Friday 30 May 2008 at 01:15 am
Great quote in Keller's sermon on Forgiveness and Reconciliation. The quote is from Frederick Buechner from Wishful Thinking.
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your
wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your
tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to
the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you
are giving back-- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief
drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at
the feast is you.
Wishful Thinking, pg. 2
Thursday 29 May 2008 at 11:48 pm
Kindergarten classroom votes Asperger's child out. CBS news, and Chicago Sun
A few thoughts. Click "more" for more.
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Thursday 29 May 2008 at 3:23 pm
Google notebook looks cool.
DJ Chuang has one on his Keller stuff. Some good stuff in it.
Thursday 15 May 2008 at 12:10 pm
Some voices stuff I need to save for my sermon.
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Friday 09 May 2008 at 11:46 pm
There is a common sequence to many gospel stories:
Event: Christianity is not fundamentally good advice, it is good news
Wonder/dissonance at the event: We don't know what to think about what is happening
Revelatory Interpretation of that event: Someone preaches the gospel, tells us what the even means
Invitation: we are invited into the stream of history by which God is bringing the renewal of all things
Friday 09 May 2008 at 10:45 pm
Oprah is promoting this guy, his book, his teachings big time. Lots of YouTube clips on it.
Here is Greg Boyd's review of the book.
Wednesday 07 May 2008 at 9:46 pm
More in this conversation from my side anyway.
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Monday 05 May 2008 at 10:04 pm
Eric and I have continued the discipleship discussion that he kicked off a few months ago. One of the issues I’ve been working around in my mind is the relationship between Keller’s “gospel” and its transformative power and Willard’s “disciplines”. Much of my reading of Willard is a number of years old and I’ve been so immersed in Keller’s stuff for the last couple of years I thought I should look at some more Willard stuff again. One of the pieces I listened to I got from
Christianaudio.com: (free) where he gives an interview on his book Renovation of the Heart. I don’t want to say that Keller and Willard are in conflict. Keller is right now preaching his way through his own series on what could be called “Spiritual Disciplines”.
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