Samuel was not himself anointed king. He was, rather, the anointer of kings…

Samuel laid the groundwork; others came after him to build the nation of Israel.

John Richard Sampey in somewhat the same role? A child of the Civil War, standing in the gap between an old and a new America, entangled in an era of change in Baptist life in America, John Sampey acted as a catalyst for survival and identity. He established strong foundations for those who would follow after him. He served faithfully under the presidential administrations of James P. Boyce, John A. Broadus, William H. Whitsitt, Edgar Y. Mullins, and took on the presidency of the seminary after an age when many of us hope to retire. He taught and studied, he preached and evangelized, he traveled on the mission field, and he built relationships with colleges and universities. John Sampey helped to build a strong foundation for the future of Baptist scholars, preachers, and teachers.

Source: "John Richard Sampey: shoulders on which to stand"
Baptist History and Heritage ,  Wntr, 2003   by Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford

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Working on an exegetical paper on 2 Corinthians 1:1-7 for my Greek Syntax and Exegesis class! One last hump to get over until a 2 week “vacation” in Toronto

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

As the clock struck 12am, I registered for my summer classes! I changed my mind on a few classes I originally planned on doing so that I could have each week-long summer class spread out a bit, giving me more breathing (reading) time in between each class.

Here’s my current schedule for this summer:

32960 INTRODUCTION TO MISSIOLOGY
Troy Bush
MTWRF(8:00 am-5:00 pm) 6/2/2008 to 6/6/2008
MAIN NRT 104

40080A THE MINISTRY OF LEADERSHIP
Randy Stinson
MTWRF(8:00 am-5:00 pm) 6/23/2008 to 6/27/2008
MAIN NRT 101

34300 INTRO TO BIBLICAL COUNSELING: METHODS & SKILLS
Paul Tripp (visiting professor from Westminster)
MTWRF(8:00 am-5:00 pm) 7/7/2008 to 7/11/2008
MAIN NRT 102

I’ll update this page if there’s any changes;-)

Check out a hi-resolution bird’s eye view of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary by Microsoft’s Live Maps.

Furthermore, Microsoft recently introduced a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams.

The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, was developed over the last five years by a group of artificial-intelligence researchers at the company’s Microsoft Research laboratories. It is an ambitious attempt to apply machine-learning techniques to the problem of traffic congestion. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets.

The Clearflow system is freely available as part of the company’s Live.com site (maps.live.com) for 72 cities in the United States. Microsoft says it will give drivers alternative route information that is more accurate and attuned to current traffic patterns on both freeways and side streets.

Tony Kummer tagged me, so here we are:

1. What are you reading on Spring reading days? [Books I've brought home with me to Toronto, that I "plan" on reading]

• Donald McLeod - The Person of Christ (Top priority–must finish this by the end of the week)
• Tim Challies - The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment (leisure reading!)
• Robert Stein - A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible
• Dan McCartney - Let the Reader Understand
• Daniel Doriani - Getting the Message
• Graeme Goldsworthy- According to Plan
• Paul Barnett - Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity (I don’t know if I’ll get to this)

2. What do you wish you had time to read?

• R. C. Sproul - The Truth of the Cross
• Sinclair Ferguson - In Christ Alone

3. What have you decided NOT to read that you were assigned to read.

• Carson and Moo - An Introduction to the New Testament

4. What is one great quote from your reading?

In fact, without the eternal sonship we should have to abandon the phrase, begotten, not made, altogether. On MacArthur’s construction, for example (taking the sonship to derive from the virgin birth), we should have to insist he was made, not begotten. This is surely perilous. We can speak of God creating the humanness of the Son from the substance of the Virgin, but we dare not speak of his begetting the Son from the substance of the Virgin. That would take us right back to the pagan notion of intercourse between the gods and the daughters of men.

McLeod, The Person of Christ, page 129.

McLeod criticizes MacArthur’s seeming rejection of the preexistence of Sonship, citing MacArthur’s statement in his NT Commentary on Hebrews (pg.28). Since I don’t have MacArthur’s commentary on Hebrews in front of me, I cannot tell exactly what MacArthur is commenting on, and thus McLeod’s point by quoting MacArthur’s comment seems unsubstantiated. While McLeod clearly states on page 128 that “MacArthur’s position must be kept in perspective”, McLeod does not provide a satisfactory perspective to understand MacArthur’s position. Clearly I am a MacArthur fan, and thus take offense — to caricature MacArthur for saying that “sonship began in a point of time, not in eternity” readers should be given the passage MacArthur is commenting on in order to understand what Scriptures MacArthur is interpreting.

Furthermore, McLeod fails to provide biblical evidence or exegesis for eternal Sonship in the 4 pages he allots for the issue. I was left confused by his arguments from church fathers and cannot fully get onboard with eternal Sonship just through biblical logic. While the entire chapter is titled “The Christ of Faith: ‘Very God of Very God’ “, I find it hard to just side with a church father (say even Athanasius) if it’s only because their argument was more biblically logical and is historically accepted! Give me the Scriptural support! (I’m hoping the other half of the book will solve these issues I’ve got with the book;-) )

5. Why are you blogging? (You’re supposed to be reading!)

• McLeod ain’t tickling my theological mind and I’m left unsatisfied with his arguments! Argh :@

I tag Jordan, Bryan, Matt Click, Joshua, and Letoto!