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I guess this is my last post while I'm here in Dublin. It's cloudy outside, and I suppose that's fitting. I'm a little bit sad, especially when I think about leaving all of my friends that I've made here. I went to listen to Paul Washer speak last night at the Revival Conference. It is definitely a blessed end to a trip that I will never forget. He spoke on the importance of knowing the Gospel and what it really means to be a Christian. I went into the talk a little bit skeptical because he was scheduled to talk for 2 hours and I have been to conferences before where the speaker lost my attention in the first 10 minutes. I found out shortly through Paul's message that this would not be the case. After he had been speaking for an hour and a half, I looked down at my watch expecting to have been there for around 30 minutes.

He emphasized how man alone is not good in any way. Genesis 6:5 says "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

Our thoughts of our hearts are evil continually. Without God we are absolutely evil beings. Anything good in this world comes from God and God alone. God would still be just if he let every person in the history of the world be condemned to hell because of their rebellion against him. It is amazing to know that I serve a God who is so incredibly loving that He has saved me from my own destruction even though he didn't have to. Nothing about me deserves to be with God, but because of Jesus Christ I am found clean in His eyes. It terrifies me to think about the judgment that I deserve, but it brings me inexpresible joy to know that Jesus is the atonement for my sins and I will spend eternity with the creator of the universe.

There are so many thoughts going through my head right now, but I can't get them all down because I am thinking so many of them so fast.

Anyway, the talk last night was really good and I'm glad that I got to go.

My time here in Ireland has been awesome, I'll miss everything about it. I don't want it to end right now, but I don't think the airlines will push my flight back until I say goodbye to Jill. It's hard to say goodbye, so I won't say it, or put a period on the end of my last sentence. Maybe that will mean I will get to comeback someday