Not Quite Edwards

We are now well and truly in the throes of finals – had our first paper this morning for Hebrew 3…hard to imagine that we’ve now finished all our Hebrew courses!  It wasn’t so long ago that we felt we were going to sink into the ground under the weight of it all! This Monday [...]

“He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” – 1 Thess 5:24 It’s 5am an I’m revising my Greek paradigms before a quiz later today. At times like this, its easy for me to look down at my page of squiggles and wonder how I ended up here. Not only that, amidst [...]

Just writing to let everyone know that we’re still alive … just! Life has been as frantic as ever over the past few weeks. Amongst the mountains of reading and memorization of Greek/Hebrew paradigms, assignment due dates are looming this week (which is the last week of term). We’ve got our final exams in a [...]

This is the second post covering the WTS preaching conferece, part 1 is here. KDY gave two lectures on ‘Cure for a boring sermon’. In his first lecture, he had three main points – these are outlined below (and you can listen to the lecture here). Clarity Using 2 Cor 4:2 as a springboard, KDY considered [...]

The WTS 2011 preaching conference was just held at WTS this week. Kevin de Young was the guest speaker and the topic was, ‘Cure for the boring sermon’. It was likely a combination of these two factors which saw more than 350 people head out to suburbs of Philadelphia to think more about how to [...]

My first encounter with Penang char kway teow was when I was probably about 14-15. Our family went on a cruise from Singapore to Penang (an island state of Malaysia) with some of our relatives.  It was my first time there and the char kway teow is one of the few things I remember about [...]

Is it bad that I started to type this post, then stopped in realisation that either I couldn’t remember anything I’d learnt this week, or that maybe I didn’t actually learn anything??? In the absence of anything deep actually springing to mind (probably as a result of the fact that last week was an intense week [...]

1.  We’re learning about text criticism in our New Testament class this week.  Text criticism is basically a study of the ancient manuscripts that we have of the new testament to see if we can iron out any copying errors the ancient scribes made which may have flowed down into the text we have today. [...]

We decided to have a few friends over to our place to celebrate our birthdays and warm our house (over a month ago now!).  Here is the pictorial evidence

1.  Time flies when you’re (sort of) having fun The weeks are FLYING.  I blink and it’s Friday again. 2.  The importance of translating the Bible carefully Someone in Greek class was quoting someone else the other day, saying “Those with a little bit of Greek are the most dangerous.”  So true!  While I’d like [...]