One of the awesome opportunities about being at seminary is all the really cool stuff I get to read. One of the downsides to being at seminary is the amount of cool stuff I have to read. As a result I have decided to list the books that have encouraged or challenged me, really made me think, or have influenced my Chrisitan paradigm in any way. If you happen to read anything on this list please let me know and we can dialogue about any said reading. I will update this post on occasion so remember to check it. Oprah ain't got nothing on this!
* Communication Theory for Christian Witness by Charles Kraft
* Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations by Walter C. Kaiser
* From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya by Ruth Tucker
* From the Ground Up by J.Scott Horrell
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Time in da Word
I wrote the following in a letter to a friend, liked what I wrote, and decided to post it. Is it that I am truly that arrogant or is it that I like to give out tidbits of food for thought? Talk amongst yourselves. There's your topic.
"So what has God been showing me in the Word? It's been really cool actually. I used to think that if after I had read my Bible during my quiet times and nothing amazing or spectacular jumped out at me then I had either done something wrong in my approach, had a wrong attitude, didn't read enough, etc. I now see it [the Bible] as the most important story ever. Just as a story has impact points or spectacular instances, so does the Bible, but the most important thing is to persevere to the end of the story and to tkae God's story as a whole. Now this is where the analogy ends because unlike a story the Word is living and active, able to penetrate your very being. It is able to transform. I have been approaching the Bible wrong; I have been approaching it with a what-can-I-get-out-of-it-for-this-moment type of attitude. Instead, I should approach it with a how-will-I-persever-and-let-this-transform-me? viewpoint. When I step back and look at it and life from the long-term, eternity in mind standpoint, that is when I am most changed. Change for the moment can happen, but change or impact with the eternal in mind is that which truly transforms and lasts."
We were made for the eternal.
Why do we only live for today?
"So what has God been showing me in the Word? It's been really cool actually. I used to think that if after I had read my Bible during my quiet times and nothing amazing or spectacular jumped out at me then I had either done something wrong in my approach, had a wrong attitude, didn't read enough, etc. I now see it [the Bible] as the most important story ever. Just as a story has impact points or spectacular instances, so does the Bible, but the most important thing is to persevere to the end of the story and to tkae God's story as a whole. Now this is where the analogy ends because unlike a story the Word is living and active, able to penetrate your very being. It is able to transform. I have been approaching the Bible wrong; I have been approaching it with a what-can-I-get-out-of-it-for-this-moment type of attitude. Instead, I should approach it with a how-will-I-persever-and-let-this-transform-me? viewpoint. When I step back and look at it and life from the long-term, eternity in mind standpoint, that is when I am most changed. Change for the moment can happen, but change or impact with the eternal in mind is that which truly transforms and lasts."
We were made for the eternal.
Why do we only live for today?
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