Archive for July, 2009
Running Kenya
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009I’ve been here since Saturday and yesterday we did a lot of walking, including some good hills. So I thought today would be a great day to run! I started at a house at the bottom of the hill in the complex we’re staying at and ran to the school at the top. Three other [...]
Kenya
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Gillian and I are packing tonight. Tomorrow we get on a plane and head to Kenya for two weeks. Before we’ve even left it has been an amazing trip. One that two and a half months ago I said was impossible. Jesus disagreed and guess who won? So we’re going to work with a friend. [...]
White Collar Vanity
Friday, July 10th, 2009It didn’t take much reading for my theory on Ecclesiastes to be tested. In chapter 6 Qoheleth talks about toil, the working man’s world, not the domain of the rich and powerful. “All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.” (Eccl 6:7) So is Qoheleth talking about all [...]
The Missing Flannelgraph
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009I started on Amos this morning. The Minor Prophets have a bit of a bad reputation because they’re perceived to be all doom and gloom. Except Jonah who is probably the only Minor Prophet to get his own flannelgraphs and Veggie Tales episode. And he was the biggest jerk of them all. Christians. Sheesh. True [...]
What is All Vanity?
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. – Eccl 1:1 I’ve started on Ecclesiastes today and it once again brought up old questions about the nature of the book. The typical approach is to say that Solomon wrote the book at the end of his life, looking back at how [...]
The Worthy Centurion
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009The elders of the Jews said of the centurion, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” – Luke 7:4 The centurion said of himself, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you [...]
The Newness of the New Covenant
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Justin Taylor posted an excerpt from an essay on the New Covenant by D. A. Carson. I really like Carson on a lot of things and count myself blessed to have sat under his teaching at Trinity, but this is one of the areas I don’t agree with him on. I am a credobaptist (one [...]
The Letter is not Greater than the Spirit
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry…how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the presence which is not lawful for any but the priest to eat?” – Luke 6:3-4 This always gives me pause. What exactly is Jesus up to here? Is he condoning [...]