We grant instant credibility to the person with the loudest voice. We are addicted to them. But voice alone is not enough to change the world. The person who can change the world, person by person, is one willing to invest the life-long time to serving others.
James Harleman provides a healthy filter for Jon Favreau’s latest Iron man installment.
The things daddys do and love, for their children. My drolling thoughts after an afternoon roll in the snow with my two oldest boys.
What do the choices I make say about me? If all I ever choose is what I want I am nothing more than a toddler. If I, with consistency, choose what I need to do, what I must do, what I should do…I am a maturing growing adult. Maturity makes the hard choices.
The movie started at 12:01 last night. I had been waiting with anticiaption for two years to see Michael Bay’s next installment of Transformers. I didn’t grow up with the toys, I just like good movies. I like good stories told well. The first movie was an optimal example of a good and fun movie. What I saw last night transformed my anticiaption into disappointment.
Here is the point, subjectivity can never win over objectivity. It IS all about what “IS”. Threatening to sound like a country song, don’t say you love me if you don’t. Don’t say you want what is best if you don’t. Don’t say you are trying harder if you don’t. Words matter and words that do not correspond to the reality they are projecting misdirect and miscommunicate.
Three things form our perspective; context, experience and knowledge. Where you are, what you know and where you have been. Each of these factors form how we see and interprete everything, create paradigms and worldviews.
…How can you tell the mature Christ-follower from the less mature? Don’t look at age or appearance- that means little. Look for the one who defers to the other. Look for the one who is providing for those who can’t provide for themselves (Rom. 14; I Cor. 8,9). The Apostle Paul gave everything he had so those of less maturity could grow. It often meet setting aside freedoms and liberties for those of weaker faith…
I am from western Pennsylvania. I have a western Pennsylvania mind. I serve in a western Pennsylvania church. It has a western Pennsylvania context and culture. I am from here, serve here, and think from here with people who do the same. For those not from here let me enlighten you. It was not one [...]
