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To those interested who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Have you ever had the experience in which something happens, such as a
glass is knocked off a counter and as it falls, everything seems to be in
slow motion and suddenly you've caught it as though you've got fantastic
super powers? Well, I'm watching the glass fall I just hope at the end of
the year it looks like I have super powers...
The term ended quite suddenly with the SRC handover being pushed earlier
by a week. I'm quite relieved that I no longer have that responsibility,
it's quite a weight off one's shoulders. The new guy in charge is pretty
good and I think he'll do a quality job. The organisation of the handover
(with elections and nominations and everything that goes with it) was not
the only thing that contributed to a sudden term end, I also preached for
class from Judges 6. I was inspired to start preparing for it a few weeks
earlier than I would have when I saw the other guy preaching the same
passage take out commentaries. That was good. I have since discovered that
Judges is possibly one of the most misunderstood and least accurately
preached (if preached at all) book in the whole Bible. It took me about a
week of reading and re-reading the text and then the book and then
commentaries to come to the conclusion I had no idea what was going on. I
got some kind of structure eventually but it took me another two weeks to
come to some decision about what the point of it all is. Even now, I've
been studying it some more and I'm not sure. By God's grace, the sermon
went down well even though I wasn't that happy with it but it's made me
think seriously of seeing if OT Narrative or the book of Judges could
somehow be a dissertation topic for next year.
I'm on holiday now though which has been very good and I return on the
morning of the 18th. The holidays have brought the seemingly inescapable
dental work with which they have become virtually analogous. This time
it's putting a shaft into the bone to prepare for a crown (which will wait
until the next holidays). Thankfully all went well and I'm already feeling
much better. So far this holiday I've spent some time writing Bible
software with a friend from college and reading. I finished off Surprised
By Joy (by C. S. Lewis) which was a fantastic read and I read a short
biography on Byang Kato (a hugely influential evangelical African
theologian) which I read for a biographical sketch I have to put together
for class the coming term. I still need to get a fair bit of college work
done over the next few days so please keep my diligence and focus in your
prayers.
In addition to praise for smooth handover in SRC and successful dental
surgery, prayer that I would get work done this holiday and figure out
some direction for my honours topic this year; please also pray that I
would find some accommodation next year (I and the guys in res with me who
are thinking of doing honours are thinking of moving into a little flat or
something next year to escape the walls of res) and you can pray that I
would be given super powers but I feel like that might be cheating or
something.
Thanks ten to the power of six (which is a million in non-scientific
notation terms) for the support and the prayers.
In Christ,
James Cuénod
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James, a bondslave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
http://www.rekindle.co.za
