Your message calls for a response. It offers information. It is important to you. Three questions que into how much you care about, or own, your message. What you say? How you say it? How people could respond?
Every person, theist or deist or atheist, has the same tendancy. Humans like to put a divine stamp on their words and thoughts and actions. It is not just the far-right fundamentalists and left-field liberals, we all esteem ourselves higher than humanity.
Watch the Creation trailer. Can you find ways the writers are transfering symbols and icons? How does the writing and character development paint worldviews? What do characters represent? Is there an agenda? What is it?
Old buckets were made of thin planks called staves side by side and held together by rings. You could only fill water up to the lowest stave. Find your lowest stave, your one thing and allow the increase to come.
“I’ve been told to get better at golf you have to play with people better than yourself.” – a wise friend So true and so painful. I’m off with the team tomorrow to State College. We are meeting up with leadership teams from around the state to discuss themes and issues surrounding multi-site churches. We have been [...]
People are blogging and tweeting and facebooking and IM-ing and texting. We pass memos on stenos. We give and get reports. In the midst of all the info we kill each other more, abandon and abuse more, destroy and destruct more…In the cluttering, compacting age of info were did all the wisdom go?
Hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament foretelling and showing Jesus Christ. They said who he would be, what he would do and even where and to whom he would be born. Most missed it. Even well into his ministry most his disciples missed it. After his death they were still sheep wandering with no shepherd.
This is a journal. It is a witness and testimony. It is a companion. Whitman kept one as did Byron. Hemingway kept a journal. Darwin journaled. Influencial men and women through time have treasured the significance of pen and paper, not to just capture a fiction but capture their moment.
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.
