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Next Month In Jerusalem
"I wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament, which had been his Bible, and the New Testament, which was the Bible about him; about the history of the church, which had been founded on the faith that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature and his purpose for the world, but had released into the world a fierce power to draw people into that nature and adapt them to that purpose….No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused in me such intense curiosity, and much more than my intellect was involved, much more than my curiosity aroused. In the unfamiliar setting of a Presbyterian church, of all places, I had been moved to astonished tears which came from so deep inside me that to this day I have never fathomed them, I wanted to learn more about the source of those tears and the object of that astonishment."
This summer I’m doing an online course from Toronto School of Theology called “Celtic Christianity” which starts May 15th. The other bit of exciting news is that Nicole and I leave on May 1st for a two week tour of Israel and Jordan. It’s been organized through Mcmaster Divinity and I can’t express how much we’re looking forward to it. If I have the chance to post something during the trip I will.
Until then or until we come back,
Peace and good,
David
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April 30, 2010 @ 10:08 AM by: Webmaster
Finished off the winter term at the beginning of April and got through Systematic Theology 2 (trust me it’s not at all as bad as it sounds) and Preaching Preparation and Delivery. The latter came in handy as I preached my first Sunday morning service at Blythwood as well as my first supply preaching “gig” at Weston Park Baptist in April. Everything went well and as I told people at the time, it’s all been so affirming (to say the least) in terms of the path I’m on. I discovered a preacher/writer by the name of Frederick Buechner this past term. He’s a Presbyterian from New York and just an excellent excellent guy. Here’s a quote from him that talks about why he decided to go to seminary. It resonated so strongly with me I thought “I couldn’t have put it better myself!” Seriously though I couldn’t have put it better, the guy is a complete wordsmith: 
Posted in "I wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament, which had been his Bible, and the New Testament, which was the Bible about him; about the history of the church, which had been founded on the faith that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature and his purpose for the world, but had released into the world a fierce power to draw people into that nature and adapt them to that purpose….No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused in me such intense curiosity, and much more than my intellect was involved, much more than my curiosity aroused. In the unfamiliar setting of a Presbyterian church, of all places, I had been moved to astonished tears which came from so deep inside me that to this day I have never fathomed them, I wanted to learn more about the source of those tears and the object of that astonishment."
This summer I’m doing an online course from Toronto School of Theology called “Celtic Christianity” which starts May 15th. The other bit of exciting news is that Nicole and I leave on May 1st for a two week tour of Israel and Jordan. It’s been organized through Mcmaster Divinity and I can’t express how much we’re looking forward to it. If I have the chance to post something during the trip I will.
Until then or until we come back,
Peace and good,
David
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