tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25946538936720300672012-02-16T07:21:12.023-06:00"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." Douglas AdamsFly-Butter-Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192030062352253084noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2594653893672030067.post-67392300563735327462009-02-14T22:17:00.002-06:002009-02-14T22:21:26.250-06:00

....zoom....madness....insane....but controlled by God....just the same....Praise Him!Maybe I'll think of something to post soon.

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How much love there isn’t in this world is far more amazing than how much love there is.Imagine if all the churches got together and came up with a giant/overshadowing mission statement. “Our goal is to SHOW you LOVE!” Talk about a unifying and Biblical concept.1Corinthians 13: 11-12When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I

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Awesome movie! Granted, it's based on the 80's TV cartoon and comic book, and the concept is entirely preposterous, but that is what makes it great. Unfortunately, that's why some of the more "intellectual" movie critics can't wrap their puny minds around the glory of the dorky insanity that is Transformers. In spite of this, I've still seen it getting "thumbs up" from around 75% of the critics.

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Here's a question: Who among us cannot claim to have at one time or another been “offended”? I’m not trying to imply that there are some out there that very well may hold on to such a claim to fame, but they are definitely rare among the rare.I believe that it would be a fair statement to say that we have been, and are being, programmed to find offense in our day-to-day lives. We are taught that

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The softest grass blades always seem to work their way right up between the big toe and toe number 2, leaving behind the slightest of tickles on top of the foot as you step. What was that?The darkness can creep up on you, stealing away your peace of mind.The dandy lions are swarming the grass tonight, moving alive as they burst out of their dark winter homes seeking to satiate on the call of the

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Talk about an easy habit to get out of....I'm turning my posting brain back on right now. I'm sure something is out there waiting to get posted, and I'll get it posted as soon as I come across it.

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Presuming the preeminence of God and His Word over all, I can’t think of anything better in this world, anything that renews my spirit and soul, more than rain. No matter what it is you are doing, rain changes perspective, and not in some lame intellectual way, but in a base, underlying manner.It is like food for the soul. I think the rain replenishes us as a living part of this planet, just as

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I’ve got to give it up to my church when it comes to VALUE for their Easter Service. Apparently they had over 1000 in attendance with 30 salvations. Clearly, regardless of my personal like/dislike attitude, what the church is putting out there clearly has value when it comes to bringing a clear and concise gospel message to people.30 salvations…although I am struggling with what this means. I

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These thoughts tonight stem from what is to me a serious concern: When it comes to genuinely seeking to serve Christ in a manner consistent with the intent of spreading the gospel message to the 4 corners of the globe, when it comes to working to enlarge the kingdom by seeing people dedicate their lives to Christ, when it comes to seeking to exist in the center of the culture without losing

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Whenever I hear someone on the radio, TV or at church talking about “Their Moment” it always takes me back to trying to figure out “My Moment”. I sort of know when it was, but then again I sometimes find myself unsure.For a year or so, driving back and forth from college I’d listen to Christian Talk Radio, and every day at 12:30, timed perfectly for my drive from class to work, I’d listen to R.C.

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I've definitely been kind of lazy lately. I think I worked out whatever demons were buggin me about that denominationlism stuff. Been feeling much freer lately in that regard. But I just haven't felt much like posting. But I've been having some great thoughts about things I could write about. I found this quote on a fellow bloggers site and really like it, and definitley agree with the truth

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Maybe I haven’t watched enough reality TV shows, but I know I’ve watched all the good ones, and it occurred to me today, for absolutely no reason at all mind you, that I’ve never seen anyone sneeze on reality TV before.I’ve seen or heard reference to every single other possible bodily function and/or noise, but no sneezing.Apparently sneezing is the one thing that is simply too abhorrent, even

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P-U...and is that really a baby walker in the room? Surely there's not a baby in that house...ever.

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You know, for some reason, I really like Arcade Fire. Weird, but the truth.Yeah sure I’m just a 30+ year old who was oblivious to them until he happened to catch them on Saturday Night Live by accident because I was tuning in to watch “Dwight Schrute”. But do I care? Do I feel uncool because they are so modern and current that they were flying under my radar screen? Nah. Should I? Maybe, but I’m

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Mention the word emergent and you will get one of two reactions: blissful ignorance or wary caution. The funny thing though is a person’s awareness and feelings regarding the word itself seem to have absolutely no correlation to a person’s like or dislike for what amounts to an emergently styled worship service in a church. The reason for this is that emergent actually functions on two wholly

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I had a thought today on the way to work. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I’m constantly trying to understand the delicate balance that a church seeks to achieve in the world.On the one hand, the church must be undeniably Christian, and therefore reject the ways of the world. In this sense the corporate church entity’s primary mission as a mechanism in God’s plan would seem to be to oversee,

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This year my wife and I have been reading one of those Through The Bible In A Year books. And being a month and a half into it, we have hit what many consider the most dreaded obstacle of all those seeking to read through the Bible.“So high you can’t get over it; so low you can’t get under it; so wide you can’t get around it.”Leviticus So far, we’ve only been exploring the intricate descriptions

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butter = BAD!!!! :( -butter-g= GOOD!!!! :)

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I’ve been going through this daily origami calendar I received as a Christmas present. It's been a month and a half and every day I do a new little origami project. Some designs are a lot fancier than I'd have expected to be able to do. But the complex designs are no harder than the simple designs. They all boil down to the same ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS: directions, piece of paper, folding,

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You ever think about what you remember? I do. And sometimes I wonder about the things that I don’t remember, and why.I started down this path thinking back to a time before I professed a belief in Jesus, back when I used to actually verbally argue in a public forum against the “logic” of believing in Jesus. I don’t know how important it is for us to remember what it was like for us as people in

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I wanted to post a message I got from my dad commenting on the subject of my prior post. Perspective always helps bring clarity. When we were inducted into Uncle Sam's Army they asked us a couple of questions for basic info that went on our dog tags. They asked and I blurted out Protestant when they asked for religion. The popular choices were protestant Catholic and Jewish, but I was scared and

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What is a Nazarene? What about an Emergent Nazarene? I ask those questions a little tongue in cheek. The obvious and most honest answer is: “a Nazarene is a Christian”. Beyond that however, Nazarene is similar to a country in and of itself within the world of Christendom. And how can one know much about a country until one sets off with the intent to explore that country. Don’t get me wrong. This

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