November 2010
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October 2010
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I knew I shouldn't have listened to Christian...
I was in the Orlando area last week for some work and had a rental car….going through the stations and I stopped on a station mid-song and i knew….it was the local Christian radio station.
The song they were playing was followed with one of those sentinmental grunts as they introduced the couple the song was about.
Get ready for this……
This couple, tragically, had a...
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Baking Cakes & getting $#!^ done at work!
Ever bake a cake? Ever bake a cake with people?
Certain projects are like baking cakes.
The more people the more complicated it gets. When baking a cake with people you have to learn, organize, communicate, organize, communicate, then do. And most likely repeat some parts of that process.
Some things in business are more like cakes than they are like these ‘scalable systems’...
What now? another christian or leadership...
another conference? another awakening? another emotional moment? another pep rally for Jesus or leadership meeting? really. is that what you need? is that what I need?
no.
i feel a tension living in Atlanta and half the christians I know are addicted to these conferences and some build their lively hood around them. the tension increases because i like the people that work for these...
“Would it be honest to believe what you thought to be false?
Would you rather...”
– Peter Kreeft as CS Lewis in ‘Between Heaven & Hell’
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A CW Lewis-ism
I was just enlightened that the whole Narnia series is not meant to be an allegory…but a ‘what if’ story, a thought experiment. What if Christ came as a lion to a made up land, Narnia, and how would that story go down. Thanks Peter Kreeft for giving me some sense where I lacked. As Kreeft states: “the Narnia series is an imaginative supposition.” A great way to put...
“Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad...”
– Henry David Thoreau -brought to mind by Peter Kreeft
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Term of the day: Vincible Ignorance
I was exposed to this term through a recent read of Peter Kreeft. He introduces the term to bring out an aspect of our faith (be it theism, pantheism, atheism, etc) that is willfully ignorant. The exact, shortened definition reads:
a moral or doctrinal matter that could have been removed by diligence reasonable to the circumstances
or easier stated: the intentional refusal to understand or...
September 2010
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August 2010
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What is reformed theology?
Great question. Here is a great post from Ray Ortlund discussing what it means to be truly reformed. Link Here—>
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The Perils of Introspection: Some things learned...
Those close to me over the last couple of months have known it has been a season, though brief, of struggle. Where faith basics seemed beyond my comprehension and I could not conjure up what I would call ‘right desires’. I have read and listened to a few things over the last 30 days that have been a great help and I would strongly recommend looking into them. (noted below).
One of...
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Concert Review: Arcade Fire
I have seen Arcade Fire twice now, once at the Variety Playhouse and once at the Verzon Wireless Theater in Alpharetta. Both times have been good…but one time the experience was great.
The difference between the two experiences was clearly, to me, the venue. Some bands are ‘big arena bands’, some are not….Arcade Fire is not a big arena band, thats what I came away with.
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July 2010
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My current heart condition & Why I am saying...
Things. Toys. Technology. And so our hearts and our affections are formed by these things. They compress the void in our heart into shapes like toys. The result is that we are easily moved and excited by things - computers, cars, appliances, entertainment media. They seem to the fit the shapes in our hearts. They feel good in the tiny spaces they have made. But in this readiness to receive...
June 2010
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It is the cult of self that is killing the United...
We have a right, in the cult of the self, to get whatever we desire. We can do anything, even belittle and destroy those around us, including our friends, to make money, to be happy and to become famous. Once fame and wealth are achieved, they become their own justification, their own morality. How one gets there is irrelevant. It is this perverted ethic that gave us investment houses like...
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Non-Idiot Christian's in the media
it can happen….Christian’s actually giving well informed answers in the media.
watch it here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/face-american-evangelicalism-10744135
May 2010
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cashier: 'How are you?' reply: 'Shitty' :: Perils...
A friend and I met yesterday to discuss life, longings, and present sufferings - it has become a weekly gift of grace given to me only in the last few months. As we talked he recounted an interaction he had with a cashier who asked the normal - ‘how are you?’.
