a good one from pascal

I came across this tonight:

"Do small things as if they were great, because of the majesty of Christ, who does them in us and lives our life, and great things as if they were small and easy, because of his almighty power."

saw a funny costume

I saw a man today (black) carrying a dog. He was wearing a red Falcons jersey with the number 7 on it...

agape

So, I have learned a lot in hermeneutics class this semester. I am going to try to take any class I can with this professor.

Today Dr. Wellum was talking about common exegetical fallacies. He gave an example about the Greek words for love (agape, phileo, and eros). He was talking about how it has been said again and again from the pulpit that there is an inherent distinction within the words. He then stated "guys, we really have got to quit saying this sort of thing." He then pointed to John 3:35 and John 5:20 where the terms phileo and agape are used interchangeably. But, a little more shockingly, he pointed to the use of agape in 2 Timothy 4:10 to speak of Demas who loved the world and deserted Paul. But the most surprising use of agape comes from the LXX in 2 Samuel 13:15 where it refers to an incestuous relationship.

His point was that there is a special sense of Christian love and godly love, but that understanding is derived from the context of passages talking about love. It does not come from an inherent distinction in the words. Too often "inherent distinctions" are the result of Greek students who know too little but want to do something with what they know...

He got me.

guess who i saw

emmy's

here is a quote from "above all earthly pow'ers"
Wells is getting to his point of how christology functions in a culture of relativism...this an interesting lead up about immigration..........he was talking about european immigration here:

"The tensions which this immigration has created appear to be even greater than in America becase these nations are all so much older, the memories longer, their ethnic sense deeper, and there is no nation in Europe whose genesis lies, as America's does, in ideas and which is made up almost entirely of immigrants adn their descendants."

we are a nation of immigrants and ideas. that is humbling.

pants

chip, how are your mountain khakis length wise? mine are like an inch too short now...hmm...

also a tip
i read in men's health about buying really hard jeans and breaking them in yourself. it works. they are my favorite pants.
levi's 501 'shrink to fit' - the only thing is i have to clean them like michael scott.

game

I really don't need to update much. i thought I'd give you a dose of my days though:

445am: wake up, work till 1030am

if tues-thurs: go to class afterwards
if mon or fri: study afterwards

sat/sun: sleep till 9 go study

Rachel has a really really busy schedule, I rarely see her during the week.
and on weekends, which is why i'm writing this now. I'm waiting for her to get out of work.

Funny: I'm at a coffee shop now, and the chinese man behind the counter is getting irate because he is trying to convince the other baristas that color "pumpkin" is a "brownish" color.
Well hey, i ended up updating anyway.

ttyl

on contradictions in Scripture

Here is a quote I came across on the contradictions of Scripture by B. H. Carroll in Baptists and the Bible:
I have seen these contradictions melt away until I have lost all confidence in them. Now, a boy is usually a great deal smarter than his father, and then he is when he gets to be a father. When I was a boy I thought I had found a thousand contradictions in the Bible. In the Old Bible of my young manhood I marked them all.
Well, I had then nearly a thousand more contradictions than I have now. I do not see them now; they are not there. There are perhaps a half dozen in the Bible that I cannot explain satisfactorily to myself. I don't say that my explanation of all the others would satisfy everybody. There are some that I cannot explain satisfactorily to myself; but since I have seen nine hundred and ninety-four out of those thousand coalesce and harmonize like two streams mingling, I am disposed to think that if I had more sense I could harmonize those other six; and even if I ever fail to harmonize them, God knows better than I know, and that when I know perfectly just as I now know only in part, and only a very small part, I will be able to understand that; and so when I come to things of that kind and cannot master them, I put them in parenthesis and say, "I will come back; God cannot leave you penned forever; He will send somebody that can take away the difficulty and make it clear to me." I assume that it can be done.

when the man comes around

I saw this at Justin Taylor's blog. It's pretty awesome.

tornadoes

Thursday night Benji and Sarah had me over for dinner. We ate the salads in the dining room and the rest of the meal in the basement. Why? Because there was a tornado alarm blaring all over the city and they were warning everyone to take shelter. I've never experienced anything like it. During that first "cell" there was a tornado that touched down. They said it was moving at about 45mph! I thought they went, like, 5, maybe 10mph. Once the first storm cell passed I saw on the radar that I had a window of opportunity to make it back to SBTS before an even larger cell came. I needed to study for my Hebrew quiz in the morning, so I left. When I got to the school I found out people had been hiding in the basement here as well. I studied and went to bed and apparently slept through another one that sent everyone to the basement. The whole thing was a crazy new experience for me. I think I had only ever felt threatened by a tornado when a hurricane was coming. At the point you are kind of freaked out anyways. Up here it just kind of came out of nowhere...

i need new wallabee's

Jon...are they still selling clarks at the flea market?

