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The church has a colon.

Posted by on 23 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: churches on the ball., thoughts on god., thoughts on life., Uncategorized

So i’ve been reading a great book by Mark Driscoll, Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church.

Mark is really cool, and i want to be like Mark, except that i don’t cuss, and don’t particularly want to start. But anyway, he says this in his book:

Over the years, I’ve just accepted that if I do not quickly open the back door when God is trying to run people out of our church, I am working against God by keeping sick people in my church so that they can infect others. Indeed, the church is a body, and one of the most important parts is the colon. Like the human body, any church body without a colon is destined for sickness that leads to death.

What do you think about that statement? Do you agree or disagree?

your favorite blogs

Posted by on 23 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: random., Uncategorized

I have recently added a new feature to the sidebar of my blog, listing the most popular posts.

It uses a complex (or if you understand it, simple) mathematical function to decide the popularity of posts. Right now it is changing a lot because it is just starting to gathering data. i expect it in another week or so to settle down and quit shifting around so much.

But that led me to be curious…what is your single favorite blog to read?

Just one, not loads of them, and not your complete blogroll. Just one.

Oh yeah, and i know nathandiehl.com is your favorite, so it is eliminated…what, other than nathandiehl.com is your favorite?

what is a troll?

Posted by on 22 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: random., Tech Stuff., Uncategorized

I have received this question on several occasions, so i figured i would address it. The question is:

What is a troll?

In case you hadn’t noticed or read via RSS, i used the term in my disclaimer at the bottom of my sidebar. Part of the disclaimer reads: : “Do not hijack nor troll. Your comments will be edited or deleted without warning. I have no patience for a troll. NONE.”

Wikipedia defines a troll as: “a troll is a person who enters an established community..and intentionally tries to cause disruption, often in the form of posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, absurd, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others.”

After serving as a moderator at the Joomla! forums, i became very aware of trolls and trollish behavior, and developed a deep disgust for it.

If you’re familiar with fairy tale trolls (think: Three Billy Goats Gruff ), these Internet trolls aren’t much different…both are ugly and mischievous, looking to cause disturbance.

Anyway, just thought I’d address that. I’m not accusing you of being a troll, or presently having any trolls around. But i won’t have any trolls around. i’ll shut off comments before i allow a troll to have a voice on my site…

Thank you for reading about trolls. Now, don’t become one!
(sorry for the angry undertones…i’m really not an angry person, i promise! But, Trolls suck!)

the legend is back.

Posted by on 10 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

dude. Terry Storch, a legend in Church blogging circles, is blogging again. sweet!

renovation is cheap.

Posted by on 06 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: my life., thoughts on god., thoughts on life., Uncategorized

My wife Emily and i are in the very beginning stages of kitchen renovation. we had toyed with the idea for some time, but only recently actually checked the prices of things.
renovation is cheap.
we have purchased a dishwasher (we currently do it all by hand–yuck!). we purchased a demo model, meaning, it was the one people have looked at over and over again. but it is in great shape. we got it for almost half price, so that is cool, especially when you’re a cheapskate like myself.
we are going to add an additional 42″ base cabinets and 42″ wall cabinets. we thought doing something like that would cost us like $1500 just for the cabinets, but we can buy all those cabinets for way cheaper, so we are really excited.
renovation is cheap–it’s the labor that is so expensive! it will take me weeks and weeks of work to get our renovation project accomplished. i could pay someone and they could have it done in a day or two, i think.

the materials are cheap. the knowledge is what is so darn expensive. the knowledge is expensive because not everyone has it. it takes hard work to get such knowledge.

i think our spiritual lives are much the same. the ‘material’ is there and accessible to us all. but practicing a proper spiritual life is something that is hard to get. it takes work. hard work.

the renovation is cheap. it’s the installation that has me worried.

Near-death experience

Posted by on 06 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: my life., Uncategorized

Last weekend my parents went to visit my sister and her family in Nashville, Tenn., and on the way back they had a very interesting experience.
Read about it at the recently-revived blog of my dad.

123 Party

Posted by on 01 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: my life., Uncategorized

123 Partyso i found my new favorite group. 123 Party is really cool.

Check out the videos for some truly fantastic dancing.

One of the guys (No. 3, Fury), has an uncanny resemblance to my friend Jordan. The funny thing is, I can see Jordan doing this…right alongside of me!

If anyone is interested in doing something like this sometime, let me know, and we’ll have to arrange something. I would find this very fun.

13 years from now

Posted by on 28 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: thoughts on life., Uncategorized

I was just working with an image of a cross from one of our collections. The original designer put 10 rays out from the crossing up the upright and crossbeam. The rays were rainbow color. it was pretty gross–no thanks!

So i spent some time removing the rainbow rays. While i was removing them, my brother stopped by and asked what i was doing. i showed him the before and after, and then he asked, ‘who would ever do something like that?’
‘well, this is like 10 years old i responded. it was probably pretty cool back then.’
then i looked, and it is actually 13 years old.

So i wondered, what will people say 13 years from now about the things we’re doing?

i finally figured it out: ‘Who would ever do something like that?’

Cool Site Stats

Posted by on 26 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: random., Uncategorized

This little Site, dnScoop, tells you a bunch of cool info about a given url.
I was happy to find out i was Google PageRank4 (the higher the better), there are nearly 10,000 incoming links, and the value of my blog is like $4,000.

It’s not exactly the most accurate, but it’s pretty cool to see the stats there. Check it out:
dnScoop.com

A doctrine of Hair.

Posted by on 23 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: thoughts on god., Uncategorized

I couldn’t believe my ears.

I sat listening, trying to figure out if this was a joke. it was not.

a few select quotes:
“it’s not so much the length of the hair, but the direction. location and direction–that’s the concept you’ve got to master.”
“as long as that hair above your ears is pointed horizontal, and goes over the ear in a horizontal direction…that’s spiritual. … if that same hair…touches the collar, you’ve ruined your fellowship with God.”
“you see, it’s the location and direction that is really important. how do we know this? Because Fundamentalist preachers wear their hair that way.”
“Bless God, we know it’s right because that’s the way we fundamentalists do it.”
“It doesn’t make any difference about history, my friend, if it doesn’t match our theology, let’s rewrite history.”

Check out this link at MMI, and listen to this brief sermon, i mean, evangelist, i mean, rant.

interesting epiphany.

Posted by on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: my life., thoughts on god., Uncategorized

this past weekend, my dad shared a message using the text Luke 8:26-35, when Jesus heals the demoniac Legion.

As Jesus is talking to the demoniac,

The demons implored Him to permit them them to enter the swine. And He gave them permission. (Luke 8:32)

Then it hit me–if Jesus was willing to grant the reasonable request of a legion of demons, how much more willing would he be willing to grant the request of people like me?

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