As my sister said to me recently, “boys are stupid :P”

This is what Dr. Dr. Robitussin Cough DM said to me earlier today:

Stop use and ask a doctor if
cough lasts more than 7 days, comes back, or is accompanied by fever, rash, or persistent headache. These could be signs of a serious condition.

Loss of voice & bad cough: check
Fever: check
Persistent headache: check

Sighs… I have been stupid — I admit that my pride got to me. The next time these symptoms ever come back together, I will be sure to seek professional medical attention! For now, know that God has been good and gracious to me

1. Thou shalt commit to the fight.
2. Thou shalt expect nothing.
3. Thou shalt be patient.
4. Thou shalt always follow the King.

There should be more… like 10 of them! Well, more to come I’m sure

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.

–Mark 12:28-34

I’ve been much more private with these issues in the past few months. So, here’s a small glimpse of my heart on my sleeve as of late:

This month’s GQ Magazine features The Best Suits Under $500!

The one suit featured that I could actually afford is the Rayon-blend suit, $85, by Target Men’s Merona.

Worn by Mark Birnbaum, nightlife entrepreneur.

What do ya think;-?
I think I could definitely wear that:P

Hopefully, in due time, it’ll be the first of many suits I buy. After all, every Southern Baptist pastor needs one or ten suits for his arsenal

As some of you have noticed from the link in my previous post, I do have a new website up and running. Actually, I’ve had the domain since late 2006 and it’s actually been online for a while with some old content copied from my current blog.

I recently rebuilt the site’s database to fix a few bugs and now it’s fully up and running. So check it out at www.cruciformity.com:

Cruciformity ✙ Shaped by the Cross of Christ

This website hosts the confessions of a Post-Emerging Reformissional evangelical, Alex S. Leung. The articles published here strive to deconstruct the Emerging Church Movement/conversation in a manner that is shaped by the Cross of Christ.

Can anybody actually be “post-emerging” and a Reformed AND missional evangelical at the same time? Time will tell if I can live up to this moniker I’ve given myself!

I hope to keep all substantial articles on Emerging Church / postmodernism issues at Cruciformity, while posting an excerpt and link to it from here. (I’ve moved some of my previously written Emerging Church articles to Cruciformity already) I will be posting at Cruciformity very, very frequently — as in, once a week, or two, or once a month… depending on the Holy Spirit’s leading and how much time I have. My motivation for the site right now is from a Systematic Theology paper I am writing on the postmodern dissatisfaction with penal substitutionary atonement. (I might share that with you later this summer)

Hopefully, this will free up six steps to be more personal, allowing me to just vent more unreservedly about everything else here at six steps

Enjoy:-)

Earlier in the fall of 2007, I was invited by Rev. Ken Silva (SBC) of Apprising Ministries to serve as a correspondent for his online apologetic ministry. This past December, I finally responded to his invite and committed to writing 1-2 articles on the Emerging Church every month starting in January 2008. However, due to my busy January schedule and the extremely busy Spring semester here at Southern Seminary, I thus have yet to publish anything. I sincerely apologize for not living up to my self-proclaimed commitment and for my lack of foresight into my schedule.

Please know that my first responsibility is to my seminary studies; at the same time, please also pray that what I share with you here would be a fruit of and an overflow from the countless hours I spend reading the Scriptures and books on theology.

Emerging Missional Fallacies

On that note, I am excited to write to you concerning the Emerging Church and postmodern theology! In this opening half of the year, I will share with you how I came into contact with Emerging theology and the things that have led me to confront evangelical accommodation in today’s postmodern culture. Although I was very eager to write to you about the beliefs of Emerging churches, I found it necessary to write appealing to Emerging pastors to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

For there are certain pastors who have crept unnoticed into the church that are reading their own personal desired interpretation and ideas into the Bible’s text, ideas that are not necessarily extra-biblical but rather extra-textual to the passage preached on. These usually result from careless exegetical fallacies that remove the text from its original context (cf. D. A. Carson, Exegetical Fallacies. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996). More specifically, I am concerned about ordained ministers of God’s Word are eisegeting an Emerging missional ecclesiology into the New Testament – where as 2000 years of biblical scholarship have found no explicit “missional” meanings in such passages whatsoever.

(Read the rest of this article.)

“Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.”
–Hebrews 13:13-14

He is God’s final revelation.
He is the heir of all things.
He is the creator of the world.
He is the radiance of God’s glory.
He is the exact imprint of God’s nature.
He upholds the universe by the Word of His power.
He made purification for sins.
He sits on the right hand of the Majesty.
He is God enthroned forever with the scepter of uprightness.
He is worshiped by angels.
His rule will have no end.
His joy is above all other things in the universe.
He took on human flesh.
He was crowned with glory and honor because of his suffering.
He was the founder of our salvation.
He was made perfect in all his obedience by his suffering.
He destroyed the one who has power of death, the Devil.
He delivered us from the bondage of fear.
He is a merciful and faithful High Priest.
He made propitiation for sins.
He is sympathetic because of his own trials.
He never sinned.
He offered up loud cries and tears with reverent fear and God heard him.
He became the source of eternal salvation.
He holds his priesthood by virtue of an indestructible life.
He appears in the presence of God on our behalf.
He will come a second time to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him.
He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

From T4G’08 Session VII: John Piper - How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice (at ~57min mark)