As predicted, a noticeable pause
Posted at 9:15 PM
As predicted in my previous entry, the “next few days” I was going to posting entries in vanished rather quickly. Term begins officially tomorrow, and I’m exhausted after three weeks of overtime and some late-minute music organising. Before normal service resumes (always an interesting phrase with this blog, where I haven’t made it into double figures of entries since November 2006), a couple of things I’ve picked up over the past weeks which are well worth a perusal, and an event I’m looking forward to!
My cousin Mark quotes Martyn Lloyd-Jones on emotion, which I’ve written about too (longer quote at his site):
Many of us are afraid of emotions. Our whole training and upbringing, the whole attitude to life, is one that curbs the emotions. We feel that it is not quite respectable, it is not nice. We are steeling our emotions, curbing this God-given thing… This is not a plea for emotionalism, which I have denounced, it is a plea for emotion.
Even better, his entry on differences between conservative and charismatic evangelicals (which I’ve also written about) contains a fantastic John Owen quote. But as Mark writes:
Alas, because he’s John Owen and obtuse (and because he’s living in 17th century England) in explaining all this he doesn’t make the obvious analogy; Charismatic Evangelicalism is biscuits, Reformed Evangelicalism is cake.
The whole thing should be read!
Finally, the event: the Co-Mission Media Forum has been announced, which sounds like just the kind of thing anyone with any creative thought or inclination should do their best to get to! Looking forward to Matthew Mason on music, having heard him speak on Song of Songs at a church houseparty.
Freshers arrive tomorrow. Crazy. This summer has been very peculiar in different ways (being properly unemployed for the first time, as well as living in Bristol, not with my parents) and while it feels like years since I was last working towards my degree, the term has sneaked up too quickly.
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