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Headphones, but no music
Odd, but true – I think I use my headphones on my laptop to generate white noise more often than to listen to actual music these days. I love music when I’m working out, cleaning the house, or doing non-brain-intensive activities, but as soon as I’m trying to think at all, any words mercilessly distract…
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Pieces of paper can’t tell the whole story
Today’s been an organization day in Sampson world. I’ve spent the morning sorting through piles of papers that have accumulated over the past few months as well as scanning some older files I want to keep around. One folder I ran across was filled with church plant proposals from different church planters I’ve met with.…
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Wednesday Distraction: Bright idea?
If you have $28 to spend on a light bulb, you absolutely need to get this one: More here.
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Jesus, sinners, and you
I’m always amazed at how Jesus not only hung around rough crowds filled with corrupt businessmen, prostitutes, and sinners but how those crowds actually wanted to be around Jesus. How does that happen? His message essentially tells them they need to change, but they invite him to parties. When I’m in a new group and…
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Remove jargon. Communicate clearly.
The more you’re a part of a subculture, the more you speak that culture’s language. That’s all fine and good until you need to communicate with someone outside of that culture. It happens in the church world. Phrases and expectations can be completely odd to the newcomer. And let me tell you – seminary doesn’t…
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Wednesday Distraction: Bringing back the musical
I’ve noticed that the longer I’m in seminary, the less “deep” this blog gets. I’m not exactly sure what that means. If you miss depth and want to read about substantive dualism and nonreductive physicalism, let me know and I’ll send you a paper I wrote…
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Making the most of time in seminary
I wrote a post for the site goingtoseminary.com about what role seminary can play in prep for ministry. You can check it out here. I’m always surprised when I talk with seminary students who are frustrated with the education they’re receiving. I’ve attended two very different seminaries so far, and the complainers existed both places.…
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White stuff up North
We’re flying back from a trip to Chicago tomorrow morning, but we just found a good Internet connection for the first time at tonight’s hotel (which was fine, really). The first morning we woke up in Chicago, we found this white stuff on the ground. I’m not sure what it is. It feels cold. The…
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A little time for community
Since we’re Community Coordinators for our apartment complex here at Fuller, Grete and I get to organize community events from time to time. Today, we (ok, mainly Grete) put together an egg dying party and had a great time dying Easter eggs and eating candy with our neighbors. We were a little worried, because even…
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Linkage: Apartment hunting, missing MacBooks, and faces in places
Nothing deep and meaningful here, but three exciting links for your reading pleasure … > An entertaining read with tips on finding apartments in LA. > One problem with the MacBook Air – it’s so light, you just might accidentally throw it away. > And the random blog of the day: Faces in Places. Honestly,…
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30 units away…
You can’t tell, but this little sheet proves I’ll actually be done with my classes at Fuller in December. I’d been telling people that, but it’s refreshing to actually look at it and think, “Yeah, that actually adds up!”
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Major LOST secret revealed for the first time here!
So we were watching a clip from the movie The Gospel of John in my preaching class, and you’ll never guess who showed up… DESMOND IS JESUS! Now LOST makes total sense. It all fits together…
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Good point (on preaching)
A good reason to make sure sermons have a “so what” point… “Nobody ever goes to church to find out what happened to the Hittites.” – from Preaching and Teaching With Imagination by Warren Wiersbe [From Heather Zempel]
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A little hypocritical?
So I’ve been wanting to read Peter Walsh’s new book. I reserved it at the Pasadena library, but I’m number 11 on a wait list. Today, I noticed that Amazon had it on sell for $6.99. I still have Christmas money for books, etc. So I bought it. And then we bought a few more…
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