Salt

Yesterday I bought some anchovy stuffed olives. Maybe I'll serve them with bacon, pretzels, dutch licorice and extra salt.

In other salty news, I'm reading From Glory to Golgotha: Controversial Issues in The Life of Christ by Donald Macleod. Although it's not indorsed by JI Packer, it does have accolades from hearty, salty Scottish Reformed types on the back. And there's a wee thumbnail of Donald Macleod and he looks the hearty, salty type.

Anyhow, I am actually reading the book and I am actually past page 30.

Despite it's juicy subtitle this is a really good theological book. As well as putting the colour and flavour back into theology (that many books from a certain denomination on Australia's east coast often remove for the sake of accesibility), Macleod corrects bad theology, demonstrates the motivation behind the controversial issues, emphasises the centrality and lordship of Christ and issues cutting, real challenges to the reader:

"...the cross must not be made an archetype or the excuse for our own weakness. The temptation is ver strong. An impotent ministry, declining attendences, failed church extension - our self-pity can easily project these as 'our cross'." (p102)

I reccomend this book to the time-poor sorts of people, who will read it in a few hours and then realise that the reason that they're too time-poor to read theology is because they haven't prioritised their life around Jesus, and so they'll go back and read the Bible and Macleod's expansion of From Glory to Golgotha, The Person of Christ and many other good theological books. (I, by the way, fall into this category too)