• Gmail
• Gmaps
• Google Reader
• Google Chrome for Android
• Facebook/Twitter/G+
• Dropbox
• Runkeeper (fitness tracking)
• Zygna Scramble
• Geocaching
• Adobe Reader
• Instragram

• they have beautiful typography (on anything with pixel density greater than 300 pixels per inch)
• they make it easy to process emails that require a quick response
• they make it easy to send short text messages
• they make it easy to process emails that simply need to be read and archived. This helps significantly in keeping inboxes to zero – you can keep up with prayer letters while standing in a queue etc.
• Google Maps is amazing and the navigation is very useful. Up to date, takes traffic congestion into account, accurate time estimates, all good. Google maps is great for holidays also.
• Google Contacts (part of Gmail) is amazing, once you have gathered all the right data into it. Makes it very easy to get directions between someone’s house and a hospital for example. Great for a pastor doing alot of visiting.
• They make it pleasant to make calls. I’m putting numbers for everyone I ever see into my Gmail contacts. As a pastor it makes it easier to use the phone quickly and effectively (especially combined with in-car bluetooth – see below).
• The Android Gmail client is very nice. Works well for me because I use gmail and labels for my todo lists.
• (Google calendar on the desktop and Android seems pretty awful – I’m still on an A4 week to a page paper diary.)
• The instant messaging apps are a great alternative to SMS. I’m often using Android google chat to my wife on her gmail desktop (she is not a mobile phone user at all!).
• Mobile data speeds are fantastic these days – I get 5-10Mbits on Telstra in Melbourne in most places.
• Tethering via usb or wifi to my netbook helps to redeem time very well when stuck somewhere
• They replace ipods and mp3 players – they make it really easy to listen to sermons and music.
• Bluetooth is wonderful if you have it in your car – jump in, keep listening to the sermon, phone rings – sermon fades out – take the call – sermon fades in etc. Get bluetooth in your actual car stereo, don’t just buy a bluetooth unit as an add-on.
• Battery life is no issue because you can get micro-usb (for Android) dongles in everyplace you are – home, car, work.
• Smartphone camera and video are pretty good and the convenience is outstanding. Especially combined with dropbox auto upload.
• Dropbox is a killer app – I can see all my files, all my photos any time from my phone – incredible.

Tomorrow I will post what is wrong with smartphones.

A few years ago I blogged a review of his book “Beyond Greed”.  I’m also a fan of the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology which he co-edited.

The Board of Ridley Melbourne is delighted to announce the appointment of New Testament scholar and author, Dr Brian Rosner to the position of Principal. Dr Rosner will take up the role at the beginning of second semester, July 2012.

via Ridley Melbourne, Theological College -.

Type (tupos):

Adam a type of Christ:

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type (tupos) of the one who was to come.  Romans 5:14

Tabernacle a type of Heaven:

They serve a copy (upodeigmati) and shadow (skia) of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern (tupos) that was shown you on the mountain.” Hebrews 8:5 (see also Acts 7:44)

Wilderness generation experiences a type of warnings for the Church:

 ”Now these things took place as examples (tupoi) for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.” 1 Corinthians 10:6

Anti-type (antitupos):

The flood a type of baptism:

“Baptism, which corresponds to this (antitupon), now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” 1 Peter 3:21

Tabernacle a type of Heaven:

“For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies (antitupa) of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.” Hebrews 9:24

This last example is slightly strange as we would expect the holy places to be described as type, not anti-type.

These uses of type and antitype are explicit examples in understanding how to read the Old Testament in light of the New. There are many examples that don’t use the terms but use the methodology. For example, the comparison between the sacrificial system and the sacrifice of Jesus is conceptually typological in Hebrews 5-10, without formally using the term.

Drawn together, such examples set a framework and trajectory for interpreting the whole Bible as Christian Scripture.

]]> http://schuller.id.au/2012/01/19/type-and-anti-type-in-the-new-testament/feed/ 0 http://schuller.id.au/2011/11/16/great-article-on-the-trinity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=great-article-on-the-trinity http://schuller.id.au/2011/11/16/great-article-on-the-trinity/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:10:10 +0000 wayne http://schuller.id.au/?p=1467 Continue reading →]]> My friend Andrew Moody has finished his PhD on Trinitarian relations and has a fantastic paper in the latest Themelios.

His article argues for “benefits” for the Son and the Godhead in the work of creation and redemption. It is also a wonderful understanding delineating the work of each person of the Trinity.

Here is a great sampler commenting on Revelation 4-5:

In the cross-event, the Son becomes worthy of praise in a new way.  Alongside his eternal inclusion in the nature, works, and praise of the Father (cf. 1 Cor 8:6), he now earns a particular and distinct worship that is different from, but equal with, that accorded to the first person of the Trinity.

And this takes us beyond mere manifestation. The Son’s achievement here is not simply to reveal the Father. It is also to establish a new relationship with the universe in which the Son himself is the focus and hinge. The world, hitherto seen as the Father’s by virtue of his creation (Rev 4:11) now also becomes the Son’s by virtue of redemption. 26 The culmination of the arc is praise to both God and the Lamb together: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honour and glory and might forever and ever!” (Rev 5:13).

Unfortunately Doug did not let the cameraman give us the tour of the study/library. Not happy!

Ask Doug – “How do you organize your study?” from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.

I’m sure that the person who asked Doug this didn’t get what they were hoping for. I imagine that guy is really frustrated.

Victorian Bushfires – Google.

ESA Country Ministries.

Doncaster’s new temple. Pretty nice actually.

We are going to Pt Lonsdale at the end of August. Feeling really tired at the moment, been a long year without a break.

Only going there for a week but we can’t wait. It’s only around the corner from Queenscliff.

The kids love the beach. I love the good coffee at Pt Lonsdale (Kelp cafe). Helen likes getting away from it all.

Biblical Foundations for Parenting Mandarin HTD June 2008 translation.doc

Funny, but I bet big money that Mrs Porter wants the church to speak out publically and loudly on all sorts of moral issues, be it racism, environmentalism or sexual assault. But when it comes to her pet sin, homosexuality, then the church should just shut up and keep out of the public discussion.

Sorry Muriel, but it does not work that way. The truth is, you have just entered the public arena (in the form of an article in the national press) telling us that your version of events is the right one, and the Christian one. Yet when others who disagree with you seek to enter the debate, and in fact support the biblical position on this, you want them to butt out and just stay silent.

The Religious War Against Marriage » Bill Muehlenberg’s CultureWatch

In 1996, he purchased the journal of the first mate of the Black Rock, a 19th century British slave ship, at a Southfield’s auction. Desmond found him at the auction, demanding to know Penny’s new contact information. Widmore asserted that it was Desmond’s cowardice that separated Desmond from Penny. Desmond asked Widmore why Widmore hated him; Widmore retorted that it wasn’t he who hated Desmond. He then gave Desmond Penny’s address.Charles Widmore – Lostpedia