I finally uploaded pictures from the Hike. I even gave them all witty names.
You can see them in the nifty picture viewer widget on the sidebar. Or you check them out(and all YAM pictures I upload) here.
Now for The Big Question™ is: what do you all want to do for our next activity? I need ideas; Tara's willing to help, but we need something to shoot for. I'm just a country bumpkin... what do city people do for fun in the wintertime? Sleigh rides?
This Sunday we're looking at James 2. The whole thing.
Some food for thought while studying out this passage:
What's the deal? We spent the last few Bible studies together talking about how we aren't saved by the good works that we do. We even said that our good works don't earn us favor with God. So then what's James 2 talking about? Why does he harp on deeds so much? Are we really saved by works?
Martin Luther struggled with the book of James. In fact, he called it the straw gospel. He had come out of a system that had emphasized works so strongly that to hear anything remotely like Catholicism made his sick. We'll talk more about it this Sunday.
Well, I said I'd get it up before this coming Sunday, and here it is, Saturday night. While you're all out laughing it up and watching Tron, I'm sitting on front of my monitor slaving over a blog. I hope your all happy.
I'll be posting the hike photos post haste.