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I have grown to appreciate the blogging service WordPress more and more, and I have begun to dislike Blogger proportionately. So, Andrew and I are shifting our blog from here to a new WordPress blog at http://baldbears.wordpress.com. The format and template is a work in progress, but WordPress gives bloggers the convenient option of simply importing old posts. So, I have already imported this

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OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 5 -- Jacob Gerber is once more in Omaha, having escaped from the Siberian exile to which he was deemed a year and a half ago. He arrived in the city last night after an absence of twenty-one months. After being a resident of this city for six years he returned to Russia to dispose of what property he had there and to bring his family to this country.Read the full article.

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As some of you know, my iBook has had logic board problems since I bought it. It was a widespread issue with the G3 iBooks, so much so that Apple created an extended repair program covering the issue. I had my logic board replaced three times under the program, and it just failed again a few days ago. Upon calling Apple Support, I discovered that the program had ended a few months ago, and so

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Psalm 78 opens by declaring:1Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;     incline your ears to the words of my mouth!2I will open my mouth in a parable;     I will utter dark sayings from of old,3things that we have heard and known,     that our fathers have told us.4We will not hide them from their children,     but tell to the coming generationthe glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might,     

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In case you didn't know, Indelible Grace is on the verge of coming out with a fifth album, entitled "Wake Thy Slumbering Children."Maranatha, IGrace 5.

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Several months ago, I wrote two posts about the connection of the outward signs of circumcision and baptism to their respective inward realities: circumcision of the heart and baptism of the Spirit. You can read those posts here: Part 1 and Part 2.In the first post, I discussed the Bible does not speak of circumcision and baptism as ends in themselves, but as signs and seals that point to inward

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A quick link to something I may begin using as a training program to survive grad school:Spreeder

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For my Worship Leadership class, we are required to visit two different types of churches (different from each other, and different from our own denomination) and to write papers where we discuss what we saw in the worship services that might be instructive for our own worship. So, a couple of weeks ago, I attended a Sunday evening Catholic mass with a couple who are my friends and members of

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Nebraska looked fantastic last week against Nevada, winning handily at 52-10. Our offensive line made me reminisce to the days of Tom Osborne's "Pipeline" (a group of beefy linemen who actually came to Hastings one day and autographed some of my Husker paraphernalia...but I digress). I was extremely concerned about our running back situation coming into this season, but I am not too worried

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This morning, I wrote a paper for my Ethics class on "The Morality of Jephthah." It was an extremely interesting topic, and the paper didn't turn out too badly, so I thought I would publish it for your voluntary perusal. You can read it here.It will be important for you to know Aristotle's categories in assessing the morality of an action, so you'll want to read the text I'm referencing in my

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I just killed my first cockroach of the year--they are everywhere here in Alabama, and there isn't much anybody can do. I see more cockroaches than flies in this part of the country. This was a pretty big one, being almost two inches long and 3/4 of an inch wide. It was a fast sucker, too, and I had to chase it all the way across my kitchen counter, under the sink, into a drawer, under the

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Well, since Blogging Season is upon us, I suppose that it's time to begin. I somewhat missed blogging over the summer, but I just never feel that much in the mood when school isn't in session.So, I'm back now, although I don't know how much time I will have to post anything. This post is largely just to stretch my internet-publishing muscles a bit as well as to record my virtual presence.The

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At first glance (as someone who has been out of the country and hasn't been paying much, if any, attention to the 2008 presidential election) I'm intrigued by candidate Ron Paul. A republican who ran as a libertarian candidate in '88, he favors a very strict interpretation of the constitution, opposes the Iraq war, while also staunchly pro-life on abortion and stem cell research.(And he's a fan

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I was reading Psalm 72 just now, where Solomon prays that God would extend the rule of "the king." (Actually, the "Of Solomon" could be translated "For Solomon," and, since verse 20 says "The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended," this could possibly be David's psalm for his son.)Solomon is praying for himself (or David is praying for his son) along with any other kings following him who

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I know what the devil will say to you. He will say to you, "You are a sinner!" Tell him you know you are, but that for all that you are justified. He will tell you of the greatness of your sin. Tell him of the greatness of Christ's righteousness. He will tell you of all your mishaps and your backslidings, of your offences and your wanderings. Tell him, and tell your own conscience, that you

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See Anything Wrong With This Sign?? Originally uploaded by matthewghansen. My brother Matt found this one. Sometimes I lose all faith in human intelligence.

