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:: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 ::
My Blog Has Moved!
:: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 ::I've made the decision to move my blog to lifewithchrist.org. You can now read the basicblog there! Don't forget to update your "favorites"! I mean, I am your favorite, right? http://basicblog.lifewithchrist.org/  You are Sir Galahad. Cheery and Go-Lucky you fight for a noble cause.. To keep your virginity, or lack there of. You keep to yourself mostly and stand tall among your friends. You sometimes wish though that your friends would leave you be when temptation is at your feet. Don't they know you deserve just a little bit of Peril? What Monty Python Holy Grail Quest Character are You? brought to you by Quizilla"
"Prophetic flashmobs and other stuff"
:: Thursday, October 30, 2003 ::How cool is that?! Spontaneous public prayer/worship gatherings! I love it!
I haven't had too much time to post to my blog lately... I've been working on migrating my blog over to lifewithchrist.org. The problem is that I don't have much in the "technical skills" department. More than most, but not enough to do decent web design. I mean, I know how to "mod" a basic HTML template, but that's about it! Throw in some tables and the whole thing gets very scary!
:: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 ::Anyway, a really, really nice guy over at lifewithchrist.org sent me his template and stylesheet and I'm busy "modding" it. You should really check lifewithchrist.org out... they have some excellent features! And FREE! In the meantime, I have been reading other people's blogs. That's why it looks like all I've been "blogging" are references to other people's blogs! I came across this and thought it was particularly good: NextReformation.com: "Wednesday, October 29th, 2003 Last Saturday morning I set aside some time to spend with the Lord, and found myself thinking about the distortion of biblical faith and community that was and is most of the western church. Suddenly I found the Lord talking to me about how serious this really was in His eyes... so serious that the dominant metaphor in the Old Testament for the church immersed in culture and a whore. 'Israel running after her lovers' is a common theme in Isaiah, and in many other prophets too. I wasn't in a mood to hear about it, and I found myself staring at the bare facts (no pun intended) and feeling very grieved. So I got busy doing something else.. cleaning junk from the garage. On Monday morning I sat down to read my bible and found the Lord taking me to Ezekiel, ch 20-24. There it was again. I felt the weight of it all in my spirit and found myself in tears, realizing how badly compromised the church has been. This isn't a message that is well received, or a metaphor that is popular or pleasant. And naturally, it is never we who are running after other lovers, we are never the ones who have compromised and compromised and accommodated to our culture until we are not a distinct or Holy people at all. It's always the other guys who have lost the edge. We are the passionate and pure ones... right? Er... right?" OUCH! :: Monday, October 27, 2003 ::
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:: Sunday, October 26, 2003 ::Yesterday's post from Rob McAlpine's blog is as good a place as any to start this morning, I guess... I've been thinking about blogging and what it is that I hope to accomplish (there goes that performance orientation again!) by doing it. Some days I'm happy to just be putting my thoughts "out there" where others can hold me accountable and other times I get pissed off and self-pitying because I think "no one's reading my blog". Boo-f***ing-hoo! I was particularly struck by this: If we're wanting to be in community with people who are open, accepting, patient, and loving, then maybe we need to invite the Holy Spirit to cultivate those same qualities in us. Our communities -- house church or cell group in a larger church -- need to be known for what they are "for", rather than what they're reacting against. These are the kind of groups that are attractive to others who are seeking a "safe place" to belong and mature as followers of Jesus. It may even affect the way we "blog". :) Just this morning, I was watching FoxNews with my wife before she went to work at Regent and we were watching footage of last night's Democratic Presidential Debates, and as I watched the parade of "Bush-bashers", I said something like, "You know, it's pretty pathetic when you're entire platform consists only of pointing out someone else's alleged faults (They're wrong about Bush IMHO) instead of saying what you would do differently," when suddenly I "heard" God say, "You know? That's exactly how I feel when you talk about My Church." I was stopped dead in my tracks. And now I read Rob's post. You think someone's trying to tell me something?! I want to apologize if I have been doing an excessive amount of whining and plain old wallowing in my angst here lately. I have not asked the Holy Spirit to cultivate those qualities of openness, acceptance, patience, and love in me; at least not consistently. ++Holy Spirit, won't you make me for others exactly what I want others to be for me? Please help me to stop whining and responding to others from a place of hurt. I desire to reflect Jesus today.++ |
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