Our Buddy Lowery

I decided a month or so ago that it would be a wonderful thing if this picture were to pop up on someone's blog every now and then, so that Brian's fame can be continually celebrated. Its not everyday that one gets to be the posterboy for the LCC preaching department.

Much thanks to Soebeck for his original post that featured this great pic of Brian and for the photo shop job on the caption at the bottom.

For the confused, you can unlock of the meaning of the caption by visiting the book of Acts chapter 20, verse nine and read about the fate of Eutychus.

Have a great day!

Hope

In actual fact, however, eschatology means the doctrine of the Christian hope, which embraces both the object hoped for and also the hope inspired by it. From first to last, and not merely in the epilogue, Christianity is eschatology, is hope, forward looking and forward moving, and therefore also revolutionizing and transforming the present. The eschatological is not one element of Christianity, but it is the medium of Christian faith as such, the key in which everything in it is set, the glow that suffuses everything here in the dawn of an expected new day. For Christian faith lives from the raising of the crucified Christ, and strains after the promises of the universal future of Christ. Eschatology is the passionate suffering and passionate longing kindled by the Messiah. Hence eschatology cannot really be only a part of Christian doctrine. Rather, the eschatological outlook is characteristic of all Christian proclamation, of every Christian existence and of the whole Church.


-Jurgen Moltmann, "Theology of Hope." Now available to read online.