I was talking with my buddy Stan Wu about Col.2:6-7 and the image of walking in Jesus - the Christian walk.  As we talked we brought up the other image of standing firm.  So Stan put it all together, “You have to stand firm to walk.  And you can’t walk sitting down.”  There it is.  Standing firm and walking are not opposed to each other, but two ways of describing different aspects of the Christian life.  Sitting down, however, is opposed to both.

I like this from Challies.  Tim Challies tweeted, “Observed: there is an inverse relationship between the length of a meeting and its usefulness.”  Shakespeare was on to something in Hamlet when he said “Brevity is the soul of wit.”  I learned this from my Dad in a ‘They say…’

One of our themes this semester has been ‘Intellectual Faith’.  Guest speakers have been unpacking this for us.  For many students this phrase is an oxymoron - reason and faith just can’t go together because they are two separate categories.  That’s not true and we have had several very smart faculty address this issue.  Check out Reasonable Faith which offers all sorts of articles and resources.  We are hoping more and more students begin to love God with their minds and bring the Kingdom into their studies and classes so that even more students will begin to see that they don’t have to throw away their brains to follow Jesus.