History

I am slowly coming to realize the importance of both personal history and the history of Christianity.

Whenever you purchase a new computer, it takes a while to get things the way you want them. You have to install the right applications, move your personal data, and much much more. I have started backing up my personal e-mails on to my machine. As the e-mails flew in, I started reading any that caught my attention.

I appreciate the summer in 2007 and 2008, where Vince and I fired e-mails back to one another pretty much everyday. We discovered the thread limit for g-mail is 100 messages. We regularly broke that limit.

I saw some of the first e-mails I exchanged with my pastor: how we connected through a random bible study, how I introduced him to my old church, and how our friendship has matured over the years.

Probably what cut to my heart the most were the many names of friends I have not seen in a while. I sorely miss members of the Zoe committee: Eleasa in Brisbane, Vicks who I never see for some reason, Kelly who goes on HK trips without telling me. There are many other names: CCF people, Ryerson people, etc.

As I perused through the different e-mails, I was reminded of how blessed I am to have friends like these. God has worked through my life in both the good situations and the bad. It gives me hope to know that God has dealt with me faithfully all these years. As I look forward to the future and its uncertainties, I know God will continue to be faithful to me. It is a great comfort to trust in His sovereignty.

I'll cover the Christian History another time.

A Good Day

In an effort to be more positive, I will write about some of the good things that happened today.

Keep in mind this is how I will avoid studying for my Hebrew exam in 36 hours (that I will most likely do very very poorly on).

Decided to go to a Theological Research Seminar at school today. These are seminars held for the opportunity of students and professors to showcase what they are working on. This one was on a re-examination of gender roles based on Adam and Eve. The woman speaking was clearly moving towards an Egalitarian view despite not bringing it up explicitly. It was a little hard to understand her, because she is native to Japan.

I gained some valuable insight for which student was part of what camp based on the questions that people asked her. The camps I am referring to are Egalitarianism vs. Complementarianism.

After the seminar, I talked with some of the other seminary students and it was nice to just shoot the breeze and chat about random things. Definitely want to read more, as a lot of these young men are more well read than I am.

Had Hebrew class, which is always nerve-wracking. You always get asked questions about your translations in that class. So it is like playing Russian Roulette for hard verses. I did not have any difficulties this class (which is always praiseworthy!)

Afterwards, I drove the prof to my evening class on Judges. Over burgers, we talked about random things. I learned of his love for Christian history and that he comes from the Reformed tradition. I realize now that I can learn a lot for him, so I definitely need to get thesis prep work done.

And now, I study for Hebrew.