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Entries from January 2009

The bean’s effect on the BEAN!

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
click above to find the latest reason to drink coffee!

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Tags: Common Place

Dreams dashed and heart challenged

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

My childhood dream of being a sports announcer took another hit today as ESPN announced a hiring freeze!
While practicing the discipline of solitude, I was confronted with/by the thought, “Do I practice spiritual disciplines to get more spiritual or to connect with the One True God, my Father in heaven?”

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Tags: Things that make you think

The Danger of Presuming Omniscience

January 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Unless you have “all” perspectives your conclusions could be pathetically wrong!

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Tags: Common Place

Intriguing Quote

January 27th, 2009 · No Comments

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less”.
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Tags: Quotes

Where do Christians and Pagans find common ground?

January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Dar Williams sings her holiday classic “The Christians and The Pagans.” From her upcoming live DVD, “Live at the Bearsville Theater.”

lyrics to Dar Williams, “The Christians and The Pagans”
Amber called her uncle, said “We’re up here for the holiday,
Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay.”
And her Christ-loving uncle [...]

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Tags: Common Place

Does Africa need God? Atheist says, “YES!”

January 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset
Matthew Parris
from Times Online December 29, 2008 (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece)
Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, [...]

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Tags: Common Place · Shoal Creek

Creating a Ripple

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Tim Sanders at Catalyst on creating a Ripple. Oh for followers of Christ who saw it their life’s mission to create a ripple in the classroom, office place, neighborhood, family, across town, across the sea!

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Tags: Common Place

Money Saving Ideas continued

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

From Renee Seba
I will confirm Richard and Tracy’s post on cash. When our first child was born 10 years ago, I quit work to stay home. We took the household budget to cash in envelopes. We have bascially been on that system ever since (with a few expensive breaks). Alongside [...]

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Tags: Common Place

Shoal Creek’s Internship Announces International Partner

January 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Shoal Creek’s newly renamed summer internship, The Foundry is pleased to announce a partnership with Jabulani African Ministries.
JAM is a movement dedicated to the youth of Africa. We believe now is the time for big change in Africa. The “dark continent” is ready to come into the light. JAM aims to bring together youth from [...]

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Missional, emergent, Baptist, Charismatic, what’s the deal!

January 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Ed Stetzer from a recent Catalyst newsletter.
“We worry too much about reaching people,” explained a recent “missional” convert. He explained that he had read my book and a few others and he wanted to be more about the mission of God and less about nickels, noses, and numbers. “We have to show the love of [...]

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Tags: Common Place