http://nielsensnook.com Contemplative, reflective, and irenic we pray. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:00:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An Unraveling Mystery It was as if living in Russia (2000-2002) had provided the snag in my garment the fabric of which began to unwind at increasing rates. We arrived in Russia believing that it was only an exceptional case for a Russian Orthodox person to be a Christian. We left ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/22/my-anglican-journey-part-2/ Translation 4 For the whole house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. 5 On the one hand, [1] Moses was faithful, as servant, in all his [2] house for a testimony of the things to be spoken later; 6 but on the other hand, Christ is faithful as Son, ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/21/translation-and-commentary-on-hebrews-34-6/ Introduction What follows is a piece that I needed to write for myself and those around us who love us and pray for us. If you are hunting for polemic, I pray you will be greatly disappointed here. Rather, this is a personal reflection about personal reasons that my family and ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/20/my-anglican-journey-part-1/ A WTS alumnus, Mark Robinson, has made a nice lecture on John Coltrane and the relation of constraint and contingency as it relates to jazz and to human freedom. If you're new to jazz you'll find Mark lectures in a way that will give you not only introduction to jazz ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/17/constraint-contingency-and-coltrane/ Webber, Robert E. Ancient-Future Worship : Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008 $14.99 (paperback) 192 pages. "Worship does God's story," writes Robert Webber. Those four words are the rubric for the entire book published as the final volume of the Ancient-Future series. Written on the popular ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/16/ancient-future-worship-by-robert-e-webber/ If you're a blogger, I think you will be wowed by the improvements in WordPress 2.5 and blown away by what they just released in 2.6.ShareThis http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/15/wordpress-26-rocks/ Thirsty ones come to the waters! The Lord sees our want; he knows our deepest needs. With this intimate knowledge of us he does not exploit us; but, he seeks to fulfill us. The human situation is not simply that we "still haven't found what we're looking for;" but, that ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/13/come-to-the-waters-everyone-who-thirsts-a-meditation-on-isaiah-55/ The Church has been the recipient of Christ's redemptive work in history and is itself part of that redemptive history.  Every Sunday the story of Redemption is reenacted an proclaimed in Word and Sacrament.  But did you know that every year the Story of Redemption is told through the Church ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/10/a-great-overview-to-the-church-calendar/ This is my first from the ground up Wordpress Theme, so it was fun to make and now share with you here. Thanks for reading. I hope you continue to enjoy this blog.ShareThis http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/08/new-look-same-blog/ Translation 3 For Jesus [1] is considered much more worthy of glory [2] than Moses, inasmuch as the one who built [3] the house has greater honor than the house itself. Commentary [1] οὗτος Greek, this one. The referent is clearly Jesus in the comparison so we have opted for clarification in the translation. [2] οὗτος δόξης is ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/05/translation-and-commentary-on-hebrews-33/ Translation1 From where, brothers and sisters, [a] holy participants [b] in a heavenly calling, contemplate [c] Jesus, [d] the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 being faithful to the one who established [e] him as Moses was faithful to all in God's [f] house. Commentary[a] ἀδελφοὶ here is being used in the generic sense and therefore ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/04/translation-and-commentary-on-hebrews-31-2/ Translation 17 Therefore, he was obligated [1] to become like his brothers in all ways, so that he might be a merciful [2] and faithful high priest in the things concerning [3] God, in order to be propitiation for the sins of the people. [4] 18 For in what [5] he himself had suffered being tempted, [6] he is ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/02/translation-and-commentary-on-hebrews-217-18/ For those following the crisis in the Episcopal Church, the 2008 Global Anglican Futures Conference that concluded just last week has issued a Statement on the Global Anglican Future, outlining the direction they see as best for the Anglican Communion. The GAFCON members officially, launch the GAFCON movement as a ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/07/01/2008-gafcon-statement/ It looks like the orthodox have had some more success in Virginia, where a judge sided with eleven breakaway Episcopal churches in their fight to retain property after their split. Read the article at Christianity Today.ShareThis http://nielsensnook.com/2008/06/30/onward-christian-soldiers/ WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. ... [It is reported that] Congress has authorized up to $400 million to ... http://nielsensnook.com/2008/06/30/cnn-report-us-preparing-the-battlefield-in-iran/