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Comment on Back from CIY, Thank God… by Laz

Laz — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:27:51 +0000

Didn’t really venture much into the town. Though we did witness a drug deal in a neighborhood adjacent to campus (my first).

It was funny one night we were planning to have small group at Starbucks, but alas there was not one to be found in Bolivar. So we “settled” on the local Dairy Queen.

We did hit Fantastic Caverns though.

Comment on Currently Reading by Neil

Neil — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:13:12 +0000

Great reading list! I read Knowing God and got a lot out of it. I loved the adoption part.

I just started City of God by Augustine. This is going to take a while - over 1,000 pages plus a 50 page intro!

Comment on Back from CIY, Thank God… by j razz

j razz — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:03:12 +0000

How did you like the small town of Bolivar? I spent many summers up there working at Super Summer and traveling with a band called Jonas that led worship for them for several years. I also worked south of there at Kids Across America- an inner-city Christian sports camp. I did not go to university there but I do have a lot of connections with people who did. Glad your back. We only tried one recipe so far and I cannot remember the name of it- it was good though!

Have a good day buddy.

j razz

Comment on Back from CIY, Thank God… by KW

KW — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:55:12 +0000

maybe it is. that is why i love awana for our little guys (elementary age). it is full of memorization. i hpe this will get my boys in the habit of memorizing. its all about hiding Gods word in your heart.

in my youth group at church (when i was in HS) we would also memorize large passages such as romans 6:1-8., psalms 1, 100, 23. we also did this at church camp.

i have many examples of memorizing as a high schooler. i still remember them and am grateful for them.

Comment on Back from CIY, Thank God… by Laz

Laz — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:01:18 +0000

Kris, thanks for the kind words. It was a blast.

Perhaps the fact that memorization was not part of this year’s curriculum is a sign of the times?

Comment on Back from CIY, Thank God… by kris

kris — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:42:18 +0000

laz,

glad you are home. missed your posts.

i went to ciy as a teenager, and then as a sponsor. it was wonderful. in my day, they had the whole campus memorize large passages of scripture (1 example: John 1:1-10) we, as a group in the last night service, would say the entire passage out loud. i still remember those passages and those times.

thanks for taking our kids at grace.

Comment on OU fan grabs UT fan in a Most Unchivalrous Manner by Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:57:54 +0000

Church Deacon was included because of shock value, just like the instances when a Marine does something retarded; Headline always seems to read, US Marine blah blah blah.

Comment on Stellar Racism: Black Holes and Brown Dwarfs by Job

Job — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:57:29 +0000

We black folk just get sensitive over the fact that everything negative is associated with being black. Black death. Black plague. Black Monday (or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday … anything when anything bad happens). And so on. It really does get tiresome. I can tell that a lot of us folks came away from those “Lord of the Rings” movies thinking that J.R. R. Tolkein didn’t much enjoy the time that he spent in Africa as a child (Yes, I know that the third Tolkein book contained a polemic against the exploitation and colonization of Africa, I am talking about how it made folks feel is all.) However, that is no excuse for behaving foolishly, as they clearly did in this case.

Comment on I am a descendant of Jesus by Mulder

Mulder — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:42:09 +0000

“The truth is out there”

Comment on Testing the waters of church history by Fr. James

Fr. James — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:31:57 +0000

I realize this is old 2006 I see but # 1 every writer and every “historian” has a bias. Often, in my experience, the writers of broad sweeping popular histories of the church or Christianity really are unaware of their own blind spots.

The issue for instance with Mary mentioned above was not originally meant to focus on Mary but it was an argument about who Jesus was. Was He fully God and fully man or just a man who God visited his power upon. The orthodox church leaders in the majority agreed that the true faith was that He was 100% man and 100% God. The heretic Nestor and his followers kept finding ways to cloak their heresy. Until the title or name “Theotokos” literally God-bearer was used. It was a way to say that the one who was conceived in her womb was in his person eternally God. The Word became flesh as the Gosepl of John says. So yes all Chrsitians should say Mary is the mother of God because the eternal SOn, begotten of the Fathjer from all eternity was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary. He got his humanity entirely from her.