Summer Sandals

Yes, we are swimming in the shallow end of the pool today. Those who prefer the deep end should swim elsewhere.

Two weeks ago I purchased a pair of Børn sandals like the pair pictured. Usually I wear clunkier sandals. I’ve been partial to Tevas, for instance, and other sandals of the walking/hiking sort, thinking they have the corner on cool comfort. But hiking sandals don’t look all that great with a dress on Sunday, do they? And I have long feet—size 9, if you must know—and there’s nothing like a clunky shoe to emphasis the size of my feet.

So I bought these sandals on the recommendation of oldest daughter, who has a black pair, and size 9 feet, too. She works as a server, so she is running on her feet for 8-10 hours a day for her job, and she wears these every day. She’s never had a pair of sandals so easy on the feet, she says.

My verdict? Oldest daughter is right. This is one pair of comfortable sandals! And I don’t hate it that they don’t add bulk to my feet or that they look downright delicately dressy when worn with a dress.

I’m sold, and I think I might like a pair in this style, too. In black.

 

What is sanctification?

Sanctification is a work of God’s grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, chosen to be holy, are in time, through the powerful operation of his Spirit [1] applying the death and resurrection of Christ unto them,[2] renewed in their whole man after the image of God;[3] having the seeds of repentance unto life, and all other saving graces, put into their hearts,[4] and those graces so stirred up, increased, and strengthened,[5] as that they more and more die unto sin, and rise unto newness of life.[6] 

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What is the Gospel? from D. A. Carson

Updated on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 10:26PM by rebecca

Here are notes from another of Donald Carson’s sermons, What is the Gospel? This one was preached last May at the 2007 Gospel Coalition Conference. I suggest you listen to the sermon for yourself and use my notes as a supplement to help you remember what you heard.

The fragmentation of the church in the west has led to a fragmented understanding of  the gospel.

Common Misunderstandings of the Gospel

• The gospel is reduced to a narrow set of teachings about the death and resurrection of Christ, which rightly believed, tip people into the kingdom.  After that, the real training and transformation, discipleship and maturity take place. This view is much narrower than the biblical view, in which the gospel is the embracing category which holds much of the bible together, encompassing lostness and condemnation, through reconciliation and conversion, through to the consummation and the resurrection.

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