Quite a day yesterday. My oldest daughter calls and tells me she's getting married. I was left speechless - an unusual occurrence for me. I had no idea this was coming. I've never met her fiance, so won't know how to react until I meet him.

I finally was able to download the Shepherd's conference message from MacArthur that's been causing all the controversy. I'll listen before commenting, but he's made harsh comments in the recent past about those that hold a view different than his eschatological position. It's really quite interesting. I'm not certain which view I hold, I'm not sure which is right, but I'm quite certain dispensational premillenialism is wrong....which is the view Mac holds. I was a dispensationalist until about 1997, but as I learned the Scriptures in greater depth, I came to the conclusion this system isn't Scriptural. There are so many problems with dispensationalism, it amazes me Godly, educated people can hold this viewpoint. Ironically, I abandoned the system while I was attending Grace University - which is a dispensational Bible College. I could no longer stomach the idea that God has two separate redemptive plans for Israel and the Church, that the church is a "parenthesis" in God's plan, that the sacrificial system is going to be reinstituted during the millennial reign of Christ in clear violation of Scripture, that there will be a "secret rapture" when 1 Thess 4:13-18 is extremely noisy, the exegetical surgery performed on Matt 24, etc., etc. Hope his comments are more irenic than I've been led to believe. I'll let you know.