tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53680221680054488152011-04-21T15:18:02.786-04:00vast unmeasured boundless freeWeekly musings on life in Christ.WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-69969083007942289342008-06-12T13:26:00.004-04:002008-06-12T13:32:17.111-04:00We have movedNo, not the Shank family. Just the blog.I have been publishing my blog on two sites simultaneously (Wordpress and Blogspot) for lo these many months. Actually not that many months. But I am enjoying the widgets and formats and community of Wordpress.com and am running out of patience with publishing in both places. It just takes too long.So, if you're looking for my blog, just click here and WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-28329187320869666192008-05-08T09:57:00.012-04:002008-05-08T10:35:04.851-04:00Israel's future glory in ChristGod has done again what He so often does: brought several threads together for me, to show off a powerful truth. After studying Isaiah all year, after hearing stirring comments on Israel Sunday evening at my church, and then after writing a blog entry on the Jews just yesterday, I find this morning a blog entry by John Piper that puts an exclamation point on all of this. He quotes J.C. Ryle:They WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-87220400231835690882008-05-07T10:36:00.007-04:002008-05-07T23:37:16.296-04:00maybe UNDER the table is more accurateToday I read where Jesus called a desperate woman a dog. And I realized I am a dog too. Maybe even an anti-semitic dog.I wrote last month about being "at the table", which of course is what Christ graciously invites us to, but I think we'd do well to remember often just how gracious this invitation is. Our rightful place, if we have a place at all, is not at the table, but under it.The story I WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-70215859480488630042008-04-14T21:49:00.008-04:002008-04-14T23:45:59.621-04:00too distracted to breatheI have delayed this entry far too long. I kept waiting to be inspired to write something uplifting, encouraging, amazing. It could be months. My life contains aggravatingly long stretches of completely uninspired days. The question is, whose fault is that, and if it's mine (which it probably is), how do I make it stop?Logophile that I am, I have to pause a bit here and examine the word "WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-34421930252752072542008-03-17T11:33:00.012-04:002008-03-18T20:44:27.270-04:00at the tableEverything I read and hear these days, Kingdom-wise, seems to point me back to the same thing: I am always on the receiving end; He is always the source.Most recently, I have been thinking in terms of tables. I have wanted a new kitchen table for quite a while now. Our old set was one of those Amish-built (truly -- we got it in Virginia from a Mennonite vendor) round/oval pedestal tables and WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-60983816152106485272008-03-03T23:55:00.002-05:002008-03-18T20:49:19.525-04:00deep calls to deepHere’s my typical formula for quiet time: Read through the passage of scripture (wherever I am in my OT or NT readings), write a short precis of it in journal, pray over it and let the Holy Spirit speak, record discoveries and questions, and then ask God to make that day’s chunk of his word take root in my life and heart. Then lots more prayer. All these people to pray for, and so little time...WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368022168005448815.post-19828711358927734902008-02-25T12:20:00.000-05:002008-02-26T21:56:08.588-05:00On naming things and peopleI was going to title this "Nascent Blog," but there cannot be a more unlikely pairing of words: beautiful, ancient, rich "nascent" with the cacophonous modern monstrosity of a word, "blog."Blah. Blech. Blob. Blog. Surely we could have coined something better. (I know: short for weblog, and Merriam-Webster's word of the year a few years ago. Still.)Thus I arrive with snide remarks into the world WK Shankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247287640375551161noreply@blogger.com3