Journal Entry

Thanks so much to everyone who has been supporting me and encouraging me over the past several months. You have been the the very comfort of the Lord in a time of need! I am now right at around 45% of my monthly support and a little bit less 35% of my one time. I am praying and planning about how I will approach the next couple of months before I hope to be on the field in August. Ultimately, I know the Lord is in control of all these circumstances I simply want to be faithful to my Soveriegn Joy Jesus.
Today is Memorial Day, and i just wanted to tip my hat to all those who have fought for the peace that I enjoy. God bless you. Until next time.

A Double Post!

I was getting ready to post another section and i could not get away from a brief appreciation for this man's work. So i guess i'll just have to make this a double post. There are very few books which i would rank up there as significant, when it come to extrabiblical data. But I just cannot help but be amazed Hirsch's boldness of thoughts to cut through a slough secular philosophical despondency when it come to interpretation. His arguments are vividly orthodox and it is passionately humain. That may sound weird when talking about a book that is very scholastic and hardly has a sympotheic note in it, but in truth it is. Because it give clarity to the clear implication that what we come to understand as a certain implication of scripture can indeed be trusted as such. I have most recently visited this book again when dealing with some of Barth's preoccupations which center around the unknowablity of what has been given. He leans on a sort of mysitical certainty which in truth is none at all. So again my hat is off to you Sir for an unwasted life in critical schollarship!

__________________________________________________ Mothers Day!

Now my real post is about mothers. Some would say that we can talk about mothers abstractly and the institution of motherhood, but i would argue that my abstaction would be distinctively rose colored because of my personal bias. I am not saying that i could not imagine a mother better than my own or at least am not saying that she is without fault. But love born from grace and forgiveness seems to wipe all away and indeed she is dear to me. I hope that all of you got the opportunity to let your mother's know how much you appreciate them and their service in raising you.

We had a great occasion of frisbee golf with the fam. on mother's day. It was a lot of fun! Of course the boys were competative and of course the youngest brother was winning most of the time! Andrew your day is coming. It is great to be apart of a family that is a part of the bigger family God's family.

I wonder a how amazing and how faithful the Lord has been to our family. An uncle of mine traced the family leniage back to the late 1600's and it appears that the Gospel had prevailed over my ancestor then, Here we are 400 years later and you think wow! Can God really be faithful to call each new generation like the promise says, "For the promise is for you and for your Children...(Acts2)"! Now if I stop right there and think who should get the glory for this? Shouldn't we honor our parents for this. Yes! Certainly they were faithful. But thinking back over at least the ten generations of parents that we know of(there may be more before the late 1600's) I am overwhelmed that we should think more of God's work in each successive generation. For the second half of Act 2 finishes ...(the promise is) for all whom the Lord will call." Priase be to God who leaves a legacy of writing straight with crooked pens!