It’s that time of year again – finals week. What a terrific word: “finals.” The implications of it are simply astounding. After spending a day “studying” for an Old Testament final exam, I find myself wondering about how we do education. And, as an instructor about to prepare final exams [...]
One of the joys of teaching is the chance to see your students master the material, study more effectively, and improve their grades over the course of a semester. In my Numeration Systems class, I have eight students, and every single one of them has either improved test scores or scored consistently high on [...]
What’s the most surreal?
Putting $60.00 worth of stamps on 100 of your own wedding invitations.
Seeing a high school senior at your church get an award for being part of the church’s Wednesday night program for all twelve of his grade school years – and realizing that you were in eighth grade when the program started [...]
Joby, one of my seminary friends, was here in the computer lab (where I’ve been working on a paper in between math classes) a while ago. He was talking about the class he was about to go to – one on evangelism. He said that he wasn’t looking forward to going to the [...]
It’s not often that you see the Yankees in the cellar of the AL East with the second-worst record in baseball.
One of the classes I’m teaching this semester is a “geometry for elementary teachers” course. It’s somewhat interesting stuff to teach … the Pythagorean Theorem, triangle congruence theorems, unit conversions, etc. … somewhat interesting.
The third unit test in this class was last Thursday, and one of the questions (that I stole from an [...]
…the paper, that is.
So this morning/afternoon I worked pretty solidly on this “return of Christ” paper. Now that it’s done, I feel pretty good about it, but somehow it feels like this paper carries less weight than my other papers. Maybe it’s just me …
now, back to my regularly scheduled reading..
So I’m writing a paper on the return of Christ for my Constructive Theology class. And I’m having a really hard time getting started on it…the introduction and first body paragraphs are written, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll get the “writing spirit” and finish the rest of it (because it’s due on Thursday).
I haven’t had [...]
I love baseball. It’s such a fickle sport. And I’m not even talking about BALCO or anything like that..
Yesterday, the Cleveland Indians (my team of choice) had a 3-0 lead going into the bottom of the ninth, brought in their closer to finish the job, and promptly lost 4-3. The closer’s ERA [...]
“No religion, including Christianity, saves anybody.” – Dr. Stafford
Dr. Stafford believes that salvation is based on one’s personal response to the Christ-centered, everywhere-active Holy Spirit. This does not require involvement in Christianity!
But why evangelize, then?
Because Jesus commanded us to.
Because we have “tasted and seen” the goodness of Christ, and we want to share [...]
