Filed under: Miscellany
I’m grateful for McDonald’s Chicken Parmesiana grilled wraps. They’re cheap and delicious! …And surprisingly healthy for McD’s.
Filed under: Miscellany | Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Canadian, grateful, Olympics
I’m grateful for being Canadian and for BC putting on a great event, even with all the struggles of the weather. I’m proud to show off my great country to the world. I hope people leave wanting to return.
Filed under: Miscellany | Tags: daily, From Garden to City, National Community Church, Plan, reading, scripture, SPECK, truth
“Look for a SPECK of Truth. This is where personal application happens. SPECK is an acronym that stands for a Sin to confess, a Promise to claim, and Example to follow, a Command to obey, or Knowledge to believe. If you look for a simple SPECK each day, it will ensure that you are not just a reader of the Word but a doer of it.”
–Step 6 of National Community Church’s From Garden to City, encouragement in their daily reading plan, starting THIS WEDNESDAY!
I’m grateful for having an amazing wife who gets up out of her slumber to put breakfast together for me. I’ve never met someone with such a servant heart. I need to learn this from her and stop being so selfish! My prayer for my children is that they will learn this from her and not my selfishness! …once we have kids… : )
So I’ve taken Mark Batterson’s advice and I want to start making note of one thing each day that I’m grateful for. I’m not much for paper, so I’m going to use the blog for it. I hope it’s an encouragement for others as well.
Filed under: Reviews | Tags: blogging, books, booksneeze, christian, free, gazoontite, gesundheit, products, reviews, thomas nelson, Where is God
If ‘gesundheit’ is meant to wish someone good health, I think this is a good way to keep my spirituality healthy: I’ve joined the blogging book reviewers at BookSneeze.com, a product review project operated by Thomas Nelson Publishers.
This is a no-brainer for me. I get free books. And this will encourage me to read faster and more often, so I can get ANOTHER free book. How can I go wrong?
My only concern is I will be drinking the kool-aid of Thomas Nelson alone. However, I keep myself objective enough to not take all I read as Scripture.
If you’re interested in getting your own free books, head on over to BookSneeze.com.
Stay tuned to this blog as I start reading through the books and posting my reviews on them.
My first book I’m now reading is “Where is God?” by Dr. John Townsend.
Filed under: Leadership
Importance of Theological Education: Just a thought…
I was just thinking… although some may justify biblical education as unnecessary because of the fact that the twelve disciples were “uneducated,” such a suggestion must be put into context. If you have any knowledge of education Jewish children received when growing up, you would know that they were thrown into the study of the Scriptures, in particular, learning the Pentateuch (Genesis to Deuteronomy), at a very young age. If they were found to have the capacity to learn the Scriptures well, they would continue in school learning the rest of the Old Testament as they got older, eventually following a Rabbi.
Jesus’ disciples likely ended their education with the Pentateuch and learned the trade of their family (i.e., fishing). The disciples were considered uneducated in Bible times based on this fact that a person would not be called to follow a Rabbi (as Jesus was) unless they proved themselves a worthy student in the Scriptures.
But the disciples, because they were Jews, still would have had extensive training of the basics of the Jewish faith from the Genesis-Deuteronomy. I wouldn’t call that “uneducated” the way the many opponents to Theological training tend to use.
What do you think? To be in full-time ministry, is a Theological (Bible College/Seminary) degree necessary?
