January 2010
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“If Jesus had been an Eskimo, we’d be studying Inuit language and culture,...”
– Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus by Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg
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The Year of Living Like Jesus
I finished a book called The Year of Living Like Jesus last night. It was a good read, very insightful. Ed Dobson (the author) set out to living like Jesus would have: eating kosher, wearing a beard, loving the poor and lonely.
Of course, I was most excited about the Jewish aspects, like attending synagogue and wearing the tzitzit. But soon I realised that I was only excited to learn things to...
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Don't Love the Church
Josh Harris writes a pithy post on the wrong reasons we often have for loving the church. It’s worth the read, and worth reflecting on even more.
Don’t love the church because of what it does for you. Because sooner or later it won’t do enough.
Don’t love the church because of a leader. Because human leaders are fallible and will let you down.
Don’t love the church because of a program or a...
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An average televised football game only has 11... →
(via thejakers)
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“Father God,
We love you. We need you. We are afraid and feel alone. On some...”
– The Livesay family - missionaries in Haiti.
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One man's trivia is another man's wisdom.
All facts are useful, it’s just the context that shifts.
Tongue prints are as distinctive as finger prints.
The rods in the human eye are sensitive enough to detect the light emitted by a struck match from as much as a mile away on a clear night.
In the 1700s the shad was especially valued as a delicacy.
Women blink twice as often as men.
Only 20% of Americans have passports.
In England, the...
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