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Unbaptized Infants Released From Limbo.This post is dedicated to all of our readership who weren't baptized as infants, but were born well before this upcoming papal pronouncement. Back in the day, we would have had to go to limbo if we had not made it out of infancy; I'm glad that's no longer the case for all the new babies entering the world!

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Four years of fan-dom.At least three missed opportunities.Tonight, I finally see in concert the one to whom I lost my Arminianism.

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ORHow Not To Edit Children's Television

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Today, Allison Brestel (that's my girlfriend) called me in utter joy to inform me that she is now capable of twitching her nose "like a bunny." Then she told me that I wouldn't blog about it because I would be too embarrassed to have a girlfriend who called me to tell me that.She obviously doesn't know me all that well yet. She will learn. :)

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Bethany first sparked my interest in the Meyers-Briggs personality test. I always seem to test as an INTJ, with J being my weakest characteristic, and sometimes I wonder if I'm really an INTP, mostly because of my uncertainty as opposed to the INTJ's certainty. So, what are you? If you don't know, here's a short little test to get a rough idea.If I am an INTJ, I'm in good company. Supposedly

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From John Stott's The Cross of Christ:For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. Man claims prerogatives which belong to God alone; God accepts penalties

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Familiarize yourself with T.S. Eliot.(Edit: That sounds rather like a command, which I seldom do. So how about, "Familiarize yourself with T.S. Eliot, if it suits your fancy.")

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Bethany and I will be moving to South Bend, IN next August, where I'll be starting a Ph.D. program in modern transatlantic history. Although a lot of people know this by now, I thought I'd wait to post about it until I at least get the official documents mailed.Notre Dame has been my first choice for graduate school all along. The department is strong in both transatlantic history and religious

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Yesterday in my theology class, my professor expressed his disagreement with Augustine's conception of the nature of evil. Augustine essentially argued three things:God created all things, so that nothing exists that God did not create.God created all things to be Good.Therefore, from (1) and (2), evil cannot be a creation of God, and therefore evil cannot exist in the way that Good exists.

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For those of you who watch LOST, you might be interested in the article published in today's USA Today about how the series uses the names of philosophers from history as their characters. (Thanks to Grant for finding this and telling me about it.)Unfortunately, I thought that the article was terribly misguided, so I wrote a rather long comment in response. My contention (one that I have had

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Florence's Angry Skies Originally uploaded by ahansen54.

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Corniglia Originally uploaded by ahansen54. I'm starting to get some pictures from Bethany's and my "Eurotrip" SpringBreakEscape 2007 in Europe!!! uploaded on Flickr. (Better Gray?)

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Bethany's train left for the Frankfurt airport at 3:15 AM this morning. (What all did we see and do in Europe? You'll just have to wait for that post.) I took a bit too long helping her get her bags on the train and was suddenly a captive passenger of ICE 5 headed toward Frankfurt. After explaining the situation to an understanding train conductor, who seemed to enjoy the opportunity to

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I just had a dream that someone hacked into this blog and posted something to the effect of, "I'm appalled that Jacob hasn't written anything since Monday, especially since he has told us that he really wants to keep this thing updated. I'm not sure we can trust him any more." If the Lord has skilled any of you in dream interpretations--for do not interpretations belong to God?--I would be

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Well, I did get to go see Nebraska play Alabama, but I use the word "play" there loosely. Nebraska got dominated, losing 8-0, marking Nebraska's first shutout in 201 games. I did have a good time, though, especially because I got to meet a handful of people from Nebraska who were down at the game for all sorts of different reasons. Also, there's just nothing like seeing my team down where I

