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I haven't had much to say this month. I've spent more time reading blogs than posting my own stuff. I am leaving Tuesday and will be gone for the rest of the week. (Hoping that one or both of the seminaries I am visting will give me some perspective. Maybe that's why I don't have anything to say...) These blogs I enjoy reading on a semi-regular basis. (And they all pretty regular in their posting, which is nice.) Hope you enjoy as well: On Worship: Worship Matters Eric Coomer Common Saints On the Emerging Church Movement: The Oooze Other Good Stuff on the Church: Growing Edge Buzz Every Thought Captive The Merge the church and postmodern culture: conversation Miscellaneous Heavenly Heartburn An Eye for Redemption In other random thoughts: why are most bloggers men? I have yet to finda great blog by a woman. Weird. ...Although I do sometimes find this one amusing.

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America is the culture of overchoice. When faced with what should be a simple decision, the amount of time we spending weighing the pros and cons of each option is rarely worth the ulcer we got in the meantime. Tall or grande? Non-fat or low fat? Quality or quantity? Chicken or fish? DSL or Wireless? Mac or PC? (don't even think of saying PC) Digital cable or satellite? Destktop or laptop? Having so many choice to make in our everyday lives can make us feel entitled to having just as many choices with the major decisions in our life. I guess there is nothing wrong with having so many choices in those major decisions, but for me it often serves nothing more as an excuse to put the decision off. I am looking at five different schools right now. I'll be visiting two next week - one in KC and the other in St. Louis. Neither I'm that excited about, because the other two have the better degrees I want. But they are far, far way from home. So I have a choice: What will make me ha...

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here. I'm sad.

My denomination is going through the process of revising the Statement of Faith. As with anything in the church, it's been a long and complicated process, with everyone putting their two cents in about the first and second drafts changes they've made thus far. Click here if you'd like to see more of this discussion happening online. #1 Statement in the current SOF: We Believe: The Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men and the Divine and final authority for Christian faith and life. _______________________________________________ Here is the proposed revision: We Believe: 1. God's gospel originate in and demonstrates the holy love of the eternal, triune God - We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three uqually divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy ...

The 5-things-in-various-places survey 5 Items in my Fridge: 1. Diet Dr. Pepper 2. Cream Cheese 4. Lettuce 5. 2 eye gel masks 5 Items in my Closet: 1. A dresser 2. My laundry basket 3. Empty shoe boxes 4. Shoes (duh) 5. Hangers (duh) 5 Items in my Car: 1. Cds, Cds, Cds 2. Lotion 3. A cute little red flashlight 4. Headset for my cell phone 5. Music books 5 Items in my Purse: 1. Wallet, checkbook combo 2. 2 Tubes of chapstick, 1 lipgloss and two tubes of lipstick. (I know...) 3. Cell phone 4. Pens 5. Keys 5 Items on my Desk: 1. Lamp 2. Pencil cup holder 3. Papers, bills, etc 4. Computer 5. Assorted Cds 5 Items in my Bathroom Vanity: 1. "Creative Genuis" hair gel 2. "Lucky" perfume 3. Lemon flavored toothpaste 4. Home-made soap my friend Dixie's mother made 5. Nailpolish

A little over a week ago I made brief mention of Saddleback Church's new rules for maintaining moral integrity. Part 1 . Perhaps the 15 rules set by Saddleback really is about removing temptation from the staff, and if so, you got to do what you got to do. If it's needed for their church, I'm glad something's being done. My main concern is that this list is somehow about what people's perception may be about the interactions mentioned in this list. Perception. It sometimes becomes synonymous with the word gossip . A while back a Sunday school teacher I knew was asked to step down from her position. (No, it wasn't the famous one). She was asked to step down because some people in the community saw her playing golf with a man who was not her husband. She and her husband are separated (and were at the time all this happened) and a rumor began that she was cheating on him. The only foundation for the rumor was the golfing incident. This Sunday school teach had a rig...

 

I'm all giddy. Here's why.