Happenings & Cogitations

Sunday, 24 May 2009

  • Currently
    Solace
    By Sarah McLachlan
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    tie-ins

    from two sermons, one on Adam & Eve, one on Christ fulfilling the OT priesthood.

    The drift of the Adam and Eve sermon: God knew Adam needed a helper, and to get this point across, He had Adam name the animals. Because of seeing all the animals in pairs, Adam realized he was alone and in need of his own other half.

    The drift of the priesthood sermon: the priests stood in the Temple because their work of giving sacrifices was incomplete; Christ, the final priest, fulfilled their office through His ultimate sacrifice and now sits at God's right hand.

    Don't these go together? The priests, like Adam, found animal after animal, all young and spotless, but just as no animal was a fit helper for Adam, no animal was truly able to atone for sin. Only God's work of creating woman was able to complete man. The Church is the new Eve, made for the second Adam, born from His side broken in the crucifixion. Now, instead of standing at the Passover table with our shoes and coats on, we sit at the Lamb's wedding feast. And that's what it's all about.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

  • Currently
    American Gothic
    By The Smashing Pumpkins
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    dropping the eaves

    Overheard in a public bathroom:

    "Oh, it still has another three minutes left."
    "OK."
    "And then if it has just one line, you're not, but if it has both lines, you are."

    Overheard outside a gas station:

    "Yeah, you put whatever you want in the cup and then fill it up with slurpee so they can't see it."

    If only all this handy new knowledge could go on my resume.

    "In addition to a years' college education, I am an expert in pregnancy tests and convenience store robbery."

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Booklist - 2009

Institutes of the Christian Religion
(John Calvin)
The Supper of the Lamb
(Robert Farrar Capon)
Sailing Alone Around the Room
(Billy Collins)
Matilda
(Roald Dahl)
Holy the Firm
(Annie Dillard)
The Game of Kings
(Dorothy Dunnett)
The Doctrine of the Christian Life: A Theology of Lordship
(John M. Frame)
Straightedge Youth: Complexities and Contradictions of a Subculture
(John F. Gallagher)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(Seth Grahame-Smith)
Against Christianity
The Kingdom and the Power
(Peter J. Leithart)
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

(C. S. Lewis)
Angela's Ashes
(Frank McCourt)
1984
(George Orwell)
The Orator's Education
(Quintilian)
The Catcher in the Rye
(J.D. Salinger)
De Profundis
The Picture of Dorian Gray

(Oscar Wilde)
Heaven Misplaced
Her Hand in Marriage
Reforming Marriage
Standing on the Promises

(Doug Wilson)
The Fruit of Her Hands
Praise Her In the Gates

(Nancy Wilson)
Surprised by Hope:Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
(N. T. Wright)