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This evening, the Nebraska Cornhusker baseball team will travel today to Tuscaloosa, AL to play the Alabama Crimson Tide, and I'm going to be there. I talked some seminary friends into making the hour-long drive from Birmingham to see the game--some are Alabama fans, and some are just along for the ride.One of the Alabama fans I'm going down with passed me this little poem, and I wanted to print

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I just completed George Marsden's Jonathan Edwards: A Life. I'm not sure how to begin summarizing such a comprehensive work of incredible breadth and depth, so instead I'll just provide a few historiographical thoughts. In describing his goal for the book, he writesAs a biographer attempting to understand Edwards first as an eighteenth-century figure, I have been working most directly as a

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For my theology class, I just finished reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. I know that I had already read the book twice, but I may also have read it a third time before this reading. Reading it again, though, showed me just how much Lewis has influenced my thinking on a number of topics. I have believed certain things for such a long time that I came to believe that my own theology was

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Thanks to my lovely Bethany for finding this one:Confessions of an Empty-NesterWhile agreeing that urbanism (or rather "New Urbanism") would help develop a better sense of community, I should also add that, based on my experience in the very urban environment of Göttingen, friendly community doesn't automatically follow from the surroundings. The people you meet on the streets or in the grocery

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Lindsey wrote me an e-mail, saying, "I'd like to see some sort of blog discussion about paedocommunion [i.e., infant communion]." We here at Of Bald Men and Bears aim to please our readership, so here we go!If you are unfamiliar with the issue, allow me to give a brief explanation. Baptists, of course, say that baptism should be withheld from any who cannot make a profession of faith. Then,

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2 Cor 4:7-8 "But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;"I've never thought about this part of the passage before. It seems to say that it's normal, indeed necessary, for Christians to be confused by what we believe, to struggle to understand it.

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Out of curiosity, I did a Google search of "bald bears" (our URL), and this news article was the first result that came up: "Bears going bald, look like 'large rats.'"

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It just struck me (spurred by my reading of Leithart's Against Christianity) that this whole business of each person doing as they "feel led" in worship (standing, sitting, clapping, dancing, kneeling) is quite individualistic. Instead of viewing corporate worship as corporate, in that we worship as one body, we view it as corporate, in that we are many individuals Christians worshiping in the

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I asked a few days ago whether we could consider Jesus' parables and sayings as the New Testament equivalent of wisdom literature, and, if so, in what ways we should understand what Jesus says to be different from the books of the Old Testament that we commonly label "Wisdom Literature."First, I want to defend the idea that Jesus frequently teaches in a style and function that we can (and should)

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This past year that I have been in seminary in Alabama, I have still tried to keep up with the Daily Nebraskan, the school newspaper from my undergraduate institution, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. On Wednesday, they ran an editorial asserting that the Bible should be read as literature and nothing more. I wrote a letter to the editor in response, and they printed it today. You can read

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I mentioned awhile ago that I was writing a paper to contrast baptism and the Lord's Supper in Baptist and Presbyterian thought. I just finished the paper, although, as I began writing it, I realized that I only had enough space to focus on baptism. Here is one of the better sections:This definition [i.e., baptism as a sign and a seal of the covenant of grace] obviously limits Presbyterian

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Should we consider the sayings and the parables of Jesus in the gospels as the Wisdom Literature of the New Testament? How are those two categories different?

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Lately I've been thinking a fair amount about what is referred to as the "Cultural Mandate" in scripture. Nancy Pearcey summarizes it well in her book Total Truth. She writes,In Genesis, God gives what we might call the first job description: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it." The first phrase, "be fruitful and multiply" means to develop the social world: build

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This is about five miles from my apartment. Are they targeting 6-year-olds?

