Fall Study Kick Off!
Hey Guys, welcome to our fall study offering - Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes. Here is the readying Schedule:
Sept 4-15 – Chapters 1-4 (Pages 25-62)
Sept 18-29 – Chapters 5-6 (Pages 65-87)
Oct 2-13 – Chapters 7-10 (Pages 91-131)
Oct 16-27 – Chapters 11-13 (Pages 135-185)
Oct 30-Nov 10 – Chapters 14-17 (Pages 189-238)
Nov 13-24 – Chapters 18-20 (Pages 239-275)
Nov 27-Dec 8 – Chapters 21-26 (Pages 280-342)
Dec 11-Dec 29 – Chapters 27-32 (Pages 343-426)
I am excited to continue the summer journey through the fall and into winter. May God richly bless our reading and conversation via this blog platform.
-Reid
"Yes, we must rewrite our Christmas plays, but in rewriting them, the story is enriched, not cheapened." Bailey's focus on the behaviors of those around Christ being "normal"/typical heightened my awareness that God's glory is perhaps enhanced not lessened by our particirelating without melodramatic situations and heroic displays. W. Wallace gives a speech about this dynamic in the movie Braveheart. He lets the folks know he's just an ordinary dude who doesn't like for example shoot bolts of lightning out of his arse (or something like that.) I've been reading Timothy and Titus. Paul I believe hammers this point again and again by writing do not be "quick tempered, given to drunkenness, or violent... be hospitable, love what is good, self-controlled, holy and disciplined....be temperate...show integrity...have soundness of speech....be upright...be godly....encourage. Keep your head in all situations.... be respectable...above reproach..." For me Bailey, Paul, and the writer of Braveheart all remind me the Christ's gospel captures the imagination of others with a particular purity and power when we exhibit the extraordinary person of Christ in the ordinary, average, unplanned, unguarded circumstances of our every day lives. PEACE!
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