Starting an essay on what we lose if we deny the bodily resurrection

And poster child of the spiritual-as-opposed-to-bodily resurrection in Australia at least, is Peter Carnley.

His book The Structure of Resurrection Belief begins "Theology, like most other man-made things, is subject to fashion."

An ominous start...

Late night clarity

It's about 1:30am and I have been up finishing a self-imposed deadline of having another sermon ready to go for the weekend away I'm speaking at next weekend. Once I wake up tomorrow (technically today) I will start again and need to have the third talk ready to go before I go to sleep tomorrow night (technically tonight but this is beginning to get confusing... though talk 3 needs the most work so it may end up actually being tomorrow).

Anyways, the reason I'm sharing all this is because I just had another moment.

In mentally preparing myself for another Groundhog Day of preparation tomorrow, I thought in my head, "It will be good to get a break from work tomorrow to go to church."

This excites me for two reasons:
1. I have not been turned into a professional academic.
2. The reflex of my mind is not to think of gathering with God's people as 'work'.

Fantastic way to go to sleep!