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I have a very exciting week coming up. First, I picked up my good friend Dan, who goes to seminary at Gordon-Conwell, from the airport at Atlanta yesterday. He's staying with me until Wednesday. He partly came to visit me and to see my seminary, but his main justification is that...Second, Beeson Divinity School is hosting their annual preaching conference. Our speaker will be Cleophus LaRue,

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I decided it's better to write a short, lame post than never post. I think I've been feeling that I need some really nice post (with pictures!) telling everything that's been going on in my life in order to be worthy to post. And I'm not sure when that will happen. So for now, a bullet list:Switzerland: I was there for about five days, visiting relatives who live in Basel, who took me skiing

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I am writing a paper for my church history class that will contrast sacramental theology in the Westminster Confession of Faith and one of the Baptist confessions--probably the Baptist Faith and Message of 1925. In my research, I just came across an excellent essay by G. Todd Wilson called "Why Baptists Should Not Rebaptize Christians from Other Denominations." As you read this, remember that,

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When I was in elementary school, I was involved in AWANA, which is something like an Arminian, Dispensationalist, Christian version of the Boy Scouts. Every year, we had a handbook that we tried to work through, and we earned patches and awards and stuff for memorizing Bible verses and completing projects out of that handbook.One year, I finished my handbook a little early, and, to be productive

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The New York Times had a fascinating article on its front page today:KINGSTON, R.I. — There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral degree in geosciences here at the University of Rhode Island.His subject was the abundance and spread of mosasaurs, marine reptiles that, as he wrote, vanished at the end of the Cretaceous

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If you read this blog often, of if you know me (actually, I suppose that the only people who read this blog are those who know me), you know that I have only recently come to believe that God intends for Christians to baptize their infants. Before November 15, the date of my "conversion" on this matter, I was a committed Baptist for about a year. Before that, I wrestled with the arguments for

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For whatever reason, I have always been disinclined to consider anyone living today as an "apostle" in the biblical sense. I suppose my main concern lies in the Catholic idea that every pope has apostolic authority, equal to Jesus' twelve disciples (minus Judas, plus Matthias), Paul, and Barnabas (see Acts 14:14). Instead, as a traditional Protestant (unless, of course, I have always

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This morning at 5:56 a.m., I heard what sounded like a gunshot outside my window. I told myself that it was probably a car back-firing or something (at 5:58, I heard a car drive away), and I didn't see anything when I looked outside, but I had a nagging concern what I heard might have been something really bad. So, after deliberating about five minutes about whether I was being stupid, I went

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This morning, I visited Briarwood Presbyterian Church, the founding church of the PCA denomination. It was a bit too big for my taste, but it was a wonderful church. I was privileged to see the sign of the New Covenant given to three more covenant infants, and, for the first time in my life, I sang the Gloria Patri (I'm 22 years old--how sad is it that I've never sung that before now?).The

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This summer, I read the book Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present by Gerald Bray (incidentally, Dr. Bray was my professor this January for my Puritan Spirituality class). This line, more than any other in the book, has had me thinking since I read it:The modern tendency to regard Proverbs as a collection of useful but rather boring advice, Ecclesiastes as the work of a jaded humanist and

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Classes began today for the Spring semester. Well, I actually only had one class (Church History: Reformation-Present), but it's going to be a doozy. We will have to read almost 3000 pages of books (not counting all the other books we will read to write two 10-page research papers), including a lovely 700-page tome called Creeds of the Churches. This book is bursting with--you guessed it!--

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This morning at a church I was visiting, I witnessed for the first time an infant baptism. When I realized mid-service that one was coming, I actually became really nervous and excited for what was about to take place. I had been anticipating my first infant baptism for a long time, and I was not disappointed: it was a beautiful and holy thing to see.Ironically, before I knew that an infant

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Since I first heard about "Federal Vision" Theology, I've read quite a bit about it on two blogs, The Presbyteer and Blog and Mablog. (Blog and Mablog has something just about every day on the controversy; both this blog and the Presbyteer's are very strongly pro-Federal Vision theology.) Also called "Auburn Avenue Theology" or the "Monroe Doctrine" (Auburn Avenue is the church in Monroe, LA,

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Two items of great interest that I happened upon in the past twenty-four hours:Did you know that Covenant Theological Seminary (the denominational seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America) offers entire sets of lectures for several of their classes for free in mp3 format? With everything from Ancient & Medieval Church History to Youth Ministry, you can essentially sit in on whole classes

