This weekend I'll be back in the cold blue state of Illinois to teach a weekend class on campus. So on Saturday morning, we're going to try an experiment. I will do The Journey on schedule, but from my classroom at Garrett Seminary. You won't see the students because they will be behind my laptop, but they will be there, and they may ask questions as we go. So we're going to continue on with The Journey as usual, but we will have an additional audience of about 12 people, "behind the scenes," as it were.
As for the students, I'm giving them a taste of how the Church fathers did Bible study because I'm offering an elective on Patristic Exegesis (i.e., how the Church fathers did Bible study) in the January term. This may inspire them to take that class, but in any case, it will give them an idea of how the early Christians read the Bible.
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
I hope to have another installment of THE JOURNEY up this Saturday - here's the text for the rest of the chapter - I didn't bother with the colored text since this is all from the Gospel of John.
