December 2011
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I got four things to say and I didn't say any of...
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Or do you not know that your...
5 Under-Appreciated Albums of 2011
Forget Me: Demo: http://forgetme.bandcamp.com/album/demo
I’m not including this because I am in a band with the singer. It’s the other way around. Powrful female I Hate Myself-style vocals.
Jordan Knecht: Ashveville 7”, Slow Walker Split, Summer Sessions 2011, AND Live at Woodworks: http://jordanknecht.bandcamp.com/
One of the hardest working people I know (see his tumblr if...
“Then she stood a while longer, reflecting, her unseeing eyes directly in front...”
– “The Displaced Person” from A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
“It is not wrong to hurt; pain will either make us bitter or gentle.”
– Dr. Shmutzer in Psalms class today,
I hope I always choose the latter.
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Bears
I have always found black bears’ diets funny, with 85% of their diet coming from berries and other vegetation. This is funny to me for two reasons. One is pretty well articulated by this picture:
The other reason is that it sounds like berries were named after bears. I sometimes like to imagine Adam as a good old country boy wandering the garden after God told him to name every living...
November 2011
4 posts
“9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field...”
October 2011
29 posts
A most humble recording of a song about humility....
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“As you think about your obedience, and the pursuit of good things for God,...”
– Randy Edwards, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, Kernersville, NC
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For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a] Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them, the...
Grace
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give...
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“Writers are defined, in large measure, by what they can’t do. The mass of things...”
– How to write fiction: Geoff Dyer on freedom | Books | guardian.co.uk
I think this is profoundly important for young artists and intellectuals to know. Similarly, a story I often tell: when he was a young trumpet player in New York, Miles Davis was so intimidated by Dizzy Gillespie that he almost...
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“I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless...”
– N.T. Wright “Surprised by Hope” (via missmosnarylime)
A Refrigerator's Sonnet
My mom gave me a “Shakespearean Insults” magnetic poetry set in my Christmas stocking in 2007. I still do not know why. But a couple months later, eager to find some way of putting them to use and surprised by the number of seemingly uninsulting words, I challenged myself to write a love sonnet with the insults. I arranged them on my dorm room’s mini-refrigerator, and also...
Nobel Peace Prize goes to women's rights activists... →
A list of real questions about lightning from one...
Does lightning last as long as a tornado?
What is Something that makes light?
Where is the Thermostat on a lightning?
Are thunder and lightning myths true?
Are eagles associated with thunder?
How are people warned about the thunderstorms?
Between what bodies can lightning strick?
Is there a planet that lightning comes from?
Can hail be rare?
Describe two characteristics of...