Day 35

Sproul and Grudem-listening, reportsing and supervision.

Romans 9 is incredible. Objection after objection dealt with, God's glory magnified, grace shown to be massive. However it's very hard to only read one chapter of Job at a time. Lots of good food today, with chocolate, chocolate and vanilla cake, sausage casserole, chilli stuff, and home-made curry.

I thought I knew Isaiah 6 pretty well, but Sproul just blew it all open once more for me. How we need ears to hear.

Day 34

Game on. The sense of doom hung over Kensington today, as the busker struck up Pachelbel's Canon just as I went past. Normally the tell-tale sign, but 'twas and excellent session. Met a guy who knows what he's talking about, and knows and likes people that I know and like. I should really say admires rather than likes, otherwise it sounds like he doesn't like some people. I'll stop digging.

Lots of Grudem on systematics, and getting behind in more urgent things. Tale of Relay so far. Still, I'm encouraged and going for things.

Romans 8!

That deserves a paragraph by itself. In fact, it deserves another.

Romans 8!

Hooray! I've been reading through and discussing/explaining Romans with Adele for a few days now. A certain paradox is in effect though; the more you read it, the less you understand it (very true with the book of Revelation). Great stuff though.

Day 33

Bassing twice at church. I'd forgotten how much I love playing music, and being creative. Great to do it in the church as well, getting to know more people and help people worship God through song.

Goligher on Isaiah 1. Am very excited about the upcoming Isaiah series (set of series, since it'll be broken up lots). Isaiah's too big a book for me to feel up to going deep with, so it's great to be shown it from the text by another.

Made flatbread, inspired by a comment Drew made yesterday. I'm slowly becoming a decent cook.

Anna's hat reminds me of her colander.

Romans 7:6 in the ESV is different in most ESVs to my Greek English Reverse Interlinear. Mysterious...

Day 32

Musical! Drew came over and played lots of songs and I played along on bass, adding very little. Lots of washing, tidying, Bible and puritans. Still in love with wobbly windows and spinny cubes though. Simple things.

Day 31

Patch Prayer - Full Fat's sounding great. Eek at lots of simultaneous days of work.

Piper on hating evil. Brilliant.

I love evil way too much. God, change my heart.

Day 30

Paul gives us a strange look as we ask whether OT saints were saved in the same way as we are.

My computer now does shiny, spinny flashy things, as well as answer e-mail.

Marriage is about covenant keeping. Romans is forever. Abortion is bad.

God keeps on just being there, saying the right thing at the right time. He is all we need.

Day 29

Study, resolutions, reading, monthly reports, didn't go to a Neal Morse gig/service.

Day 28

Supervision, lots of thinking behind and planning ahead. Scary, exciting times.

"Why do my friends keep on dying?"

Romans is good. Esther is too!

Day 27

Big fat roast chicken. Yum.

The book of Esther is very cool. Very exciting. So many 24-like incidents. Oh dear, I'm now judging the Bible by 24's standards. Not a good sign. A sovereign God though...

Day 26

A sermon of 20-something minutes referring to one bible verse. That wasn't in the passage. . Mercifully heresyless. Pragmatism reigns. Thankfully the evening was much better. Brendan and I talked about preaching. And got the top 5 high scores on Photohunt.

24 - Jack Bauer the sacrificial lamb. With a twist.

Day 20 - 25

Relay 2 Days.

Murray losing valiently. Mountain ranges in Zephaniah.

Some Frame-inspired accuracy from Jason Clarke. Apparently a controversial message, but seemed pretty obvious to me. Talking to Adele whilst playing snooker. Constant strange looks from people as they think I'm talking to myself.

I was poor. Probably the best place to be for the day, spotting sin patterns, uncovering dark spots of my heart. They went soft on us at the end though.

Spoke with notes. Should have at least written a script though. Scotland 84, EC/SW 54, London 48, Midlands 48, Wales 31, Ireland 17, NE 10, SE 3, NW 2. At least we were 24 times as good as NW.

Committee stuff. Would have been great at Relay 1. Read Zephaniah twice out loud. Mo's talk - ouch, spot on. Mega-prayer-cell.

Zephaniah ends. Still my favourite book of the Bible. Blacks and whites, only one word in grey. One car, one bus, three trains and two walks. Went home.