Are you all wondering where to start looking about for work in Virginia? For those looking for a fresh start, this could be a work field guide. I don’t know why you’d look into what I have to offer in the job sector since I’m kind of pigeon-holed. If the work boards don’t lead you directly to a Virginia site, you can usually start by filtering the results somehow. It’s different on every website, but with the filters, it’s the... Read more
* Juxtaposition before this article || “it keeps no record of being wronged . . . full of grace and truth . . . speaking the truth in love” (1 Cori xiii.5 NLT; Jn i.14 HCSB; Eph iv.15 NIV). These Passages are not diametrically opposed, but I struggle weaving them together in my journal, truly, honestly. You never know what I’m going to write in my Moleskine wanna-be leather bound little Think Ink notebook from Tennessee. Furthermore, this is not a... Read more
Reading Week at seminary | Let’s tentatively begin again at this point: and this common read: https://100daysofdante.com/cantiche-paradiso-21-30/?#canto-30 maybe tune in to some easy listening: I’m still waiting for the gavel to fall and Dante to have to make a speech like, “Well, it was nice talking to you all” ): I wish I could connect and have a conversation with this guy about 1-2 times per week. I think he leans toward Orthodox; my hypothesis. I’d really like to know... Read more
“In the ideology of the free market, freedom is conceived as the absence of interference from others.” William Cavanaugh [1] The article question is easy to ask, but difficult to answer. Have Politics Poisoned The Evangelical Church? There are a couple factors affecting this article. First, I look like an Evangelical on paper, but I have become fairly devoted to Ecumenism in recent years. One of the striking differences is engagement, i.e. in the marketplace and arenas like social justice,... Read more
I always start by reading the day-plan with all the readings for the main Text. Gateway put this plan together really well, because there’s an OT reading, a Psalm, a thought from Proverbs, and a NT reading each day. However, the themes are so well interwoven with the Fresh Start, I’m able to always get some context for the main. * Currently listening to the new EP from Stephen Day | Our Vinyl Sessions CLICK Late evening tea, another Keurig... Read more
There is one seat of authority over all, even Christians . . . even regarding matters of ethics or conviction. In Romans xiv.6-9, Paul launches into other matters of conviction. Again, the backdrop is a debate with the Judaizers, a rogue group attempting to make all Gentile Christians conform to Jewish Law and tradition (verse 6). There is always fuel for discussions on matters of conviction though, i.e. personal preferences, group norms, etc. Paul ties people together from various sides... Read more
Tonight somebody said “Happy New Year” as we chatted for a moment. My first reaction was “Yom Kippur,” which was actually last week. I never quite know with this person who really has the upper hand with Hebraic Scripture, customs, interpretation, etc. So I poked around in old journals. There’s always some significance to this window of days for me, usually some discerning process. a college fair to remember At one point, my guesstimate is sometime around now October 2018,... Read more
There are plenty of celebrated authors in the Christian faith. However, these are some books on hand which are not deep in the vaults of my personal library. Furthermore, this is a different platform. For those who are my readers, at times I will host a Tea Time with some type of talk over a select coffee or tea brew. This site carries it one step further into membership, and the title can’t be beat | buymeacoffee.com/jared.ingle There are only a... Read more
Some believe Sabbath is a practice, a spiritual discipline so to speak. Therefore an actual day of observance is beside the point. 1. we’ve got calendar issues There is ongoing speculation about the ebb and flow of the calendar at the time of Paul’s writing. Perhaps talks about a calendar based on the solar year, rather than the lunar calendar, are already underway in the times. Whatever the case may be, and whatever debates Paul could be addressing in the... Read more
food and work for the day, ethics pt. 11 There is continuity to this Passage, and the preceding ones, if we realize Paul is addressing ethical issues one by one. He seems to be knocking down doors and turning over tables that have historically divided nonbelievers, believers, and possibly even some of the Jews in his time. He is welcoming everyone to the table, by establishing ethics based on a new Judeo-Christian approach. Paul’s approach is certainly not unique. There... Read more
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