May 2012
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Watchas requested, video of cute babies…sorry internet, i don’t have any pictures of kittens…
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“it is very hard for us mortals - even for us beginning-to-believe-in-Jesus...”
– dale bruner, a commentary on the gospel of john
Mount Blog: Solitude v. Community →
themount:
This is something The Mount’s Leadership Team has been reading and dwelling on this week in our quiet times…it’s from the book “Life Together” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “Let the one who cannot be alone beware of community. They will only do harm to themselves and the community. Alone you stood…
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Watchno no daddy…probably won’t be as cute when he’s 12.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– Barack Obama in an interview with ABC News (via nprfreshair)
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summer twilight series predictions.
each year the local government in salt lake steps outside itself and allows the arts council to use some tax money on things other than road construction and lobbying oil companies and hosts the twilight summer concert series. each thursday night in the summer, salt lake hosts the biggest free party of the west. before i make my predictions, a bit of history and a few rules to the summer twilight...
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“most churches in the united states would benefit from a pruning. much of our...”
– life on the vine, philip kenneson
April 2012
13 posts
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“joy or sadness, war or peace, live or hate, purity or impurity, charity or...”
– carlo carretto, letters from the desert
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peace.
listen to this quote from philip kenneson’s book life on the vine: “establishing and sustaining wholeness in all one’s relationships is no easy thing. to be in right relationship with God and one’s fellow creatures one must consistently do what is right, what God desires, what God requires. this is why scripture again and again connects peace with righteousness.”...
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“christians are not exempt from thinking and acting as if their commitment to...”
– philip d. kenneson, life on the vine
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“whatever herculean efforts might be undertaken to elevate some form of...”
– philip d. kenneson, life on the vine
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quote from last night
last night at the mount i shared a prayer from henri nouwen (original b.a.)…here it is: “o Lord, who else can i desire but you? you are my Lord, Lord of my heart, mind and soul. you know me through and through. in and through you everything that is finds its origin and goal. you embrace all that exists and care for it with divine love and compassion. why, then, do i keep expecting...
themount:
“but it is the grace of the gospel that it confronts us with the truth and says: you are a sinner, a great, desperate sinner; now come, as the sinner that you are, to God who loves you. he wants you as you are; he does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; he wants you alone…God has come to you to save the sinner. be glad! this message is liberation through truth.”
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Watchcutetown…
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here's another reason i'm no longer baptist
here’s number 54 in a growing list of why i’m glad i left the southern baptist convention.
this is speaking of president obama’s recation to trayvon martin being shot to death and expressing sadness and empathy to the family by remarking that if he had a son he would look like trayvon:
“This is being done to try to gin up the black vote for an African-American president...
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church promotion
it’s holy week; i can tell by the pile of ads inviting me to church this weekend. i wonder what kind of mixed message the church sends out when we do this.
we say: “God is real. he created the universe and makes all things new. he can count the hairs on your head and loves you so much he sent Jesus to die for you. we trust God completely with our lives and our church” and then...
March 2012
16 posts
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“more failure comes from an excess of caution than from bold experiments with new...”
– j. oswald chambers
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“many people are looking for an ear that will listen. they do not find it among...”
– dietrich bonhoeffer, life together
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forgive jason russell?
“The callers reported the underwear-clad male was in the street, interfering with traffic, screaming, yelling incoherently and pounding his fists on the sidewalk,” according to a statement released by police spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown. “He continued to act in a bizarre and irrational manner.” that’s the latest quote from the l.a. times about invisible children...
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REGINASOUTHAMPTON: email to a music leader. →
i love crap like this…too funny to keep to myself. not sure if this is real or fake, but i don’t care one way or the other. reblog and share the joy of awkward humanity.
reginasouthampton:
(background info: sent to a new church worship leader new to the role and trying hard to be nice and get to know everyone…) Hi Jason - my name is Regina Southampton - if I’m right, you’re the...
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invisible children
alright interdweebs, it looks like its up to me, the oldest person you know, to set the record straight about invisible children and their dastardly deeds. i’ve been tracking these nasties since they started, almost ten years ago. they’ve stars in my house, enjoyed my
food and i’ve even given them my money (my wife sara has even been to a few of their conferences). i’ve...
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when you are a parent.
when you are a parent:
it will take twelve hours of being in bed to get six hours of sleep.
staying up to watch a basketball game at 9:30 pm will feel impossible.
commercials involving children now make you weep. you’ll also find commercials with kids funny now and “clever.”
you just won’t care if you have clean clothes on. just as long as everything’s...
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Watchpracticing for life with his dentures out…
February 2012
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“we have assumed increasingly over the last five hundred years that nature is...”
– wendell berry, the idea of a local economy
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six months.
liam’s half birthday was yesterday, figured now is as good a time as any to recap and share what i’ve learned in my short time as a dad. 1. you’ll never finish a meal in one setting ever again and even the idea of warm food is almost laughable. furthermore, you’ll really stop caring about what things taste like or how unhealthy they are. if you can eat it quickly and it...
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“the first thing we must begin to teach our children (and learn ourselves) is...”
– wendell berry, thoughts in the presence of fear
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looking forward.
SO MUCH TO LOOK FORWARD TO - i can’t sit still today… 1. this sunday at the mount, new pilgrim baptist church is joining us for worship. they’re going to help us get our gospel on. love it. can’t wait. former ute’s point guard tim drisdom will be leading, i’m nerded up on so many levels. 2. just saw on twitter that the civil wars are performing at the...
