February 2012
101 posts
Never Wet: Nanotechnology →
Really crazy…amazing possibilities of application.
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Brave →
Great 2+ minutes from the new Pixar movie Brave.
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Jacob's Well Urban Liturgy
Over the years, i’ve been writing various pieces of liturgy for our services. This was a piece I wrote this morning as I was thinking about ‘sending’ off our people into the world for life, witness and service. Desiring to bless them in prayer, as they seek to figure out how to be who God wants them to be in all the different corners of the city.
Sending:
May God’s light be...
Prayer of Saint Ephraim (Lenten prayers)
O Lord and Master of my life,
Grant not unto me a spirit of idleness,
of discouragement,
of lust for power,
and of vain speaking.
But bestow upon me, Thy servant,
the spirit of chastity,
of meekness,
of patience,
and of love.
Yea, O Lord and King,
grant that I may perceive
my own transgressions,
and judge not my brother,
for blessed art Thou
unto ages of ages.
Amen.
Anonymous asked: What was your favorite playground game?
Lent & Life: Stories for the Journey →
Justin Bryeans, pastor of Kaleo, shares an intimate life story between his father Ed and Lent.
Conversations I have with Refugees.
Here’s a few gleanings from stuff i hear from people from other cultures trying to figure out American life.
-The East is better than the West because all the great religious teachers came from it.
-The East knows how to go to the bathroom cleaner, yawn and cough politely.
-The East understand respect for elders, teachers, parents and God more than the West.
-Christians like to...
“Let us not forget that Christians were killed in ancient Rome under Caesar, not because they worshiped Jesus, but because they would not worship Jesus and Caesar.”
-Background on Colossians, Study By: J. Hampton Keathley, III
Transvaginal ultrasound...?
Virginia’s ‘mandatory transvaginal ultrasound legislation is another example of how the Prolife voice gets silenced by ridicule.
Ultra-right Conservatives are shooting themselves in both feet with the hyper focus on social issues in this debate season.
Please, please stop…speaking for us, you are making our voices hoarse by having to shout at friends and foes now!
Spokane Books →
A local blog for Bibliophiles.
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Lenten prayer
Help us O’ Lord,
to break open the bone,
to find the marrow,
to feast upon life eternal.
Amen.
Seekers, searchers, hungry and thirsty.
Awaken the mystic, the lovers, the great and sacred ache.
The desert of the single eye, pools up with longing.
The cries of its wild, be blended with weepings and pleadings.
Pangs of hunger rumble from inner life and beyond.
Let the Sun compete for...
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the worshiper’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper place of ritual.” - C.S. Lewis
Anonymous asked: Did you behave yourself on Fat Tuesday?
I dig seeing dudes dressed in power suits talking on cell phones, looking all businessy and toting an Ash Wed cross on their foreheads. Too cool. Mad props.
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Anonymous asked: What is the question you are most afraid somebody might ask you?
Historical Background on Ash Wednesday →
Interesting information and scriptures to think through today. I love the Hebrew-Greek word-Christ connection. “Tav” who would of thunk it?
FA-18 "Super Hornet" Breaks Sound Barrier →
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'Here' by Kari Jobe →
What an awesome song, especially for any wounded and suffering souls out there.
Abortion Question?
Do you think Sex Selection Abortion be legal?
S.S. being…choosing to abort a fetus if the sex of the child is not the one the parent wants.
“We have children as a witness that the future is not left up to us and that...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens (via invisibleforeigner)
WatchRescued Pitbull Saves a War Veteran From Suicide. Heroes don’t just come in human packages as this beautiful video shows. Pitbulls, misjudged for being naturally violent, prove to be little saviors for war veterans.
WatchRescued, Redeemed and Restored. The power of love and medicine blending together to bring a little more healing in the world. If you have the chance to go get a good education in medicine and then do this kind of work….why are you waiting?
The Apostolic Prayer of Colossians 1:9-14
And so, from the day we heard,
we have not ceased to pray for you,
asking that you may be filled
with the knowledge of his will
in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,
fully pleasing to him,
bearing fruit in every good work
and increasing in the knowledge of God.
May you be strengthened with all power,
according to his...
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Of Gods and Men
I watched the movie: “Of God’s and Men” last night, it’s a movie with deep and powerful messages, worth meditating upon. It’s much slower than the trailer portrays, so don’t look at this as an action film. It’s a movie about love and community being walked out through ancient liturgy among the horror of war and faithful mission by a small group of weak...
“We are not gnostics; we do not believe that knowledge or even that same...”
– wisdom from an anonymous Jesuit (via shortbreadsh)
Micah on the News →
My youngest son, Micah rapping on KXLY News.
Anonymous asked: Is procrastination a sin?
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“I am astonished at myself, my beloved brothers, because of the way in which I daily fail. I build for hours, then for hours I destroy what I have built. At night I say, ‘Tomorrow I will repent’, but in the morning when I get up I put it off for another day. Again towards evening I say, ‘Tonight I will keep vigil and besiege the Lord with tears that he may look mercifully on my sins’, but...
In Christianity, docetism (from the Greek δοκέω dokeō, “to seem”) is the belief that Jesus’ physical body was an illusion, as was his crucifixion; that is, Jesus only seemed to have a physical body and to physically die, but in reality he was incorporeal, a pure spirit, and hence could not physically die. This belief treats the sentence “the Word was made Flesh”...
Blood, Doctors and the Poor
I spent all morning driving around the South Hill trying to get a bleeding refugee into an Urgent care. 3 medical businesses later, after being turned away because they don’t take his insurance, we ended up back at his home…praying.
I’m so frustrated, well…really I’m pissed. Our system sucks.
As a pastor, I’m praying that God will raise up medical mission...
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“Grant that we may find You and be found by You; that our divisions may cease; that we may be united in your truth and walk together in love to bear witness to Your glory in the world. Amen” -Venite, selection from midday prayer
Leaning into Lent
Lent invites us into the desert.
The early church used this 40 day season as a time of fasting and preperation of converts for Easter Baptism.
By reflecting on the Jesus wilderness temptation, we recognize the reality of this present darkness. We as a corporate body will travel through a season of saying no to our flesh and Satan and yes to the work of the Holy Spirit within us and among us....
Anonymous asked: What is with all the Tattoos these days?
Anonymous asked: Are you Lin-sane yet?
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“It is no new thing to fall in the mire, but it is an evil thing to lie there...”
– The Life of St. Mary the Harlot
Anonymous asked: Is liturgy underused in Evangelical worship?
Sunday Prayer
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
O God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because in our weakness we can do nothing good without you, give us the help of your grace, that in keeping your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever....
“It was no flock of sheep the Christian shepherd was leading, but a herd of bulls...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via invisibleforeigner)