New semester

Posts have been kind of slow around here.  I’ve been pretty busy with the start of the new semester and our youth ministry at church.  This semester I’m taking OT criticism with Dr. Andrew Hill along with Greek and Hebrew.   Hopefully I can start posting some more in a little bit. 

The Beauty of God’s Creation

Shelley took this picture while we were hiking in one of the forest preserves around here. 

Blog Hiatus

The last couple of weeks have been really busy for me as midterms approached.  So if you’ve wondered why I haven’t been posting much, that’s why. 
 I hope to start posting a little more frequently.   I’m starting to work on my doctrine statement on God and creation that’s due in a couple of weeks. 
Hebrew and Greek [...]

Reading the Bible in color

Learning Greek and Hebrew this semester has really been a privilege.  In the past, I thought, “Now that we have so many great English translations of the Bible, why do we even need to learn the original languages?” 
Yet learning to read the Bible in the original languages adds so much to our understanding of Scripture.  It’s like [...]

Duane Litfin in grad chapel

Today Dr. Litfin, the president of Wheaton, spoke in grad chapel on the importance of the Scriptures in education.  Here are some of my notes.

 The goal is Christ-centered learning (i.e. the integration of faith and learning). 
Faith doesn’t make something true.   Biblical faith is simply taking God at His Word.
You can’t have faith without revelation. 
Why do [...]

Hebrew

My schedule is starting to pick up since Hebrew is starting to be more difficult.  I’m having a hard time telling the difference between the qames and the qames-hateph.  Tips? 
That’s just to say that my mind is coming up blank when it comes to posting lately.   

Sola Scriptura?

So I’m taking a Christian theology on Tuesday nights.  This first section is on the doctrine of Scripture.  In preparation for next week, we had to read “Sola Scriptura: In the Vanity of Their Minds” by John Whiteford.  We also had to prepare an outline.  Foolishly, I decided to post part of my outline so that [...]

John Piper at Wheaton

John Piper spoke in chapel today.  Here are the sermon notes that I took.  (more…)

Greek and Hebrew

So I went to my first Greek and Hebrew classes today.   I was a little bit worried going into them that I’m going to have problems mixing them up; however, the classes are quite a bit different.  The teachers have completely different styles.   The Greek teacher seems pretty traditional in style; while the Hebrew teacher is [...]

Helmut Thielicke on Truth and Love 2

Here’s another Helmut Thielicke quote that Dr. Greenman gave us yesterday.
“The man who studies theology…might watch carefully whether he increasingly does not think in the third person rather than the second person…This transition from one to the other level of thought, from a personal relationship with God to a merely technical reference, usually is exactly synchronized [...]