I, like just about everyone else, don’t like being frantic. I want peace and tranquility. I talk about living in the boat where Jesus was sleeping in the midst of the storm. I want to have that peace which supercedes the storms that swirl about me. But I have come to realize that if you [...]
This is just a quick update until I get a chance to sit down for a few minutes. We had a great weekend in North Carolina with Sarah, John, Ethan & Maggie. On our way flying home we got bumped from our flight… so we both got roundtrip tickets for another flight! Hurray!
Mark’s laptop decided [...]
(NOTE: we ran out of final mem’s and no nikud were included in the set, so you’ll have to point it yourself)
And here’s a Christmas hint (or should that be Chanukah?) for my stocking–Biblical Hebrew comic books!!
In a week full of midterms, quizzes and papers it is necessary for me to embrace the lesson in Katarina von Schlegel’s hymn based on Psalm 131:1-3. The words of this hymn from the 1700’s are as fresh today as they were 300 years ago.
Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side;
bear patiently [...]
“If you have come to WTS to study and learn so that God is more comprehensible to you, then you have come to the wrong place! As we know more about God, we see more of his incomprehensibility.” (Dr. Gaffin)
We can look at things in terms of the relationship between the knowability of God and [...]
When I first arrived back home after my 6 week sojourn to Maine and NJ, I must admit I was less than enthusiastic about our new little (still mostly packed) apartment. I allowed self-pity to crowd out the blessings that God had given me. But, now (I am happy to say) I have begun to [...]
Our counseling class this fall is reading (among many other things) Dave Powlison’s new book Seeing with New Eyes. Chapter 13, “What Do You Feel?” looks at the various ways that we use the word “feel” in our conversations. Consider this example from the chapter.
“When I feel hurt because I feel my _______ (fill [...]
OK, so we have an assignment due this week for New Testament. We are looking at the context of the New Testament and the initial audience. After several reading assignments (see below) we are challenged to write a reaction that several ancient rabbis might have had to the teachings of Jesus (specifically, the teachings in [...]