15:14 for Six: A record of one homeschooling family's attempt to obey the commands of God.
Bonhoeffer on the Psalms seems especially relevant as we reflect on our obligations to care for Creation.
"The Creation is a picture of the power and the faithfulness of God, which He has demonstrated to us in His revelation through Jesus Christ. We worship the Creator who has revealed Himself as Redeemer."
Bonhoeffer, Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible , Chapter 7
Reading in Romans 3 today and reminded again of what Horace wrote in criticism of the habit of playwrights in his day of using deus ex machina to resolve plot complications: "Do not bring a god on to the stage unless the problem is one that deserves a god to solve it."
Centuries later, Martin Luther applied this idea to the problem of sin described in Romans 3: the gap between God and us could only be bridged, or solved, by God Himself : truly a problem large enough that it deserves God to solve it.
