Archive for May, 2005
Oracle Ministries presents Savant
Monday, May 23rd, 2005Oracle Ministries here in Nashville is putting on the second production of Savant this weekend (and next weekend, too) — highly recommended by myself and most others I know, this is possibly some of the best stage drama/theatre you'll see, and with a positive spiritual message to boot! The first time Savant was produced, it […]
REVIEW - The Last Word and the Word after That
Friday, May 20th, 2005This book gives me an interesting predicament for a review. Let me explain. The best words of explanation are given in a quote attributed to Walter Breuggemann - “We should take the same care in teaching theology that we do in teaching sex education. First, never teach the student more than they are ready to handle. […]
Kingdom Leadership in the Postmodern Era
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005I just read a very interesting article on the new/coming/here nature of leadership. This has some roots in the emergent church movement, but it seems much better grounded than many things I've read. I think anyone who has read what Jesus actually says would question a CEO-Pastor model for the church, as does this article. […]
Personality/Worldview Tests
Monday, May 16th, 2005Ok, you guys are gonna love these! I took a couple on-line tests just for fun. Please feel free to post in the comments what you score on either test - should be interesting!!
The first was a Personality Disorder test. Apparently I'm “Schizotypal.” wow!
Disorder
Rating
Paranoid:
Low
Schizoid:
Low
Schizotypal:
High
Antisocial:
Low
Borderline:
Low
Histrionic:
Moderate
Narcissistic:
Moderate
Avoidant:
Low
Dependent:
Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:
Low
– Personality Disorder Test –– Personality Disorder Information –
The second test I took […]
CS Lewis on Unanswered Questions
Friday, May 13th, 2005Lewis in the following explains that perhaps there are questions that we don't have, or may never even, have the answers to, and that maybe perhaps that isn't the point.
There are questions at issue between Christians to which I do not think we have been told the answer. There are some to which I may […]
ONE Campaign
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005I ran across this site recently. Basically, what they advocate is that if the governments of the first-world countries would increase their financial aid, forgive debt, and remove unfair trade restrictions toward third world countries, world poverty and hunger could be eliminated. Their US site is here, but there are also many other branches, such […]
"Trust" Language
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005I've been thinking this morning. It's dangerous. But don't worry about me. I think we've gotten confused about belief. Belief, it seems to me, has gone the way of those words used so often that they come to mean something practically that the word wasn't originally intended to mean. Belief seems to have less to do […]
REVIEW - The Story We Find Ourselves In
Thursday, May 5th, 2005This book is good. Very much different feeling than the first book, A New Kind Of Christian. It is much more understated. In this way, it's sneaky, especially if you read the first book and decided to read the second. See, the first one was a bit more harsh, and so you got used to […]
John Piper on Being Single
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005Recently I lent a friend a copy of this paper by John Piper, called For Single Men and Women (And the Rest of Us). My friend lost the copy, and so I had to hunt it down myself. It's from his book, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.Here's a link to the paper:
For Single Men and […]