Monthly Archives: June 2009

As I head into preaching for the summer, I’m looking at taking some of the common Psalms and speaking on them.  Many of us know the 23rd Psalm (Shepherd Psalm), or the 51st Psalm (where David pours out his anguish over his immorality and murder).

As I’ve been researching, I find it interesting that the Psalms are divided into 5 parts, the same as the Torah (first five books of the Bible called the books of the law).

There is every reason to believe that when the first Psalm talks of those who meditate on the law of God, this refers to the Torah but also in some way to the Psalms themselves, which are structured the same as the Torah.

As one writer says, “Regardless of the fact that the Psalms originated as the response of faithful persons to God, they are now to be understood also as God’s Word to the faithful.”

With that in mind (and just starting to germinated in my mind!), I look forward to this summer adventure.

Yesterday our daughter arrived, with her two children.  Her husband is in the northern reaches of Manitoba working on railway mechanics. 

Grandchildren are a real blessing.  Ours are three months and three years.  One is learning to smile.  The other has “no” down quite well.

They will stay for a while.  That will depend on how long our son-in-law is in the wild and wooly north!  But until they leave, may this be a great  time together!

Yesterday I heard some of you could not find my blog on the internet.

I zipped of a message to my service provider.  He calmly replied by email that my domain name had expired.

Amazing what a mere broken electronic link can do!  I was placed into internet ether space — far from your browser and unable to transcend the strictures of time and space to make it to your place.

Now the link is back, for a mere pittance of money placed in the coffers of those who register domain names such as www.ronbaker.ca. 

So, I’m back and have not expired, although my next possible expiry date is two years from now.  At which point I will probably, once again, forget to renew my domain name — until someone points out to me that I’m no longer there!

But until then, read on.

BTW:  Facebook is now advertising that you can restrict who you talk to on Facebook.  Or at least they are letting you know that you can send messages/create a wall that only a select few of your friends are able to access.  My question is whether people will take advantage of this option — or if they even think that any conversation needs to be restricted.

I’ve been off to our Senior Pastor’s Network for the last day or so!  We are a group of six at the moment, with two more joining us in the fall.

Our discussion centered on our own lives, with prayer and concerns leading us to expect God to work in our lives.  As well, we talked about what spiritual community is.  A lot of good thoughts that are still mulling around in my head.