Classes do not resume until this fall, but learning never ceases (or so we hope). This summer I have two projects to prevent my brain from addling and provide discipline lest the summer evenings vainly pass away.
Projects
- For starters, I’m taking Old Testament Interpretation by correspondence. This requires much reading, chapter content memorization, and a paper.
- In order to take a third semester of Hebrew this fall, I plan to follow a personal program of Hebrew grammar review, translation, and parsing. I’ll start my translation projects with Genesis 4, and see how far I can get. If all goes well, I hope to log 50 hours of Hebrew study this summer.
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“Lord, help us to be hearers of Your Word and not doers only,” a young man prayed recently in chapel.
Oops… a misquote, of course. When I heard him mix up the words of James 1:22 (”be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only”) in his prayer, I was a little startled, and took a moment during announcements to look the verse up again to make sure I had it straight in my head.
I can’t say I blame the man for misquoting — preachers misquote Bible verses all the time, of course, and having once prayed in chapel at BJU myself, I can only say that the fear of the Lord isn’t the only fear felt while praying there. Besides, everyone says things wrongly in public prayer now and then — I tend to nearly stammer when I pray out loud.
The misstatement caused me to think about James’ point, and I think even the misquotation leads to an important point of application. Continue reading →
