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Loma Linda University Student Association

Relationships Week 2006

Don Mackintosh

God? Why?

Parents? How?

Peers? Who?

Back to Normal

Phil Mills

God’s Purpose in Marriage

God’s Ideal in Courtship

The Essentials of Happiness

Key Questions Before Marriage

Courtship Question and Answer Session

Hey good to see all of you today, and you know the world kind of focuses on relationships when I went to school unfortunately My life my grades were really a barometer.

They really showed what was happening in my life relationally.

If things were going wrong with, you know, you got the wrong 1 baby, uh-uh.

My grades were going wrong, and up and down and around, and so, you know, what I'm talking about this week is like really relevant and I see some of you like nodding already you know and the same thing is true once you get married you know I'm a pastor of 2 churches and if mama's not happy you heard to say ain't nobody happy and so usually on Friday night you know we're attacked as ministers and God you know the devil tries to take me out because the next day I have to get up and preach and teach and so those relationships have to be in tune or I'm gonna be in trouble.

This week we're gonna be talking about relationship with God, relationship with parents, relationships with peers, and then are you normal.

I'm not gonna tell you what that's about but it's kind of kind of build 1 on the top of the other and I got to tell you that all I'm going to be really doing is telling you my Story, you know like hi.

I'm going to be telling you about You know my relationships and different things.

That's all I really have to share with you.

So Today I introduced you to a couple of the ladies in my life.

I I have I live with 3 ladies My wife and then my 2 daughters.

Can't really see her, but she's right there in the shadows.

Then we have Shmooky, which really her name is Elizabeth, means rest and she's anything but restful.

And then there's Catherine Caroline, she's my southern bell and she rings all day and night.

Then, I mean it's just great little kids and oh man, Schmookey is just, oh man, I'd say she is sugar.

This is my newest, it's the first picture of him.

This is Malcolm and we didn't know it was Malcolm yet because you see there's many ways that could go there but the the 1 that finally won we called Donald Malcolm.

And there if I blew it up a little more you could see everything that helps us know that he's a boy.

That's like 3 or 4 minutes after he's born he came out he's like sneaky looking you know like just looking around like I said to my wife oh God help us because I know he's gonna be trouble but I'm looking forward to it So this week again God why parents how peers who then are you getting back to normal?

Why God, you know, I didn't always believe in God I was raised in a Christian home I was raised actually in the Seventh-day Adventist home.

I actually am a fourth-generation Seventh-day Adventist pastor.

But being raised in an Adventist home turned me off completely to religion for a time.

I left the church, I became an atheist, a card-carrying atheist.

I read all kinds of the philosophies, which I'll get into a little bit later, that take you nowhere quickly.

And I find myself, you know, without God in any way, and I was vitriolic about this.

I like to eat them for lunch and have a few leftover for supper and dinner.

But it was when I got into health care, when I finally graduated from nursing school and when I got out and I started working in a health care situation that I came to know God.

Right here you're in a health care situation and if you listen the voice of God is there it will speak to you.

I remember just like yesterday I'm gonna tell stories that are not in chronological order in terms of this presentation but I'm telling you different ways God spoke to me.

I better look at my notes here, kind of keeps me on track when my wife's not here.

1 of the reasons I believe in God is because he speaks to the worst.

I was working this particular night in the emergency department and the hospital emergency radio network, the hern, went off.

There was someone coming in who had been severely injured and they were on the way to the hospital and here they came in and this guy was messed up.

They said, when he first came in the door, they said his name and all of us knew, oh, it's from that family.

I hope that your name is not Saffel, but anyway he was Sam Saffel.

He came in and this guy had a terribly injured leg because he had been inebriated and the frontal lobe was not connected to anything else.

And so everything else became disconnected from the frontal lobe.

But he had this ability to just completely turn the place upside down.

He walked in or he came in on the gurney and he sees the lady that's the receptionist who happens to be back in the emergency rooms.

He goes, man if I was your husband, if you have 1, I would have left you a long time ago.

He didn't realize that her husband had just left her that week.

She looked at another lady who was there and says, man you sir are fat.

This lady had a terrible self-image and was struggling with that and she left the room upset.

He continued to go down the line and it was as if he had a sense of what was wrong about everybody and he just honed in on it and pretty soon everybody was all upset with Sam.

Nobody wanted to take care of him, no 1 wanted to kill him.

Now I was attending the seminary at the time and working as a nurse at night and they all kind of of 1 accord turned and looked at me and said, you will go in to take care of Sam.

And I said, oh brother, son of Sam, here I go.

And I went in there and I was praying at the time, God help me.

God help me because the guy might kill me number 1 and number 2 all these people for the glory of your name help me out here so I go in there and Sam is yelling I mean just like that could 1 of the demoniacs times 6 he's yelling at me oh you piece of protoplasm and some other things added in there and he was just going on and on and he was like ripping me up and down he's like look at that look at you I heard you're a bitter boy.

On and on yelling and screaming there were 2 armed guards there you know in the room and he was tied he was strapped here and here and he was kind of flailing around like a fish and he was trying to get at me, you know.

I said to the guards, I said, maybe it's the guards.

And all he was like going backwards in generations and forwards in generations.

I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do.

So finally I said, man, what I need to do is he's yelling so I need to, I need to do what I want him to do I'm gonna whisper so I said all the sudden he looks at me and he goes...

The people outside now, see it's completely silent in the room.

He had been yelling, they hadn't heard me.

Series

Relationships Week 2006

God? Why?

Transcript

Parent Series

Sponsor

Recorded

Plenary Sessions

How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

42m

Babylon, America, and Bible Prophecy

01 The Revelation of Jesus Christ

1h 21m

The Four Most Important Questions

48m

Pavel Goia Weekend

01 Can People Change?

1h 11m

The True Medical Missionary

56m

AMEN 2006 Friday Morning Breakout Sessions

What’s the Connection?

1h 33m

The Power of God's Word

6. Power in Personal Bible Study

1h

How to Know God's Will for My Life

How to Know God’s Will for My Life

41m

GYC 2013 Seminar: To All: World Religions and Mission

04-“The Cross and Whatever”: Postmodernism and Missions 101

58m

MTYC 2010 Breakout Seminar - Relationship

Am I His Witness?

48m

Jesus in Our Doctrines

1h 6m

Emmanuel Institute Bootcamp

2. Salvation

1h 58m

Sound Doctrine