Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wounds of a Friend: Complementarian
"Complementarians need to recover a fully biblical view of women — and of handling theological disagreement."
John Koessler writes for Christianity Today.
John Koessler writes for Christianity Today.
Wounds of a Friend: Egalitarian
"Egalitarians should rely more on careful exegesis and less on political ideologies."
Sarah Sumner writes for Christianity Today.
Sarah Sumner writes for Christianity Today.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Love is an act...
There is some thought among homileticians (those who teach homiletics or preaching) that you only quote someone else when they can say something better or with more clarity than you. Otherwise, don’t bother.
Today, I had one of those moments where someone said something I have been taught and believed, but he said it better.
When Debra and I were dating we hit a bump in our relationship. Well, I actually hit the bump she just felt the pain. My wise father knew something was wrong and asked what the problem was. I confessed to him that I was not sure if Debra was the right woman for me. I was unsure if I loved. I was confused and reluctant about our relationship. My dad asked, “Have you tried to love her?” Naturally, I was confused because I thought love just happened between two people, if it didn’t’ than it wasn’t love. So, I responded to my dad, “ No I had not tried to love her.”
At that point he went to one of his favorite books in the Bible and retold me the story of Ruth and Boaz. He stopped at the point where the Boaz is laying on the threshing room floor sleeping and Ruth sneaks in, lays down and uncovers his feet (chp. 3). In doing this Ruth was reminding Boaz of his responsibility to her as her Kinsmen Redeemer, while making it know she was willing to marry him. Boaz responds positively to Ruth and the rest is incredible history. With out dragging the story on my dad encouraged me to cover Debra’s feet. What he wanted me to do was to make a conscience, intentional effort to love Debra despite my confusion, my hesitation or “feelings.” I did and we have been married almost 14 years!
The other day I wrote this to a friend after talking about marriage, “Know you will never be "ready" to get married. You never have enough money, you are never sure, you are never settled enough. However, when you find someone who you truly love and value, you just determine to get married in spite of being unsure and not ready. You have to commit to the other person that you both are going figure out this marriage thing together and enjoy the journey while you go! You only know how to be married by actually getting married. You learn in the process. There is no other way to figure it out.”
So, today when Voddie Baucham was talking about the difference between biblical love and the Greco-Roman myth of love he said, “Love is an act of the will, accompanied by emotion which leads to action of the behalf of its object.”
Love is an act of will, not led by or driven by emotion, but accompanied by them, which in turns motivates us to express our love in action towards our beloved.”
Good stuff. That’ll preach!
Today, I had one of those moments where someone said something I have been taught and believed, but he said it better.
When Debra and I were dating we hit a bump in our relationship. Well, I actually hit the bump she just felt the pain. My wise father knew something was wrong and asked what the problem was. I confessed to him that I was not sure if Debra was the right woman for me. I was unsure if I loved. I was confused and reluctant about our relationship. My dad asked, “Have you tried to love her?” Naturally, I was confused because I thought love just happened between two people, if it didn’t’ than it wasn’t love. So, I responded to my dad, “ No I had not tried to love her.”
At that point he went to one of his favorite books in the Bible and retold me the story of Ruth and Boaz. He stopped at the point where the Boaz is laying on the threshing room floor sleeping and Ruth sneaks in, lays down and uncovers his feet (chp. 3). In doing this Ruth was reminding Boaz of his responsibility to her as her Kinsmen Redeemer, while making it know she was willing to marry him. Boaz responds positively to Ruth and the rest is incredible history. With out dragging the story on my dad encouraged me to cover Debra’s feet. What he wanted me to do was to make a conscience, intentional effort to love Debra despite my confusion, my hesitation or “feelings.” I did and we have been married almost 14 years!
The other day I wrote this to a friend after talking about marriage, “Know you will never be "ready" to get married. You never have enough money, you are never sure, you are never settled enough. However, when you find someone who you truly love and value, you just determine to get married in spite of being unsure and not ready. You have to commit to the other person that you both are going figure out this marriage thing together and enjoy the journey while you go! You only know how to be married by actually getting married. You learn in the process. There is no other way to figure it out.”
So, today when Voddie Baucham was talking about the difference between biblical love and the Greco-Roman myth of love he said, “Love is an act of the will, accompanied by emotion which leads to action of the behalf of its object.”
Love is an act of will, not led by or driven by emotion, but accompanied by them, which in turns motivates us to express our love in action towards our beloved.”
Good stuff. That’ll preach!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Let’s beat constipation and sloppiness...
Why, oh why?
Could they not have found a better way to spend their $42,000.
Read the story for yourself.
Could they not have found a better way to spend their $42,000.
Read the story for yourself.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Crashing a Day
The National Transportation Safety Board has said it is not any one thing that usually causes a plane to crash. But it is a series of "cascading events" that leads to most airline tragedy. This is what they are talking about...
-Had to get up early (5am) to be at work early (6am)
-Found the battery in my car was dead
-Tried to jump it with the van
-The van ran out of gas
-Thought I would swap batteries and go get some gas to try the jump again.