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At the end of Part 2 of Pilgrim's Progress, when Mr. Stand-fast is summoned by his Master, who "was not willing that [Stand-fast] should be so far from him any longer." As Stand-fast readies himself to die by crossing the River, so that he might enter the Celestial City, he says:This River has been a Terror to many, yea the thoughts of it also have often frightened me. But now methinks I stand

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For those who were interested, I received the following e-mail today from Sen. Burling about what I had sent him concerning his bill to change the state song:Dear Jacob,Thank you for contacting me with your opinions on Legislative Bill 345 to change the Nebraska State Song. I introduced this legislation to provide a forum for the opponents and proponents to express their wishes on the

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Last semester, I wrote a paper for my biblical hermeneutics class that analyzed Matthew 20:1-16, the parable of the vineyard laborers. Many people (notably Craig Blomberg, who wrote the New American Commentary on Matthew) understand the parable as teaching that there are no levels of rewards in heaven--all are treated equally, despite how they have lived their lives.Personally, I find this to be

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Luther's Study Originally uploaded by ahansen54. Today my daytrip was to the Wartburg castle, just outside of Eisenach. The castle is most famous for being the year-long hiding place of Junker Jörg (Martin Luther's pseudonym while in hiding) after his appearance at the Diet of Worms. Here, in the span of ten weeks, Luther made the first translation of the New Testament from its original

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I had heard in the news that Nebraska Legislative Senator Carroll Burling (my senator, representing the 33rd District) had introduced a bill (LB 345) that proposes to change the state song from "Beautiful Nebraska" to some country song performed by a woman in our district. I hadn't heard the song until today, when I read some commentary on this particular bill at another blog. I suppose this

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Over Christmas break, I accidentally subscribed to a month of Blockbuster's movie delivery service--basically, I didn't cancel my free trial subscription in time to keep it a free trial. I hate doing stuff like that, but I decided to make the best use of it I could. This summer, I saw movies like It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for the first time, and I genuinely enjoyed

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Thanks to a great Christmas gift from my girlfriend's parents, I have begun reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I (I also have Vol. II for when I finish the first book). I didn't quite know what to expect, but I have been very pleased with the book so far.Still, I do have one major complaint against what I have read. Midway through one of the stories, Doyle writes:In the central portion

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IMG_1328Originally uploaded by ahansen54. On Sunday, I took a daytrip to Goslar, a small town on the northern edge of the Harz mountains. The Harz range, just an hour or so by train from Göttingen, is becoming my place to go when I need a quick escape. Although not the most epic mountain range on the planet, I'm developing an affinity for it. For spring, I've been considering of a five-day

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Jesus brooks no rivals. There have been, there are, many religious leaders. In an age of postmodern sensibilities and a deep cultural commitment to philosophical pluralism, it is desperately easy to relativize Jesus in countless ways. But there is only one Person of whom it can be said that he made us, and then became one of us; that he is the Lord of glory, and a human being; that he died in

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An excerpt from my homework:Prudence: And what is it that makes you so desirous to go to Mount Zion?Christian: Why, there I hope to see him alive, that did hang dead on the Cross; and there I hope to be rid of all those things, that to this day are in me, an annoyance to me; there they say there is no death, and there I shall dwell with such Company as I like best. For to tell you truth, I love

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Because I now believe in baptizing infants, I have begun the process of finding a new church home in Birmingham. Yesterday morning, I visited a wonderful PCA church, where, for the most part, I was very pleased. We sang quality hymns; we affirmed the historic faith by reading the Apostles' Creed; we heard a good exegetical sermon that handled the text carefully and made me want to cling more to

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Today, I fly back to Alabama for the January term and the Spring semester of seminary. It will be hard to leave Nebraska again because being home has reinforced just how much I love this state. It is amazing how much God can tie our hearts to a particular place, even as he calls us to be somewhere else.See you in March, Nebraska.

