Why Blog?

Why do I want to have my own blog site? There are several reasons that immediately come to mind. (1) The thrill of the novelty. Blogging is new. And with everything new (and morally okay), there is a some simple pleasure in trying it. Furthermore, it is somewhat cool to see your words on the internet. (2) Techno sloth. Blogging is webpage-making made easy for people like me who are too lazy to want to go the whole way and create their own webpage. (3) For the love of writing. (4) To be visible to friends and family. Here is a place where my loved ones can find me and receive updates on our (Robin and I) lives. (5) To think out loud about the covenanted life. By the covenanted life I mean life that is self-consciously lived in accountability to the triune God who is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In this regard, this blog is a bit like a journal. It will contain some of my own thoughts about how theology relates to and shapes the life that I live 24-7, a life that includes studying, praying, hanging out with friends, cooking, traveling to and from work, watching movies, arguments, and more. (6) Finally, as always, as with all things in life, to give glory to the triune God. Blogs can be extremely self-centered exercises. I am aware of that. You want people to know you, read you, so on and so forth. Worse, you do this from a safe distance, protected by a veil of electronic bleeps and what-not. But blogging can also be covenanted as the rest of life is. It can be another exercise of covenanted living, another part of the life-long, life-wide Gospel work. So this blog will be dedicated to the glory of God, the one who made us beings with an insatiable appetite for communications, the one who is himself the communicator of truth, the one who communicates the truth that is himself. This blog is but a small reflection--amidst many other small reflections--of such a one.

So if you are visiting, thank you for taking the time to hang out here and listening to me (if you did). Feel free to drop a comment or write me an email. Feel free to agree or disagree and/or shed more light. We are all on the same journey, pressing toward the throne that sits at the end of the ages.