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Timeline

Toward the end of last semester’s Old Testament History class, which covered Joshua through 2 Chronicles, I made this timeline as a way to get a quick glimpse of not only the chronological sequence of Israel’s history, but also the spiritual state of the nation and it’s leaders. While any attempt at this has toContinue reading “Timeline”

The Prophets

Lately I’ve been intrigued by some of the unique ways information is conveyed graphically. An example of this may be seen in the idea behind word clouds. Essentially, a word cloud is an image made up of words, where the size of the word represents the frequency it occurs in a text. Brad Thomas atContinue reading “The Prophets”

Dreaming of a Warm Christmas

As we boarded the plane in Detroit, the wind chill outside was -9 degrees. That’s 41 degrees below freezing. Today in Dallas, it was 41 degrees above freezing. I love Texas. Rachel and I are excited to get to spend about a month here with our friends and family after completing our first semester atContinue reading “Dreaming of a Warm Christmas”

Hello World

This afternoon Rachel and I went for her 20 week appointment and ultrasound. According to the ultrasound tech, everything is in the right place and the baby is growing normally. He (that’s right…it’s a boy!) moved around a lot and gave us a little wave at one point.

Awayo

I think you could say there is a general consensus among the world outside of Christianity that Christian missions is nothing more than a form of colonialism. The argument falls somewhere along the lines of 1) they are individuals with human rights and are happy as they are, and therefore 2) who are you toContinue reading “Awayo”

Further Evidence

I’m not typically the sort who has to hear something for myself before I’ll believe it (as I did in fact believe it before today), but if I were that type of person, I would now have no excuse. Today at Rachel’s doctor’s appointment, we heard this: HeartBeat For those of you still doing theContinue reading “Further Evidence”

An Example of Worldview

Our worldview plays a major role in the way we interpret life. Our home church, New Life, is currently working through The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World in which John Piper, Justin Taylor, and a handful of top-notch contributors contrast the Biblical Theistic worldview against the predominant Western worldview of our day, postmodernism. Continue reading “An Example of Worldview”

Biblical Foundations

Last winter Rachel and I decided to do a jigsaw puzzle together. We had done a puzzle as a dating couple, which was fun and partly responsible for Rachel’s lapse in judgment in agreeing to marry me (whatever it takes, guys), so we thought we’d get a hard one with a billion (or so) piecesContinue reading “Biblical Foundations”

Off Task

This is incredibly random, but I was perusing the annals of ESPN yesterday when I came across a link to this. It turns out, these guys are/were students at Texas A&M, which really makes me miss home. And basketball. And free time.

Jackson Welcomes You

We’re finally completely (not actually completely) unpacked. We like Jackson. The town of 33,000 has a cool mixture of old and new that makes you feel as if you’ve been here a hundred years. There are many more churches that we thought we’d find (though our expectations weren’t really based on anything), and many ofContinue reading “Jackson Welcomes You”