Status Report: July

Eating…a roast beef, cheese, and avocado sandwich for lunch. 

Enjoying…summer. It was slow coming this year, and I’m very happy it finally made it. 

Anticipating…picking the first ripe tomatoes from my patio tumbler tomato plant.

Thinking…about the things I want to accomplish this summer. Our summer is so short, and I don’t want to use it all up doing the many chores I can do only in the summer. I’ve already cut way back on the gardening I’m doings. What else can I give up, at least for a year?

Reading… The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate, because I’m finally done with From Heaven He Came and Sought Her. I was afraid The Question of Canon might be a revisitation of Canon Revisited, but it’s not. 

Also reading…The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War. It’s a whole lot of fun, especially for a book with so much suicide. I chalk this up to the way Alexander Waugh tells the story.

Thanking…God for his many provisions in answer to prayer. We (my family) have had so many lately, and I want to acknowledge them even though I can’t give more details than this.

Laughing…at these. You’ve probably seen them already, but it not, you might enjoy them, too. (I woudn’t have used one of the words included. In case you were wondering.)

Needing…to call a refrigerator repairman. My frost-free is not defrosting and the fan stops working when the ice builds up. 

Thinking…the dog must have fished the half-eaten bean burrito out of the garbage. 

Taking…him out for a walk.

Wishing…you a joyful July. And may you have more fireworks than we did.

Theological Term of the Week

Unitarianism
“[T]he view that there is only one God—the Supreme Being whom Jesus referred to as ‘Father’—and that Jesus himself was not divine, at least not in any literal sense.”1 (Although Unitarians do not believe Jesus was divine, they do claim to follow him.)

• Scripture that proves that Jesus’ disciples were not Unitarians, and neither was the author of Hebrews:

And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. (Matthew 28:9 ESV)

And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.” (Hebrews 1:6 ESV)

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Heidelberg Catechism

Question 42. Since Christ died for us, why must we die, too?

Answer: Our death is not a payment for our sins, (a) but it abolishes sin, and is a passage into eternal life. (b)

(Scriptural proofs after the fold.)

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