April 2012
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WatchThe Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
In church and on my own I have been learning about how important vulnerability is to relationship and community. It’s been difficult; I’m a very guarded person. But I’m learning, and this is an excellent talk about why vulnerability is important.
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“We artful dodgers act as if we do not understand the New Testament, because we...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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My students wrote an essay evaluating the change in Reverend Henry Maxwell in the book In His Steps. This sentence is from one of their papers.
“He gave the town exactly what they needed, a slap in the face and some hope.”
I think this is often what we need. A slap in the face and some hope.
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The Barefoot Composer: Are You Well-Read? →
Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird– Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark...
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“Hope [on Earth] is marked by uncertainty and anxiety which are not inherent to...”
– David Lim from Spiritual Gifts
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Since my community group is going through the book of 1 Corinthians, I’ve been listening to podcasts from Solid Rock from their series on 1 Corinthians. They’re really good, and I learned something that relates to an earlier post. I learned some of the history regarding the altars to ‘unknown gods’.
Most Greek cities were home to dozens of gods, but as the location of...
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I sent my students an email to remind them of the schedule for this week so that they would know what to be prepared for. After sending it, I realized that a couple items on the list are kind of awkward next to each other (or very appropriate).
9:00 Prayer
9:05 Lateral Thinking Puzzle
9:15 Devos-I Corinthians 3
9:30 Old Testament Quiz
10:00 World History-Peace Efforts
10:30...
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After I finished Mockingjay, the final book of the Hunger Games trilogy, (spoiler alert?)I wasn’t really sure how to feel. I invested a lot into that story, and felt emotionally exhausted afterwards, but then it just ended. More and more, books are becoming ‘realistic’ in that they don’t have happy, neatly-tied-in-a-bow endings. Which I like; I like that they’re...
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Choir Pieces →
This one’s for Rita. :)
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“Those who look beyond the literal see the world as a metaphor for God. When...”
– Brennan Manning from Ruthless Trust
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My church has started a series on Ephesians, and I’m really excited for it. We once spent 16 months in Luke, so we will probably be here for a while, but my pastor describes the book of Ephesians like looking out into a sky full of stars. As your eyes adjust to the darkness, the longer you look, the more you see. Here’s something I noticed:
Ephesians 1:8-10 “With all wisdom...
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I really love the students I’m working with. This year they are all girls from very conservative Christian backgrounds. One of their assignments in our short story unit was to write a short story. They all decided that they were going to write love stories about each other. All of their stories read very much like your typical Christian romance novel: cheesy, naive, innocent, sweet, and...
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“The seventh day celebrates the completion of the work of creation and is holy to...”
– Brennan Manning from Abba’s Child
Something to reflect on for Good Friday
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“The poets, singers, songwriters, novelists, musicians, clowns, and mystics...”
– Brennan Manning from Ruthless Trust 