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against nothingness skip to main content search this blog against nothingness because quasi voyeuristic revelations semi personal writings random discussions and a place to waste time all attract me more than they should because the nihilistic nothingness of hyper consumerism which threatens to overwhelm our culture should be fought because jesus christ reigns forever and in him love truth beauty goodness and holiness last because in the end there is something posts learning the self sources of the self get link facebook x pinterest email other apps june 30 2021 my time as a student at regent was most definitely a time of expanding my reading and study regent majored on the life of the mind and the professors there were keen to introduce us to key primary source material at every turn for this i am ever grateful one of the men who had a key influence on my reading was prof paul williams two of the books that make it on to this list of 40 are there because of him and this is the first before i move on to the book i will add that prof williams influenced me in more ways than this he modeled for me a dialogical form of teaching and led me into a deeper understanding of leading and teaching well specifically in a group setting he deepened my appreciation of the carefully and wisely spoken word both by example and by rebuke for which i am still grateful he welcomed me with gracious hospitality in several ways and thus shared with me the grace of god while showing me more of how to do the same lastly he taught me how to make a post a comment read more learning the way the way of the modern world get link facebook x pinterest email other apps may 26 2021 in my second year as a student at regent college i read the way of the modern world or why it s tempting to live as if god doesn t exist i feel fortunate to have not only read this book but had the opportunity to study with the author it is an incredibly important book by a deeply wise and intelligent man dr craig gay not only is this an important book in general it was also a very important book for me at the time there were a number of places of intellectual wrestling in my life during this season i wrestled with my critical feelings towards the many churches that seemed to have given far too much ground up to modernity i wrestled with what kind of minister pastor or teacher i could be in our culture and ways of doing both church and school i tried to think through the varying philosophical options and through my own tendencies towards both luddite ism and my equal propensity to get sucked in by new technology and gizmos to be clear i tended towards reject post a comment read more learning the call the glory of preaching get link facebook x pinterest email other apps december 17 2020 this post is intentionally linked in title and content to an earlier one in this series answering the call as i noted in my last post we are now into my seminary years early in my journey of answering god s call in my life i really had no idea where he would lead me as i began seminary i knew that the time for clarity would have to come soon i had 3 years of study and practicum ahead of me after that i would need to make some decisions at this point in my journey as i started to study at regent college i leaned fairly heavily towards becoming a teacher professor i had found through my undergraduate degree and now again in seminary that i deeply enjoyed the process of research and writing thesis and argument and the life of the university appealed to me books are after all much easier to work with than people they sit on the shelf until you want them they go back to the shelf when you are done they never change you might be laughing as you read that a post a comment read more a few things i should tell you the confessions of augustine get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 09 2020 there are a few things i should tell you we are heading into my seminary years 40 books in twenty years 20 of them or the next 8 books will be selected from the books i read during my time studying at regent college i took my masters of divinity at regent this was a three year program that i did do in three years but we took a year off in the middle and returned to s korea to teach english again i ll tell that story when i get to those books a few things follow from this first you are going to notice something of a shift in the types of books selected they are still good books but some of them are much more geared to my training as a pastor and therefore may be of less interest for you to read the next book in this series will be a great example of that second i m not entirely sure of the ordering of these books i know with certainty which two i have chosen from my second year in s korea the rest however have varying degrees of certai post a comment read more interpretation and memory justification by success get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 07 2020 do you ever spend some time reminiscing about something some season some event some person and then have your memories corrected by someone else who was there i think we ve all mis remembered like this held on to the good things and forgotten the hard or perhaps more commonly the reverse i know i do on other occasions i find that time has altered an experience what was horrible in the living has become humorous in the telling this is not mis remembering but perhaps reframing in outdoor activities i have heard this called type 2 fun it s not fun now but we ll enjoy talking about it later we have lots of stories from our time in s korea that fit into both of these categories i know i have often found myself remembering all the fun we had in our first apartment together things like celebrating our first christmas together with a mini tree costco pumpkin pie we had to go back and buy a 2nd one because we ate the first one so fast it did post a comment read more seeking understanding understanding leadership get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 27 2020 kristina and i wed in the spring of 2004 it was an amazing day kristina is an amazing woman prior to our wedding we had a great plan laid out for the beginning of our marriage none of it came together somehow by the grace and plan of god on the day of our wedding we had plane tickets to s korea a 3 week job teaching english at a summer camp lined up and 6 weeks before we left the country we went on our honeymoon stayed at the home of some good friends and visited family around the country before packing up to board a plane and fly across the world neither of us had a lot of stuff i had lived on and near campus throughout university and kristina had lived at home still we maxed out our suitcase allowance and this was back in the day when you could check two bags a person with a maximum weight of 50lbs per bag we even had to do some rearranging as when our bags were weighed one of them was slightly over 50lbs and one of them was under why did we have so muc post a comment read more walking in faith fear and trembling get link facebook x pinterest email other apps july 06 2020 we come now to the end of my undergraduate years if you ve been with me since the beginning of this series you know that this is book number 10 which also makes it the end of year number 5 or my fourth year of studies since i started at the end of high school one of my last classes was a required 400 level limited enrollment seminar class in this class 10 students along with the professor did close readings of key texts in religious studies the first two weeks were lectures in each of the remaining 10 classes one student gave a presentation on one of the 10 textbooks and then we discussed it our grades were determined by in class participation in discussions and that one presentation no finals no multiple sets of assignments just the teachers opinion of your engagement and familiarity with the material as well as one big 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