Union Mail

Here is what i believe to be my mail box for Union. Please be precise on what you are writing! Thanks.

UU 2291
Cory Poston
1050 Union Univeristy Drive
Jackson, TN 38305

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My list

You might be thinking that this list is going to be a list that has names of people that I want to kill, but that is far from it. I have been in student ministry ever since I got out of highschool. I have seen my student ministry hit bottom and seen it rise to the top. There so many lessons I have learned and I wanted to keep a list of the things that have hindered or helped a ministry. Its going to be an on going process though, but a good one.

Union is almost here! It is a crazy thing though. Leaving here with all the people I have grown up with and move to a place where, a good thing, make a new name for myself….even though I have a pretty good name…Cory Poston…good ring to it. But anyway….

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Alabama Day 2…I think

Well I’m in Montgomery, Alabama for about 2 full days. I did alot today. Well alot of nothing. I am at a church here in montgomery and it is massive. I am hanging out with a bunch of my friends up here and they all work at a church. It is amazing to know all the stuff that happens behind closed doors of a church. How people react with each other and all the stuff that goes on. Because you can show up o a sunday and everybody is just hunky-dory, but things are a mess behind the fake smiles. Who would of thunk it?

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Irresistible Revolution

Here is just a snippet of a book I am currently reading and one I encourage everyone to read at sometime. It is Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne. Its an amazing book from an amazing follower of Jesus. He quotes another person in here by the name of Soren Kierkegaard…

” The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliqed to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christian’s without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.”

 

Amazing….

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Finally College

I go to Valencia Community College. I am done with my two years there…which in fact is a grea place to start…the commercials are right. But anyway, I needed to look for a college to go to to finish my 4 years at college and I have recently been accepted by Union University in Jackson, Tennessee! Whew, I thought I wouldn’t be able to get into one because of so much stuff. But it finally happened! I know for some people it is nothing to get into college, I know some people got into their college the first try and it was something like UF or something. I dont have the greatest SAT scores to get into preschool, but I finally made it to a school. Not on my own abilities though. No way Jose. But I am so thankful to the One above to give me this oppurtunity to get out of Florida and experience His love and grace from a different state of view….haha get it? But it is such a blessing! It thundered a whole lot last night. Lighting filled my room. Very pretty. Well I will try and keep up to date with what is going on. Over and out.

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Lacrosse and Jesus

Well I played my first lacrosse game yesterday night in about 2 1/2 years, maybe more. It was exciting. Its kind of funny how I come from playing lacrosse against other college kids to watching a 9 month old and holding him while he sleeps. Its on exact opposite sides of the spectrum. Its funny how that spectrum extends into the following of Jesus. Jesus cleared the temple when people were selling animals and such and then not too far away he is touching the lame with the softest touch they have ever felt. I wonder what the hands of Christ feel like. Are they soft and smooth, or rough and leathery? Am I able to find that out in heaven? I hope.

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Family

This past weekend I have had the great opportunity to spend time with Sarah’s family. I mean the whole family. 11 people. Geesh. Anyway, some came from miami some from california and georgia. They came to see a graduation of Sarah’s brother. I never liked graduations…not even my own. Its boring. Yeah its a great time to get together and walk across a stage that has really no significance at all, it just goes right back stuffed somewhere in a closet and the decorations get shoved back into a box and placed inside a room of storage on the campus of West Orange. There is no power in that stage, or even that microphone. The hat, the gown, the tassel they all fade in color and get eaten by moths. They are destroyed by the conditions of this world. And the speeches! Some good some bad. One thing in common. Long. Its not that I don’t care to listen or to try and let it penetrate my skull, but I see some of them as a show. How can I impress my listeners and show how smart I am. Well at least to me that is how it seems. Yeah yeah, jealously…maybe. But there are many good things that happen on that day. It was a good day. Sometimes I make sense, sometimes I don’t.

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Random

Well its been a while. Have gotten pretty busy with my new job and summer school starting. Oh yeah which reminds me, got to take a test this weekend. Anyway, I recently saw a movie that just captivaed my soul. It was Into the Wild. It was an amazing story of a man basically finding himself out of society. It was amazing to see this movie and the passion of this young man. The best part is, it is from a true story. How great is that? This movie captured my spirit and threw up into the air and it landed outside my bedroom window in the great outdoors. If you have not seen this movie, I highly suggest you see this. There are some nudity in this movie and language, but other than that this movie is amazing.

I also recently am going through a time where I am learning not to complain so much about my life. About “organized church”, and bible study and quite times and everything. Stop being so cynical about the many things that other christians are against. Like, sometimes just what people say about the church and everything that is wrong with it, but it is where I found Jesus, with the help of my Youth Pastor. And many people find the Lord through the Love of the Church, yes even organized ones. We have to love them. No matter what. If its all wrapped up in money and attendance numbers, we have to love them. We dont sit and complain and point fingers at them becuase they are lost in sin. We love.

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Speechless…

I don’t understand the world we live in. I was watching the news this morning and its really scary and unbelievable what happens in the world. I watch the news in the morning for traffic purposes for me and getting to school. I have to take the 408 and I make sure there are no traffics accidents and such. But every time I do watch it, some one is either murdered or raped or in jail. And today I turned on the tv and I watched a tape of a girl beating the crap out of another girl. First off what the heck. I mean really c’mon. It made my stomach turn into knots when I watched it. I had to change the channel to sports center to not think about it. The fact that these girls (18 years old) lead a girl (16 years old) into a house and taped her being beat up does not make sense to me. It really hit me when the parents were talking about what the damage was. they said she suffered blurred vision and bruises and lost hearing in her left ear. What has the world come to? It saddens my heart that now a days women are not as precious as they once were held to be.  I remember watching all these movies from back in the day and women were just held with so much love and kindness. They have come a long way from that. Its amazing. Our world is broken and in need of a saviour. 

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Lacrosse

Went to my first lacrosse game almost since I have played like 3 years ago, and it was awesome. It made me want to get out there and hit someone. And I get to go again tonight. I am excited to see some lacrosse. It is playoffs for highschool here in west orange county and I get to see it. Let the games begin. 

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