Pictures from the BI

I am writing this note from a rocking chair on Concourse A at Midway Airport in Chicago. Seventy-two hours ago we had just landed in Albany. During that time I gave ten lectures on Galatians, spoke on two other occasions, and we had dinner with Wayne and Ruthie Lewis and lunch with Mike and Betsi Calhoun. Plus it was cold, really cold, or maybe I’m just feeling it more. Cold and icy. Can’t remember ever slipping and sliding as much as we did this week. But that doesn’t matter because we had an amazing time speaking to the young people who make up the first-year class at Word of Life Bible Institute. I had enormous freedom in teaching the Word and the students responded with enthusiasm. Here are few pictures from the week. Place your cursor over each picture to read the caption.

The last two pictures deserve an explanation. The student lying on the floor is Charles. He sat directly in front of the podium and kept up a steady dialogue with me all week long. When I wanted explain the relationship between the promise to Abraham and the law given to Moses from Galatians 3, Charles and I walked together side by side. He’s a natural actor and did a great job portraying the law. He was ordering me around left and right. When we got to the cross, he fell over (very dramatically) to show that the law of Moses ended with the death of Christ. He staggered to the ground like a cowboy dying in an old Western. The last picture shows me with William, a student from Kenya who knows our good friend Peter Odanga who serves with Word of Life Kenya.