New Perspectives on Paul
Dec 29, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Thoughtful | NOISE: Kid’s playing }
I don’t know tons about N T Wright or the New Perspectives on Paul, although I am just beginning to read about them. A friend of mine has been trying to get me into Wright. Today, as I was reading my Bloglines, I came across this post that referred to this article on NPP. Interesting stuff. I am definitely not very well read on all of this. Here are three quotes that struck me:
“I find, in talking with evangelical students who are enamored of Wright and the NPP, that they are often dismissive of anyone who has a criticism of Wright, and assume that the only reason that you are critical is that you haven’t read Wright, or that you haven’t read Wright right, or that you haven’t read enough of Wright, or that if you had only read more of Wright, you would believe that Wright was right, and so on.”
“American evangelicals have always been more individualistic than our British Christian friends. British evangelicals (from the days of the Whiggish Covenanters to the Clapham sect to John Stott) have always had a better balance between the individual and social dimensions of Christianity than we have. We are more individualistic, more suspicious of pressing the social dimensions of New Testament ethics, for fear of falling into the social Gospel or confusing “the two Kingdoms.” Frankly, a lot of my students feel very guilty about that. They feel very guilty about the individualism that their tradition has perpetuated. And along comes a “new, biblical solution” to that individualism: the NPP! Unfortunately, the solution being offered by the NPP is less than healthy and biblical. But evangelicals fall for it nevertheless.”
“Preterism is all the rage in some conservative Reformed circles these days. The “already and not yet” is out, and the “been there, done that” is in. NT eschatology, for the preterist, is retrospective and realized. Well, along comes Wright, with his very this worldly eschatology, and provides a high-powered academic justification for the low-rent forms of preterism circulating in some places today. And they love it.”
I need to read this stuff some more.
Ignite
Dec 27, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: 65 Degrees | ITUNES: “The Flower of Carnage” - KB2 Soundtrack }
Well, this is probably my last time to sit and take a breath before Ignite kicks off. So I thought I would say “hi.”
The trip down here was relatively uneventful, for a change, and that was nice. The only excitement was a guy on the highway slamming his brakes on in front of us and Grace getting a serious chance to use our new vans ABS. Everything was good, though.
Anyhoo, here’s the verse of the day:
“You son of the Devil, full of every sort of trickery and villainy, enemy of all that is good, will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord? (Acts 13:10)
I love random, out of context, scripture.
Cole Smiles
Dec 25, 2004 Uncategorized
Those of you who hang out with us around cameras know that Coley will not smile for one. Today, we discovered a strategy for getting him to smile. Lollipops. Yup, lollipops.
So, we employed this strategy with a family picture. Whala.
I figure if we give him a lollipop everytime we take a picture for the rest of his life, his wedding pictures will be really cool.
Weight in Beer
Dec 24, 2004 Uncategorized
To drink my weight, I would have to chug 128 pints of beer!
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What kind of pirate am I?
Dec 24, 2004 Uncategorized
What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
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Flu
Dec 24, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MEDICAL CONDITION: Stomach Flu | TIVO: Wiggles Christmas }
One at a time my family succumed to the stomach flu this week. It started with Ethan and spread each day to a new person. I was bragging yesterday that I had avoided it.
Not anymore.
Pics
Dec 22, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: OK | TIVO: Trading Spouses }
This is what happens when you try to take a family picture with my kids:
God
Dec 22, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Average | TIVO: CSINY }
Thanks to Kyle for letting me know that God has a blog. Here’s an excerpt:
Praise unto me.
Just kidding. Isn’t it funny how some of those jokers that wrote the bible all those years ago used all of that fancy talk to make it seem that much more important? I mean, they way they write about me, it’s like I’m just dying for the attention and the adoration.
Okay. Maybe just a little adoration.
Van
Dec 22, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Ecstatic | ITUNES: “Terminator X” - Public Enemy }
Many of you remember that we have had a significant amount of van woes this past few years. (See this and this for a refresher.)
Anyhoo, today we bought one of these:
Grace’s dad gave us a substantial gift so we could afford it. Suffice it to say, we are pretty excited. Now, off to selling the Love Machine to whoever is dumb enough to buy it.
Chickens
Dec 20, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Waking Up | ITUNES: “Domino” - Van Morrison }
I was waiting in line for coffee at Beaners a few minutes ago when I picked up a copy of The Noise and read this awesome article. You gotta give Matt mad props for his perspective on this story:
Researchers at Michigan State University have mapped the DNA of a chicken named RJF 256, making the red jungle fowl hen the first bird to be genetically sequenced. The scientists said that understanding the chicken’s DNA will help them understand everything from breeding better-tasting birds to fighting diseases that can pass from birds to people. They did not say whether it would be useful in breeding a new master race of brutally intelligent, eerily amoral super-chickens that will crush the rest of the animal world in their steely claws. But, just in case, we’d like to make it clear that we haven’t been to KFC in years and think it’s really terrible the way people use “chicken” as a derogatory term.
