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Friday, 12 December 2008 06:24 |
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Scaling the wind-whipped spire, the prophet arched himself against the wind and let fly with bird-releasing hands his soul into the starry vault, and fell, a frame bereft of mortal spark into the whirling-misted gray beneath.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 05:58 |
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So, I read Acts a while back, and someone said, "You would think this is where the apostles would have set up how the church was to be run, if they had something in mind that had to be done correctly." (Or they said something sort of like that.)
And I didn't understand. What would it look like for the church to be perscripted by the apostles? What would it look like for anything to be perscripted?
Then I saw how the Mosaic covenant outlined exactly how the Israelites were to act as the people of God, and realized that was prescription, and that is what it would have looked like.
But there wasn't anything like that in Acts. As far as I could tell. *grins*
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Written by Sam
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 05:29 |
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I don'tknow what to do with politics. It seems like a mess which can only be scraped into a hole and covered up. And I am not gonna turn Anarchist, unless forced to it.
I am not sure what to do about abortion. Its wrong, but how can I stop it?
I don't know what to do about wrong headed worldviews. I can talk till I'm blue, but won't change anyone's mind, unless they want to be changed.
I don't know what to do about the news. I couldn't tell if they are lying to me or not. So, I avoid the issue, and they can't talk to me.
But this is pretty sweet, and now I know what I want to do in Africa. (you might be tempted to skip the videos, but you shouldn't.)
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Written by Sam
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Saturday, 18 October 2008 00:00 |
I just had a couple of ideas I wanted to remember, and to share.
Background: I am reading Genesis for school.
1. I was reading through, and the repeating theme that I picked up on, was that God is always keeping his promises, even when it doesn't look like it, and even when it looks like he is directly going against it. (And, IÂ think we can see from the instance of Ismael, we don't necessarily have to connive to get it. [although, Jacob is pretty conniving...]
2. Joseph says to his brothers, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?" Which is of course very humble coming from anyone. But, then again, Joseph is the right hand of pharoh, who (if I remember right) claims to be God. Or at least his son, or something related to deity. And Joseph did all the running of his kingdom for him, i.e. stood in his place.
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 00:00 |
When I was young(er) the country was solid. Things didn't change easily. And we are so strong as not to worry about the machinations of malevolent outsiders. All we had to watch was ourselves, and perhaps the few crooked people around us, and the politicians which made laws which effected mainly only big people of the world. If we stay down here, and live our lives, and don't go for the millions, pay our taxes (cause there's nothing else we can do) then we will grow old and eventually die, and our children will grow up after us.
But then I grew to be twenty. And then one and twenty. And I began to feel the fear of men around me. Fear that men at the top made laws which touch even the little people... people like us, who just want to live our lives, with or without millions. Fear that the big men were corrupt and killing the strong Unshakable. And that when the shell fell, the Goths would come.
And I begin to understand that fear. For myself, it is not that bad. If the Unshakable falls, I can walk away. And with my size I can be invisible, and with my speech and character can find friends to help me. And if the big ones roll me down unnoticed beneath the wheel. It is no material loss. For no ones survival depends on me. So that is good. I can work without fear, that my death will be the death of others.
But I do have family. And my brother is married. And how fast can they all run? And where will they go? And what would happen if the Unshakable fell?
And a lemming mass of ifs roll on. And I could drown in the possibilities. Except that the Unshakable never was. And some that was solid melts into air. Except that it never was solid. But only some. The overdue earthquake came unexpectedly and the bricks of a good college crumbled. And was no more.
But I guess there is an Unshakable. We just need to identify it. And take it seriously. Cause it is a sanctuary to those who fear it, but also a rock to trip over the edge of a thousand foot cliff.
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