When I got back from New Orleans, I saw that Kris had laid out a new credit card for me to use. On our walk Friday morning, I asked if that card was a new credit card — to which she said, “No, Scot, that is a new debit card.” Well, I asked, “What is a debit card?” Kris said… |inline Read more
The third word used for Torah in Psalm 119:129-136 is “commandments” (mitzvot; v. 131). Attached to v. 131 is v. 132: because the psalmist longs for God’s mitzvot and because that longing expresses the psalmist’s love (v. 132b), he implores God to turn to him. |inline Read more
I received a copy of a book that I could not review intelligently. It is by Vern Poythress and it is on science and faith, so I asked my friend, RJS (a science professor at a research institution), if she’d like to review it. Here is her first installment. She’s got some good questions at the end. |inline Read more
Kris and I drove down to Indianapolis (home of the Colts) from Chicago (da Bears) Saturday afternoon because I was invited to speak at East 91st Street Church. Quite a set up and we had a wonderful time — the fellowship, the hospitality, and the honor to participate in a church that is (as one pastor said to me) a bit out of control … in that wonderful “what will God do next” sort of way. It was quite exciting... Read more
I will be speaking at an event in Portland on Saturday, March 3. The event is called Crossing Borders, and I will be speaking twice — once in the afternoon to the youth and then in the evening to everyone on Embracing Grace and learning to live out a missional gospel. The good Covenant folks in Portland are opening up this event to the public. If you’d like to attend you can sign up here. Read more
In Psalm 119:129-136 the psalmist uses seven different words to describe the Torah: today we look at the second word. It is “word/s” (devar). Psalm 119:130: “The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” |inline Read more
Anyone who begins a chp with this quotation from TS Eliot has my attention: “The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.” So Alan Hirsch quotes Eliot to open chp 4 of The Forgotten Ways. |inline Read more
Luke turns 27 today, and if you have a yen for it, visit his site and wish him a Happy Birthday! We don’t always know where he’ll be on birthdays anymore — I think he might be in North Carolina today scouting some college baseball players — but cell phones and the internet permit us to stay in touch. We might see you next weekend in Greensboro – how cool would that be, but we’re all wishing you a good... Read more
I got a letter from a pastor up in Seattle, and in it he had these questions: –how many book do you usually have going at a time? –how do you mark-up/make notes in your books? –how do you file/make notes for future reference and/or research from the books you read? |inline Read more
Psalm 119:129-136 (letter pe) expresses two things: various words of the Bible (seven different ones) and the wonderful delight the psalmist finds in them. The first word mentioned is “statutes” (‘edot). He finds the edot of God wonderful and therefore he delights to obey them. |inline Read more
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