I’ve blogged a lot more lately. Especially today. I’m not sure what reminded me of GentleWhisper.com… or what caused me to neglect it for so long. I think I was hurting… and I just didn’t want to talk about it. I know that sounds a bit silly since I used to write about little else.

Either way, things are getting a bit better. God has been showing himself so trustworthy… so personally involved in my life.

[I no longer capitalize personal pronouns referring to deity... it's a grammatical decision please don't be offended by it... I still love Jesus, believe in the Trinity and all that jazz.]

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I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. There are a lot of theological questions floating around up there. It’s a danger that comes with being a seminarian… Yesterday I contemplated Calvinism, Eternal Security, Initial physical evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, two views of sanctification, Lordship Salvation, the inerrancy and canonization of scripture, the cost of truly following Christ… several military chaplaincy issues, some parenting concerns, marriage, the role of women in ministry, homiletics, Unitarian and Universalism heresies, humanism, neo-paganism … and what heavyweight punching bag I should purchase… that was all between dropping Sarah off at preschool and picking her up two and a half hours later.

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I’ve been looking through my blue Sing His Praise Hymnal. I bought it at a used bookstore once because I wanted to look up a hymn I had read one day at church while not actually paying attention to the service. We sing a few hymns at Central but we very rarely use the hymnals. They just put the words on the screen.

I don’t actually know how to read a hymnal… I can look at the music and have absolutely NO IDEA how the song sounds. Rachel told me she can hook me up, that she’s grown up singing hymns and knows how they all sound… I highly doubt she knows the ones I was reading in the Assemblies of God hymnal. I was in the Pentecostal section of the book. I kind of doubt Independent Fundamental Baptists sing these hymns often. Actually after reading the lyrics, it seems a lot of the older Pentecostal hymns are preaching sanctification as the Church of God (Cleveland, TN) understands it, not as the Assemblies of God does. I wonder if anyone notices such doctrinal differences when they’re picking songs for the Sunday night service? I wonder if anyone AT ALL cares about this paragraph of my post.

Rachel just called and saved you all from more random, random rambling. Until next time…