Today Dr. David Galletta began his course on Preaching Christ from the Old Testament at Common Ground Theological Institute (CTI).

For us, today marked the first day of class and the first time meeting this year’s students, though David has met several of them in years prior. (He has been teaching various modular courses at CTI for 13 years!) For most of the students, however, today’s coursework was actually the beginning of their second week of summer intensives.

Last week with Rev. Sam Cotten they studied Biblical Interpretation, and next week with me they will study Ezekiel: Introduction and Interpretation.

Considering the fact that we did not really coordinate ahead of time, the combination of courses makes a good bit of sense. Each course begins by reinforcing the principles of Reformed biblical theology—especially that the Bible is God’s progressive self-revelation in covenantal history—yet each course emphasizes different applications of such principles in interpretation and proclamation.

The students seem eager to learn, despite the grueling pace of studying from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. plus homework.

Keep praying for them and for us!

The power just went out, so I am going to stop writing; the hotspot without power lasts for only a few minutes.