Archive for August, 2008
I must confess that I happen to really enjoy the Olympics. I am so impressed with Michael Phelps who has now won 6 Gold Medals so far in Beijing. I am also impressed with the Wikipedia post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps#2008_Beijing_Summer_Olympic_Games which contains very up-to-date information concerning his accomplishments.
Wikipedia records the history of the Olympic Games (edited by [...]
On February 25th of last year, Dawson Alexander Ritsema was born
Now, scheduled for November is the birth of our second son, who is unnamed at this time
To see the video right before we went to the doctor to find out its gender click below
To see “proof” that it is a boy, see the image below
Is [...]
Earlier this year I took a trip to Oxford as part of a PhD course at B. H. Carroll Theological Institute
Here are some of my favorite pictures
Picture #1 is a trail near Magdalen College where C. S. Lewis used to regularly walk
Picture #2 is a Bridge over one of the streets in Oxford
Picture #3 is [...]
I have spent this summer studying the subject of the Messiah. These are some of the books I have found quite helpful.
Joseph Fitzmyer’s The One Who Is to Come. This work updates S. Mowinckel’s book which I also found extremely helpful.
Richard Hess has helped edited a book called Israel’s Messiah. I have [...]
I am in the process now of updating my links. I need to apologize to a few people for not doing this previously including, especially Jim West who changed his blog to http://jwest.wordpress.com/.
Hopefully, all the links are now actually going to something. I went through each one and made sure it went to the right [...]
I love the look of the Biblical Studies Carnival Homepage. I don’t know who came up with the idea of doing it, but keeping a regular summary of biblical studies blogs was a genius idea. I always look forward to reading the summary because I don’t have time to read all the blogs. If you [...]
Well in my attempt to get back to blogging I updated the blog. I changed the theme. I added a picture for my trip to Oxford. The arch covers one of the streets as you walk around the city that is the campus of Oxford. The arch for me serves as a symbol in which [...]
It is so hard to keep up with blogging. Especially when you have two separate blogs. This summer has also kept me busy. I have been working on backgrounds for a dissertation. Part of my research question has to do with the Messiah. So I have been exploring the Old Testament passages which are later [...]
