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| There are few things sweeter in this world than a week of vacation with family and friends (and zoo animals and Greek food) having spent 2 months straight of summer intensive classes. Praise God for the Sabbath and for hippos. The book above has surprised me in its goodness. I wanted to read it, but as a skeptic. Actually, it is really good. It is a conversational and light-hearted approach to a subject many people pre-judge as cruel and cold. And it's short (120+ pages.) <Complete Tangent Alert> Who likes the show "Heroes?" Tammy and I recently discovered the first season, just in time for the second to start (tonight!) So below are my What is your theological stereotype? quiz results. I always hate this kind of quizzes, but I am addicted to them. The questions are slanted and I can never make any sense of my results.  | You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan, You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.
Emergent/Postmodern | | 79% | Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan | | 79% | Neo orthodox | | 75% | Reformed Evangelical | | 64% | Charismatic/Pentecostal | | 50% | Classical Liberal | | 39% | Modern Liberal | | 36% | Fundamentalist | | 36% | Roman Catholic | | 32% |
What's your theological worldview?
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Peace on you and good will to your family. | | |
| Darn you N.T. Wright. I'll never be able to read the Bible the same way again.
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| 1. America's favorite foods are hand-foods. (pizza, burgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, fries, chips, sandwiches, popcorn, etc.) 2. Why do people refer to "the original Star Wars trilogy" when there is only one trilogy? do not comment on this 3. There is no way that a seventeen-year-old kid could outrun Megatron. 4. There is no way that a seventeen-year-old kid could kill Megatron. 5. Kids are smarter than adults. 6. Using a computer to study too much leads to arthritis, carpal tunnel, neck strain, back aches, tired eyes, weak legs, and sleep disorders. 7. During the Babylonian Exile, Israel had to go 8 months without Lost®. 8. People who love toys and comics are secure in themselves. People who love make-up and jewelry are self-idolaters. you can comment on this 9. Why did the only "token black" Transformer have to die? 10. None of this is eternally relevant. | | |
| I learned something cool in class today. Then my head exploded. | | |
| "An idiom that appears in Matt 8:21 occurs when a disciple says to Jesus, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." Jesus then clearly rejects the request by saying, "leave the dead to bury their own dead." This is perhaps puzzling to many readers, who think, "he is asking only for a couple of days during which to make funeral arrangements." However, as Lamsa rightly points out the man is not requesting a couple of days to take care of his father’s funeral. Instead, he is asking to be allowed to put off any commitment to following Jesus until after his father has died, for however long that might be. Jesus’ point is that the claims of the gospel supersede demands of family or social obligations. This is a point that Jesus also makes elsewhere when he says, "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me" (Matt 10:37). This emphasizes the urgency of the gospel demands upon those who would be disciples. Jesus makes the same point in a more positive way in response to Peter, when he says, "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life" (Matt 19:28)." --Benjamin Shaw, from 5/27/07 post to Aramaic Thoughts on Studylight.org http://www.studylight.org/col/at/ | | |
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