Some of My Ambitions

It is frustrating to discover that I have a hundred awesome ambitions, projects and curiosities, when I know that I have only 24 hours in a day, I sleep away about 7 of them, I work three jobs, and I’m about to start back in school.

To clear my brain, I suppose I could blog out a few goals that come to mind (in no particular order):

  1. To read the parts of the Bible that I am not sure that I have read.
  2. To listen to seminary lectures on my iPod. (These are available for free on iTunes U for “Reformed Theological Seminary”)
  3. To rewrite some classic and powerful hymns with modern styling.
  4. To write a concept album that preaches the Law of God and the Gospel together.
  5. To read “The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment” by Tim Challies.
  6. To blog more and more, hopefully one day making this blog into a functional Bible study that disciples Christians in faith, the way that I have been discipled by some of my closest friends.
  7. To continue listening to my 15+ GB sermon library (Available free through the iTunes podcast directory). Along with this I want to organize the most powerful sermons that I hear, and also potentially burn copies to CDs to give out to others.
  8. To start working through some of the guitar pedal schematics I have found and start building a few pedals.
  9. To grow solid in my prayer habits, and increase in love of God.
  10. To get back to distance running.
  11. To start a wiki-based song book where the community researches the scriptural basis of songs and cross references and catalogs them, making it easier to sing songs that relate to the pastor’s scripture text for the sermon.
  12. To start a community effort of compiling an audio bible from the preaching of pastor’s sermons.

What are your ambitions? Leave me a comment.

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One Response to “Some of My Ambitions”

  1. Anthony H. Says:
    September 5, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    Got some work ahead of you there, eh Ben? I think about my own ambitions a lot, just because I tend to get disorganized and side-tracked. Thanks, you got me thinking about them again.

    Here’s some of mine (I wrote a whole page on paper):

    1. To read the Bible through for the first time within the next year.

    2. To faithfully memorize Scripture.

    3. To go soul winning faithfully.

    4. To get better at soul winning through practice.

    5. To start a yardwork business this coming year.

    6. To write a career plan this coming year (want to get into college early, so it’s important that I have this in hand)

    7. To save up for a laptop.

    8. To save up for a bike (or do I have one…? So much stuff is in storage)

    9. To organize the paper mess in my room/type up all of my documents.

    10. To build up my own blog.

    11. To get a small group together for Bible study, prayer, discipleship, and soul winning.

    12. To just earn some money.

    13. To compile a list of Christian websites & post them online (this will be one of them [=)] )

    There’s a lot more, but, this is some of the most important stuff.

    Oh yeah:

    14. To read a whole lot more, put myself on a structured reading schedule.

    15. To learn to play keyboard.

    Thanks for this opporotunity to let some of this stuff out. I think I’ll do something similar.

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