I had a conversation with a good friend of mine... BRIAN
Who said I should write more often. I agree. I always begin, then fade away.
SO TODAY
I BEGIN
AGAIN!
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
...BEEN AWHILE...
I haven't had time to blog for a while, but I am going to do my best to pick this back up, dust it off, and begin again...
Fall down six, Get up seven.
Right?
Fall down six, Get up seven.
Right?
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Great Stuff From Evotional.com
Since I found Mark Batterson’s Blog a couple weeks ago, I have really enjoyed it, Today, I was knocked on my butt by several things he had written in his evotional! Great stuff! I feel like part of NCC long distance!
The section on Reproduced Illusions really got me. Here are a few quotes:
our perception of ourselves is based on others perception of us. To a large extent, we become who other people think we are. Psychologists call it "the looking-glass self."We live up or live down to the expectations of others!Romans 12:2 says, "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world."In other words, don't live down to the world's standards. Live up to God's standard.There never has been and never will be anyone like you. That isn't a testament to you. It's a testament to the God who created you. You are absolutely unique. That is the way God designed you.All of us start out as one-of-a-kind originals but too often we end up carbon copies of someone else. We try to be like someone else instead of trying to be the person God has created us to be. We settle for conformity instead of originality.
Let me try to say it as concisely as I can: if you base your identity on the opinions of other people you're worshiping their opinions.God's opinion is the only opinion that counts!Conformity is living down. Worship is living up.Here's the bottom line: you become what you worship. If you don't like who you're becoming you're worshipping the wrong things! Identity problems are worship problems. Start worshipping God and you'll become the person God created you to be.
Romans 12:2 says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." You can't always change your circumstances, but you can always change your mind. Studies have shown that, at any moment, eight million bits of information are streaming into your brain. You've got to determine what you pay attention to.The Message translation of Romans 12:2 says, "Fix your attention on God." That's what worship is. You stop focusing on what's wrong with you and you start focusing on what's right with God.
The section on Reproduced Illusions really got me. Here are a few quotes:
our perception of ourselves is based on others perception of us. To a large extent, we become who other people think we are. Psychologists call it "the looking-glass self."We live up or live down to the expectations of others!Romans 12:2 says, "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world."In other words, don't live down to the world's standards. Live up to God's standard.There never has been and never will be anyone like you. That isn't a testament to you. It's a testament to the God who created you. You are absolutely unique. That is the way God designed you.All of us start out as one-of-a-kind originals but too often we end up carbon copies of someone else. We try to be like someone else instead of trying to be the person God has created us to be. We settle for conformity instead of originality.
Let me try to say it as concisely as I can: if you base your identity on the opinions of other people you're worshiping their opinions.God's opinion is the only opinion that counts!Conformity is living down. Worship is living up.Here's the bottom line: you become what you worship. If you don't like who you're becoming you're worshipping the wrong things! Identity problems are worship problems. Start worshipping God and you'll become the person God created you to be.
Romans 12:2 says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." You can't always change your circumstances, but you can always change your mind. Studies have shown that, at any moment, eight million bits of information are streaming into your brain. You've got to determine what you pay attention to.The Message translation of Romans 12:2 says, "Fix your attention on God." That's what worship is. You stop focusing on what's wrong with you and you start focusing on what's right with God.
Busy Busy - Slow to post
Its been a crazy week round here, so not much posting been going on.
We had to finish a last minute video project last week that meant 24 hours split over two days (and nights – til 4 am).
Lots of thoughts and things going on in the mind, that would have been great blogs, but not able to get to the ‘puter!
Notice the new Blog look. Still deciding if I like it or not.
We had to finish a last minute video project last week that meant 24 hours split over two days (and nights – til 4 am).
Lots of thoughts and things going on in the mind, that would have been great blogs, but not able to get to the ‘puter!
Notice the new Blog look. Still deciding if I like it or not.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
great post from awhile back
saw this on www.Churchmarketingsucks.com
False Advertising
"The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. ... That's one reason why the statistics on Christians generally don't differ from the statistics on non-Christians. We're not living a different life." -Dallas Willard (RelevantMagazine.com)
Christians are walking billboards for the church, and too often it's a case of false advertising. Church marketing sucks, but so do we. We're a sinful and broken people, but half the time we can't admit it. We put on an air of perfection, forgetting that in our brokenness we are complete. The church is for the broken, not the perfect.
Yet rather than accept our imperfection and live lives transformed by grace, we pretend to be perfect and wallow in our sin.
good point, and so true.
False Advertising
"The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. ... That's one reason why the statistics on Christians generally don't differ from the statistics on non-Christians. We're not living a different life." -Dallas Willard (RelevantMagazine.com)
Christians are walking billboards for the church, and too often it's a case of false advertising. Church marketing sucks, but so do we. We're a sinful and broken people, but half the time we can't admit it. We put on an air of perfection, forgetting that in our brokenness we are complete. The church is for the broken, not the perfect.
Yet rather than accept our imperfection and live lives transformed by grace, we pretend to be perfect and wallow in our sin.
good point, and so true.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Haven't been posting in a while
So here is the first post in a while.
Yay.
Late night - preparing for the Youth tomorrow night...talking about acceptance and rejection - and how we tend to lean towards always going for people who automatically accept us as our friends...instead of takinga front seat and being a person who is accepting, not rejecting, and being involved with our choices in life...hmmm. Its is you go too far one way or the other, the two sides could contradict each other. One side - paying no attention - lean toward acceptance - you get what you get - side two - be picky - and selective - so you have to play the middle...selective with who is in your inner circle, yet accepting and not rejecting, so people want to be around you in the first place.
Yay.
Late night - preparing for the Youth tomorrow night...talking about acceptance and rejection - and how we tend to lean towards always going for people who automatically accept us as our friends...instead of takinga front seat and being a person who is accepting, not rejecting, and being involved with our choices in life...hmmm. Its is you go too far one way or the other, the two sides could contradict each other. One side - paying no attention - lean toward acceptance - you get what you get - side two - be picky - and selective - so you have to play the middle...selective with who is in your inner circle, yet accepting and not rejecting, so people want to be around you in the first place.
Friday, May 13, 2005
OOPS
I kinda blew up the other blog template and had to start over - it was messed up beyond what I could figure out. Thats always fun - getting in over your head!!!
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
1st post on the blog
today I stumbled upon tons of bogs in the ole blogosphere, and decided to take a stab into the future! Well here we go...
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