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The powerful presence of God
I am working through Merton’s autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain. In college he was gaining more of an awareness of God through his study of literature. At the end of one summer, he wrote this: “By the time summer was over, I was to become conscious of the fact that the only way to live was to live in a world that…
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Merton and Seven Storey Mountain
My goal for reading this year is to read slllllooooowwwwweeeerr… and repeat some books. Repeating books: check. Slower: ummmm. The one book I have read multiple times… okay… a second book I have read multiple times is Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography of Thomas Merton. This is my first read of the year. This book is very easy for me to read every…
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The Ten for 2014
I am a voracious reader. I haven’t been as quick to read a LOT of things recently, but I do love reading. What I am horrible at is getting back INTO books that are significant and worth studying. And I’m REALLY bad about reading fiction… even once. I was meditating on this earlier in the month and thought of the…
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The Ten Book Project
The time in which we live gives us far more accessibility to truly great writing. It also gives us access to truly bad writing as well. Yesterday I was reflecting on life in the 1800s in the United States and thinking of how few books there were. Abraham Lincoln had limited access to books growing up, but he read deeply.…
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Parables
“The parables, in fact, are told as kingdom explanations for Jesus’s kingdom actions. They are saying: ‘Don’t be surprised, but this is what it looks like when God’s in charge.’ They are not ‘abstract teaching,’ and indeed if we approach them like that, we won’t understand them at all.” — N T Wright, Simply Jesus
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The Utilitarian Jesus
N T Wright’s book Simply Jesus is filling my imagination right now. Surprised by Hope was a book that jarred me awake to the realities of the Kingdom of God in the present, and I still need to re-read that one! Wright continues to bring out what I feel about myself and about our culture in general: We want a…
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Grisham — The Racketeer
I know Grisham’s book has been out a month or more, but I finally got around to reading it. In many ways I feel like Grisham has his groove back. For several years he really didn’t have his stuff. I think he was cranking too many out and needed a break. The Racketeer is good stuff. It twists and turns…
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Book Review — Creating a Missional Culture
“Missional” has been a buzz word for so many years it’s become a bit of a buzz kill. In some respects, the use of the word seems to me to be another way to create a conference and a nice roster of speakers. But there are leaders doing “missional” work and seeing what the Spirit is doing is vital. Over…
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Giving Away a Bestseller Idea
I need to copyright this post, because someone can really take off with this idea. So, here goes: The plot of a novel: A novelist is working on a plot where a programmer who works IT for a major company plays around with encryption and algorithms. He stumbles onto an algorithm that could possibly crash financial and retail networks. In…
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Nook Reader on Android
Yesterday a friend set up my Nook to be an android tablet. He has been overcome with power and is now hacking anything he can get his hands on. (You should see a hacked toaster. It makes great waffles now.) But as to the Nook reader, I like the app better! The page turn function is more animated PLUS you…
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