Little updates....

First, I've added Dan Phillips' fine blog "Hellenisti ginoskeis" to the blogroll--if you enjoy parsing things out in Greek or (like me) are just starting in the New Testament language, this may be an encouragement to you.  Dan is trained in theology, but, alas, is not currently pastoring.  Hopefully this will change soon, but while we wait, praise God he has fun online at "Know Greek" and "Team Pyro," also linked here.  Dan also has a fun site called "Biblical Christianity" that is worth your visits.

(he shares some of my sense of humor, but please, brothers and sisters, don't hold that against him!)

Also, in this line, a thought for "Koinonia Tuesday": all too often, we get into large groups and are more or less manipulated by the "scene"; great orations by a pastor, louder and faster music, and so on.  Now, what have we done to get to know our dear brothers and sisters beside us?  Maybe it's time to sit down--one on one or family with family--with some good coffee or maybe even a glass of wine.  Note carefully Pilgrim's note in the second link, with which I totally agree; when we impose external rules against comforts God has given us in His goodness, we make it harder, not easier, to live a Christian life.

For that matter, isn't that what Paul says with his repeated arguments against these external rules?  I guess it's not just me, praise God.