New Years Resolution

Be bold, go for it and try follow a plan to read the bible in a year.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Find some plans Here

They have a web link that updates every day, you can get the readings in RSS feeds, via email, it can give you an iCal upload, Mobile phone (presumably only in the US) and you can print them out.
A few different plans to go for, check it out.

EDIT: What's more, for those using iCal, it starts the plan on the day you upload the iCal files.. so no catching up to do, and no unmotivation to start just because you're starting halfway though a plan.. neato!

Somehow I deleted this post.. It's back now :-)

Nothing beats a 12 bar blues..

.. ..so nothing beats the credit music to Boston Legal. You didn't know it was one did you?

Enter box set of seasons 1, 2 and 3.

Aside from being a show that contains 'Moderate themes', 'Moderate violence', and kindly labelled to have 'Moderate sexual references' (enough, take note, that the characters themselves get fed up).. ..I've found it to be a show that makes constant references to God.

As an American legal drama/comedy it confronts many MANY ethical questions, and often finds itself alluding to, or directly referencing the existence of the God of Christianity. Criminals explain their new found commitment to God. Creationism, intelligent design, is held up as important in a court of law. Lawyers question their own faith, and purpose for living. And it is brilliantly juxtaposed against a worldly view of justice and success, which, even if only for the purpose of entertainment, is portrayed as less than desirable.

I dislike television, I don't watch it probably for the purpose of avoiding much of what Boston Legal itself includes, but it's good to know that God's truth prevails even in the thickest of it all. And if it's being able to find God in the gaps, knowing that God reveals himself in the darkest corners of the world, and to be able to discuss the Gospel of Jesus Christ with people from the instigation of a TV show, then I might swallow my pride and at least mildly engage again with the world of television..

..and anyway, I've only seen season one.

It is right to fear the Lord

Psalm 2 was in my reading list today and it has this to say in v12:

"Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in
the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled
Blessed are all who take refuge in him."
(ESV)

The IVP New Bible Commentary has this to say about it, quoting Derek Kidner:

"There is no refuge from him: only in him."

Proper fear of the Lord leads us to seek our safety in Him, because we have no need to run from Him. His word says that we are blessed when we take refuge in Him.
We should become humble; "Kiss the Son", in the NRSV it says "kiss his feet". A big act of humility, and a reminder of the reverent fear that God is due.

It is right to fear the Lord.