Coach Ralph Harris leaves ETBU after his seventh season as head football coach, his primary mission of getting the program started, and respectably, accomplished in the first four years of his time here. It has been good to know you, Coach Harris. Thanks for being a gentleman among us. We wish you all the best, and we’ll see you later!
Last words, last songs, Methodist preacher in cowboy boots, tall, with guitar in hand and voice to encourage, gospel songs about trusting Jesus all along life’s way and scriptures fit to the need; special guests Willie Nelson and Andy Griffith singing (best recordings, of course) trusting-closeness-to-Jesus and hope beyond hope of a better day beyond; November’s best weather, bright sun, chilling shade, breezes mixing warm and cold, a crystalline day revealing the last of the blooms and leaves before the turn to winter; lifelong friends, respectful acquaintances, wistful-hurting family, and new widow saying goodbye, finally, and in a way so sure to please the husband who has passed from life to life: so it was in the antique funeral chapel and the Odd Fellows cemetery in Carthage, Texas, this Sunday afternoon past, when Dr. Linda Hudson, her family and many friends celebrated the life of Mr. Willie Charles Hudson. There we saw love enough, grace enough, gratitude enough, and, thank God, comfort enough and the promise of more to come, always.
Means: Futility of futilities (vanity of vanities) or Absolutely futile. The NET Bible reads, Futile! or Futility of futilities! (Qoheleth or Ecclesiastes 1:2) A “devised ensemble-created theatre project,” Vain ran about two hours Saturday night, stretching the Hilltop Players and the Hilltop Audience–who, it may be assumed, needed stretching (or perhaps to be led in some revisioning?) in ways a Bible study circle might not, and most preaching will not. (more…)
Well, actually, The Garden here is an ETBU faculty lunch seminar. Today’s presentation was about Dr. Robert Benefield’s SDS — Spiritual Discernment Survey — worth a look and a visit. Check it out, complete the survey as I did and be a part of the study!
Why the research program? Benefield writes, “Spiritual discernment literature has become highly popularized in numerous books and articles in the past ten years but attempts to investigate systematically spiritual discernment in the social and behavioral sciences have been lacking.” End
Comes this week to Tiger Mountain: Pastor Rodney Woo of Houston, court-messenger with an indictment against Christ-follower assemblies. Terms of the indictment: In the first instance, failure to watch Jesus of Nazareth among the masses–male, female, poor, rich, a society of ethnic multi-texturings–as he says, “Come to Me.” In the second instance, Simon bar Jonah’s mystical vision (The Acts) where he learns God makes no distinctions among persons; all are either in relationship or suffering outside relationship. In the third instance, Paul the Commissioned, who as a fulfilled Jew among the Gentiles evokes the Abrahamic promise “All the nations will be blessed in you.” (Gal. 3:8 WEB Bible www.bible.org) And who appealed to Christ “our peace, the one who made both groups (Jew and Gentile) into one” and among other things all “are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household” and who also live in “a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” (Eph. 2:14-22 WEB Bible) (more…)
I don’t know whether or not the current news about finding God at Harvard is anything like God and Man at Yale (that’s a while back), but Kelly Monroe Kullberg has a new book coming out next March, Finding God at Harvard (Intervarsity, 2007). In line with I wrote in another post, the Truth-prospectors should be expected to find what they’re after in Cambridge, Mass.; after all, they’re looking . . . (isn’t there a rule about that in Heb. 11:6?). Witness the endeavors of the Veritas Forum, and the surge in recent years of student Christian organizations at HU and elsewhere. They are among the more obvious guides to the gold, so to speak, but that which satisfies. End.
The news of Dr. Inez Jenkins’ death in Los Angeles on November 2 warrants a word of reflection. She was Professor Emerita of Religion and Philosophy at Wiley College in Marshall. Though due to illness it has been a few years since her gentle, yet cogent and wise voice could be heard, some of us will remember her for apt, gracious words given on special occasions. For the audience at the Sam B. Hall Jr. Lectureship a number of years ago, her evocative personal recollections of the Civil Rights Movement drew us to its heart. (more…)
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