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On about four different occasions, I have experimented with switching from Microsoft Office to a free office software called OpenOffice.org (yes, its name actually looks like a web site address). On each of those occasions, I quickly became frustrated with a few minor issues, and I switched back. And why not? Microsoft Office was made available to me, as a student of the University of Nebraska

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Last night I was afflicted with the worst case of stomach sickness I can remember. I was losing the contents (or lack thereof) of my stomach nearly every hour from two to eight AM. I'm not sure if it was food poisoning (I probably won't be eating Subway any time soon) or a stomach flu, but it was pretty miserable. Thankfully my lovely bride-to-be stayed with me (online) through the duration of

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A sign that I'm probably ready for seminary classes to start up again: when I was listening to Don McLean's American Pie the other day, the only thing I could think about was how much the song seemed like a textbook example of apocalyptic literature. I suppose he's a preterist, then?

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The more I reflected about my earlier post, my mind went to this verse, spoken by John the Baptist:"I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." (Matt. 3:11, my emphasis)Notice that John the Baptist draws a distinction between how he baptizes with water

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"Waiting for Guffman" meets Jacob Arminius:The Free Will Song

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During my conversion to paedobaptism, I grew fairly cynical about the definition that I had always heard of baptism while I was growing up: "Baptism is an outward sign of an inward reality." Of course, this definition was meant, in part, to discount the possibility of infant baptism, since it requires conversion (the inward reality) before receiving baptism (the outward sign). So, the more I

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Although it might be hard to believe, I was actually semi-pleased with our game. Certainly, it was frustrating to lose. Again. Make no mistake--I was disappointed with our loss. Still, I think that we proved that we can play with anyone--remember that Auburn was the only team to beat national-championship contender Florida this year, and the only team to beat two BCS bowl teams (LSU was the

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I can only describe my feelings for this bowl game as "Hopefully Pessimistic." I think that we will have a tough time winning the game, but I think that we have a good shot of upsetting Auburn. Here are my predictions.Look for Zac Taylor to have a good game. He played terribly against Oklahoma, but I think that he just wanted it a little too much. I think that he will step up for a big game

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I have been a committed Reformed Baptist for almost a year now--I wrote a post about the reasoning that brought me to that position on January 3, 2006. (Another blogger cited that post here.) In my post, I had written the following:First, you should know that I am approaching the issue from a Reformed, Covenant Theology perspective. From this, my main question is: Is there a covenant community in

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I really enjoyed this:Bill Busch has a clear image of the type of player he wants to coach.Asked which specific traits he desires most in his athletes, the Nebraska safeties coach quickly pointed to one.“Right away, the main thing I look for is violence — I look for people on the field who are very violent people,” Busch said Thursday. “You see it in their tackling, you see it in their running.

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I blogged about this last year, but the football bowl games are again giving very nice gift packages to all the players in their games. You can see the list here. The Cotton Bowl (where Nebraska will face Auburn on January 1, 2007) is giving a pretty good gift package, even for not being a BCS bowl game:Fossil wrist watchMP3 playerCamcorderR+L Carriers (by the way, does anyone know what this is

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There is an interesting comparison here on the ways in which the new posthumous Johnny Cash music video for "God's Gonna Cut You Down" differs dramatically from the music video that Cash himself made for "Hurt." The author argues that, while the video for "Hurt" emphasized youth's fleetingness and foolishness, the video for "God's Gonna Cut You Down" is the exact opposite, being more of a "

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I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose yesterday, and I was very impressed with how the movie handled the issues of demons, scientific naturalism, and Catholicism. Certainly, I had some exceptions to the specific theology behind the exorcism (namely, the belief that demonic possession can happen to a believer as well as some specifically Catholic elements throughout the film), but, on the whole, I

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[I wrote this post yesterday in the Denver airport on my way home. Had I been there just a day later, I'd currently be snowed in for who knows how long.]Just as I reached my tolerance limit yesterday evening of trying to understand why the verb “knowing” can’t be formed in passive (apparently something can’t “be known by” someone, someone must always actively know it), the instructor dismissed

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I spent a couple of hours today updating the template on this blog so that IE6, IE7, and Firefox would all be able to display the site correctly. If the blog doesn't look right to you, please leave me a comment telling me what seems to be wrong and what browser (along with its version) you are using. On most browsers, you can click Help-->About..., and it will give you a browser and version

