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28 August 2005 ago in
General.
This feels strange.
New Orleans is experiencing its first major storm of the year and i am not there, nor will i be. It feels different because i’m used to packing up everything important, boarding up the windows, moving things away from the doors and windows, and watching the news to discover whether or not we should be leaving. Katrina looks like a pretty bad storm that will cut very close to New Orleans tomorrow. My grandmother is already in Texas. My mom’s side is loading up the vehicles to get to some family in central Louisiana. My father is MIA currently. It’s a category 5 hurricane (only 3 have made landfall in the US…ever). the 64 knots there means that the winds in that area will be at least 75 mph for a sustained period of time(with gusts up to 160+). Also, they are expecting an average of 8-10 inches of rain at my mother’s house.
Published on
25 August 2005 ago in
General.
Ahh…gotta love Goodwill.
We went there today and i found three books:
The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer
Langenscheidt’s English-German Dictionary
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
Total price: a buck fifty.
“Since at least the seventeenth century, evangelical theology has been as deductive as the Catholic Church in the Higih Middle Ages…It often reasoned from the precise texts of Scripture as if they were premises of Aristotelian syllogisms. Classical Protestantism was far more Catholic and hence medieval than it admitted. The focus on proof-texting betrayed those learnings.
“But, Aristotelianism was never compatible with the biblical faith perspective, as Luther discerned, and neither was deductive reasoning” (The Next Reformation, pp 93-94).
Faith isn’t logical. It’s not rational. Luther referred to reason and logic as “that bitch goddess”…and he’s right. By trying to rationalize faith, we are focusing on reason and logic instead of Christ and faith. Kierkegaard considered it a “leap of faith”. Christianity cannot follow in Aristotle‘s footsteps.
Insisting to prove Christianity true by using lines of reasoning and syllogism will not bring anybody nearer to Christ. Has anyone been won over by some air-tight argument? No. It is an appeal to something wholly other within that moves people to Christ.
Published on
15 August 2005 ago in
General.
Well, we’re alive. It’s been going great up here in Denver. i spoke with the chair of the department about my program focus and he’s interested to see how it pans out. Turns out that he recently wrote a book in the area (i’m now reading it as he gave me a free copy). Additionally, he’s founded some cool organization in the Denver area and he wants to merge my website (www.impleri.net) with it and hire me to create/maintain the website. So, it looks like i’ll have a job. Mandie’s still waiting to hear back from the school districts, though. Please pray that Mandie will get a job close to here, that this job offer for me isn’t just too good to be true, and that the person interested in buying my car will. September 1 is coming quickly and we need the money.
Anyway, things have otherwise settled. We have internet access, a clean apartment, and a mailbox. It looks like Denver will be really great for us.
