If this doesn’t make you believe in divine providence, then I can’t help you. ;-)
Have a great weekend.
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Archive for April, 2007
I’ve found myself in the middle of a now 2-day long debate over at Nathan Rice’s blog. Nathan posted an interview from The O’Reilly Factor and asked for opinions. Read the comments there to see the debate I got myself into. As of this morning, it’s still going.
This is challenging me in a new way. I’m having to give an account for my Faith without using theology, scripture or Christianese. It’s really sharpening my thinking in a good way. I’m dissapointed a little that I’m not winning the argument more definitively, but I think I’m doing OK…
Things have spilled over some to another post today. Read the comments HERE.
So, what I want to do is ask the question here and perhaps we can all sharpen each other in the same way.
What do you believe? Do you believe in God? Why? What evidence do you have?
Tell us in the comments, but there are some ground rules:
- No Christianese
- No Scripture quoting
- No cop outs like “I just believe”
- No shouting.
Look out for me playing Devil’s Advocate… ;-)
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I’ve had several people I know look at me like I’m a green Martian when I tell them they should get my blog by RSS Feed. “Huh? What’s that?” they say. Allow me to explain briefly.
RSS is an acronym that stands for “Real Simple Syndication”. An RSS feed is basically just a small .xml page that contains a list of articles and other content from the website. It usually will contain headings, post dates, images, etc as well. This page can be read by an RSS Reader. Whenever the site is updated, the RSS Feed is updated as well. You can collect feeds from all your favorite sites in your reader. Then you have all your favorite web content right there in one place. You know when your favorite sites have been updated, and often you don’t even have to visit the site at all! It’s your Favorites/Bookmarks on steroids.
I don’t have an RSS Reader.
Yes you do. You just don’t know it. There are TONS of them on the web.
Guys… we can be so thick headed!
Have a great weekend.
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I left that meeting bewildered. It felt like I had just walked through a hurricane. By the time I got home that afternoon I was determined to remedy the situation. I would do whatever I had to do to show this woman that I was “better than that”. I knew that if I did what she asked, that she would change her opinion.
Mrs. Remington gave me a list of things she wanted changed. They were very specific. It was things like, “Write the date on the chalkboard.” and “Have the students say “here” when taking roll instead of you looking”.
Fair enough, I thought. I can always do better, and if I do these things she’ll back off.
The next day I came to school prepared like never before. Every single item on her long list was done and ready. I dare say I was the most prepared and focussed teacher in the building that day.
I’m always eager to share good web content when I find it. Mark Batterson, pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC, runs a blog called Evotional.com. It’s quite good. Thanks to Nathan Rice for pointing the way to this one.
He recently wrote a piece called “Decoding Culture” that really rings true to me. I’ve written on this topic here before, and it’s something that I am thinking about a lot these days. Here’s a sample:
As I see it, the church has four options when it comes to engaging culture: 1) ignore it, 2) imitate it, 3) condemn it, or 4) create it. And each option leads in polar opposite directions.
We can ignore culture, but the byproduct of ignorance is irrelevance. The more we ignore culture the more irrelevant we’ll become. And if the church ignores the culture, the culture will ignore the church.
We can imitate culture, but imitation is a form of suicide. Originality is sacrificed on the altar of cultural conformity. If we don’t shape the culture, the culture will shape us.
We can condemn culture, but condemnation is a cop out. Let me just call it what it is: condemnation is spiritual laziness. We’ve got to stop pointing the finger and start offering better alternatives. If the church condemns the culture, the culture will condemn the church.
Those three options will lead the church down a dead-end road to irrelevance, but there is another option–the only option if we’re serious about fulfilling the Great Commission and incarnating the gospel. We can compete for culture by creating culture.
I’m sorry, but that just gets me fired up! Go read the entire article. What do you think?
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Like most college Freshmen, when I went to college I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up. I floundered around a bit, and finally decided that I enjoyed my English classes the most. I loved writing and literature. When you are an English major you really have only two career paths to take: become a writer or become an educator. I wasn’t dedicated enough to be a writer and I wasn’t willing to spend many years of my life waiting tables hoping to get published. That left me with the educator route. I have some natural ability with verbal communication so I decided to become a High School English teacher. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
WHAT WAS I THINKING!?
