Category: Update

Early tomorrow  I will be flying to Altoona, PA.  It has been almost ten years since I last visited Altoona. I attended a small high school while living there for a year. In those days, a Georgian 73 year old Christian woman took me in for a year. Now, ten years later, she is still as evangelical as Billy Graham and her Georgian accent is still unmistakable, but her memory is not what used to be.  It will be good to see Mrs. Dey once again; perhaps for the last time. God seems to have used these older saints in my life over the years. God likes to bless the young with the old and the old with the young; a covenantal God indeed.

I am always encouraging people to start their own blogs…so, when I found out that my old college friend Craig Hurst started one I had to plug it. Here it is!

Here it is…

Book Description: The baptism of Jesus by John the Baptizer is one of the theologically richest narratives in the Gospels, touching the transition from the old to the new covenant, the doctrines of water and Holy Spirit baptism, and the doctrine of the Trinity, to name only the most significant of topics.

In The Baptism of Jesus the Christ, Ralph Allan Smith addresses each of these areas, aiming in particular to respond to James D. G. Dunn’s view that Jesus’ baptism and the gift of the Spirit are fundamentally distinct events, to revive John Calvin’s view of the baptism of Jesus as central to understanding Christian baptism, and to suggest directions for re-thinking the doctrine of God’s attributes in the light of the fully personal interaction of Father, Son, and Spirit reflected in the baptismal narrative.

These guys had the audacity and courage to invite me to become a contributor. Brave indeed. Peruse their website and become a member.

Thanks for making Friday (Good Friday) the busiest day of the year with almost 300 hits.

Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson

Jane Austen by Peter Leithart

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

I will be at AAPC from Monday through Wednesday.

May the God of all grace fill you with His Spirit as you end another year. Rejoice and be glad for the King of Kings is the Lord of time and history. He will be with you even to the end of this world.

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

My lovely wife is now blogging at Gloria in Excelsis Deo.