Archive for November, 2009

Worship through….collecting garbage?

In many ways being a perfectionist can be a good thing.  Okay, I can’t think of any right now, but I’m still pretty sure I believe that.  One significant way it is problematic is that many things take much longer than they should.  For instance, I’ve already written and deleted three opening paragraphs for this [...]

November 11, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: worship and the church  No Comments

Defining Worship

Over the past ten years or so I’ve been asked many times how I define worship.  And my definition of worship has changed over the years as I have learned more about it.  After reading a rather lengthy series of articles at the worshipmatters.com blog (which I highly recommend), I thought perhaps it would be [...]

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The Year in View

When we started talking about the things that we are looking for in the fall and the year to come, my first thought honestly was, “what could I possibly write about?”  I mean, it’s not like we have a curriculum to announce, or a teacher to introduce or anything like that.  But the reality is [...]

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Make My Day

When I was in high school I liked poetry.  Or at least, I thought I liked poetry.  I think the reality is I wanted to like poetry because to me it seemed like people who read poetry are smart.  It’s like those people who can look at a painting or sculpture and talk seemingly intelligently [...]

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A Little Bit of Light

I lie here staring at the starry night Vincent Van Gogh you really got it right. Your brush strokes paint the darkness in your life Behind every brush stroke I find A little bit of light….. a little light – A Little Bit of Light, Phil Keaggy Have you ever noticed that worship pastors are [...]

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Why is our government so stupid?

House passes Health Care Reform bill “A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later.” Could someone remind that moron that both Social Security and Medicare are now fiscally broke and in desperate need of reform?  I’m sorry, I don’t usually use terms [...]

November 7, 2009   Posted in: If you're not outraged..., politics, what are you drunk?  No Comments

Seriously?

Save my job – give me a raise! Classic example of how politicians can twist just about anything to mean just about anything.  And for some reason, people just take it all in and say, “oh, sure.  That makes sense.”  And yet.  This is asinine.  Absolutely, without reserve, asinine. Let’s just follow the logic here. [...]

November 4, 2009   Posted in: politics, what are you drunk?  No Comments