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interested who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Whenever I begin writing a newsletter, I always check the date of my last
one to see what I can catch people up on. I was surprised to see that it
is two weeks since I last sent one out, partly because I thought that it
was only a week ago that I had sent one but also partly because I can't
remember what has happened since then.
Perhaps one of the reasons I can't remember what has happened is because
some stuff is eclipsed by something that is standing out in my memory.
Last week I went and watched a debate between William Lane-Craig and Yusuf
Ismail on the topic "Identifying Jesus: Was he a man or was he God and
man". It was worth seeing, Yusuf Ismail (a muslim) was utterly destroyed
in the debate although I don't think many people realised that. He was
chucking out irrelevant little arguments that were off topic and not even
intelligent so I was quite disappointed by the Muslim representation at
the debate. Lane-Craig, however, was worth listening to; he had really
planned his argument well and structured the way in which he would address
the problem carefully so Ismail was on the back foot from the get go.
That was Saturday evening though and work has, as anticipated, picked up.
We wrote a Hebrew vocabulary test this morning and - praise God -
everything that I'd studied I was able to recall, unfortunately I somehow
managed to miss a chapter's worth of vocab which was a bit frustrating but
I have no one to blame but myself; I had even told people which pages we
needed to learn.
I've been trying to fight off some sort of flu-like thing but I seem to be
losing so I'll probably need to go to the doctor pretty soon. The number
of commitments just seem to be mounting up, next weekend is the weekend
the second year guys go to Hermanus and spend time with the CESA Bishops
but there's a lot of stuff that needs to get done and a weekend away right
now is not good timing.
Nevertheless, life goes on and it's encouraging to see exam timetables
coming out because I know that there are only a few weeks left of term
which will bring the first half of my GWC career to an end - what a
thought!
I suppose the first thing that I'd like you to pray for is my health, it's
quite annoying being sick and totally impractical if one wants to get
stuff done. The second is time management; I suppose it happens around
this time of a semester every time but I'm looking at what needs to be
done and the time in which there is to do it and I'm not sure how it's
going to be possible. Thirdly, plans for when I have finished studying,
I'm not sure where I'll be going and whether I'll be studying further so
please keep that in your prayers as well. As always, I am exceedingly
grateful for your prayers.
In Christ,
James Cuénod
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James, a bondslave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ
