Category: Christian
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, Yesterday My Friend Tried to Commit Suicide
September 11, 2015
Is it ironic, coincidental, incidental or deliberate? It doesn’t really matter. It happened.
Yesterday, before 6am, I awoke to knocking at my door. In a haze, I woke up to my housemate telling me that one of our friends, CJ (name changed) was committing suicide. I’m not even sure I comprehended her as I was very groggy. All I remember is saying, what?! and her flashing her phone at me to a Facebook post our friend posted. She had posted various things but the main part was that she had decided to take her own life, taken a mixture of pills and had gone on a walk and that maybe someone would find a body.
Psalm of Thanksgiving
November 18, 2014
A couple weeks ago, the topic of Hermeneutics was Psalms during our Wednesday night fellowship. Much of it was taken from Gordon Fee’s “How to read the Bible for All Its Worth.”
Uniqueness of Psalms
- They are God’s word (is word supposed to be capitalized?) written in the form of words directed to God.
- They are poetic and therefore need a different type of interpretation
- Not meant as a specific doctrine
- Meant to be emotional so it requires an emotional “softness” to fully experience
- Each psalm operates more as its own unit and less as a whole book
- There are different types of psalms written for different purposes