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Name: Charlie
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Interests: Growing more like Jesus, knowing God more, Missions, Chiapas, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia, the Komering people, unreached people groups,witnessing, bringing glory to God, the Bible,The persecuted Church, The War of Northern Aggression , history books, westerns, runing, Old radio shows, poetry, Religion, farming, Small Town USA, the South, reading, writing, play acting, walking in the woods, politics, dogs, old movies, food, people,Tintin, Sherlock Holmes, culture, math.
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| Praise God, I passed Shakespeare: The Comedies with a A!
Please keep my Tragedies and the Histories test in your prayers.
I am really excited that my class is going to Peru for our mission trip!
Currently Reading: Knowing God by J. I. Packer (Xanag's currently reading thingy isn't working) | | |
| Here is a short meditation commentary I had to write on love. I would really expound more on it.
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory.” —Ephesians 3:17-20a
If we really understand the extent that God loves us, our love of God will be exceedingly great. If we really love God, we will love those God loved so much He sent His Son to lay down His lay in sacrificial atonement for sins. Love for fellow Christians is a mark of a person who has truly been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and had a personal and saving encounter with the person and work of Jesus Christ. Part of the process of sanctification is learning to love other Christians, despite their scruples, more and more. Displaying the character quality of love is a sign of the old man being changed into a new creature and taking advantage of the equipment that Jesus has given us as part of His sacrifice on the cross.
Loving other Christians despite their faults, social-economic-racial-cultural status, personality or political beliefs, is very hard, especially when done in one’s own strength. It is very hard for me to love white, middle-to-upper-class yuppie American Christians. But, as John Calvin said, “Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God”. If I truly believe that God has loved people from every area of society to be in His family, then I must love yuppie Americans. If I truly belief that God has redeemed that yuppie American from their sins by the blood of Christ at the cross, then I must love them. “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen” 1 John 4:20. My love to that yuppie American should proceed from an understanding of God’s, through Christ, atoning love for that brother and me, and God’s Spirit maturing me unto perfection. “Love to one another, says John, is the family likeness of God’s children; he who does not love Christians is evidently not in the family, for ‘God is love’ and imparts a loving nature to all who know him” ~ J. I. Packer.
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| I love the passionate, Biblical preaching of Paul Washer. It was a great privilege to personally meet him at camp this summer.
Check some of his videos, like this great one http://vimeo.com/4947550, at I'll Be Honest's site on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/illbehonest.
I watch him and listen to him so much that is is really god he post this one
http://vimeo.com/8446492 Stop Worshiping & Idolizing Celebrity Preachers - Paul Washer | | |
| Well, still no word on the Comedies Test.
We were suppose to take the Tragedies Friday, but the wrong tests came in instead. So we will be studying the Tragedies for a extra week while we also study the Histories. I will also be attending a retreat during this time. Please keep me in your prayers as I prepare to take these tests.
This is an analogy for Tragedies.
Tragic Humanity
In Shakespeare’s tragedies, the protagonist, the character who we follow through the story and are supposed to sympathize with, often has a tragic flaw which leads to his downfall. No matter how good the intentions of the character and how likeable he maybe, he will end up dying a tragic death. Often after this character, usually a king or other high ranking officer in a country, dies, a another character comes on the scene and becomes king of the country. In Hamlet, the main character, Prince Hamlet seeks justice, which is good, but has the tragic flaw of indecision which leads to his and almost all of the other characters’ deaths. After Hamlet dies, Fortinbras comes on the scene and is declared the new king of Denmark.
Humanity is very similar to tragic heroes. Many humans do good, or mean to do good, but their tragic flow of sin keeps their actions from being pure. Even when a man may give a million dollars to charity, he may still do it for the pride of having a good name or to escape taxes. Sin taints everything that humans try to do. Even when religious people try to make humanity better or find favor in God’s sight, they often end up braking more of God’s commandments or denying him all together. It is only after humanity realizes how dead it is in sin that Christ can come in and be the new, better King.
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| I took a test for Shakespeare: the Comedies today and am not feeling that great about it considering I was writing up to the last minute. It's now between God and the grader. Please pray that God will grant me favor in their eyes.
I am enjoying the Shakespeare courses, especially the Biblical allusions and the worldview themes.
Here is analogy I wrote for Taming of the Shrew.
Taming of the Sinner
William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is about a husband (Petruchio) converting an ill-tempered and ill-mannered woman (Katherine) into a gentle and obedient wife. Petruchio does this by dressing in outlandish clothes and behaving in socially unacceptable ways in public, thus exposing himself to public ridicule. In a way he becomes a shrew in order to save Kate from her shrewdness and convert her into a well-mannered woman. In the subplot of Shrew, Kate’s sister, Bianca, goes against her father’s wishes and his back, to court a suit who came to her in secret; compare this to Kate who married Petruchio who because it was her father’s will. In the end Bianca becomes something of a shrew, while Kate wins her father’s approval.
In the Gospel, Christ had to expose Himself to convert us from sinners into saints. Christ, in effect, had to become a sinner in order to take God’s punishment for sinners; as a result of Christ taking the judgment God had for rebellious sinners upon Himself, rebellious sinners now become obedient saints. Many sinners do not accept this method, instead go against God’s will and trying to please Him by living moral lives; instead all they do is add more condemnation to themselves because of their self-righteousness. On the Final Day, when God calls His people to His feast, there will be many self-righteous who will not come because they are truly unrighteous and there will be many sinners who will come because they have Christ’s righteousness.
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