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✍🏻 @Dellachelpkaart’s peaceful meditation on the 23rd Psalm, which I preached last night. “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
❤️ this picture of my daughter in front of a giant moon. @dellachelpkaArt made it with charcoal!
📚 Read The Whole Systems Approach by Bill and Cindy Adams. Great book! It helped me to better see the systems that comprise organizations. I feel more equipped to serve in various contexts after reading this book.
📚 Read: Catholicism Made Me Protestant by Onsi A. Kamel in First Things
🇭🇰 There are so many remarkable things about the protests in Hong Kong.
🎨 Maybe a tenth of the whole mural at Olé Mexican Grill. Who painted this? It’s so fun.
⛪️ In John 7, John says that the Holy Spirit had not come because Jesus was not yet glorified. What did he mean and why is this important? Today, I jam packed a long morning sermon with answers to these questions.
📕 You can now get a PDF of the Trinity Psalter Hymnal. Very handy.
📚 In another translation gift from David Noe, Beza writes a fervent letter to a Polish prince about the Trinity and against those who were leading people astray.
🧘♂️ Mindfulness is Loaded with (Troubling) Metaphysical Assumptions by Sahanika Ratnayake is spot on. Ed Clowney wouldn’t disagree, and he goes further by explaining how the metaphysical support for the (good) assumptions Ratnayake makes is found in Christian theology.
🎯 Kevin Vanhoozer explains the goal of doctrine:
The goal of doctrine is to help people understand the story of which they are a part—the drama of redemption—so well that they know what to say and do to correspond and continue it, even though the cultural scenery has changed.
📚 Finished: Scaling Leadership by Robert Anderson and William Adams. It’s very similar to Mastering Leadership and better in a few ways.
🤔 Think about this: Jesus is one person with two natures. You can understand what that means by considering how the Bible says Jesus knows or doesn’t know certain things.
📚 Kevin Vanhoozer has a lot of great ways of explaining the connection between doctrine and discipleship in his new book for pastors. Loved it.
💯 I’m trying to help someone very special to me level up as a freelance professional. So I took Seth Godin’s Freelancer Course. He makes a lot of great points. It was a helpful, clarifying, and encouraging introduction.
📚 I wanted to read a book of poetry on my vacation. So glad I chose Nine Horses by Billy Collins. Now I think I’m going to see how much progress I can make in his online class over the next few days.