Because My Time Was Full

Once again, it was my turn to post at Out of the Ordinary. Things did not go as I planned yesterday (although they probably went as I should have anticipated they would) and I ended up reposting a post I wrote several (many?) years ago as a reading for my church choir christmas program.

In eternity past, prior to his first creative command, God had a plan for the history of his creation. At the very centre of his plan was His own Son, foreordained to redeem humankind from the ruinous results of sin. That God’s own Son would come as Redeemer was at the heart of God’s purposeful will—the plan that he invariably works in all things to accomplish.

It was a glorious plan, but a plan yet to be revealed and a plan yet to unfold in history.  And then, piece by piece, God’s word revealed his purpose, and piece by piece, his command brought it to pass.

Read the rest of In the Fullness of Time.

Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for the incarnation. The sovereign Lord—the one who created thrones and dominions and rulers and authorities, and who upholds them all by his powerful word—emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant, and was obedient even to death on the cross. And he did it to save his people. It’s the greatest gift ever.

I’m thankful that both grandbabies visited yesterday. I’m thankful that they like each other so much. 

I’m thankful for the opportunity to sing Christmas carols at the nursing home tonight.

I’m thankful for my blooming African violets. 

I’m thankful that it warmed up a little. Everything’s so much easier when it isn’t deathly cold outside. 

I’m thankful for mandarin oranges, my favorite fruit of the season.

This Week in Housekeeping

Recently updated theological term posts.

adoption

• Added a link to a new post by Tim Challies, The Essential: Adoption.

evidential apologetics

• Added Filed under Apologetics.

creation ex nihilo

• Added Filed under God’s Nature and His Work.

exclusivism

• Fixed a bad link.
• Added Filed under Isms.

exegesis

• This is a really old post and needed to be changed to make it like the newer theological term posts. I added scripture and updated the format.
• Fixed broken links.
• Added links to R. C. Sproul interviewing D. A. Carson on biblical exegesis and J. I. Packer’s Interpretation of Scripture.
• Added related links biblical hermeneutics, eisegesis, perspicuity of scripture.
• Added Filed under Scripture.