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If you have paid any attention to the news over the last week or so, you will know that three mountain climbers were lost in a storm. Furthermore, you probably have heard that officials already found one of the climbers dead, and that they identified him as Kelly James. What you might not know is that Kelly James's brother, Frank James, is the president of Reformed Theological Seminary in

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Some things I've found on other blogs that you might find interesting:Matthew Smith (one of the lead singers on the Indelible Grace albums) is offering his new solo album of remade hymns, "All I Owe," freely available for streaming download during this month--in other words, you can listen to it, but you can't keep it. Read more here.David Mills of Mere Comments had an interesting post on why

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(Note: I wrote this post Thursday evening while I was still at the Houston Airport, waiting for my return flight to Omaha.)I have spent the day trying to get back to Nebraska from Alabama. Because Houston went through a particularly foggy spell, all flights into the international airport were shut down for most of the morning. As you can imagine, this caused significant backups and delays.

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My Hermeneutics Final: "Write an interpretation of the biblical passage provided below. Include in your essay, among other things, attention to genre, context, structure, and biblical theology of the passage. You are limited to one hour and no more."The passage? Isaiah 27:12-13:12In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be

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I just read a fascinating article in the Dec. 3, 2006 edition of New York Times Magazine called "Open-Source Spying," by Clive Thompson. (The abstract is on the internet here, but to read the whole article costs about $5. I would recommend going to a library if you want to read this--most libraries would carry the NYT Magazine.)The main point of the article was that the United States'

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My Little Friend Originally uploaded by jacobgerber. This post could alternately be titled, "Reasons NOT to Live in Alabama." Large, flying cockroaches are as common down here as flies. Also, I guess the winter season doesn't kill them off--apparently they simply hide indoors. Perhaps this is the reason that an exterminator comes into our apartment on a monthly basis?When I went into

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Over every break, I try to maximize my reading by having a plan in advance. Breaks are the best (not necessarily the only, but the best) time to read books that don't make class reading lists. So, for the Christmas break, here is my list (in order of probable reading):Surprised by Joy, by C. S. Lewis. This is one of the few nonfiction apologetic works by Lewis that I have not yet read. Also,

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Awhile ago, Andrew and I wrote about how Bethlehem Baptist (John Piper's church) was considering dropping their requirement of being believer-baptized for becoming a member of the church. Apparently, that proposal has now been withdrawn. Here is a link to John Piper's explanation of the current situation and the reason for withdrawing the proposal.Mostly, the congregation greatly disagreed with

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Sausage Originally uploaded by ahansen54.

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Reid Chapel in the Fall Originally uploaded by jacobgerber. Samford has some gorgeous architecture, like Reid Chapel in this picture. Also, Alabama has a gorgeous autumn, like the background in this picture. I miss Nebraska a ton, but I suppose that a change of scenery for a couple of years never harmed anyone, right?By the way, as a shameless plug, there are more photos of Alabama's

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Am I the only person who has never realized that the ark of the covenant is so called because it is "the ark, in which is the covenant of YHWH that he made with the people Israel" (2 Chron 6:11)? Specifically, that "There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt" (2 Chron 5:10).

Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12924799417926655365noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983467.post-1165197768875454502006-12-03T19:50:00.000-06:002006-12-03T20:03:54.830-06:00

Nebraska will be facing Auburn in the 2007 AT&T Cotton Bowl. Auburn is a good team, and it should be a good game. Nebraska and Auburn have matched up three times (last game played in 1982), and Nebraska won each of those games. As a perk, my family will be heading to Dallas to watch the game in person.My only problem: Auburn is in Alabama. I live in Alabama right now, attending Beeson

Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12924799417926655365noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983467.post-1165124095106171242006-12-02T23:12:00.000-06:002006-12-03T08:46:28.890-06:00

This was a very tough loss for me. I really thought that we would win the game, but we had a lot of things working against us.Problem #1:We don't have a secondary. (I had written something in anger, but I deleted it. I'm just going to leave my statement at that.)Problem #2:We lost Brandon Jackson. I think we saw tonight how much our offense relies on his play-making abilities, both as a

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