Windy City

Wednesday morning. Yann and Eunice have breakfast together, Loïs is asleep upstairs. Suddenly a big 'boom' makes the whole house tremble. What can it be? Loïs is sound asleep, there's no car in the bathroom... Never mind. Everything's all right.

* A few minutes later *

- Yann, take a look in the garden! The wall is down!

Thank you wind, for having destroyed this awful and dangerous wall. We wanted to get rid of it anyway.

Book of The Month

C.J. MAHANEY, Living The Cross Centered Life: Keeping The Gospel The Main Thing

Christians should never move on from the cross to give their full attention to so-called 'mature' matters. Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is the cornerstone, the very center of our christian life and identity. We need to cherish it and live a life centered on it. We can only move into a more profound understanding of the cross. C.J. Mahaney encourages us to ask ourselves the following question: Is the truth of the cross something we have already adequately understood?

The cross climaxes the story line of the Bible - and it's the true climax of the story line of all our lives as well. The gospel's truth is to saturate our lives just as much as it saturates Paul's writings and all of Scripture. The message Paul had for Timothy is the same message God has for you. You need to rediscover the truth. The key to joy, to growth, to passion isn't hiding from you. It's right before your eyes. It's the gospel.

Excerpt, p. 30

You can read the first 30 pages here.

Loïs' First Meal

Enjoy :)

Trust Me, I'm An Engineer

Before being a student, Yann was an engineer and an inventor. He even took out a patent.

You can read it (in French) here.

Beware it's all Greek for most of us. ^^

Faithlife Study Bible

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This is great for you. This is great for your congregation. This is great for the Church worldwide.

And resources in French need to be added - à vos claviers, les francophones !

 

Theology As a Tool

Those past days were devoted to read a good deal of resources about evangelicalism for Yann's Introduction to Systematic Theology course. Alister McGrath's Theology and the futures of evangelicalism  was a very pleasant article to read.

McGrath states that theologians should be at the service of the local church. Opposed to the concept of academic scholars or “traditional intellectuals” imposed upon a community of faith by an external authority, he favors the hypothesis of “organic intellectuals” whose authority would emerge naturally and who would be esteemed by the community which regards them as its representatives and thinkers.  He develops this idea of respected believers inside a community in proposing three lines of direction: 

(1) enhancing the congregation’s understanding of Christian doctrines, 

(2) engaging its emotions in describing biblical truths, 

(3) enabling an appropriate behavior for a deeper and personal appropriation of the truth of the Gospel. 

As for John Stott who enjoyed a great recognition within the evangelical community without any academic or institutional authority worth speaking of, “the best intellectuals may exist and operate outside the academy”, serve locally and favor a strengthened people of God in enabling each believer to have a deeper comprehension of the Gospel.

It is exactly what is meant in Shai Linne's new single Hypostatic Union*

* 'hypostatic union' is a technical term describing the simultaneous union of Christ's divinity and humanity 

Prezi

Converting the BEM powerpoints into Prezi presentations...