Last summer I learned to solve the Rubik’s Cube.  This summer, I am aiming to learn how to solve it in under a minute and a half, as well as solving it in as few moves as possible.

Should be a fun vacation.

I’ll be reposting some material over the next two weeks, so I hope you enjoy some greatest hits while I’m out of town!

Hebrews 13 has some excellent things to say about how we ought to respond to our leaders:

7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

I think in order to lead well, we must, first and foremost, know how to submit to biblical leadership.   The writer of Hebrews clearly had in mind that the leaders he was referring to are teaching sound doctrine, and have lives worth imitating.  Our response to men who are qualified elders who teach the word of God and oversee the church of God is to obey and submit to their authority.

Those desiring leadership ought to first desire to be led by godly men themselves, and have the opportunity to observe and imitate the life of godliness that is demonstrated.  Practically speaking, this is good medicine for young, ambitious leaders to be sanctified, as we are notorious for our impudent and brash behavior that frequently rejects authority in frustration.

I am thankful for the men who lead me, and am grateful they are men with lives worth imitating, and pray that God would continue to raise up qualified men who exercise oversight with great love and care.

I’m definitely not a journalist, but this is one particular piece of news that I am particularly excited about, so I’ll pass it on.

For those of you who do not follow the intersection of science and faith, Francis Collins may not be a familiar person to you.  For an introduction, I’d recommend reading his wikipedia entry, but he in short was instrumental in the mapping of the human genome and an excellent scientist.  He also is a professing evangelical Christian, who has an amazing story of coming to believe in Christ.

President Obama announced on Wednesday that he had nominated Collins as the director of the National Institute of Health, which is an incredibly influential position, and an exciting development for the intersection of the science and faith communities.

I am overjoyed to see a man whose scientific achievement speaks for itself, and is speaking the truth of Christ in a field that tends toward hostility to the God of the Bible.  I pray that this appointment would be for the honor and fame of Jesus in a generation of doubt!