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Entries from September 30th, 2004

All The Day Long

September 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Computer

I have been updating my computer. Blah… and double blah.

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Ruminations

September 29th, 2004 · Comments Off · Cogitations, Who Knows

September. It is a strange endpoint and startpoint…. much more natural for most people than January. It follows a seasonal line and so many things seem to happen in September…. but maybe that is just my perception.
Probably from having weathered the news of the hurricanes, and today, the news of the earthquake in California; Mt. [...]

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Surrealism Lives

September 24th, 2004 · Comments Off · Who Knows

Time and Life and People are only glossy magazines: Cats in bikinis
This is from an author of a couple of blogs I visited today. I found lots of things funny…. was it my mood? Was it the surrealistic tone of the posts? Value added photo comments.

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Found a Good Blog

September 24th, 2004 · Comments Off · Conviviality

notes from the front lines: Prayer, Calvinism and the House Church in Acts 12 …. is this the Theophilus from before, or a new one?
It is a good read, I think. I realize I have been top heavy on religious subjects. My true core has outed

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Simple.Simplify.Simplicity.

September 21st, 2004 · Comments Off · Christian, Cogitations, Commentary

We just don’t take God seriously. We think we can get away with what we have been doing.

But, friends, I have news for you…. we are not getting away with it. The consequences are catching up with us, and desparately grasping around for new variations of the models is not working… faster than we can now produce them.

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September Transition, Shalom Shabbat

September 10th, 2004 · 1 Comment · Christian

I mentioned in the last post or so that I plan on a short sabbatical. I am taking it this week. The inspiration for this comes from a Christian Newsletter bulletin that I read. This is the gist of it:
The Lord began to speak to me and gave me two promises to pray for His [...]

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Reacting to the Unthinkable

September 9th, 2004 · Comments Off · Commentary

I read Living Room’s opining on why we have more reaction to the Beslan atrocity than to the longstanding one in Sudan.
Interesting thoughts. I have a few suspicions on some of this. I think we become inurred and accepting of the initially unthinkable when we sit -long enough- in unresponsiveness.
When something no longer activates our [...]

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The Cult of Death? More to think about

September 8th, 2004 · 1 Comment · Controversy

The Wilderness : The Joy of Sadism and Suicide

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Something to Think About… a bit

September 8th, 2004 · Comments Off · Christian

michaelspencer.us: A Contrarian Manifesto for the Church Growth Debate
This post needs to be ‘thunk about’ some. I read it and I thought ” I hear you, Bro “, but I haven’t digested it yet…. so no regurgitations yet.
Hope you aren’t eating when you read this
I will look over what the man [...]

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Timely Subject

September 8th, 2004 · Comments Off · Christian, Contemporaries

CoffeeSwirls has a thoughtful piece on …. Peace.

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