It is truly my desire that this weblog be a place for myself and others to exhibit real integrity and honesty. I hope to do more question asking and humble pondering than making penetrating observations. But I’ll have to fight my pride on this. Sinfully, I would love for this to be a place where I deposit my jewels of wisdom in elegant prose that will dazzle all readers. But this would not really benefit me or anyone else most likely. Please feel free to hold me to that goal if you see me drifting from it.

There are so many things that I feel like I ought to know by now but don’t, and from talking to friends I know that I’m not alone in this. This can be particularly scary for a seminarian, who is looking ahead to the day when (hopefully) he will be asked to lead a body of fellow believers in the wisdom and truth of the Scriptures. I want to ask the kinds of questions that I’m usually too embarrassed to ask, and I want anyone who thinks that they might have a good answer or insight to share their comments. But I do ask that you would do so in a similar spirit of humility, praying for the wisdom to “think God’s thoughts after him”, as Cornelius Van Til put it.

Remaining in quiet embarrassed ignorance will only hurt me and those whom I am called to serve, and so I am challenging myself and all others to ask the easy questions as well as the hard ones.

More on this topic to come…