Just a quick update.

This weekend was great… but overwhelming. I travelled home with my fianceé to take part in our first wedding shower, which was held on Saturday. We got lots of great stuff and are very thankful for our friends and family. Then on Sunday I preached on Mark 1:1-15, focusing on Mark’s answer to the question, “but who do you say that I am?” from Mark 8:29. The identity of Jesus is one of Mark’s main theological themes throughout the Gospel, and is heavily featured in his prologue. Immediately after the service, we had some home cooked food thanks to my mom and made the trip back to Louisville. It was a whirlwind of a weekend, but full of grace and goodness.

This semester has about 3 more weeks in it and I’m feeling the strain. I have 3 papers to write, another chapter for Dr. Greg Allison’s forthcoming book to edit, and the hardest section of Hebrew grammar (for the book we’re using) to go. Pray for me!

James Gregory, of www.jgelements.com, has unleashed a monster for the 40th edition of the Biblical Studies Carnival. For those of you who are unfamiliar, a “Carnival” in the blog world serves to point others to the many discussions going on within a particular area of interest or study by giving links and commentary on those discussions. My own blog, (the one you’re reading now), got quite a few mentions by James (Thanks!)

Under “Hebrew Bible and Judaic Studies,” James featured my recent book review of “Immanuel in Our Place: Seeing Christ in Israel’s Worship“, by Tremper Longman III.

Under “Biblical Theology” James linked to several posts including:
Vos on the New Creation
The American Church and Individualism
Witnessing Miracles

I’m greatly humbled that James would feature a number of my posts, especially alongside some of the theological and linguistic studs that also appear. Thanks James! and I would recommend that you all go check out the rest of this month’s carnival.