Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2008

The Double Cure (saved from wrath, made me pure)

My devotional reading often begins with the widget on my Mac "Of First Importance" from firstimportance.org. Every day, this site is updated with a Gospel-centered quote, which is usually a portion from a book or either a Scripture passage with subsequent comments. I have found that even if I preach the Gospel to myself on a daily basis, I am still in need of someone else to preach the Gospel to me. I need the perspective of another brother/sister. I need them to see my life and arrange the pieces so that my attitudes and thoughts line up with Gospel realities. The piece from today was taken from the Heidelburg Catechism, Q/A 60: “Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God’s commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as

My Course line-up this semester (& books)

Tomorrow, I begin the Fall semester to continue my M.A. in Theology at Bob Jones University in Greenville. Here's my course line-up with professor and curriculum included: New Testament Introduction | Dr. Brian Hand | An Introduction to the New Testament (Carson, Moo) Hermeneutics | Dr. Kenneth Casillas | The Hermeneutical Spiral (Osborne) Christian Discipleship | Dr. Jim Berg | Changed Into His Image (Berg) I'm only taking 6 credits this semester, but I think all 3 classes will be good, given the instructor, course and curriculum.