Oh.....BTW

Got my ESV Study Bible inda mail and it's sweet. Like a solid 5lb brick of holiness. I was reading it on the steps of Gorgas and I swear people wouldn't get near me, lest I beat them into a bloody repentance with it. Got it on Amazon.com for less than $50, which it is $74 in stores. I'm gonna buy Clay one.

Speaking of Clay, he got into a bar fight this weekend and broke his hand. So its kinda ironic when he walks to break, with a bible in one hand and his cast from being stupid on the other. But I guess I cant say anything because at least he didn't get into a fight at a church.........


Yesterday we got to talk a good bit about the Lord and he was asking a lot of questions and the Lord enabled me to answer him with the Word and also some pretty good analogies. The Lord is working a lot in him but its still frustrating because he sometimes seems not even able to consider that his own logic is flawed, like he has never been wrong before, even when Scripture is crystal clear.


What I find most fascinating is his want for the law over the allure of relationship with the Lord. He continually asks what is ok to do, and what is not ok and I keep having to explain to him that we (he says he is a believer so I use we) are justified by our faith. I would argue that his chief love in life is his own "ignorance". He doesn't want to know any better, nor does he think any kind of enlightenment will help him. He is content to stumble about aimlessly until he finally get hung somewhere like trash in a river. But we know that he is not truly ignorant because the law is written on his heart (Rom 2:15) and he cannot hide from the reality of his own depraved spirit and mind and the Lordship of Jesus.

So I bought him a ESV study bible yesterday, and I'll surprise him with it on Monday.

Tonight I meet miss Stephanie, the skip in Mr. Parker's step. Can't wait.