Welcome to Joel's Home Page

After 11 years online here, computer department and engineering alumni will no longer receive free web space on http://kepler.covenant.edu. I'm thankful for the time I've had access to kepler, and will miss my online home as an alumni. Now, off to find some new online real estate.

At the heart of mature masculinity is
a sense of benevolent responsibility
to lead, provide for and protect women
in ways appropriate to a man's differing relationships.

At the heart of mature femininity is a freeing disposition
to affirm, receive and nurture
strength and leadership from worthy men
in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.

-- John Piper

Some might wonder why a person would bother putting time and effort into a web site, considering the plethora of sites already in place. This site is (I admit) far from being complete, and hopefully by the time I'm finished it will convey truth; truth about who man is in relation to himself and in relation to the world; truth about how finite limited people can have any certainty about their knowledge, and truth about the only real and solid basis for morality and ethics.

I believe that the God of the Bible is the answer to life's problems. Our existence (Genesis 1:26,27), our knowledge (Colossians 2:3), and our ethics (I Peter 1:15) only find a firm foundation in the person of the biblical God. Click here if you want to learn about how you can meet the infinite-personal living God.

Soon I will have more written to further explain the claims I have made. However, Christians have a real and unshakeable hope, a certainty in life because of the promises of God in Scripture. The following passage, 1 Peter 1:3-9, is one of my favorites because of how it shows in the second paragraph that even in the midst of real trials we may rejoice as Christians, because we rejoice in the hope of our salvation which depends not on our imperfect and feeble works, but upon the glorious, completed, and perfect work of our Savior.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.