I have been away from this blog for quite sometime. I just came from an amazing trip (by boat) through most of the Grand Canyon (190 miles). Of course - we had no access to the internet, phones etc. Before that I was in Canada, Detroit and California. I hope to come back with some details and photos soon.
Many blessings and joy to all!
P.S. Spain won the Euro 2008. I think that the better team has won.
Here I am in Korea after watching the first half of the game…and it is almost 2:00 am here. This is one thing Europeans should know about moving to the far east - most games from Europe will be very late, or early in the morning…If you want to watch some games from the States (like the Lakers or the Super Bowl), those are usually in the morning.
In any case - the game is fairly boring (as my brother Tiberius pointed out on SKYPE), but it understandable that both teams are cautious (it is 0-0 at the half). I assume that both teams will take more risks and attack in the second half, but Romania looks content with a tie (?).
If I do not write tomorrow about this game - it is probably because Romania lost. In any case - it is just a game!!! Things have to be put into perspective. When there are so many people who suffer in darkness and misery, who cares if Romania wins or loses? Even more - who cares who wins Euro 2008?
There are definitely more important issues to deal with. Meanwhile - GO ROMANIA!!!
Some new and very good resources for teaching and studying the Hebrew language can be found here.
A Marine was removed from duty for handing out in Iraq coins which contained Bible verses. The story can be found here.
I was surprised (not really shocked) to read on BBC that the Church of England will debate a motion about the need/importance of evangelizing people of different faiths - more specifically Muslims. This motion is being brought to the floor by Paul Eddy - a layman who is training to become a priest.
Eddy puts it this way:
Professor Alister McGrath was invited by a Methodist school from Seoul to give a series of lectures on spirituality and on his book The Dawkins Delusion. I was able to catch only his lecture on spirituality: “A Comparative Study Between the Spirituality of John Calvin and Johe Wesley.”
The lecture was read by McGrath and translated in Korean by one of the professors there.
Steve Green is in Korea at the invitation of John Song and our school. This evening I had the privilege and joy to hear him in concert with Song Jong Mi (an amazing Korean Christian singer) at a Presbyterian church in Seoul.
I must say that this was by far the best concert that I have ever been to. (And I have been to U2’s Zoo TV tour in SD in the 90s).
In Peter Flint’s presentation in Seoul (December 2007) he also discussed the relationship between apostle Paul’s expression “works of the law” (ergon nomou) and the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). He believes that the DSS also affects our understanding of Paul, especially in connection with this special term found in Romans 3:20, 28 and Galatians (2:16; 3:2, 5, 10). Here is the text in Galatians 3:10:
Perhaps most of you heard the news that gay marriage will soon be legal in California (this is the state to which I immigrated more than 20 years ago). Somewhat expectedly the news was met with both joy and outrage. Many gays in California and in the rest of the nations seem very happy (most perhaps do not really care since they have no plans to ‘marry’), while many conservatives call this an ‘outrage.’ At least this is the word that James Dobson used.
It looks like the Israel Museum has just put again on display the famous Isaiah Scroll. See the article
here. This is the only major complete scroll among the Dead Sea Scrolls (written c. 120 B.C.).
A copy (many think it is the original) is currently on display here in Korea.