Wedding
Dec 19, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Fair | TIVO: Overhaulin’ }
Yesterday Jeremy and Kristen got married. There were a few things that struck me at their wedding.
First, this was a couple that proved that you can make it to marriage without pushing it too far physically. There are so many people who say it is impossible to have sex before marriage. Wrongo, bucko. In fact, these guys didn’t kiss for the last year and a half because they were afraid they were going to go too far. Extreme measures, I’ll admit. But they made it. I bet last night was cool.
Second, their dads got up and prayed for them at the end of the ceremony. This was so cool. I have been thinking about patriarchy a lot lately. And make sure you read me right here. I am not talking about horrible, anti-woman, male-dominated patriarchy. I am not talking about ass hole husbands who treat their wives like objects. I am not talking about inequality. I am talking about positive patriarchy. Biblical patriarchy.
At the conference I was at in Seattle, Mark Driscoll said “Adam didn’t take responsibility…so Eve steps up. Every critique that feminists have had of men, I agree with. But I disagree with the solution. The daughters of eve say ‘there are no men’ and so they step up. But where are we inspiring the men to take leadership/headship etc.?”
I love the idea of dads, in particular, stepping up. Leading their homes. Being strong in their love. Modeling Christ’s love for the church to their wives and sacrificing to lead their kids.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. (Ephesians 5:25-33)
Arts
Dec 19, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MEDICAL CONDITION: A little sick | NOISE: Kid’s watching TV }
Thanks to Chuck for pointing out this article. Here’s a bit:
Traditionally, when the Church has been at the top of its game—not burning witches or applying thumbscrews to petty thieves—we’ve had a high view of the pen, the paint brush, the piano and the chisel. Art itself needed no rationalization, and for 500 years, brilliant art emerged from the Church. Orthodox, biblically-based, non-wacky clergy and laity took pleasure in living, the arts, culture, their own talents and the abilities of those around them. They got the message that beauty and culture come from God, and that beauty and culture are good, and they didn’t need a 968-word column, written by a so-so writer, to defend it.
Morrissey
Dec 16, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Thinking | ITUNES: “I Have Forgiven Jesus” - Morrissey }
From Morrissey:
I was a good kid, I wouldn’t do you no harm, I was a nice kid, With a nice paper round
Forgive me any pain, I may have brung to you, With God’s help I know, I’ll always be near to you
But Jesus hurt me, When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all the desire, You placed in me when there’s nothing I can do with this desire
I was a good kid, Through hail and snow, I’d go just to moon you, I carried my heart in my hand
Do you understand, Do you understand
But Jesus hurt me, When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all of the love, You placed in me when there’s no one I can turn to with this love
Monday - humiliation, Tuesday - suffocation, Wednesday - condescension, Thursday - is pathetic
By Friday life has killed me, By Friday life has killed me, Oh pretty one, Oh pretty one
Why did you give me so much desire, When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?
And why did you give me so much love in a loveless world, When there is no one I can turn to
To unlock all this love?
And why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?, Jesus do you hate me?
Why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?
Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?
Quote of the Day
Dec 16, 2004 Quotes
{ MOOD: Decent | ITUNES: “Mercy Seat” - Michael Roe }
I was just sitting here, whining to myself about how hungry I am. Then, I read a quote from Andy Morgan’s blog and it struck me. What are your thoughts on this? It is from Jurgen Moltmann in “The Open Church”:
Think of our society’s attitude toward the starving people of the third world, the hardcore unemployed, the migrant workers, the prisoners, the handicapped, and the so called unfit. People such as these are ruined not because of their inability but because of our indifference. By our failure to participate or share in their lives, we neglect our own life. we isolate ourselves, we insulate our lives, we imprison ourselves in our own good fortune.
Killer
Dec 15, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: B+ | TIVO: Get Shorty }
When I was in college, I asked a guy I respected to take me under his wing and mentor me. He told me he didn’t have time and it crushed me.
I had to do that to someone today. And it crushed me. It does every time.
Lick My Jesus
Dec 15, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Ecstatic | NOISE: Kid’s “Cleaning” }
Thanks to Doug , for pointing out that I have arrived. I am on the front page of LickMyJesus.com. I’d like to thank the academy.
Gift
Dec 14, 2004 Uncategorized
We went to Emma’s school open house today. A lot of the kids had to complete the sentence “My gift to the world would be…”
One kid wrote “My gift to the world would be world domination.”
Moe’s
Dec 14, 2004 Uncategorized
{ MOOD: Mo-rific | QuickTime: “Spy Hunter” - Project 86 }
I am wearing a hat right now that says “Eat at Moe’s.”
Ironically, I just read this article that posted this image:
