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interested who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Almost a month has elapsed since my last update which was on the 28th of
August (about a week before the end of the term). I managed to get
everything done that needed to be done and headed off on Saturday morning
for a welcome break and the end of the third term. So, I now have only one
term remaining and I'm looking forward to finishing my first year.
I had a fair bit of work to do in the holidays but during the first week I
didn't get much done. I had the oppurtunity to attend Synod (which is the
ministry worker's conference for the CESA (Church of England South Africa)
- and GWC is a CESA college) and, therefore, to hear Michael Lawrence do a
few talks on Penal Substitution; a doctrine which has been called "cosmic
child abuse" in our day but even "butcher-shop theology" in the days of
the reformation. It was really exciting to be reminded of the magnitude of
God's grace during those talks.
Other than that, my holidays were not too eventful other than doing my
assignments. I can see that even though I'm not going uphill with Greek
anymore, I'm still going to have to pedal quite a bit to keep moving but
at least we'll be reading the New Testament within the next two weeks
(because we're essentially done with the text book). I can also see that
this term promises a lot of work with no end of assignments and readings.
On the bright side, I was greeted by a pleasant day in Cape Town with
sunshine and everything (which is a rarity) and I hope that it will be
indicative of the months to come (although based on the cloud that I saw
rolling in today, I'm not holding out too much hope).
Based on the last paragraph I suppose that I've exhausted all the relevant
news that comes to mind considering that my comments have degenerated to
the weather. Nevertheless, I'm writing this paragraph so I assume that
there's something I'm forgetting that I'm hoping will come to me. Either
that, or I've been taken over by alien robots that are controlling my
brain and forcing me to write an entire paragraph that contains no
information whatsoever - not a good start to the term, let's hope that
they relinquish control soon!
Please thank God that I had a good and restful holiday (er. I mean "study
break") and pray that He would help me to focus on the work so as to be
well prepared for exams at the end of the term and learn a lot from the
assignments that I will be doing.
In Christ,
James Cuénod
--
James, a bondslave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ
