"If I find my own way how much will I find?
May God's love be with you." (>>) [MP3]
"Expecting IE to properly render your pages because you write valid code is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (>>)
"Somewhere in this process of conversion, Bill was no longer self-helping himself into religion. Rather, he learned to correctly see himself as the recipient of an undeserved and saving grace." (>>)
"I fear that the default conceptual language of the church is that of marketing. I don't see the packaging of Christianity in the tounge of the market economy as an instance of being 'relevant' to our culture at all; I see marketing as a conceptual language that is 'set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell' " (>>) [PDF]
RELATIONSHIP, five and a half months, passed away on Sunday, August 22 after a heated conversation. Although Relationship had been on life support for several weeks, cause of death is still undetermined. It is survived by three children, Loneliness, Pain and Regret. Service scheduled for Wednesday, August 25, 10:00pm at the Trolly Stop. Rev. J. Daniels, officiating.
"Stand up strong,
feel the pain,
when the angels sing."
(>>)
Roper is a new band with a few members from Five Iron Frenzy and you can hear some clips from their upcoming album here. (Normally clips annoy me and I don't bother with them, but it's worth it this time.)
"Thus, Providence will forever trump predestination, which seeks to know God, as you say, the author and not the Creator. No difference between the two? The author as you have it is the creator of both ink and paper and former of letters. Creator makes pen and paper and teaches language and good handwriting and good plot development, and then watches and guides as we learn to write. And that is all the difference in the world."
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"When you try to live under the Old Covenant as a Christian who is under the New Covenant, you get Galatians all up in your face."
(>>)
"One missed step can make you stumble,
you set yourself up for a fall.
You punish yourself for each failure,
dogma beat out alcohol.
When all of your principles were fashioned,
you thought your new rules made you new.
But maybe those X’s on your hands,
are what’s killing you." (>>)
"The Dragon, as many have found, is truly a unique road. In 14 miles there are only two intersections; NC28 to Fontana Dam and the lightly traveled gravel road at Parsons Branch. There are no buildings other than the Crossroads of Time. There are 318 curves in the 11 miles located on the Tennessee side. Most of the time there is very little traffic and the vehicles that do use this road are primarily motorcycle riders and sports car drivers looking for the thrill of their lives. It is remote - there is very little evidence of human population within 20 miles in any direction. Most of the roadway is bounded by United States Forest Service property, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and forested land owned by Alcoa Aluminum who operates the dams located along US129." (>>)
Defined and exemplified.
"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking." (>>)
"I must hate them because I want them to give me a formula for how to be a Christian Jew and I know their formula will never be my formula." (>>)
"...the prevailing culture of the West, though it might have eddies and puddles of Christian influence in its stream, is mostly an agglomeration of postmodern angst, Enlightenment arrogance, consumerist lust and hip irony." (>>)
"Here's a crazy idea: let culture emerge from free choices of individuals. If it changes, then it changes. If individuals don't like the way it changes, they can keep living the same way they were before, and they can let other people live how they want too. If Bush wants to refuse to recognize the private arrangements homosexuals make as marriage, let him do it - as a private, personal choice." (>>)
