I haven’t done one of these for awhile.
I’m thankful today for:
Teampyro. They sent alot of people and good conversation my way this week. It was cheering and I am thankful for the chance to enter into conversation- I hope Dan doesn’t hate me for the fact that I differ so strongly with him. While I [...]
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the evangelical outpost: Anthropos and Enemy:A Christian Perspective on “Humanizing” Terrorists
Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles In Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, found that dehumanizing the enemy during the Vietnam war caused psychological damage to American troops:
Restoring honor to the enemy is an essential step in recovery from [...]
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Actually this is just a thought coming up as I respond to questions in the comments of the Prayer post.
We sort of lump things under the general category of prayer, maybe because prayer is involved, but in speaking about the authority of Jesus Name… which is used when we pray… there are also the [...]
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That is because I worked on one for over an hour… my husband came in the room, I saved it – and it got lost. LOST!
Don’t you hate when that happens? I have no more heart or time to rework something now. You get- nothin’.
oh wait- I did post something htis morning. I just [...]
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Reformed Chicks Blabbing links to an article by Victor Hanson,’Islamic Fascism 101 On all they’ve done to earn the name’, or as Michele says:
“Yes, we can call them Islamic Fascists”, and has numerous items on Bill Clinton’s latest foofahs. The man has no shame. really.
People are talking about the Muslims today ( still, again, [...]
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I followed the link to Ricks place and while there this interesting post of his caught my attention… and so I’m wondering … anyone know what gracelets are? It’s something I believed, but didn’t have such a catchy name for. Quite a good discussion on gifts.
I go to the Vineyard Fellowship now, but I [...]
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I thought digging up quotes from theologians and thinkers of earlier times would be of interest. Here they are:
Isaac’s prayer is described as a sichah, literally, a conversation or dialogue. There are two parties to a dialogue – one who speaks and one who listens, and having listened, responds. Isaac represents the religious experience as [...]
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There is a double entendre in that title. It is both something of a definition and the intent of this post. One complaint I have often had as a Christian is the amount of time spent talking about and teaching upon prayer versus that of actually practicing it. I think there would be less misconception [...]
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I will be writing some posts on prayer, and this is timely as today starts the first day of the Jewish Holy Season known as Rosh Hashanah-The Feast Of Trumpets:
September 23* – October 2, 2006
1 Tishri – 10 Tishri 5766
*begins sundown September 22
(Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown September 22,
Yom Kippur begins at sundown October 1)
Daily [...]
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