I want to apologize to you, my readers, for not posting anything substantive lately.

My last significant post was on April 27, titled “Arriving at a knowledge of truth“. If you skipped this, do read it, for it was a response to certain stirrings in my heart.

I have been storing up many things I want to say, in my heart, in my journal — but I have not found the right time to type it out and publish it. One reason is due to the lack of time in these recent weeks (and months), as I am trying to get used to working full time. However, such a reason is not the primary reason for my lack of published work. A lot of friends I know, who used to blog casually in a regular, consistent manner no longer do — now that they are working, or now that they are in a dating/courting relationship. I hope I never to become such a person, who does not embrace the high importance of blogging as a personal spiritual discipline. I will continue to press on blogging, despite life’s circumstances.

I’ve been reflecting on this recently, and have found the main reason for not posting substantively recently is a lack of drive, or motivation. The passion on the issues at hand are there, but it just hasn’t “ticked me off” to the point of responding wholeheartedly in a formal post — immediately. Not that there are things that are really ticking me off, for there has been much significant things to write about — in my own life and in evangelicalism.

I have noted in the past that one of my weaknesses is that I react & respond to circumstances a lot more than I should. I have even exhorted you not to follow me in such behavior. This is, thus, the time and the place where I must preach my own theology to myself.

“Alex,
you should not be reacting and responding to whatever new things come your way… for there will always be happenings in life that require response. Just don’t be focusing the majority of your waking hours responding to that… but be continually reading and studying His unchanging, inerrant Word — be reacting and responding to it continually instead!”

I have little time this week as I am preparing to lead a workshop at the Campus Challenge 2007 conference, but I hope to share my Southern Seminary Preview Conference reflections — thoughts on seminary life and of course, ’significant other’-type relationships — as well as reflections about the Doctrine of the Atonement (which I taught in Sunday School these past 3 months). In the near (hopefully not too distant) future, I still plan on writting a significant post on the issue of love according to Christ from John 17.

Until then, please be patient with me… and please continue reading and visiting my site. The articles I share are those I’ve found to be particularly edifying to me.