Roman Province of Judea, ca 30 AD The Twitter-sphere erupted in outrage yesterday due to inflammatory remarks made by a popular Bible teacher from Nazareth. Jesus, referred to by some of his more radical followers as “the Christ”, reportedly used the terms “brood of vipers”, “whitewashed sepulchers” and “blind leaders of the blind” in reference…
Here are the books I read in September. White Sand, Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) by Brandon Sanderson I took a short break from my current theological reading and picked up the first volume of Brandon Sanderson’s White Sand graphic novel. I must say, I am becoming somewhat of a Sanderson fan (Sanderfan? Fanderson?)…and this book…
Our co-worker Francivaldo and his beautiful bride Géssica officially tied the knot in a lovely ceremony on Saturday – a ceremony at which I had the privilege of bringing a challenge from the Word to the young couple. Here, with some adaptation…and memes…are my remarks to them. Francivaldo and Géssica, you need to be aware…
That title could serve as a summary of my life. Or…it could refer to a group of four intrepid “upstaters” who spent two weeks in August helping us build our camp kitchen. Yeah, we’ll go with the second option. Meet Christian, Allie, Jon and Christine. These two couples from one of our supporting churches got…
This month was incredibly busy, so my reading took a hit. Nevertheless, I managed to finish one really good title. The Dead Sea Scrolls by Gary A. Rendsburg Preparations for my Old Testament Survey class led me to this series of lectures. I found it to be a veritable gold mine of information, useful not…
This is the final installment of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one, two, three, four, and five. The main…well…focus of the F.O.C.U.S. team this year was English Day, an event where we invited people from the English speaking community for a day…
This is a continuation of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one, two, three and four. After enjoying the dunes and the Preguiça River, it was back to work for the F.O.C.U.S. team. On Thursday morning they cleaned out a room at our…
This is a continuation of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one, two and three. Of course the dunes are not the only natural beauty to be found in our lovely part of the world. Not by a long shot. Since we were…
This is a continuation of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one and two. A mere two-hour drive from our camp project lie the Lençoís Maranhenses dunes. So spectacular is this natural wonder that Marvel used them as a backdrop for scenes in…
On Sunday (August Fourth) the Ebenezer congregation held the grand re-opening of our Sunday School program. Several changes were implemented: a new time (morning as opposed to afternoon), more time (two hours as opposed to one), and structure (an opening assembly, an hour of class time, a closing assembly). To commemorate this new phase in…