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interested who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
First of all, a joyous Christmas to you if you happen who read this today
(the 25th for me). My prayer for you is that this day would be a reminder
of how despite our position of enmity with our Creator, he did not wait
for us to draw near to Him but He clothed Himself in frail humanity. While
we were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world, God sent forth
His Son, born of a woman, under the law to redeem those who were under the
law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. Praise God for His
gracious kindness towards us in sending His Son to redeem us!
Since I began writing newsletter's 11 months ago on February 2nd, I have
written 21, making this my 22nd newsletter. My apologies for the length of
time I have taken to write this, I didn't have my mailing list and the
webmail site I have been using has only just come back online. Thank you
for your prayers and support throughout the year, I know that I would not
be where I am but by the grace of God.
This holiday I have been relaxing. I have been reading through a few books
(my mind is not really focusing on any particular one) but what I've
particularly enjoyed is setting up a new website for reformed Christians
to get in contact with one another, have discussions and write blogs. The
address is http://www.rekindle.co.za if you want to have a look at it.
I suppose that a common question would be as to what subjects I've
particularly enjoyed this year. Early Church History was really cool (and
reformation history is still to come in 2010), I especially enjoyed our
exposure to original texts such as the Didache and writings by Origen,
Augustine and Justin Martyr etc. Greek was also really awesome because of
its usefulness to me now (since we have finished our text book all we will
really do from here is translate and learn in that way). Ethics has been
very interesting and has given me a lot of food for thought and Psalms was
fascinating (we learned about things like Hebrew parallelism which was
incredibly interesting).
I will be returning to GWC sometime around the 17th (I haven't got a
ticket yet) and can look forward to language week to start off the term. I
have already begun to learn some Hebrew but I don't think I'll go very far
past the alphabet before I go down. As mentioned, I will also be having
Reformation Church History sometime during the year as well as Mission and
Culture, Ancient Cultures and possibly Ethics 2 but I'm not sure what else.
I have appreciated your emails and prayer throughout the year, God's
richest blessings to you and your family.
In Christ,
James Cuénod
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James, a bondslave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
http://www.rekindle.co.za
http://bondslaveofchrist.blogspot.com
http://imagesoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
