Wright on the UN

This is a good blog entry in my estimation.

Wright has said for a long time that we should rely more heavily on the UN. I think his comments are correct. Comments?

Luke

Need New Career

It's become obvious that I can't live, supporting my family on my income. We haven't started eating our shoes yet. But being single income with two children under two is not working out on private Christian school pay.

I went onto a website that asks for net pay and what your expenses are, it told me there wer NO cities I could live in.

I found out the average teacher pay in the lowest paying state is still about 4000 more than I make (fig from 2004).

So.... what could I do.... Maybe I could give lectures on incompetence. I think I might be an expert.

Krista was musing that we had a photo from Easter: we are nicely dressed, we have a nice looking child, we look happy (not that we're not), we both are partially finished with Master level degrees.

And we are about (at least) $15,000 dollars a year short of affording housing in our area - if we weren't buying groceries.

How do normal people get jobs? Oh, right, they don't major in French.

Luke

Emerging Reflection

Please read Scot McKnight's article Five Streams of the Emerging Church for Christianity Today, then continue.

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This excellent article articulates exactly many things I have thought, and indeed experienced, in the last two or three years.

*I have been drawn toward

**CHARISMATISM**

-positive in its expectation of God's continued activity

-negative in its skepticism toward historic christianity.


when I noticed this, I


*began to feel a positive draw toward liturgy which in turn drew me toward

**CATHOLICISM**

-positive in its push for more historic Christianity

-negative in its enforcement of non-biblical theology



*Simultaneously feeling drawn from inactivity toward

**SOCIAL ACTIVISM**

-positive in finally recognizing a "ACT" command in the gospel call
-positive in seeing the communal aspect of the faith
-positive in feeling closer to Jesus as a displayer of the faith
-positive in its questioning of unfettered violence

-negative in its draw towared unchecked inclusivism and absolute pacifism

-like the draw to being a democrat without criticizing abortion or total tolerance
-like the denial of governmental righteousness of policing or criminal justice, or the strong country helping the weak
-like the feeling that if God were godly enough he would be a universalist


*What in the end feels the most like the answer is reexamination of the actual

**GOSPEL**

I don't say this snydely to anyone but myself.

I think it is important to recognize an

--absolute defined gospel (ONLY JESUS is King, he is raised, he is reigning, he is God) for an
--indiscriminant audience (the worst sinner is called) without an abandonment of the
--covenantal structure of Government and Justice driven by the
--creational pull toward peace and generosity and grace

I am sure I have more to say, but enough for now.

-Luke

Happy Birthday Krista

Today is Krista's birthday.

Happy be it.

Luke