The challenges of the semester have been compounded by a recent illness and now I find myself with my health restored (I think) and only 11 days to finish what remains. That includes writing one paper (research 95% finished), and writing another (0% done). The weekend after, I fly out to Israel for 3.5 weeks. My hope all along was that the end would not be exceptionally busy, so I would have at least regular (if not extra) time to spend with the family before I disappear. I’m not really sure how it’s all going to happen, so if you think to pray for us, I’d appreciate it. Typically the last month of school is also tough for one of our kids, and that difficulty is increased when dad is not around.<\/p>\n
Posts will likely be less frequent in the next five weeks, so I pass on a new “blog” that I recently discovered: Of First Importance<\/a>: “Each day this blog will provide a thoughtful quote to help you remember what’s “of first importance”: the gospel of Jesus Christ.” Today’s post:<\/p>\n Our entire confidence in our acceptance before God is based solely upon the fact that Jesus was our legal representative in His sinless life and obedient death.” <\/p>\n – Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace<\/em><\/a> (Colorado Springs, Co: NavPress, 1994), 68.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The challenges of the semester have been compounded by a recent illness and now I find myself with my health restored (I think) and only 11 days to finish what remains. That includes writing one paper (research 95% finished), and writing another (0% done). The weekend after, I fly out to Israel for 3.5 weeks. \u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n