My friend happens to be going through a season of investigation & suffering, so in a flash he responded honestly.
Friend:...
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Emotional Porn :: What say you?
I have been having this discussion for a # of years with the female friends in my life who persist, insist, and other ‘ists’ that what they engage in, throw gatherings for, and discuss over many a dinner is equally as damaging as me reading & watching porn. While I can see the extremism in my statements and don’t think it’s directly black/white….I do think...
Blessed are the fat, the bald, and the old
As many who read this blog know I have a strong sentiment for a book called ‘The Divine Conspiracy’ by Dallas Willard. It is the book that if stranded on an island and couldn’t take the Bible I would take it (freakin sunday school statement I know).
Reading it sends shockwaves through my soul as I grapple with the truth it brings to the forefront. In my habits I find outright...
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April 2010
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Jesus + Darwin = Truth?
Could it be? It just may.
I just got done reading ‘The Language of God’ that goes into detail regarding the harmony between Science & Faith. Am I an evolutionist now?…..maybe. The term he puts forth to explain the perspective is called ‘BioLogos’ (www.biologos.org) and I would strongly suggest that you, no matter if you are an atheist, agnostic, Muslim, or a...
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Facebook kills your soul...slowly but surely
The statement seems extreme….but the more I wander into Social Media the more i am convinced it kills you. As I prepare a presentation applying social media for business use I grow more convinced that the amputations (negatives) outweigh the extensions (positives). (link to understand last terminology more)
I simply think humanity finds a way to create pseudo-significance via mediums...
March 2010
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what brings you peace?
‘peace’ for the individual is often a simple formula:
no conflict + convenience + understanding = ‘peace’
so this ‘peace’ we often think about and assume is circumstantial, not rooted in anything outside of the moment at hand. I am guilty of it. you are guilty of it.
If so, this ‘peace’ shall pass us and we shall forever be chasing.
However
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On the way to coffee....
….I saw a graveyard. I then realized/remembered I will be there at any point between this current moment of consciousness and my last.
This immediately rearranged my day. I am not God, I will die. I must deal with this each and every day.
Who is telling me that I will die one day?
The TV isn’t: The TV tries to convince you that’s what happens to other people. It tells you to...
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Faith{starts - ends}Faith
I was dead spiritually at a certain point in time. I am no longer dead spiritually but I am alive. What this means is that I prefer, have leanings, desire God to be much and Roy to be null (more explained here). I was dead, not injured, not handicapped, not confused….DEAD and I am now alive. What did this to me was an ‘agent’ outside of myself, I did nothing smart, superior,...
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So we can stop being idiots
I am known by a few people for speaking my mind. This allows me to have super close friends while also staying away from half-ass friends. (you know those people in your phone book you don’t ever call and when they call you screen them)
However behind the scenes and a reason I speak my mind is because i am attempting to speak to my own mind. You see, we all settle, fall in traps, lose view...
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what I have learned about men and women
When men do not connect/hang/love other men they:
don’t lead
their aspirations fizzle
they stare at porn
they get fat and watch reality TV with their wife or girlfriend
they never meet expectations, not even our own
When women do not connect/hang/love other women they;
become nags
they crave control, if they lose it they become more of #1
they hate both men and women
their...
February 2010
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Knowledge can't be your core competency in a...
In 1910 you were considered educated if you possessed the total knowledge found in that day’s paper.
Today, 2010 – what’s the apples to apples comparison?
An example. If I asked you if you knew what Sarcomatoid Mesothelioma is – would you know? Most likely not. But if I asked you to find me the answer would you know where to go? Yes. Google. (they have 70% or so world market share) So does that...
January 2010
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Obama to give church talk, stump in Massachusetts... →
Anyone else find it weird that today that he is doing two things I thought a president shouldn’t do….
-Speak in a church ‘to the congregation’
-go campaigning for a fellow democrat
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