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Wrestling With Ideas

Writing is hard work. Learning is hardwork. I actually love writing. I actually love learning. For me, every class, every book, every paper that I have to write is an opportunity to play with new ideas to try to figure out how they work, and how they interact with other ideas that are floating aroundContinue reading “Wrestling With Ideas”

Whirlwind weekend

I’ve been crazy busy this weekend. But busy in a good way. On Friday I met my niece, Violet. She’s adorable. We had dinner with my Brother and sister-in-law. On Saturday I had an early breakfast with the head’s of NU’s MATC (Ron Herms) and MAML (Alan Ehler) programs, and the Provost (Jim Heugel), andContinue reading “Whirlwind weekend”

progress

Today, I am at nineteen pages for my fifteen to eighteen page chapter on an overview of the prophets. The good news is that I have have done a lot of research and it has paid off with pages. The bad news is that I know I am going to have to edit this chapterContinue reading “progress”

From Abraham Heschel’s The Prophets: Conventional seeing, operating as it does with patterns and coherences, is a way of seeing the present in the past tense. Insight is an attempt to think in the present. Insight is a breakthrough, requiring much intellectual dismantling and dislocation. It begins with a mental interim, with the cultivation ofContinue reading

Forced Rest

My schedule has been a little too crazy lately. With School stuff, easter, church events, and my wife also working, we have been a little crazy at the Casa Deumana. This week alone is crazy. Let me give you the run down Friday to Friday Good Friday Gathering & Kathy had to work Saturday MountlakeContinue reading “Forced Rest”

Writing and Fear

I’ve been researching like a maniac the origins and purpose of Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible. I need to start writing about what I have learned. The challenge for me with this writing project is that when I commit my words to paper I feel like I’m revealing my mind and my heart to theContinue reading “Writing and Fear”

I Have An Idea

I have a lot of ideas actually. But I need to finish the ideas that are right in front of me (a talk on Work for a Men’s Conference, Two Sermons For May, My Thesis) that have deadlines. But after all these ideas processed and shipped out, I have another idea that I’d like toContinue reading “I Have An Idea”

Bringing enemies together = the gospel

Isaiah 19:24-25 says: 24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.” In this chapter the prophet isContinue reading “Bringing enemies together = the gospel”

___________ Christian

I have a friend who identifies himself as a reformed Christian. This is a new development in his faith journey, and he is very excited about all the implications of the Gospel, the Sovereignty of God, and all that amazing stuff. There is nothing wrong with the reformed tradition in my understanding of the tradition.Continue reading “___________ Christian”

Shipping Is Important

In my line of work it’s very easy to have projects that just kind of float in my brain. I might tweak a project every once and awhile and feel like I’m making progress. But I know a simple truth and I think you know this too. If the project doesn’t have a due date,Continue reading “Shipping Is Important”