Friday Foto #39

You’ve been waiting for it. I’ve received email after email requesting a photo, and comment after comment from strangers impressed by my moustache growing abilities. It’s quite bushy, no really, it’s just blonde and hard to see from a distance (though it now has a 6.5m visibility threshold). Go on… give my Mo some money!

[click for full and glorious portrait]

Basics of Verbal Aspect – Con Campbell

All exams are finished! Giddy up. This is really a post reminding me to do some holiday reading. Currently, I like Con Campbell because of his jazz. I’m psyching myself up to love him for his contribution to Biblical Greek grammar!

Con has a new book out – he guest blogged about it on the Zondervan Academic blog. It’s on Verbal Aspect. I’m hoping that reading the 5 posts below will be a good primer.

  1. Verbal aspect: what is it, and why does it matter?
  2. Verbal Aspect: what it is and what it isn’t
  3. Verbal aspect and the aorist indicative
  4. Verbal aspect and the present indicative
  5. Verbal aspect and exegesis

p.s. – I passed greek this year!!

Mission – Köstenberger

Mission – Köstenberger (doc). This is the ‘Mission’ chapter from the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. It’s basically the same as the summary in ‘Salvation to the End of the Earth’ by O’Brien and Köstenberger. So you get 250 pages summarised into 4. Sweet.

If you’re not about to sit an exam on this stuff, have a read any way. It’s good. If you have no idea who Jesus is – this website is a good start. (sxc pic)

An Evangelical Rationale for Social Action

An Evangelical Rationale for Social Action (pdf) by Michael Hill. “By his sacrificial service on the cross (Jesus) revealed God’s standard for all to imitate. He modelled true humanity in his humility and selfabasement before God and his self-giving service… to his neighbours.”

“The reality is that evangelism will lead to conversion and conversion will lead to a new creation and that new creation will oblige people to be involved in social action.” sxc pic

Reuben 3 – Dave 0

The Mariners won last night – we’re now sitting in second… giddy up!! Reuben came up to watch. It was Reuben, Llyeton Hewitt and 5 other random Adelaide fans against 8000 Central Coast supporters! Read Reuben’s match review.

The Mariners may have won 3-0, but Reuben is definitely beating me in the Mo-Stakes. Believe it or not, in the picture above we both have moustaches. He is clearly winning 3-0. Stay tuned for an extreme close-up of my masterpiece. GIVE MONEY TO MY MO!