Do you ever feel like you only put half as much energy as possible into everything you do? I feel like that’s what’s going on in my life lately… I’m only putting half of myself into my studies, into my teaching, into my relationship with Tara, into playing the guitar, into everything. [...]
The other day, a student of mine gave me a book entitled “God: The Master Mathematician,” written by a Dr. Noah Hutchings in 2002. (Read about it on amazon.com … especially look at the one customer review.) This book is all about finding mathematical patterns in the Bible and using those as [...]
News flash: It’s official. Next year I will be a math instructor at Taylor University!
Dr. Chechowich called to seal the deal this evening, just a few hours after my final interview with Dr. Steve Bedi (provost) on the phone. Everyone there is excited to have me on the faculty for one year, [...]
I just got off the phone with Dr. Steve Bedi, provost at Taylor University. He and I had a good conversation about how I view this upcoming year-long employment as a Taylor faculty member fitting into the broader picture of God’s plan for my life, specifically as it relates to my calling to pastoral [...]
Today’s Family Life Cycle lecture was about divorce (and ministry to divorced people). There were lots of little tidbits that I found interesting in class today… some are more applicable to me/us than others.
Empathy is an important part in sustaining a marriage.
Divorce requires a grieving period, not a substitutionary remarriage.
Some states allow for “covenant [...]
…that’s what today is. My interviews at Taylor went very well yesterday morning and this morning. The class I taught up there went smoothly. It’s a beautiful, sunny day outside, warm (60 degrees!) for the first time in ages. My fiance is coming to see me this afternoon. Oh yes, [...]
Well, after getting my recent sickness treated at the clinic this morning, I spent the afternoon and evening typing my exegesis paper on Obadiah 1-9. Let me tell you … it’s a pretty cool process. I really enjoyed reading about the text, but now I’m finding that it’s a big challenge to digest [...]
Read Obadiah lately? Give it a whirl… it’s only 21 verses long.
Kind of vindictive, isn’t it? Not much room for grace, eh?
from a commentary I’m reading as research for my exegesis paper on verses 1-9:
The violence of Obadiah’s language may appall us, but it may be wishful thinking to suppose that an ethical [...]
On the basis of the foregoing, I conclude that from this point in history, Christian faith is basically a relationship of trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, as proclaimed by the biblical tradition. It is the heartfelt desire to sit at the feet of the Christ revealed in the scriptures, and to [...]
I preached yesterday at Tara’s church in Indy. It was my second (real) sermon, and I think it went very well. The interesting thing about this sermon was that I felt very compelled to preach about what I preached about.
But if I say, “I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name,”Then [...]
