D.A. Carson is preaching at Bethlehem this week and next, and is giving a 14-session seminar over the two weekends (Friday night and Saturday) entitled The God Who Is There: Naming God in a Pluralistic World. Jennifer and I have been going, and so far it is quite good.
Some observations he has pointed us to thus far:
Last weekend, Jennifer and I both joined Twitter. For my part, a large use case for it is sharing links and random thoughts that aren’t substantial enough to warrant a full blog post. Previously, these would likely be shared via my Jabber status, instant messgaes, and/or e-mail. Twitter will provide a platform where I can share interesting things I come across in a broadcast fashion.
This is kinda cool and kinda scary. Why do we want Perl 6, again?
I’d like to start the Sunday Reflections thing again, so I’ll throw out a meditation God, in His grace, blessed me with towards the end of last summer. I had been reading Isaiah and was towards the end of the book. I was feeling somewhat dry at this time, having read fairly cursorily, yet I felt that there was something for me to learn or see in the midst of alternating depictions of the wrath and mercy of God.
In this mind I sat one Sunday morning with my Bible open to the 63rd chapter of Isaiah, praying and reading and waiting for God to show me something. My meditations focused on the first few verses (1-4 ESV):