About

A coworker made this meme for me unfortunately. I apologize for this bit of humor…

The funny thing about this meme is that I have made the comment that this movie, featuring a much better looking actor, portrays a disabled man with some serious tactical capabilities. Another acquaintance of mine jokingly said that “The Accountant” raises the bar for “people with disabilities” everywhere. Well, how could a “stylish and pacy thriller” be any better than with an “extra lovable” mug on the cover with some serious bible-wielding tactical savvy? JK ….Never mind!

Time to get a little real!

That’s more like it! ….Well, it remains to be seen.

The Site

“Blogging Under the Same Sun” was originally “The Blue Collar Biblical Scholar Blog” (which is reflected in the site’s domain), but it is a site focused on making Biblical Studies as a discipline accessible as well as edifying to other laymen in the church. Adam Lambdin is a B.A. in Christian Ministries and an M.A. in Biblical Studies. He has a background in retail and manufacturing as well as Sunday school teaching at Bethany Baptist Church in Sedalia, MO [though my work schedule made that difficult]. He has been the Sunday School Director for Bethany Baptist Church as well, with experience mentoring youth and ministering as a layman. He is Jenece’s husband and Emma and Nora’s father. His passion is to explain the Bible in ways that can be readily understood.

I am also a self-attested “meme-thieving savage.” The memes that I “steal” and share I do not say are my own nor the views expressed by my “constituents.” However, a working husband and father has to maintain his morale with a dose of sarcasm (as noted above), and it is all in good fun. But that is really what I make available on one of my many platforms. Yes, it’s Instagram! Click here for my Facebook page – “Qoheleth’s Quick Memes and Themes.”

As a side note, I was in the Army from 2009 to 2010, and I developed problems that I am not shy about sharing the darkness and pain of that time with others (click here to see my YouTube video). I am fully recovered and shouldering responsibility as a husband and father, much to my own joy. I am also pursuing certification as an ACBC counselor. God has given me purpose and contentment because He leads me wherever I go. May you be blessed in similar ways!

My Testimony

I confessed faith in Christ who died on the cross for my sins (and rose again) when at 6 years of age while praying with my Dad, and I was baptized at 11 years old, and I have no reason to doubt my sincerity at that time.

Since then, because I have been a Christian for essentially as long as my memory serves me well, it has been a process of deepening my appreciation for grace by learning to lean on Him instead of on my ambitions or my talents or desires or whatever my level of sincerity was as a born again saint. Grace is dynamic and active. The Holy Spirit reminds me of my need to set aside my personal goals and to surrender to His prescribed process of being renewed daily. It involves patience which I rarely have, and stillness of soul.

The Holy Spirit seems to work all this out with or without my conscious effort. And I have a mixed history of defeats and successes as do we all, but it was complicated for me since I was diagnosed with schizophrenia while in the Army at the age of 25, and I have struggled with this off and on at rare times, usually around periods of intense stress and/or change. We all can point to this or that thing, circumstance, or problem as that which hinders our life. I have always wanted to do well, but I feel weighed down with this oftentimes “shame-ridden” disease when I reflect on all the things I wanted to do for the Lord but am unable to accomplish by default.

I have spent my whole career up until recent times trying to become a pastor and praying earnestly towards that end, but God has sidelined me of His own volition (for all practical purposes due to a more recent relapse), and I cannot believe that I have a right to complain. I am immensely grateful for His providence and care for me because there were times I entertained some negative choices in life, and I am certainly capable of error.

Schizophrenics are in fact 2.5 times as likely to die with Dementia as well. But you should always come to the Lord with earnest. It might not be a sudden death that catches you unawares. We presume our mental acuity will always remain capable of grasping God’s love, but what if you lose that ability somehow? Even at a young age? Don’t wait.

Yet, I am blessed with my wife Jenece who is very patient and helpful as well as two beautiful daughters. Somehow, the Lord fashioned me for this. In my heart, to this day I have learned to reiterate to the Lord very sincerely that whether He wants to make a fool out of me or to embarrass me, it is entirely within His power and ability to do so. And I have surrendered my life to the Lord repeatedly because it helps me in this present reality. However, I know that He is under no obligation, and that I am not somehow giving Him something that He does not already possess in its entirety. He holds the world in the palm of His hands and he holds me up as well hopefully for many years. I am blessed with such a relationship. God gets all the credit. Don’t wait to follow Him.