

Hallelujah! I'm so excited! About a year and a half ago, I started reading through the New Testament. I slowly chugged along for about a year until Christmastime when I really buckled down. At that time I was in the Gospel of John. Just this morning, I finished Revelation! Reading through the gospels, I was blessed to learn more detail about the life of Jesus and how much he endured on the cross to save us from our sin. It was truly amazing to read through what Paul was writing to all the churches while he was in prison and how he persevered. Revelation was a bit confusing. It was a bit foreign to me but at the same time it was amazing to read about the end times and the future. This left such a confused impression on me that I had a weird dream last night about the end times.

This morning I had six chapters left and I was planning on reading three this morning and two tomorrow but when I was done with the first three I was so excited for finishing that I just read the remaining three chapters. I want to encourage everyone who is reading this to read the Bible, or even just the New Testament at first, all the way. It is really worth it and it can be done no matter your age.

Old Testament and rereading the New Testament, here I come!