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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/24/2010 3:38 AM (GMT -6) | | Bruce, I will definitely be praying for your healing.
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JET
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| Posted 7/24/2010 1:19 PM (GMT -6) | | | Bruce, Wow … I now remember a thread a while back where you mentioned something about having difficulty typing. Have you found anything to help with that? ... This discussion board has your imprints all over it. I always found it interesting that one of the most influential voices on this “Open Theism Discussion Board” is someone who is not an open theist. Why were you drawn here originally? I always imagined that, despite your clear disagreement with open theism, perhaps you saw an affinity between EO and open theism that the rest of us couldn’t initially see. I think of how you represented a persistent voice of one (literally, one) calling in the desert for a possible “third way” in many of the conversations here long before this board voice acquired its more recent EO flavor. ... Anyway, thanks for continuing to share your life with us by sharing this information. - Earl | | Back to Top | | |
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| Posted 7/27/2010 7:02 AM (GMT -6) | | Hey, Bruce. To say I'm sorry to hear what's going on is an drastic understatement. I'm really on the prayer team for you, my brother. When I told my wife what was going on, I told her how sad I was and that I'd long considered you a mentor of sorts, especially with the EO stuff. (I'd know about zip if it weren't for our interactions over the years...) She looked at me with surprise and said "Wow. You've never said that about hardly anybody."
"I know," I replied.
May God give you healing and peace, sir.
Lord Jesus, have mercy.
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/29/2010 6:52 PM (GMT -6) | |
Tom said...
I'm very sorry to hear of this, Bruce. So sorry. Inform us as much as you're comfortable won't you? Love and appreciation.
Tom You know how sometimes a doctor gives you candy when you get a shot? (Who's the 'sucker?') My famiy just bought me a new laptop, for school and home. (I just wish I didn't have this disease.) Key-touch is important, portability and comfort and grasp, handiness.
My computer-wiz boys wanted to put everything on it! my understanding wife -- so smart and wise (DID I BRAG YET about HER NEW JOB AS ASSOCIATE PROVOST AT THE UNIVERSITY?  , and loving -- knows that I don't multitask like used to.  But the boys understand, and are keeping me in the loop, and beginning to focus on my needs both near and future.
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PotOnWheel
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JET said...
Bruce, Wow … I now remember a thread a while back where you mentioned something about having difficulty typing. Have you found anything to help with that? ... This discussion board has your imprints all over it. I always found it interesting that one of the most influential voices on this “Open Theism Discussion Board” is someone who is not an open theist. Why were you drawn here originally? I always imagined that, despite your clear disagreement with open theism, perhaps you saw an affinity between EO and open theism that the rest of us couldn’t initially see. I think of how you represented a persistent voice of one (literally, one) calling in the desert for a possible “third way” in many of the conversations here long before this board voice acquired its more recent EO flavor. ... Anyway, thanks for continuing to share your life with us by sharing this information. - Earl
Lois Malcom, Tyler DeArmond, Greg Boyd, St.Gregory Palamas, and John Piper, and the BGC.
In 1907 grandpa began teaching at Bethel Academy. Decades later OT was testing its capaacity to blow the roof off of the BGC tent. I wrote to my college friend O-i Malcom about the possibility of a distinction between God's energies and essence becoming a third-voice (As I recounted to my 17 year old son tonight, God does not get weaker whenvacting, nor have less love when he loves.) in the debate. I counseled Tyler not to permanently be defined by onnly one option, and I got no where with Greg who followed Harnach in condemning wide swatches as as being made unfit-for-faith by Greek taints. Prof. Malcom wrote back that I was a genius. Her studies included Karl Rahner and Gregory Palamas. She felt that BOTH Greg and John were half right and half wrong.
I had two generations of Bethel teachers in the family. One taught Greek and Latin, and the other founded the art department. And my wife's father is a minister who feels that "God doesn't wear a watch." Her younger brother is a minister, and her older brother is an Orthodox priest and a sem. prof.
This all meant that even if it made another individual mad...I shouldn't try to answer things that I didn't undersstand, make things palatable to my or another's senses, or make what probably would feel strang into something popular to embrace.
Honesty and humility are probably things I failed at a lot. But I tried.
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PotOnWheel
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 8/4/2010 2:23 PM (GMT -6) | |
O Lord, I do not know what to ask of You.
You alone know what are my true needs.
You love me more than I myself know how to love.
Help me to see my real needs which are concealed from me.
I do not dare to ask either for a cross or for consolation.
I can only wait on You. My heart is open to You.
Visit and help me, for the sake of Your great mercy.
Strike me and heal me; cast me down and raise me up.
I worship in silence Your holy will and Your unsearchable ways.
I offer myself as a sacrifice to You.
I have no other desire than to fulfill Your will.
Teach me to pray. Pray You Yourself in me.
-Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow
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Tom
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