Thankful Thursday

Watching the winter weather caused suffering in the rest of North America makes me thankful for our January weather, which has been quite warm.  I’m thankful that January’s almost over, too, because once we make it to the end of January, we probably won’t get any really cold weather (like -40°). 

I’m thankful that the flood in the library at church (caused by our long January thaw) only damaged a couple of books that were in a box on the floor. I’m thankful that the floor and carpet seem to be drying, albeit slowly. I’m thankful that in the 25 year in this church building, this is the first time the library has flooded.

I’m thankful for my baby grandson, who will turn one soon. I’m thankful he’s growing and developing—and getting cuter each day. 

I’m thankful for a beautiful new butcher block countertop. 

I’m thankful for new mercies each morning, for grace sufficient for every day’s troubles. 

This Week in Housekeeping

Here are three theological terms that I updated this week.

deism

• Updated two dead links and fixed messed up formatting.
• Added a link to R. C. Sproul’s Did God Create the Universe and Then Step out of the Picture?

economic Trinity

• Tweaked the definition.
• Added a link to R. C. Sproul’s What’s the Difference Between the Ontological and Economic Trinity?

ontological Trinity

• Added a link to R. C. Sproul’s What’s the Difference Between the Ontological and Economic Trinity?

Theological Term of the Week

exodus, the
God’s deliverance of the twelve tribes of Israel from slavery in Egypt through the miraculous parting of the Red Sea, as recorded for us in the first eighteen chapters book of Exodus.

• From scripture:

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, 

“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; 
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 
The Lord is my strength and my song, 
and he has become my salvation; 
this is my God, and I will praise him, 
my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 
The Lord is a man of war; 
the Lord is his name. 

“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, 
and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. 
The floods covered them; 
they went down into the depths like a stone. 
Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, 
your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.

“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;
you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.” 
(Exodus 15:1-6, 13 ESV)

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