Time Flies

Wow...I cannot believe it has been nearly two months since my last entry.  This summer has been an absolute whirlwind.  Since June 2nd, we have:

• Wrapped Dale's baseball season
• Wrapped up Sally's softball season
• Went to ALIVE Fest
• Put on two 180 Summer Nights
• Can Do Soccer Camp
• First annual 180 Summer Spectacular
• Went to Charlotte, NC for some training

And I am sure there is more that I am not remember right now.  But God is good and this summer, with it's ups and downs, has been a tremendous blessing and time of growth.  Needless to say, I do not want to neglect my blog like that anymore!!  So, I think I am going to take a new approach to my blogging.  Generally, I have reserved my blogs for larger entries, like ideas for sermons or papers.  I'm still going to keep doing that from regularly, but I think I am going to use it more to just post thoughts that I find interesting or cool snippets of items that I come across.  So that said, let us begin now...

I'm reading this book called "Contours in Christology in the New Testament" with Longenecker as the G.E.  I and reading the section on the Christology in Mark, and came across this cool bit of information on the early hymns used and found in the New Testament: 

"The most obvious early Christian hymns in praise of God are those found in Rom 11:33-36 and Rev 15:3b-4. The most commonly accepted early Christian hymns extolling Christ are Phil 2:6-11; 1 Tim 3:16b; and 1 Pet 2:22-23"

How interesting is that?  Hymns of praise used by the Apostles in their writing of the scriptures. Kind of puts a new perspective on singing hymns of praise during our worship on Sunday mornings, right?

Be blessed!!