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The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
(-Numbars 6:24-26, ESV)
What a wonder benediction… look inside this and see the Gospel, especially the last word… peace!
May we all seek peace through He who offers grace…

A friend and I are sharing some theological views with one another… in the context of double checking myself through the writing of others, I found this… (by Erickson in the 1983 ed. of Christian Theology p. 646)

“The person who loves the transient will also pass way. The one whose loyalty is to that which is permanent will also abide forever.”

For a good while now, I have enjoyed collecting coffee mugs… here is the coolest one I’ve been given in a while…

It was a surprise from Laci and Keri…

Here is the original… it is now a symbol of the

spirit of the people of Vukovar, Croatia…

My friend Mark, who travelled with me there last week, posted some resources to learn more…

On an unrelated note… I was fasinated to read about an atheist who went to church at a big “mega-church” near Chicago in the USA… his description is interesting

“A child saying a child’s prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not – and the modern world usually is not – if you want to go on and ask what is really happening – then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something more is not simple.” – C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, p.40 Harper Collins edition 2001)

Lewis uses modernity here and I think this helps us understand how we want to break it all down into its componant parts… the thing I – as a modernist – must understand is how do others who are post-modern look differently at ideas… this one for instance…

Two blogs I browse pretty regularly are my friends Mark and JR. Interesteringly, each of them noted U2 on their blogs… Mark about Bono at the National Prayer Breakfast (USA) and JR talking about U2 and the Emerging church… I recommend both to you…

today’s sunset reminded me of this shot I took after Mark and I dropped Chris in Laci and Keri’s hands, we headed back to Hungary from Vukovar and I took this shot of the sunset…

beautiful isn’t it?

but somewhere beneath this sunset, in many places actually, there are signs that warn people to keep out of marked fields… keep out because these fields, under this beautiful sunset, are scarred by war, they are filled with mines… one must be careful where one walks… but isn’t that such a truism? We should indeed be careful where we walk…

watching for warning signs…