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Spiritual Musings

That’s Clever

March 24, 2009

A talk from SXSW on the clever things design­ers put in their design to add plea­sure to the expe­ri­ence. I lis­tened to the audio but look for­ward to view­ing the slides since this was a very visual pre­sen­ta­tion. I would like to think more about the ideas pre­sented here. It goes on usabil­ity to adding […]

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Doing the “Right Things”

October 30, 2006

I was reminded of some­thing that I read sev­eral years ago that con­tin­ues to ring in my head and guide my heart. For many peo­ple, sim­pli­fy­ing means noth­ing more than “doing less.” But sim­pli­fy­ing is not so much about doing fewer things as it is about doing the right things. …For even the “ideal” sim­ple spiritual […]

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Hungary is on my mind

September 22, 2006

I took this pic­ture last March while vis­it­ing Budapest, Hun­gary . It is a memo­r­ial to the 1956 rev­o­lu­tion against the Sovi­ets in Hun­gary. This Octo­ber marks the 50th anniver­sary of that failed rev­o­lu­tion. I did a paper on the rev­o­lu­tion when I was in col­lege. I find it ironic that as we approach the […]

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How is Da Vinci Code Changing People’s Religious Views?

May 15, 2006

Barna did research on the book, The Da Vinci Code.  I found sev­eral of the find­ings inter­est­ing: Roughly 45 mil­lion Amer­i­cans have read the book — 1 in every 5 which makes it the most widely read book with a spir­i­tual theme other than the Bible Only 5% said that the book changed any of their […]

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I Want to Make Much of You, Jesus

April 19, 2006

On Mon­day, I started read­ing John Piper’s book, God is the Gospel. My first impres­sions is that it is chal­leng­ing, refresh­ing and I am look­ing for­ward to get­ting more into it. My prayer is that it will cause me to view the gospel with a fresh won­der and be refreshed by the good news. Here is […]

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Group Prayer

February 2, 2006

I had this email in my box that came from GodSquad.com. I have recently been chal­lenged on Group Prayer by some­one who believes that the Mathew6v5-15 pro­hibits one from group prayer, par­tic­u­larly because it was an instruc­tion given to us by Jesus. Here is my response: You need to con­sider the con­text of Matthew 6. Jesus […]

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Barbara Walters to Take a look at heaven

November 30, 2005

Last night, I watched Barbara’s look at her 10 most fas­ci­nat­ing peo­ple of 2005. At the end of the show, she pro­moted her next show which will be about heaven. The tag line is “Where is it? How do we get there?” I will be inter­ested to see if she comes up with an all-inclusive […]

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Simplifying

November 1, 2005

The other night when I was with some friends, a com­mon theme we shared was that we all felt really busy. It reminded me of some­thing I read on sim­plic­ity a cou­ple of years ago. “For many peo­ple, sim­pli­fy­ing means noth­ing more than ‘doing less.’ But sim­pli­fy­ing is not so much about doing fewer things as […]

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God’s Glory

August 26, 2005

I have been think­ing about God’s glory a lot this week. I am read­ing a book, Rev­o­lu­tion Within and I lis­tened to a mes­sage by John Piper on Tues­day. I have read sev­eral of Piper’s book and God’s glory is his biggest theme. I have been think­ing about Piper as I have read this other book. […]

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Revolution Within — Approaches to Spiritual Lives

August 26, 2005

I am cur­rently read­ing Dwight Edward’s book, Rev­o­lu­tion Within. Dwight is a descen­dent of Jonathan Edwards. We did a Bible study this sum­mer in Hun­gary based on this book. This week, I was read­ing in chap­ter 3. He talked about focus­ing on God’s glory as the main moti­va­tion in our lives. It was a very practical […]

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What is the value of knowledge if not combined with faith?

August 15, 2005

Yes­ter­day, my pas­tor preached from Hebrew 4. At one point, he talked about need­ing to act when we hear God’s voice and he went to verse 2 of Hebrews 4: For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it […]

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Humility

August 10, 2005

I fin­ished read­ing a good arti­cle this morn­ing in the lat­est issue of Dis­ci­ple­ship Jour­nal. The arti­cle is enti­tled “Down­ward Mobil­ity” by Gary Thomas. Gary is one of my favorite authors. I always find his thoughts chal­leng­ing and wise. A lot of his writ­ings are influ­enced by the Chris­t­ian clas­sics. In the arti­cle, Gary mentioned […]

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We Get to Talk About Jesus

July 12, 2005

Last week, I watched the Rookie with Anne and my mother-in-law. The movie is about a high school teacher who gets another shot at his dream of pitch­ing in the Major Leagues. But before he can real­ize that dream, he has to play ball in the minor leagues. At one point in the movie, he […]

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