"I sing the goodness of the Lord, that filled the earth with food;
He formed the creatures with His word, and then prounoused them good.
Lord, how Thy wonders are displayed, where'er I turn my eye;
If I survey the ground I tread, or gaze upon the sky!

well, after a weekend of semi-productivity, it's time to update this old thing again. :)

my life was relatively boring this weekend, the main chunk of saturday consisting of programming, watching tv, talking on the fone, and browsing online. both of my roommates left me on saturday--they're active ppl, not like me. :P so, i guess nothing much that interesting. :)

i learned about the aorist tense in the greek today in sunday school. ;) well, that's not what i PRIMARILY learned, but it was pretty interesting. heh, maybee someday i'll study greek....when i don't have projects and midterms on my heels. it was mainly to point out the errors of the 'victorious life doctring', refering to Romans 12:1. they (like charles stanley) interpret the "present you bodies" as a one-time consecration, and then just 'let go and let God'. i guess it also involves not having to ask forgiveness of sins as a Christian, and many other important implications. their defense is that the verb "present" here is in the aorist tense in the greek, which in the OT and maybee other places (?) is used as past tense of a one time event. However, tim points out that the aorist tense only means "undefined as to continuous or completed action, without reference to time". the best example is in Matt 14:29, when Jesus said, "Come!" to Peter. l

anyways, i won't bore u anymore w/ the greek, which of course i don't understand at all. :P I thought that Tony had a very interesting point in his sermon today, about how there's two sides of ppl (i guess unbelievers), one is inside a large box filled w/ light, and the other is pushing down on the box. Once in a while, the person inside will bump up against the box and some light will crepe out, but then the man on top would just use more force to block the light. So is man the same way, as suppressors of truth, but their conscience is always inside, b/c they are still created in the image of God.

saying and understanding in the mind Romans 12:1-2 is easy...doing it is infinitely harder. :P

"Christian's spiritual worship involves an extreme of realism -- the bodily offering of himself. "