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📚 I’m excited to read Loving God with Our Minds: The Pastor as Theologian today. Gonna start with Brian Daley’s chapter on Gregory of Nazianzus, then Moltmann’s “Praying with Eyes Open”.
If you eat more mozzerella cheese, can you increase the number of doctorates awarded to civil engineers? No. But there are a whole lot more spurious correlations for you to laugh at.
Guess who said this about Martin Luther.
”That great man of God, a third Elias, and a second Paul, (if I may venture the expression) though he was no inspired teacher, was endued with a great measure of the spirit of them both…”
Hint: A Scottish Presbyterian.
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?”
Prof. Libbie Groves’s dramatic recitation of Jonah (in biblical Hebrew!) is both funny and serious, just like the book. Check it out! You’ll enjoy it even if you don’t know Hebrew.
Tomorrow, I’m going to start preaching through the amazing gospel of John. If you’d like to hear these sermons, paste our podcast feed into your favorite podcast app. We post a new sermon, usually two, every Sunday. covenantopctucson.org/feed/podc…
I saw the Salton Sea for the first time on my way home from presbytery yesterday. And since I only had one pair of shoes with me, I had to do some cleaning before church this morning. Also, I learned after we left the sea that the mud is probably toxic.