Milkshakes, Minor Prophets, and Miracles

February 18, 2011

Well, as you might have guessed, we’re still wading through plenty of homework, moving into the Life of Christ (finally, the New Testament!), finishing up some of the exilic and post-exilic prophets (finally, they are smaller than Jeremiah!), and diving into Anthropology/Hamartiology (which is fancy theological terms for the study of man and sin). If […]

Maher-shalal-hash-baz?

February 5, 2011

Maher-shalal-hash-baz? Well, it most certainly wasn’t voted as one of the top ten boy names this year, but in the 6th century BC, it was top of the charts, along with Shear-Jashub–and for girls names (about fifty years earlier), it was Gomer. Well, as you might have guessed, we’re smackdab in the middle of our […]

You can frown, or you can make a marshmallowy smile

February 1, 2011

Things could get dreary here. Michigan is wintery for such a long part of the year. I hated Michigan winters when I left a few years ago. That’s just the honest truth. Colorado’s winters were easy in comparison. I think the sunshine played a huge part of it–it shines almost every day of the year […]