A Month of Thanksgiving - 20

I am so thankful for a weekend of rich teaching!  Drs. Pipa and Waters were just excellent with their teaching regarding the Holy Spirit.

And the book table was fantastic!

My cup runneth over.

Every day in the month of November, I will be joining with Rebecca Writes and many others as we share our thankful thoughts.

A Month of Thanksgiving - 19

Today, I am thankful for time away with a friend.  This afternoon, I will be embarking up on a wonderful event.  One of my oldest and dearest friends, and fellow lover of teaching God's Word, and I are going to a bible conference.  The topic is the Holy Spirit.  It is being put on by the group Sola Scriptura, which originates here in Canada, but supplies Ligonier Ministries materials.  In September, they held a conference in Toronto where Derek Thomas was one of the speakers.

The names of the speakers this weekend are Joseph Pipa, Guy Prentiss Walters, and Heinz Dschankilic.  I'm really looking forward to this time with my friend.  We have done things like this before, having gone in the past to quite a few bible teaching and studying seminars together.  We taught together for quite a few years before homeschooling took over our schedules.  Now, we're at it again!

I guess you could say it's a Nerd Girls' Weekend out!

Every day in the month of November, I will be joining with Rebecca Writes and many others as we share our thankful thoughts.

Patience is a virtue

Rebecca, a fellow user of Squarespace, pointed out that the commenting here is very slow today, due to some upgrades to the commenting system.  Thanks, Rebecca for pointing it out.

If anyone here wishes to comment, and it seems like it is taking forever, it is not you.

A Month of Thanksgiving - 18

A good friend of mine is at a bedside vigil with her father, who will soon be in the presence of the Lord.  I'm sure this past number of days has been bittersweet for her, as she waits with her family.

I am all too aware of the ages of my parents, and that they, too, will be in that position of being near the end of their lives.  They are admittedly not Christians.  That is a sobering thought for me.  I'm thankful this morning for the continued good health of my parents.  Continued good health means more opportunities to be with them, and more opportunities for them to hear the gospel.

Every day in the month of November, I will be joining with Rebecca Writes and many others as we share our thankful thoughts.

Warfield Wednesday

B.B. Warfield, in his essay "The Person of Christ," discusses how the book of Hebrews describes the person of Christ.  He emphasizes that though the book teaches us that Christ did indeed become a man (he was made for a while a little lower than the angels) he never reliquished his deity.  Despite the fact that the sole purpose for his coming was to die and provide redemption for man, he never ceased being God.  Warfield says further:

The glory of this dispensation consists precisely in the bringing of its revelations directly by the Divine Son rather than by mere prophets (i. 1), and it was as the effulgence of God's glory and the express image of His substance, upolding the universe by the word of His power, that this Son made purification of sins (i. 3).  Indeed, we are expressly told that even in the days of the flesh, He continued still a Son (v. 8), and that it was precisely in this that the wonder lay:  that though He was and remained (imperfect participle) a Son, He yet learned the obedience He had to set Himself to God (cf. Phil. ii 8) by the things which he suffered.  Similarly, we are told not only that, though an Israelite of the tribe of Judah, He possessed "the power of an indissoluble life" (vii.16 m.), but, describing that higher nature which gave him this power as an "eternal Spirit" (cf. "spirit of holiness," Rom. i. 4), that it was through this eternal Spirit that He could offer Himself without blemish unto God, a real and sufficing sacrifice, in contrast with the shadows of the Old Covenant (ix. 14).