-The batteries are different and wouldn't swap
-Walked to gas station for gas
-Walked home
-Van still would not start after putting in some gas.
-Had to open the very loud garage door, right under the kids room, so I could roll the van off our steep driveway into the flat garage.
-It worked.
-Drove the van to work
-Left work a few hours later
-Unwillingly spent $60 bucks on a battery
-Replaced battery in my car (the original problem!)
-Drove the car back to work because Debra needed the van!
Arrgh!
That is the way to crash a day!
-Had to get up early (5am) to be at work early (6am)
-Found the battery in my car was dead
-Tried to jump it with the van
-The van ran out of gas
-Thought I would swap batteries and go get some gas to try the jump again.
-The batteries are different and wouldn't swap
-Walked to gas station for gas
-Walked home
-Van still would not start after putting in some gas.
-Had to open the very loud garage door, right under the kids room, so I could roll the van off our steep driveway into the flat garage.
-It worked.
-Drove the van to work
-Left work a few hours later
-Unwillingly spent $60 bucks on a battery
-Replaced battery in my car (the original problem!)
-Drove the car back to work because Debra needed the van!
Arrgh!
That is the way to crash a day!
Monday, June 16, 2008
A New Way To Get To Work
So, I am officially a Portlander. I rode my bike to work today. It was a cool experience. I got out to huff and puff and sweat all over. It felt good. I was more awake at work and did not feel so sluggish. It was also good to know I was saving gas and saving money. I felt like giving the finger to every gas station I passed, one to O.P.E.C. and one to BIG OIL!
I think this is pretty good accomplishment considering my ride: a Schwinn Jaguar Cruiser with only 7 gears (the ones in the back) and biggest set of handle bars allowed by Oregon State law! Yes, that is a picture of my bike!
Here are some stats from my first trip:
Average speed: Going 10.8 mph, Coming 8.8 mph (more hills on the way home)
Top Speed: 26.8 mph (don’t be silly, of course I was going down hill, did you see the picture!)
Distance: going 7.74 miles, Coming 6.59 (I had a little “detour” getting to work.)
Time: Going about 45 minutes, Coming about 50 minutes.
Money saved by not driving to work: about $3.
As long as the weather is good I will try and do this a couple times a week. I will have to see how my legs feel in the morning. I may not be able to walk!
O well, I will live.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Podcast: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
Listen
Correction: 1 Corinthians 5 deals with a man sleeping with his Stepmother, not his Mother-in-Law.
A Community Called Atonement- Chp. 3 quotes
pg. 21 To be an Eikon means, first of all, to be in union with God as Eikons; second it means to be in communion with other Eikons; and third, it means to participate with God in his creating, his ruling, his speaking, his naming, his ordering, his variety and beauty, his location, his partnering and his resting and to oblige God in his obligation of us. (emphasis added)
Pg.21 To be an Eikon means to be in relationship.
Pg. 21 The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Christ, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life.
pg.23 Sin is the hyperrelational distortion and corruption of the Eikon's relationship with God and therefore with self, with others and with the world.
pg. 24 A hyperrelational theory of sin clarifies systemic corruption.
Pg.21 To be an Eikon means to be in relationship.
Pg. 21 The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Christ, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life.
pg.23 Sin is the hyperrelational distortion and corruption of the Eikon's relationship with God and therefore with self, with others and with the world.
pg. 24 A hyperrelational theory of sin clarifies systemic corruption.
A Community Called Atonement- Chp. 2 quotes
pg. 9 The kingdom of God, in short compass, is the society in which the will of God is established to transform all of life.
pg. 9...atonement is only understood when it is understood as restoration of humans- in all directions- so that they form a society (the ecclesia, the church) wherein God's will is lived and given freedom to transform all of life. Any theory of atonement that is not an ecclesial theory of the atonement is inadequate.
pg.13 Any discussion of atonement apart from discussion of the kingdom fails to do justice to the biblical faming of God's redemptive work in this world...Jesus' kingdom vision and atonement are related; separating them is an act of violence...Atonement creates the kingdom of God.
pg. 9...atonement is only understood when it is understood as restoration of humans- in all directions- so that they form a society (the ecclesia, the church) wherein God's will is lived and given freedom to transform all of life. Any theory of atonement that is not an ecclesial theory of the atonement is inadequate.
pg.13 Any discussion of atonement apart from discussion of the kingdom fails to do justice to the biblical faming of God's redemptive work in this world...Jesus' kingdom vision and atonement are related; separating them is an act of violence...Atonement creates the kingdom of God.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
A Community Called Atonement- Chp. 1 quotes
Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement
pg.2 This generation is tired of an old-fashioned atonement theology that does not make a difference, of an old-fashioned atonement theology that is for individual spiritual formation but not for ecclesial re-formation, and an old-fashioned atonement theology that does not reconcile humans with humans.
pg.4 My contention is that how we frame atonement will make all the different for the world.
pg.5 Could it be that we are not reconciled more in this world- among Christians, within the USA and between countries- because we have shaped our atonement theories to keep our groups the same and others out?
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