Posted in random thoughts on Aug 9th, 2011
Indie movies don’t have the big budgets, or the biggest named actors, but (for better or worse) they have fidelity to a vision. They are free to make exactly the movie they wanted to make… The same goes for Indie bands… It’s no wonder that they are usually the ones at the cutting edge, bringing [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Aug 5th, 2011
It turns out that one of the reasons many alcoholics drink, is because they are so worried and fearful when they’re sober; they can’t handle life sometimes. And it turns out that when people compromise on their values for money or success, they’re often motivated out of fear for their own survival. So it’s no [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Aug 2nd, 2011
There’s a big difference between “judging” and “truth telling…” And I think this is something everyone needs to learn at some point. Because on the one hand we don’t ever want to judge – as in act as judge over others or be “judgmental”… but on the other hand, we don’t want to be unteachable, [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 26th, 2011
Here are 20 random questions that can make you happier and get you on the right track: 1. Do you love what you do (work or play), or are you after the sense of accomplishment, power, bragging rights? Would you still do it if you knew you’d probably fail at some point? 2. Do you love [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 11th, 2011
Here’s a belated Memorial Day post… War brings out the worst in people. Yes. But something returning soldiers (and some writers) know is that war also brings out the best in people. War clears out a lot of the stupid petty squabbles, the laziness, the drunkenness, the general stupidity that we ALL fall into – [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 1st, 2011
This is for you spiritual people who are NOT leading… When you love people you want to bless them, help them, encourage them, see them get better. When you love people you don’t just use them to make you feel good about yourself. Friends should make you feel good; but in true friendship, that’s a [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jul 1st, 2011
This is a reminder for all you spiritual leaders out there – some stuff you already know… When you love people you don’t want to judge them… Even if your beloved friend turned out to be a racist or corrupt or monstrously selfish – you would want to deny it, and when you acknowledged it, [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jun 14th, 2011
Someone asks, “if I follow Jesus does that mean I’ll have to change jobs, change my way of thinking, change my social life, etc?” …What people usually want to hear is: “Nah, you can follow Jesus from exactly where you are! You don’t have to change a thing!” And that’s partially true… Partially. You are [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jun 14th, 2011
People think there’s a problem when people take Christianity “too seriously” – and I used to think that too. But soon after I became a Christian I heard a sermon by Tim Keller in which he said, [perhaps the real problem is] “not that we take Jesus too seriously, but that we don’t take Christianity [...]
Posted in random thoughts on Jun 7th, 2011
Around the time I first became a Christian, I remember looking up an old English author in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and it said that he must have been bi-polar, because he clearly had deep severe bouts of depression, but then at other times was rather joyful. There was a more recent Bio-pic of the great [...]