Bonhoeffer, Mark, and the Stillers
I've been reading a devotional called 'A Year With Dietrich Bonhoeffer'. It has been really enlightening, but also really challenging. Of course, so much of Bonhoeffer's writing comes in the context of World War II and the most extreme of world events. He emphasizes edificatious nature of suffering in his writing. That's a hard topic to wrap your mind around in a culture that does everything it can to avoid or numb pain. Today's reading was about perseverence. He discusses how peresverence literally means to "remain underneath; without throwing off the load". Its about bearing our cross as Christ did. "God's peace is found with those who persevere" and grow stronger under the weight.
We finished talking about Mark in Gospels today. I really enjoy my professors comments, but I think they are rather controversial. He translates the greek phrase that is normally translated as 'Son of Man' as 'Son of the Human Being'. Technically there is nothing wrong with that. The word used in the phrase is 'anthropos' which is person, not man. No problem there. He then goes onto say that the 'Son of the Human Being', in light of Daniel 7, is a corporate reality, not just Jesus alone. 'Son of the Human Being' is actually the new kind of human being that lives under the new moral order inaugarated by the cross. In other words, that means us too. Try going through the gospel of Mark real quick and doing a search for 'Son of Man' and interpret that in that light. It makes alot of difference!
Today, my Super Bowl XL champions dvd arrived! My in-laws also sent us some news papers from before and after the Super Bowl that also arrived today! What a great day to get the mail! I watched the dvd immediately. What a great season! The dvd made this year seem like the Jerome Bettis story, which in some ways it was. I'd really like us to win a Super Bowl with Roethlisberger as the game's MVP. I love that guy!
We finished talking about Mark in Gospels today. I really enjoy my professors comments, but I think they are rather controversial. He translates the greek phrase that is normally translated as 'Son of Man' as 'Son of the Human Being'. Technically there is nothing wrong with that. The word used in the phrase is 'anthropos' which is person, not man. No problem there. He then goes onto say that the 'Son of the Human Being', in light of Daniel 7, is a corporate reality, not just Jesus alone. 'Son of the Human Being' is actually the new kind of human being that lives under the new moral order inaugarated by the cross. In other words, that means us too. Try going through the gospel of Mark real quick and doing a search for 'Son of Man' and interpret that in that light. It makes alot of difference!
Today, my Super Bowl XL champions dvd arrived! My in-laws also sent us some news papers from before and after the Super Bowl that also arrived today! What a great day to get the mail! I watched the dvd immediately. What a great season! The dvd made this year seem like the Jerome Bettis story, which in some ways it was. I'd really like us to win a Super Bowl with Roethlisberger as the game's MVP. I love that guy!
