Archive for November, 2008

Greenpeace

26Nov08

I was walking through downtown DC today to meet a friend for lunch.  It was rather cold, and there was a slight wind that chilled any exposed skin.  It was about a twenty-five minute walk from my hotel to my friends office.  As I approached the last crosswalk before his block, I could see ahead [...]


Facebook God

22Nov08

I couldn’t go to sleep, so I grabbed my computer to see what interesting things I could get myself into.  I started to think about God as I do when I’m bored.  I noticed something:  I spend way too much time on the computer.  Not that it’s a bad thing to spend time online, I [...]


Creed

20Nov08

I’ve heard this poem in a few of Ravi’s podcasts, but it had even more of an impact when I read it in print.  I found it in “Can Man Live Without God” by Ravi Zacharias, but it was written by the English Journalist, Steve Turner.  It’s a satirical poem on modern humanist thinking:
 

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I read through a few chapters of Ravi’s “Can Man Live without God” while sitting at a little sandwich/coffee shop here on M Street in Georgetown.  Zacharias very deliberately points out the natural consequences of atheism – more specifically atheistic philosophy as Nietzsche presents it.  While I read I wrote down my own response to [...]


I often find my own sin unforgivable so I  have to reread the story of David and Bathseba.  When I read anything about David, I feel more a part of the story; I read as if the story is about me.  
God made an awesome promise to David in 2 Samuel chapter 7.  In the beginning of [...]


thoughts.

11Nov08

I haven’t written in a while, but I need to.  I’m in D.C. now, and I’ll be spending plenty of time by myself which means I’ll have more time to think about life and God and the point at which they meet.  Fortunately, God is always more interested in me than I am in Him. [...]