(Prophetic) Songs and Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Does the Bible portray the role of music to be essentially prophetic? Certainly, I don’t necessarily mean prophecy in the sense of “history written in advance” (a quote I got from an interesting book I read about fundamentalist end-times theology, including varieties of the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic stripe; but I digress…), but rather prophecy [...]
More Thanksgiving
What an incredible day: Nebraska 30, Colorado 3! Many people are saying that this win is the best since we beat top-ranked Oklahoma in 2001 (the game that our resident Husker-hater (that’s Andrew) attended to watch the famous trick play from Mike Stuntz to Eric Crouch–I’m still envious that he was there), which is saying [...]
Thanksgiving
I give thanks that Thanksgiving break is finally here!
The whole Bible
I’ve been realizing over the past week or two that I have lived my entire life without ever really having a situation where I could identify with psalms like Psalm 140. I have always been the “nice guy” that doesn’t really ruffle feathers, and people, for the most part, have let me be. Now, though, [...]
Beeson Picture Tour
You can check out a Facebook photo album (even if you are not a member of Facebook, and even if you have no idea what Facebook is!) by clicking here. (Warning: I’m not that great of a photographer.) My favorite picture is this one (in spite of my red-eye): That’s right: me and my buddy [...]
Beeson and John Piper
This week (Monday night through Thursday), I am touring Beeson Divinity School as a potential seminary. They had a preview day today, where several members of the faculty talked to us about what they saw as Beeson’s distinctive elements, where we attended a chapel service (more about that in a moment), and where I was [...]
