Posted in random thoughts on Aug 31st, 2010
Steve, whom some of you know, used to say that he thought the difference between the good James Bonds and the bad ones is that when the actor looks at a woman, the good ones look like they’re into the woman, the bad ones look like they’re more into themselves. I think this is true [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Aug 21st, 2010
In places other than New York, people really like to hear that God accepts you “just the way that you are…” It doesn’t mean you don’t have room to grow – but that God loves and adores you right now, just the way a parent loves his newborn, even as he expects the baby to [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Aug 17th, 2010
Imagine you had a coworker who was a nice guy, easy to work with, easy to talk to, and everyone knew he was cheating on his wife. So here’s the question: is it any of your business to say anything about that? What do you think? Personally, I don’t know… For myself, I think I’d [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Aug 2nd, 2010
Most people don’t learn the important things in life through a class or a book…instead you get it through what I’m going to call “gossip.” So when did you first learn about kissing? In a class? How about dating or what kind of person you should want to marry? How about things like: how to [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 22nd, 2010
You can’t be accepted by Jesus the same way you’re accepted by your friends. ”Eh” you say? Your friends actually like you because you’re fun (to them), useful from time to time, and they can lean on you. Not so bad. But these are qualifications that the majority of the world do not have, yet [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 21st, 2010
Ever notice that we HATE being corrected? The person doing the correcting or giving advice will often say something like “I’m just trying to help” “don’t you want to do it right?” “how will you ever learn if no one tells you?” And all these reasons can be true, but we still hate it…and we [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 18th, 2010
In an interview for a documentary, Tony Campolo mentioned a quote from Augustine. Augustine had said, “the church is a hoar, but she is my mother.” So on the one hand the church has been atrociously unfaithful to God, often getting into bed with politics, race, the crusades, and all sorts of things it should [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 15th, 2010
Beware of people who try to change you. No one has the right to change you into someone other than you are… Of course everyone who tries always has the “best” of intentions. But they’re just overstepping their bounds. You, on the other hand have every right to change yourself: especially if you’re a sinner [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 15th, 2010
If you’re like me, your inner geek hyperventilated when Disney decided to do a sequel to the campy 80′s movie TRON. I think it was the first movie to use CG so extensively (the light cycle scenes), and it was the first movie to teach my ten year old mind about some basic theology. The [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 1st, 2010
Most people don’t realize it, but you tend to go toward things that you are looking at. AAA puts out an article every year about how cars crash into other cars on the side of the road – not because the driver doesn’t see it, but because they start staring at the warning lights and [...]
