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Thursday, October 9th, 2008In chapter 10 William Young dives into deep waters.
Actually, most of the chapter literally takes place as Jesus and Mack walk on top of water, but the discussion goes into deeper places. Jesus and Mack are again talking about relationships. The focus this time is on the “s” word- submission.
Bailout Question of the Week
Monday, October 6th, 2008Was the historic 700 Billion dollar bailout bill a good plan?
If you’re not up to speed on the bailout, please read:
Obama & McCain’s views
Quotes from Congressional leaders
How the voting went down, from ‘No’ to ‘Yes’
Should we have been able to predict this crisis? Could we have stopped it? Read this prophetic piece from 1999 via [...]
Saturday Thoughts on Politicians
Saturday, October 4th, 2008As I was looking through some devotional material the other day I ran across this entry in the Augsburg Confession, “On the other hand, other necessary good works were considered secular and unspiritual: the works which everybody is obliged to do according ot his calling- for example . . . . that a prince and magistrates should [...]
Saturday Thoughts on Servant Leadership/Spiritual Retreat
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I wanted to include one last post on the Spiritual Retreat which also seemed to be a good topic for my Saturday Thoughts. It revolves around a question Pastor Otte posed to the group during our last session together, and I think it’s one that can help you frame your daily walk and the decisions [...]
Exploring, “The Shack”-7- God On the Dock, Jesus and Relationship
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Go ahead, take a big breath. That’s what this chapter is in the book. It’s a chance to take a breath. Going from gut twisting narrative, to mystery, to heady conversation with God, this chapter is a bit of a break. There’s plenty to say, but the pace slows down a bit.
One of the intriguing [...]
Spiritual Retreat- Personality Type and Spiritual Preferences
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Have you ever taken a test to determine your personality type? A lot of people have taken these tests, with one of the most common being the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (click this to link to the test). During the spiritual retreat and in Mulholland’s book, one of the pieces I found most interesting was his [...]
Spiritual Retreat- Being Conformed
Monday, September 15th, 2008This is the second in a series of posts coming out of Men’s Spiritual Retreat held last weekend.
Being conformed to the image of Christ is a process. It’s a journey (p.12). That’s the challenge of M. Robert Mulholland in his book, Invitation to a Journey. Part of this statement is especially hard for men. Being conformed [...]
Saturday Thoughts on Faith and Sight
Saturday, September 13th, 2008A quick post this morning as I’m on my way to the Men’s Spiritual Retreat. It spurred my thinking last night and I’ll be throwing in some bonus posts this week related to the various topics we’ve been hitting- things like pesonality type and how that affects our spirituality, what it is to walk together [...]
Friday Shocking Video
Friday, September 12th, 2008Wow. W…O…W.
I don’t know what to say. You’ve got to see it.
You’ll never be the same again.
From Phil Cooke – send him the hate mail…
Saturday Thoughts on Community
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Today I was able to talk a little about community with our elders. This was especially appropriate as Messiah is starting a series on community, one many of you have probably heard of, “40 Days of Community”.
My focus this morning was on Psalm 133, one of the psalms of ascent and the idea of every [...]
