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Some fun summer reading for you...http://www.larknews.com/july_2007/index.php or...Some quality videos...I know a clown when I see one...do you? http://www.thechurchyouknow.com/video/clothing.html Pete the Praise Pirate: "Guaranteed not to swear (unlike other worship pirates)" http://www.thechurchyouknow.com/store/wallyworship.html | | |
| Christmas time is here... Everyone spread some cheer... Might as well shoot a deer... I only have one good ear... On another note...Poor Robbie Seay lost his guitars on Monday...Stolen. Merry Christmas. He sang a sad Christmas song at Jami Smith's Christmas "Honor a Teacher" concert. I like sad Christmas songs. Or at least pensive...O Come, O Come Emmanuel for example. Back to work...thought I'd at least match Burns for posting frequency. | | |
| martha wainwright! sultry...
Set The Fire To The Third Bar
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from here to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
And miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
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| back at it...
thus begins the plagiarism...
pg. 122 "In each case (referring to Jesus' teaching during the Sermon on the Mount), conventional religious morality ("the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees") is about not doing external wrong: not murdering, not committing adultery, not committing divorce, not breaking sacred oaths, not getting revenge on the wrong people. But the kingdom manifesto (the Beatitudes) calls us beyond and beneath this kind of morality; we must deal with greed and lust, arrogance and prejudice in the heart. And more, instead of merely NOT doing wrong, with a changed heart we will be motivated to do what is right. Jesus' word on adultery fit into this pattern. Yes, he says, you can avoid technically committing adultery, but your heart can be full of lust. Just as there would be no murder without anger, there would be no adultery without lust. So, Jesus says, if you want to live in the Kingdom of God, you don't seek to stir up lust and then prevent adultery, but rather you seek to deal with the root, the source. The kingdom of God calls you to desire and seek a genuinely pure heart."
Preach it Brother McLaren!!
So interesting to me to think about the Kingdom of God in the present tense. What things in my life am I striving to deal with at the wrong level? Rather than the root... | | |
| Why I choose to be anonymous...
First of all, I thought it would be funny to post random thoughts and see if anyone could guess. I had two correct guesses in the first two days, so that didn't work out so well. Yet I still continue..."Why?", you might say.
Secondly, I imagined myself posting about sensitive issues or topics that, were my identity known, could result in either uncomfortable situations or in possible repercussions. After making my first post, and in the spirit of genuineness, I decided that any post I made would be done in such a way so that I would have no problem at any time identifying who I am.
So that brings us to the third and most salient point. My posts are more interesting because they are anonymous. Read: mysterious. If you knew who I was my posts would be boring. I could be a Dean, a Division Chair, Music Faculty, Business Faculty, or none of the above. See, now that's mysterious.
UPDATE: Should have been...Why I choose to be arrogant...the learning curve is leaning away from me.
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