Our lab mix and dachshund had themselves a real good time cornering this guy tonight. Thankfully, we were able to stop it before anyone got hurt.
📚 Life in the Trinity and The Trinity and the Covenant of Redemption are two books that need to fall in love and have lots of babies.
📚 Finished reading: Life in the Trinity: An Introduction to Theology with the Help of the Church Fathers by Donald Fairbairn.
Finished Reading: From Topic to Thesis: A Guide to Theological Research by Michael Kibbe. It’s a well-written guide that helped fix a few friction points I’ve experienced in my own research method. 📚
Some of the young adults at Covenant are challenging themselves to memorize Jonah 2. Way to go! I think I’ll join you and post a video link after I get it down.
Ever thought deeply about the story of Jonah? It’s a simple story, but its simplicity has a way of clarifying life—our priorities, our choices, our relationship with God. Here is the sermon I preached yesterday on the final chapter of the book.
Lampham’s: Where Writers Work
On meditation:
There is as much difference between a truth remembered, and a truth meditated on, as between a cordial in a glass, and a cordial drunk drown.
— Thomas Watson, meditator, metaphor-lover, Puritan
I finished Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations today and I’m trying to take his advice: “To read attentively—not just to be satisfied with ‘just getting the gist of it.’ And not to fall for every smooth talker.” 📚
