- “Would I rather be feared or loved? Um… easy: both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”- Michael Scott, The Office (0)
- Boundless has a good article on "Should you get engage?" which serves as a good followup to dating righteously. "… you need to first ask yourself "Would you marry you?" before you ask "Will you marry me?"" (0)
- Monday, February 25, 2008
- Star Wars According To A 3 Year Old
It’s so cute. Children say the awesomest of things. Pay attention to the segment at the end~
- Sunday, February 24, 2008
- All The Perfect Words
They seem so wrong…
I just received notice that one of my dear friends just lost his son to a drunk driver.
What does one say to that? How does one offer words of comfort to a man grieving the loss of his son? I cannot even begin to fathom what he’s going through. A father should never have to bear surviving his child.
Trite platitudes are no comfort here. Cliche phrases that are oft used seem to be of no value. How can one truly be encouraging unless one can truly relate? And how does one relate without having gone through the same experience?
My brother was close to him too. Closer than I by far. How will I break that to him as well?
- Friday, February 22, 2008
- On Dating Righteously
For about seven weeks or so Mars Hill has been undergoing a sermon series answering questions that the church body had. They opened up a polling page, allowed people to submit questions, and then allowed people to vote upon them. The top 9 or 10 questions were then chosen and Pastor Mark Driscoll has done his best (which is pretty good in my opinion) to answer them.
Last Sunday the question was on the topic of dating and more specifically on how, as a Christian, to date righteously. This has been something that I’ve been thinking about off and on. I’ve struggled to put these idea fragments into a more solid and mature idea but I’ve failed in each and every attempt to articulate them in a fashion that makes sense and actually conveys what I’m grasping at. Mark has essentially captured the wisps of my thought trails on this and has converted it in a fashion that is presentable to others.
You can catch the entirety of the sermon on video here or read his sermon notes here. I would strongly recommend anyone dating or faced with that choice to watch the sermon and, as you have time, the questions segment afterward (Pastor Mark answers questions texted in during the sermon at the end of the last service).
His advice for singles as well as dating questions one should ask are well worth repeating and so I’ll take the liberty to do so.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2008
- Day At The Locks
Monday, being President’s Day, was a day off from school. Being the fun loving aimless college students who always look for a reason to party or hang out, we decided not to let this opportunity pass. Instead of just watching movies or playing board games, we made an epic trip to Seattle instead.
Our initial goal was to get hamburgers at Dick’s and then roam the streets of the International District. We successfully found Dick’s but then decided that we wanted to eat our lunch at the arboretum. Failing to find that we ended up eating at the Ballard locks. Adventuring is so much more fun when you have multiple objectives.
- The Simple Dollar has an article on how to stand out in your career. Reading through it, a lot can be applied to general life as well. (2)
- There is something innately wrong with this. This is something that my guild would joke about during our raids. Never in my darkest of dreams though would I have ever imagined that Hello Kitty Island Adventure would ever surface as something based in reality… *shudder* (2)
- Saturday, February 16, 2008
- The Game
The rules of this game:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
(No cheating!) Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
Found this game over at Adventures in Mercy (I’ve seen some others play it too) and decided that it sounded like an interesting one to play. A good way to see what people are reading~
And every one of these (and we will take them one by one) can be shown to be the natural ally of oppression. In fact, it is a remarkable circumstance (indeed not so very remarkable when one comes to think of it) that most things are the allies of oppression. There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression - and that is orthodoxy.
I wonder which book that could’ve been… If I told you it was Chesterton, it pretty much gives itself away. Orthodoxy
As for my five people… I tag Rabenstrange, Emily, Ana, Neemund, and Polka Dotted Pickles. What do you have by your computer?
