Top 5

What are the five most important things in your life? They could be ideals, activities, people groups or feelings. I'm pondering mine.

Pain of loss

I read an interesting quote in an article today:

The deep fear behind every loss is that we have been abandoned by the God who should have saved us. The transforming moment in Christian conversion comes when we realize that even God has left us. We then discover it was not God, but our image of God that abandoned us.... Only then is change possible. - When God Interrupts, Craig Barnes

Brands

On the way home from a Target run this evening, the thought ran through my mind: "What brands define my purchases?" There's a short list of restaurants, stores and labels that vie for my disposable income. I like to think that it's a matter of personal preference and value rather than marketing, but I have to question from time to time why I prefer New Balance to Nike and Colgate to Crest. What are your brands? Why?

Mixing business with pleasure

This sounds like a dumb phrase to me. Isn't the problem usually mixing pleasure with business?

Slack, but that's how it goes

Soerry for the long delay, but that's how blogging is sometimes...

Christian = Theologian?

It's an old question but relevant to this blog. Should all Christians at some level be theologians?

Memory

Why do people remember the things that they do? Why do some people remember more than others? If you could choose to retain more information, would you? Would you want to remember everything?

Maturity

I witnessed a keg stand while passing through a tailgate at the football game this weekend. Over my shoulder I heard someone say, "That guy has kids!" Apparently, maturity, responsibility and age are all very different things.

Entitlement

There's plenty to be said about this topic and the trouble it causes, but I've been confronted by overwhelming doses of it from a particular group of users at work. I would categorize it as a "How dare you tell me to..." approach to policy. People have rights, and beyond that priveleges, but some feel that their right to demand extends beyond this into areas of other's responsibilities.

The least of these

Who are the poor? More specifically, who are the poor that Jesus has commanded me to reach out to and help? Scripture seems to take my resposibility to them very seriously and expects me to do the same, but where do I start?