Back in the Saddle

The conference/camp is now over (well...it is wrapping up, but the rest doesn't really involve me). My saintly wife is now packing the family up, I have a few residual meetings, and I may have one more Q&A session. Other than that, I'm done!

My goals regarding church work for the week were perhaps set a bit high. I did exegetical work on about 6 of the the 12 minor prophets (actually, I didn't think I would even get to 6). I completed another week's worth of work on the Gospel of Matthew, but sadly made no progress on next year's Adult Sunday School class curriculum (that was wishful thinking anyway).

On the trip back home we get the perk of stopping by Baker Book House (the best Christian bookstore on the planet. Yes.....it does have all the "Christian'ish" junk like "Testimints", christian art, and TD Jake books-----but it also has a huge biblical studies section (with just about every scholarly commentary still in print), an entire section devoted to Puritan writings, another for the classics (Augustine, Law, Scougal, etc), a wonderful Theology section, and much more. Sadly, this trip isn't one of my usual trips. I'm actually going there to REPLACE a few lost books--but I'm sure I can talk my wife into letting me acquire at least one or two new ones. I would love to have Volume 2 of the ICC commentary on Jeremiah.