I haven’t “blogged” (it’s still a strange word to me. Almost too hip. Isn’t it just writing?) in awhile. I’ve been enamored with Twitter, the 140-character limiting status update social network. On there, I’m batwood. My twitter feed is actually on the sidebar of this page, should you be interested in my updates. It’s much less intimidating to do short bursts of status updates than to write posts of any length. The lack of lengthy updates is possibly due to [...]
I’m sure they mean well, but, I mean, really? Just make sure you listen to the whole thing. The verses are pure poetry. In that they rhyme.
[amazonify]0979017491[/amazonify] Pop Goes the Church makes the case for the wise and effective use of popular culture within a church service. Stevens does not approach the subject lightly, nor does he speak from an academic or merely hypothetical point of view. As Executive Pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Illinois, Stevens speaks from years of seeing his opinions put into effective practice. Television, movies, music, the internet: these are the means of communication in the 21st century, the way [...]
“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or [...]
- Via Tim Stevens, LeadingSmart.com
