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Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, pg. 76

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:35:16 -0800

“Now anybody can be ‘kind.’ And everybody’s supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn’t help. Now it’s just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class.”

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"religion is the love of tradition in the place of Jesus"

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:23:02 -0800

““religion is the love of tradition in the place of Jesus””

- mark driscoll

Jesus > religion

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:21:26 -0800

awesome time worshiping with @MarsHillUD tonight.. reminder I needed: performance can’t redeem a soul or reconcile us to God. Jesus can.

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counting down the hours...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:26:59 -0800

balmer is the last place i’ve wanted to be the last two hours. metaphoric; regarding this quarter, i will quote JET: “get me outta here!”

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Grace: why do I keep resisting this?

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:19:07 -0800

Grace: why do I keep resisting this?

Frou Frou, The Dumbing Down of Love

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:38:43 -0800

Frou Frou, The Dumbing Down of Love

A New Way to Worship on Campus

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:04:35 -0800

A New Way to Worship on Campus:

Mars Hill Church’s UW services: an act of God or smart marketing?

The Civil Wars, Poison & Wine I just found out about this...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:53:00 -0800

The Civil Wars, Poison & Wine

I just found out about this band/song through an Augustana blog. I don’t even know what I think about it yet, but the music is beautiful.

New experiment to reflect more deeply and worship more boldly....

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:10:00 -0800

New experiment to reflect more deeply and worship more boldly. I’m calling them “Sticky Note Stills” that I want to capture from the ever-moving frames of my life.

Monday Humor from Finance 350

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:12:00 -0800

“So my wife and I went to get our final ultrasound; that was exciting… they have this new 3-D Ultrasound, but they call it 4-D… I know, right? I said, ‘Can I see her when she’s 30?’”
“The stock market follows a random walk with a drift.”
“If you freak out, you get destroyed by the [stock] market, and you’re out of the market.”
“Surprisingly enough, there’s not a huge market for people who know the ins and outs of Sophocles.”

How do YOU glorify God?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:07:00 -0800

I’m looking for your answers and discussion:

I’ve been considering this quarter, how, in busy times, at work, in class, doing homework, etc., I can be intentionally glorifying God. Sufficed to say, I have not arrived at a good answer, but it would be interesting to hear examples of how any one of you might answer the aforementioned question.

It is difficult to get my head around 1 Corinthians 10:31, which says,

“whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

All my posts are commentable, so answer/respond below to the question, “How do you glorify God?”

"we have a terrible tenacity in hanging onto this world, we really do"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:45:00 -0800

“we have a terrible tenacity in hanging onto this world, we really do”

- Matt Chandler

"if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:00 -0800

“if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror”

- V, V for Vendetta

Phil Wickham’s Heaven & Earth

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:54:00 -0800

Phil Wickham’s Heaven & Earth

Amazing 2009 MLS Cup Final

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:03:57 -0800

Amazing 2009 MLS Cup Final

"Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:10:00 -0800

“Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

- Luke 2:34-35

I found this book at Half Price Books, after which I quickly...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:53:33 -0800

I found this book at Half Price Books, after which I quickly learned it is no longer in print. This is the book that preceded his others; in fact, it later became the book that would be redone into Through Painted Deserts.

I figured it wouldn’t take me long, and it’s been a while since I’ve read a book like this. And so I begin Donald Miller’s Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance.

What Have We Done?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:46:00 -0800

Oh my soul! Oh my Jesus
Judas sold you for thirty; I’d have done it for less
Oh my soul! Oh my Savior
Peter denied you three times; I have denied you more

As the nails went in,
I was standing right there
And you breathed your last
I shook my head and I cried,

“Oh my God, what have we done?
We have destroyed your Son!
Oh my God, what have we done?
We have destroyed your Son!”

Oh my soul! Oh my Jesus
Judas sold you for thirty; I’d have done it for less
Oh my soul! Oh my Savior
Peter denied you three times; I have denied you more

And the blood ran down
I was standing right there
And the water poured
I shook my head and I cried,

“Oh my God! What have we done?
We have destroyed your Son!
Oh my God! What have we done?
We have destroyed your Son!”

"There has never been a greater love than your Son, No not one. And there will never be a greater..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:28:41 -0800

“There has never been a greater love than your Son,
No not one.
And there will never be a greater love,
No not one.”

- Brandon Heath, No Not One

man is inherently evil

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:48:51 -0800

Jeremy Simmons: As German poet Franz Wichmeier once wrote, "Snow falls from the heavens pure. We cannot blame the snow for being soiled by the earth."
Jeff Winger: My competitor likened people to pure, falling snow. I would respond, "There is none righteous; no, not one." Now, I realize Mr. Simmons' quote was from the great Franz Wichmeier. Mine was just from a simple, desert handyman.. named Jesus.