Luke...T4G is in ken-tuck-y right...i could be up for that

i'm sick...

t4g.org

t4G '08 anyone?

This is a portion of Mark Driscoll's "Confessions of a Reformission Rev." He is writing about early on in their church's history when summer rolled around and they were losing attendance.

"Scrambling for ideas, I agreed to cancel a Sunday church service to let some of our long-haired public-radio types take us outside to do a large joint art project they had proposed. They gave each of us a large chunk of paper on which to paint something that symbolized our personality, which they would then string together as a large mural highlighting the different personalities in our church. As a truck-driving jock who watches a lot of Ultimate Fighting, I can honestly say it was the gayest thing I have ever been a part of. I feared ending up with a church of chickified arty dudes drinking herbal tea and standing around talking about their feelings, as illustrated by their finger painting. To this day, I twitch like a Vietnam vet just thinking about the mural."

It cracked me up!

"So...what's alex up to these days?"

OETR

yes! i dug it out of my trunk about 3 months ago and Rachel and I went. it was a weird date. There were lots of "red hat" women yelling and giggling...
the food was good though.

thats cool that you saw alex, glad to hear he's well.
some durham youth pastor's called the other day, asking if he was a missionary yet. I'll update them:)

Tea Room...

Jon...did we ever use our gift certificate to the tea room?

fyi

me and guys saw this donkey...

hey guys,

I finally made it to the blogosphere! This is an awesome site by the way!

Monday I ate lunch with Alex Keeling, which was really cool and very random. I went in to the bank to deposit money for a youth trip and he was standing in the back of the bank. When he left the Summit, he moved to Elizabeth City (which is about 45 min from the OBX) and his territory included banks on the beach. Anyway, it was cool seeing him. He seems to be doing great...same ole' Alex. He has another kid on the way (Roman - which is a cool name).

Lauren in going on a spiritual retreat this weekend (Thursday-Sunday). It's the Walk to Emmaus...I went on it my first year at Southeastern and you guys wrote letters. Pray for her this weekend if you think about it. It's been a busy couple months for her and she is looking forward to spending some good time with the Lord.

I am reading the book "The Irresistible Revolution - Living as an ordinary radical." It was given to me by a friend and at first discounted it because it seemed to be among all the "emerging" stuff coming out. It's definitely different but for the most part is pretty good. It reads like "Blue like Jazz" and it similar in content. Also similar is how you value this book "don't really disagree with what is said, but scared to agree too."

Anyway, this is getting long. See you soon hopefully

cowboy

i'm also going to grab that flyer tomorrow...i forgot to get it today..........

that reminds

remember north hills?
I ate with rachel and her mom over yonder thother day, at panera.
I don't think i should have gone. I'm finding out that girlfriend's mom's are really life coaches/psychiatrists.
I fiddled with a soup-bread-bowl for most of the convo...but it was still quality time.

have you taken any exams yet? i made an 83 on both of mine. i need to study a bitttttt more
work and school is tiring, i may have to request less hours at Caribou

where the blank is chip

blocks

Last week I got to tear large portions of a building down with a forklift. Awesome.

Over the weekend the rest of the building was knocked over...

Today, I got to pick up blocks, ship off the mortar, and stack them on pallets. Not so awesome...


It was humid today. It rained and then got real sunny. It kind of reminded me of home. It kind of got me thinking that I'm pretty sure NC is the best state. This led me to telling Jesus I wouldn't mind if I lived in NC in the new earth.

Hey

I agree.
I'll try to post each week.
If this doesn't work I don't know what else will. Maybe video conferencing via satellite...

three-way (chat)

Alright guys.

This is an effort to keep up together. I talk to Jon. I talk to Chip. Chip talks to me. Chip talks to Jon. Jon talks to Chip and talks to me. Yet, it has been a long time since Luke and Jon and Chip have all talked together.

This is the closest thing we have for now.

This blog doesn't have to be about anything. Just us and anything worth posting because it is relates to us.