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A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

Senior High 1-07 – Tuesday – Blessed on the Way

Download: SH1 2007 Tuesday Flowsheet Tuesday Evening Tuesday night was a struggle for us this year. Due to some issues that week, we ended up not coming on as strong as we had originally planned. Despite all that, I think that it was pretty memorable and meaningful for the campers. The setup was ...

Senior High 1-07 – Monday – Clouds and Fire

Download: SH1 2007 Monday Flowsheet Monday Night: We started out the evening with a mock recap of the Moses and the Exodus story. We played it like I had asked Timmy to put together a short video to bring us up to speed on Moses and then we showed the short video, ...

Senior High 1-07 – Sunday – Blessed on the Way

I probably waited a bit too long to start these recollections. Most of the memories that were fresh over the summer have faded, but still, maybe there are some useful resources out there for someone. A couple of sites we found really useful in planning over the last couple of years: Basecamp ...

Everything is Spiritual

Finally! I've been waiting for this to come out for quite a while now. A little over a year ago, Rob Bell did a tour called Everything is Spiritual and they taped one of them to release on DVD. Looks like it comes out sometime in December. A clip from it ...

Rapturous

Found this today via Boing Boing: Earlier this month, blogged Max Blumenthal from the Huffington Post took a camera to the Christians United for Israel Summit in Washington. It's an interesting video, that illustrates well the point that I try to make about eschatological beliefs and how we should really let ...

Senior High 1 2007

Late last night,while having wine and bread, the team and counselors left some candles in the shed and when the altar lit on fire, we all freaked out and said there'll be a hot time in the pool camp tonight! FIRE FIRE FIRE! I made it home at about 10:45 p.m. last night from ...

The Worship Industry

Good thoughts from Brian McLaren on The Worship Industry.

Scary

Crowd Packs Amphitheater for Man Claiming He's Jesus Christ Reincarnated I've seen a profile on this guy before. It's just nuts what some people will believe. I saw a profile on him on a news show a few months back and there really are people who believe him and who support ...

Open Theism

Jamie and I used to have a lot of conversations on free will vs. predestination, because of our different backgrounds (United Methodist vs. Primitive Baptist). The whole thing was good though since it made me really figure out what I believed and come up with a way to articulate it. ...

The iGen Manifesto

I haven't paid attention to Relevant in a quite a while... I was one of the original subscribers, but the magazine got stale quickly and ceased to interest me. Of course, now that I'm well into my 30's, I'm not really the target market. I get that. Radical Reversal recently ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...