"Old Schoolism"

This is from Martin Luther; I found it to be quite interesting as I think most of us has this mentality organisation of church is an old school concept and that we should try to be more organic. Well, it does seem as a whole, we don't do a great job starting spiritual grow-ops. Anyways, how could we better bring Christ into our daily community lives? It's just something to think about.

“[Christians] should sign their names and meet alone in a house somewhere to pray, to read, to baptize, to receive the sacrament, and do other Christian works. According to this order, those who do not lead Christian lives could be known, reproved, corrected, cast out, or excommunicated, according to the rule of Christ [Mat. 18:15-17]. Here one could also solicit benevolent gifts to be willingly given and distributed to the poor, according to St. Paul’s example [2 Cor. 9]. Here would be no need of much and elaborate singing. Here one could set out a brief and neat order for baptism and the sacrament and center everything on the Word, prayer, and love.”

"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on." -David Foster Wallace, Kenyon Commencement speech http://merginglanes.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/david-foster-wallace-on-life-and-work/

Just to be fair

Here's Don Miller on What Women Really Need From Men: http://donmilleris.com/2010/04/07/what-women-really-need-from-men/

I find this advice to be generally correct, if of course incomplete and a gross oversimplification.

Don Miller on What Men want

http://donmilleris.com/2010/04/08/what-men-really-need-from-women/comment-page-2/#comments

I know we talked a little last semester about looking for the right spouse, and this post has something to do with that (from the guys' perspective). I really enjoyed reading through it, and thought that it is definitely something we women should hear more often.
Thoughts, anyone?

"ching chong chang"

here's a verse i came across today that relates to yesterday's discussion

proverbs 9:7-8
whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

INTERESTING.