About the Valentine’s Day Specials: These Valentine’s Day specials, of which there will be two or three, are an exposé of individuals who are presently single and I think are clearly high calibur dating material.

Name: Jake
Preferred Nickname: No, I really don’t like the name “Nick”
Age: 21
Gender: Testosterone-induced

Major: Secondary Education in Math
Ideal Job: I think a more appropriate question would be ideal salary
Realistic Job: Teaching as a platform for ministry

Interests: The arts (the classical stuff, not the crap we see now), Dr. Pepper, dancing in the rain
Oft-used Phrases: “Woman, please!”, “Boy howdy!”
Interesting secret: I’m Batman.

Looks for in a Mate: A woman (and everything that entails, see Genesis 1-2) with two legs that breathes, and is susceptible to the kvorka

Religious beliefs: I believe that the God of the Bible is the only true God, that He is who He says He is, and that my beliefs don’t affect who He is. I also believe that men have fallen out of relationship with God because of sin, and that God sent His Son Jesus Christ to take my punishment upon Himself. By His death and resurrection, I can stand before God in a right relationship, but only because I have been called by God into that relationship.

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Categories: Friends, Good Times
Tags: couch, dating, Jake, Valentine's Day

Today is the 14^th of February, and we all know what that means. Valentine’s Day! Despite the usual connotations of the day for a single man in this country (such as loneliness, depression, and perhaps more loneliness), I’ve had a nice day. My friend Phil and I conspired and got roses for a few wonderful ladies. It was a lot of fun delivering those and seeing the girl’s reactions. I really enjoyed it.

Tonight is Java Love. We’re heading out to the East Campus Union and going to listen to a few singles, a couple, and a long-time married couple talk about Godly relationships. Afterwards, there is a dance. It was mostly fun last year, although I think I skipped out on most of the dance in order to drive away with some chairs.

The following are a couple of my favorite Bible passages related to love:

1 John 4:7-12
God Is Love

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹²For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Categories: Life, Religious
Tags: Bible, Phil, Valentine's Day