the twilight zone… (or: an obnoxious pot declares an infamous kettle “black”)

“Do not ajust your URL. We are in Control….”
   People used to vote with balls; now we have polling machines. Used to be, if people wanted music, they had to go to concerts or taverns: now we have iPods (and phones). If people wanted pictures, they had to paint or sculpt; now we have cameras [...]

effects or cause? part one

  You wouldn’t believe the things Sherlock Holmes can do to you. I was riding home from work (no, that’s not a typo) with a friend the other day, and we were attempting to deduce all that we could about people from their cars. We came behind an older Jeep Cherokee, and we began to [...]

song for missions (again)

I posted this same song last year when Anthony and some other friends went to Ethiopia. I’ll do it again, this time for Anthony, Trey, and Rebekah.
If You ask me to leap,
Out of my boat on the crashing waves,
If You ask me to go,
Preach to a lost world that Jesus saves:
 I’ll go, but I cannot [...]

give me Your eyes, part two

  Because if we refuse to look at the world through the eyes of God, or rather, if we don’t look through eyes of jealousy guided by His Word, the only other options are pharisaic complacency, or selfish conformity.  I been seeing more around me that reinforced what has already been said, with petitioning, as before. At [...]

faber on prayer.

Here’s a poem on prayer. It was the first that i alighted upon in the book The Christian Book of Mystical Verse, compiled by Tozer. You should read it carefully, and with a comtemplative spirit and feeling of need. Listen to what Faber writes:
Ah dearest Lord, I cannot pray,
My fancy is not free;
Unmannerly distractions come,
And [...]