rachel [the incredible]

rachel [the incredible], originally uploaded by nathanwilliam.

this is rachel, she is the youngest of the kramer kids. [the kramers are the family i live with]

peter parr

this week we've learned so much. prior to this week was a complete whirlwind of confusion through and through. but God has done an amazing thing in that while we were totally unsure about how to do anything, he pulled us through to the other side and has given us understanding of not only what we are doing here, but how to do it (i know this is all really vague...sorry). life is pretty much a game of following where God leads and running as close behind him as you can as he paves the way for you.

this week we had the pleasure of having peter parr stay with us. peter is an archaeologist well known for his excavations at jericho with kathleen kenyan in the 1950's and at petra. we've interviewed him like crazy for the past few days and out of it we gained a lot of great insight and a great friendship.

balance

i think too much therefore i am...thinking too much. i can't separate my emotions from my mind or my physical from my spiritual, it's all together and it all serves a purpose. i think sometimes i value one more than the other, like sometimes i subconsciously accept that emotions are bad across the board, that they distort your ability to think clearly. i try to work out everything in my mind. i also know that i am legalistic by nature and try to put everything in its category. but life is too complicated to try and understand all the way. right now i think i am thinking too much about how i think too much. i should just get off my computer and do life instead of mentally processing it all. i shouldn't write another wor...

u.f.o. sighting

this morning at 5:00 AM joel burst into dave and i's room and said, "guys wake up, come check this out, there are u.f.o.s outside." so in a staggering daze we both rushed to the balcony. as we walked out, behold...u.f.o.s...

we filmed it, see for yourself:



cathy sent me this link about five minutes ago: whatever

bad scholarship

the archaeological season has just begun and we have a heavy shooting schedule ahead of us. peter parr (the head excavator of petra and the second in command to kathleen kenyon at her jericho dig in the 50's) is flying here from england to stay with us for a little while so we can interview him.

because we have so many interviews ahead of us, we are studying and learning as much as we can. unfortunately all that we are learning reveals to us that we don't know very much about what we are trying to document. it's a difficult situation, but we are trusting God for a specific method as to how we are to do what he has us doing, that is, defending the bible. one thing we realize is on a large scale, scholarship takes God out of science and tries to explain it naturally. for creation you have evolution, for the historicity of the biblical text they say that in the 7th century josiah and some of his boys sat down and made up the old testament from the 7th century all the way back through the patriarchs. basically, when you eliminate God as a possible explanation for the evidence studied in all different realms of science, you come up with many second best explanations: i.e. evolution, and mythological scripture beyond the 7th century - yet, these explanations are not the best explanation for the evidence, they are only the best explanation if you eliminate God as one. therefore, i'd say the best explanation for the evidence is God. the earth - God created it, the bible - it is real history in which God acted.

so anyway, a lot is going on and we are pretty overwhelmed. but God is a big God and we trust him.