All Things Must Pass…
including the long-hair experiment.
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Jackson died today at the age of 50 - truly a tragic figure. I’ll never forget the day my friend called to play me this song through the phone. I’d never heard anything like it, and I really haven’t still after almost 25 years.
Quote of the Day
I see the wrong that round me lies,
I feel the guilt within;
I hear, with groan and travail-cries,
The world confess its sin.
Yet, in the maddening maze of things,
And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed trust my spirit clings
I know that God is good!
… John Greenleaf Whittier
Quote of the Day
The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and on one’s neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn’t the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.
… C. S. Lewis, “Lilies that Fester”
Counterparts to the Flood Narrative
Entry of The Animals into Noah’s Ark, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1613
Margaret Manning, another new friend from the RZIM conference at Wheaton this past week, wrote this very helpful paragraph on the narrative on which I’ll be preaching on Sunday morning (Genesis 6:5-8:22).
The ancient world features several parallels to the Biblical account of the Flood
“Ancient myths and legends that bear some resemblance to biblical history add to the credibility of the biblical witness, and do not diminish it. For example, many cultures have some sort of flood narrative. Does this mean that the story of Noah’s Ark is just another myth? No, it does not. Rather, ancient cultures all had within their “cultural memory” a recollection of a massive flood. Details of this flood were passed down through oral history, and later written down for posterity. Oral tradition was the primary means by which stories were transmitted in the ancient world, a practice continued by the Jews well into the first century, when Jesus would have lived. Oral tradition, based on memory, was a highly reliable (since memorization was the main means of learning and transmitting information in the ancient world) means of preserving historic events. The abundance of flood narratives found in various cultures is an illustration of the credibility and reliability of the flood story.”
John Lennox discusses debating atheists
Matt Childers and I are enjoying the great privilege of hearing this great man all week at the RZIM Summer Institute at Wheaton College.
He’s working through the book of Genesis.
It’s transcendentally wonderful.
Is Jesus my treasure?
Probably the greatest John Piper video in the pantheon of great John Piper videos.
May this be the case for me and all I cross paths with.
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