This Week in Housekeeping

There were three things I read this week that I immediately linked in old Theological Term of the Week posts.

image of God

• Added a link to Kim Riddlebarger’s Divine Image Bearers. Quoting:

  [T]he biblical account tells us that Adam was created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26), which indicates that Adam is neither divine, nor the product of some unspecified primordial process. Adam was created by a direct act of God in which Adam’s body was created by God from the dust of the earth, while his soul was created when God breathed life into the first man (Genesis 2:7). The divine image extends to Eve as well (Genesis 2:4-24). To be human then, is to be male or female and to bear God’s image in both body and soul, which exist as a unity of both spiritual (the soul) and material (the body) elements. To be a divine image bearer is to be an ectype (copy) of which God is archetype (original).

vocation

• Added a link to Aaron Armstrong’s Your Work Is Your Calling.

  To work in ministry and survive, you need to have a sense of calling. It doesn’t matter if it’s church or para-church ministry—if you are there running on your own steam, it will kill you. And, let’s be honest, your coworkers won’t want to work with you either.

  But the same is true for “normal” work, too. As a Christian, you can’t do it and excel under your own power, not indefinitely.

Westminster Shorter Catechism

• Added a link to Matt Kirkland’s Westminster Shorter Catechism (A Designer’s Exploration). Check it out; I can’t quote this one. 

Round the Sphere Again: It Is Finished

He Sits
“[I]t’s thrilling to think that Jesus is seated at the right hand of God.  His work is finished.  He accomplished all that was needful for our salvation (Sitting Is Good News by Kevin DeYoung).”

We Bring Nothing
“[T]he tax collector walked away justified because he ‘owned’ his spiritual poverty, copped to the bottomlessness of his need. He brought nothing to the table and therefore was ‘rich toward God’ (Nothing in My Hand I Bring by Jared Wilson).”

Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for my new sewing machine. It’s such a treat to have a machine that works the way I want it to when I want it too. I’m thankful that Amazon.ca now sells more things than books. There are some products I just can’t get locally, and Canadians don’t have all the options some of you have for online shopping, especially with free or inexpensive shipping, so when Amazon.ca adds products, I’m thankful. 

I’m thankful that it warmed up a bit. Life is much easier when the winter temperature is decent. Last week I dreaded walking the dogs. Today I can look forward to it because it’s a pleasant winter afternoon, and I thank God for that. 

I’m thankful for the Trinity. My reconciliation to God depends on God existing eternally as three distinct persons.

I’m thankful that God is sovereign and trustworthy.