What could be gained by having smaller churches:
More intimate fellowship. Everyone instantly becomes more accessible because there are far less of you.
The giftings of each member would more readily find output. In a larger church, the math says there will be numerous people with the same or similar giftings but the opportunities for gift exercise [...]
Instant messaging, email and Facebook are all decidedly awesome. You chat will your peeps, get lots of SPAM mail, and eavesdrop on your “friends’” lives via wall posts, photos, and intelligence-bending status updates. All in all it’s a huge chunk…*cough* waste…of time, but you enjoy it. In fact, you may be reading this on Facebook [...]
Another mix for your enjoyment; this one twice as long as my September Facebook Friends Mix. Shoutouts to those who left feedback and encouragement. Thanks!
01 Emilio Fernandez - Reynosa (Original Mix)
02 Wippenberg - Chakalaka (Original Mix)
03 Dash Berlin vs. Terry Ferminal vs. Mark Sherry - Till the Sky Walks Away (DarkMemoria Mashup)
04 Cerf, Mitiska & [...]
I’m amazed at the number of people who don’t read our president Danny Akin’s emails. I guess one excuse is that they’re usually lengthy and numerous; but this latest email sent out to the student body and published on his blog is truly worth a read and hereby receives my commendation.
Below are Akin’s thoughts prefacing [...]
The easiest way to find out what people think of you is to ask them, and usually after some prying, you can get it out of them if they’re friends enough. This was the scenario today.
Since almost all my co-workers are fellow seminarians we get into all kinds of deep theological questions like matters concerning [...]
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Charles Latham in his antifolk song My Perfect Church offers this bit of truth-in-jesting cynicism concerning spirituality:
I pray from my toilet seat, “Make my holy life complete”
My god hears me when I speak, can yours say the same? My god lets me have my way, I can pray for it not [...]
The second presidential debate is tonight starting at 9:00PM (EST) at Belmont University.
C-SPAN is offering a live video feed for free.
Here’s a link which you can paste into VLC or WMP:
http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx
Alternatively, you can watch with the players I’ve embedded below:
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The Sirius-XM satellite radio merger is set to go in effect tomorrow. Until today I was really excited about the merger. I had heard XM was going to add an a la carte service whereby subscribers could pick the channels they wanted on their plan much like you pick what you want [...]
We pay all our bills online. And, to be honest, going paperless for many of our accounts was less about creation care (i.e., saving trees) and more about having less clutter. It’s pretty sweet that going paperless not only provides for less clutter but also in a real way saves trees. So consider the below [...]
Thursdays in the chapel services here at Southeastern we pray for North American missions, and today the gentleman who was asked to lead in prayer started by saying, “Sweet Jesus…”
I wouldn’t recommend starting this way given the cultural connotations.
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