A Silent Blogger

It has been pointed out to me that my blogs are insufficiently frequent. This is quite true, although I expect this will change about mid-July. Here's the list of things I have to do before then...

1. Write a 10 000 word paper for my master's course due close to the end of June. (On "An historical theological understanding of the interconnection between 'image of God' in humanity and the Son of God, with particular reference to Calvin") This replaces an exam, so I am actually very grateful. So far, I've written 1381 words and am starting to realise that 10 000 words is actually going to happen fairly quickly. I am going to have to be succint, which I am not. It is going to be a lot of work to pull this off.

2. Write a Know Your Bible sets of studies on I, II, III John and submit by the end of May. I've nearly done the first draft. The way they break the studies up is actually quite tricky for John (who likes to write as an interweaving tapestry and doesn't do 'sections' neatly).

3. Write about 1000 words on a 'theology of romance' for Salt. This is written in my head. However, the lovely people at AFES tend to be legalistic when it comes to the medium in which something is produced, and I will have to actually write words on paper for this. It's due 1st June.

4. Have all our boxes ready for shipping overseas by the middle of June. Packing the boxes isn't the tricky thing so much as making decisions. And lamenting repeatedly the cold reality that our books cannot all come with us.

5. Produce our visa applications by about mid-June.

6. Teach a class on the exegesis of I Peter, I John and James for three hours once per fortnight and mark all their assessment.

7. Teach a class, with Levor once per week for the next five weeks on Australian Church History. Levor's BIG term is this term, so I am doing most of the administration for this. We were silly and decided to do this thematically rather than chronologically as well (which actually makes better sense for the students), but that means I have to synthesise all my notes from last time I taught this!

8. Preach on 19th May, evangelistically.

9. Produce a 90 minute seminar on how we are transformed by knowing Jesus for 1st July, which is content rich, interactive and practical.

Hence my lack of blogging. It's just not urgent enough! There is no looming due date. There are no dire consequences if I don't produce blogs. But I will try and improve. If all the blogs are about the 'image of God' in humanity with some obscure reference to the Church and Schools Corporation of the mid 1800's in NSW, don't be too surprised!