Update on tests

I got my History of the Bible test back. It was a true/false, multiple choice, matching. I got 100%. It's only worth 10% of the final grade, but every little bit helps. I actually argued and won on one point. The true/false question stated: Saul was the first king of all of Israel. I said false. He said true. I argued that I had always been taught that Saul did not have all of Israel, yes he had the twelve tribes, but David was the first king of all of Israel. He gave me credit!! Like I said that 2% of 10% of the whole!!

I have finished my first sermon and exegesis, this sermon will be preached on Thursday. I was assigned 1 Timothy 1:12-17. Then I need to start working on my OT sermon and exegesis. I chose the lectionary for the 2nd Sunday I will be back, Hosea 11:1-8.

I have finished my exegesis for the History course, this is 30% of the grade. I chose Hosea 14:1-8. I'm happy with my work on this. However, another 30% of my grade is on a presentation/teaching assignment based on this same text!! I may have a little trouble with this. I wasn't paying attention when this was discussed or maybe I would have chosen a simpler text. I certainly won't be doing a children's message.

Speaking of which, I have a presentation tomorrow for our Formation for Christian Discipleship class. I remembered how excited Jack was when he showed me how to sign "Jesus Love the Little Children" so that's what I chose for that class. We had a book report due the first day and there is a final exam in this class.

Now to the other course!!! We have our midterm tomorrow. The course began with the Hellenists and we just completed Augustine. 400 years of early church history will be on this test! Also the teacher is a grad student, so we are her first ever actual course. There's been some growth on both sides in this class. She made a comment one day when we were particularly rowdy that she thought we would be like grad students. We assured her we were more like 2nd semester freshmen!! Some of us have no college, some haven't been to school in 30 years. Others have college and teaching/church experience, but that doesn't exactly translate back into information of this depth. I feel I have a good grasp of the material, but coherently spitting it back in a testing setting is something else. I will update you tomorrow (not on my grade obviously, but on my impressions).

This test is a big deal in this class. We had a close read of an early church document (I chose Ignaseus and got an A) for 5%, this exam, a second close read (I'm doing Augustine's apology - haven't started yet), and then a final comprehensive exam. I think this exam will be a 'take home' and we'll have three days to complete it.