Well, as you know, I hate to have miss doing The Journey on a Saturday, and we just came off of a long time away from it, but as it turns out, I need to miss the next two Saturdays. I'm off to Oxford, England for the International Patristics Conference.
I had thought I could work my travel schedule around the Saturdays, and maybe even do a session from Oxford, but it turns out that on both of the next Saturdays I will be either in an airport, or on a plane during our session times. So please forgive another gap, but we will resume our weekly Bible study on August 17th - and then we're back at it weekly for the long haul.
Having said that, I know that most people watch the video after the fact, rather than join us live, so if anyone wants to suggest a better day & time for the live stream, I'm open to hearing about that.
See you on August 17th!
Ciao! ... I mean... Cheerio!
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!
This is Michael Knowles' commentary on the murder of Charlie Kirk, and directly on the press conference about the arrest - In the middle is a great speech by the governor of Utah - overall excellent stuff if you have 1.5 hr to spend on it
with some Florida colleagues - all of them Protestant, but with varying traditions on the Eucharist - it was encouraging to hear how there are some Protestant denominations that have a real respect for the Sacrament (and I'm not talking about Anglicans or even Lutherans):
