February 2010
36 posts
UltraMarathon for the Homeless →
on Saturday, the 27th, I’m running the Cowtown (Ft Worth) UltraMarathon. I’ve been trying to raise money to support Back On My Feet, a program that empowers the homeless community through running. Help!
“For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.
He is not...”
– Psalm 112.6-9
“Jesus chooses not to pray for the world because he wants to save the world. The...”
– ShaneClaiborne, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers (in reference to Jesus’ prayer in John 17)
In Love (post Valentine)
Valentine’s Day is for lovers, but most of us probably should have just spent it alone.
If I honestly looked at most of my life, I’d have to ask: What am I in love with?
What do I do all things at all costs to protect?
What will I go to any length to defend?
Me.
My way of life.
Most days I seem to do whatever it takes to maintain the image I have of myself. I’ll fight to...
“Blessing, therefore, is more than just a passive wish for someone’s good....”
– HughHalter, The Tangible Kingdom
“It’s a good thing that what God requires of us is to walk humbly and do...”
don't conquer
Narrator: Jesus humbled himself & did not take charge of things by force. He is moving world history as a lamb, not a conqueror. To be Christian is to follow suit.
Archbishop: You don't pray anymore.
Revolutionary priest: I still pray, all the time.
Archbishop: Then why do you carry a gun?
Unhappy Hipsters →
Can’t decide if they’re trying to be wryly funny or introspectively sad. Or maybe ironic? We’ll go with ironic.
Prophets of a Future Not Our Own
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully...
“The way of Jesus is not a proposal for how to take over a nation-state and make...”
– Shane Claiborne & Jonathon Wilson-Hartgrove, Become The Answer to Our Prayers
“I had failed to understand the perverse comfort we sometimes get from choosing...”
– Parker Palmer | All the Way Down
Finite Influence
This is something I’m not sure I’ve got the guts to write. It seems true to me, yet it seems so out of place. It’s hard because it goes against a lot of what I belive, but I think there has to be something more.
In June of 199…something.. 7? I was walked through the tenets of having a personal relationship with Jesus. I said “yes.”
Over the past 13 years,...
“Today it is time to see through this need for certainty as being in itself...”
– Wolfhart Pannenberg, The Apostles’ Creed
Divorced from Hope
Is it possible to live a life you don’t have a vision for?
Can one have hope but not faith?
Will you pursue justice but not forgiveness?
Isn’t vision just an adamant hope in something not yet realized?
There will come a day; maybe there will come many days, when what you are will be made known.
The vision you have for life is producing effects daily; it is producing effects right...
“Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust, it sweeps the stains...”
– Mother Teresa
So Hard to Resist Meat
Yesterday I ate meat.
Which isn’t that weird, except that for a few minor incidents, I didn’t eat meat for the entire month of January.
Incident = my wife told me one of the ingredients listed in a stuffed mushroom at Buca was “cheese” when it was in fact bacon. Didn’t take more than one mushroom to figure that out.
It wasn’t about anything but a pure...