Thankful Thursday

Today I’m thankful for

• a few dreaded tasks finished—and they weren’t so bad after all. 
• warmer winter weather. We had a cold spell that ended today and the forecast for next week okay. Anytime Yukon January weather looks decent, it’s something to be thankful for. 
• for the busyness that keeps the cold, dark days flying by. And while I’m at it, I’m thankful that one week of January 2015 is crossed off the calendar. One week down, three and a bit to go.
• smelly candles and an African violet in bloom, two things to brighten the darkness of the winter days.
• God’s daily faithfulness (Where would I be without it?) and God’s rule in world history (Where would we be without it?)
• adoption into God’s family. 

Also thankful today:

• Kim Shay
• Persis

What are you thankful for? Leave a comment with your thanksgiving, post your thanksgiving on your blog, or tweet it. Give me the link by email or in a comment and I’ll add your thanksgiving to the list in the post.

Theological Term of the Week

christology
The branch of theology that investigates what scripture teaches about the person and work of Jesus Christ, including his deity, humanity, preexistence, incarnation, sinlessness, death, resurrection, ascension, and more.

• A little christology in scripture: 

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11 ESV)

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Heidelberg Catechism

Question 69. How does baptism remind and assure you that Christ’s one sacrifice on the cross is for you personally?

Answer: In this way: Christ instituted this outward washing (a) and with it gave the promise that, as surely as water washes away the dirt from the body, so certainly his blood and Spirit wash away my soul’s impurity, in other words, all my sins. (b)

(Scriptural proofs after the fold.)

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