What have I been up to?

I was able to return this summer to Annapolis, Maryland, where I spent two years after college working as a mechanical engineer. For the summer, I am a pastoral intern at the church I attended here. What does that entail? A bunch of things I love to do! My favorite of which is preparing to preach, and then actually preaching. Now, I only get to preach one time this summer (August 3rd - 6:30 pm), but I'm preaching from Revelation, which means I have a lot of learning to do (having never studied it in depth before). So I have spent a significant amount of time reading and thinking about Revelation. Immersing myself in the word is sooo sweet. I leave the office sometimes with my view of the Lamb who sits on the throne enlarged, and reminded of the weight of eternity. This sort of study of the word is a large part of why I love the idea of being a pastor. Of course, these things are meant to be preached! I look forward to August 3rd.
I also spend alot of time preparing for Sunday school. I'm teaching a course that involves some heavy duty theology on the Doctrine of God. I doubt I'm doing it justice, but I am learning alot as I go. I talk to my good friend (and a pastor here) Tom Wenger about this material all the time, and learn a ton. Tom is a motivation to me to be assiduous in my theological studies.
I also take a fair amount of time throughout the week to meet with other men in the college/career group to spur each other on and build fellowship. Furthermore, I get to tag along on all sorts of great pastoral activities - session meetings, committee meetings, and hopefully some visitations (hospital/shut in) coming up. I have great debrief times with the Senior Pastor (Bruce O'neil) about these things. I've learned alot from that man too.
I'm excited for what is ahead. The summer is flying by quickly though!