Beth’s Blog
I've been blogging since 2012.
It’s no coincidence that’s less than a year after my second divorce, and what I thought was the end of my goal-oriented life. I write about unifying life experiences—often the stuff people think but don’t say out loud.
You will find posts on both overcoming traumatic events and achieving goals including the following topics:
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- divorce
- having cancer (leukemia) and a Bone Marrow Transplant
- mom/daughter dynamics
- raising a teenager
- single-parenting
- dating as an almost 40-year-old (not) virgin
- Christianity
- becoming an avid marathoner
- and empty-nesting.
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Oh…and I write a lot about leadership, career development, corporate culture and USING YOUR VOICE in the workplace. #changeyourtone.
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3) Adam, the Law and the Messiah: (A) Briefly discuss your understanding of the basic message of Romans 5:12–21. Why is “the gift not like the transgression” (5:15)? (What is the logic of this section? What is the basic contrast Paul is establishing between Adam and Christ? Can you ‘chart’ the basic comparisons and contrasts?) […]
Reconciliation
(2) Assurance & Suffering in God’s “How much more…”: (A) Briefly discuss your understanding of the progression of the gradatio in Romans 5:3–4. How does Paul interpret suffering here? (What is the logic of this section? What is the end-goal of the progression? What is the relationship between hope and the Holy Spirit?) (B) Then, […]
No Rest for the Weary
One lesson down, another one begins. Such is life. (On the upside, as one of my long-time jerk friends likes to say, my “gunner” mentality has served me well as I may have “eeked!” or fist pumped or clicked my heels or whatever gunners do when they receive their first 10 out of 10. But that’s not […]
Pistis Patis Please (be right)
Without question, the subjective vs. objective genitive debate over the phrase, “the faith of Jesus (Christ)” has been the hardest concept within Romans for me to wrap my head around thus far. I honestly struggle with the fact that anything that we do can have any kind of impact AT ALL on God’s righteousness. (Like […]
A Response.
Ok so by now you’ve realized I am literally posting answers to weekly assignments due for the current class de jour, Romans. It is an intense 7-week class, rifled with readings and cross-references and Scripture verses and Paul and themes and…yowzers. Brain-wracking stuff. But I like non-stop, I crave and devour learning new things, and […]
“Therefore.”
2A. The relationship between Romans 2:1-3:8 to what precedes it in Romans 1:18-32 is as follows: 1:18-32 is Paul’s description of the Gentiles dilemma and indictment with regard to their evil ways (i.e. lack of glorification and thanks to God, idolatry, sinful desires of the heart, shameful lusts, envy, arrogance, on and on…), while 2:1-3:8 […]
Bueller, Bueller…no not him.
1A. There are varying options for the meaning of the phrase “the righteousness of God” primarily because the complexity of Paul’s thought is monumental. (Could you imagine dating the guy? I digress, but I’m starting to understand why he was single.) Before Paul becomes baffling with all the grammarian stumping, he starts out by saying […]
You’re killin’ me, Paul.
As I continue to immerse myself in the Book of Romans (among other things that make me sweat and feel physical pain instead of that other kind), my brain hurts. There is other good news in addition to the gospel good news. I learned how to wash my hair when my noodle-like arms cannot bear to […]
No Sleep Till…7 weeks.
Wanna know the central theme of Romans and why Paul wrote to them? (Right answer…we are totally going to get an A less the minus in this class…) The primary theme running through Paul’s letter to the Romans is the revelation of God’s righteousness in His plan for salvation (faith), a/k/a the gospel. “For I […]
