Food--a week tinged with red

• Breakfast: boiled egg, kefir, almonds, and maybe some fruit.
• Lunch: beef, marinated in grapefruit juice and slow-cooked in Stone IPA with beets and tomato; salad of Romaine, Mache, Radicchio, tomato, raw beet, and grapefruit
• Dinner: raw cabbage and bok choy, topped with sole, cooked in lemon olive oil and marinated sweet lime juice.

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Discipline of Listening (Definition)

silent, aural intake of contextual sounds, listening as far as possible; used in the contemplatio movement of Lectio Divina, quieting the mind for intuitive thought.

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Resources
Laura's Writings: Spiritual Formation Along the Focal/Subsidiary-Conceptual/Bodily Continua
Laura's Writings: Lectio Divina--getting the Word in


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Four Cartoons in My Reader

1. Dilbert: human nature
2. Indexed: making sense of life
3. i can haz cheezburger? LOLCATS: plain funny
4. nakedpastor: Christianity, viewed, um, off center
   

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Divinity Becomes Flesh and Everything Changes

only-Son type glory
shining,
light that is life,
substance-maker,
Word,
with God,
is God,

weaving
divine in flesh,
immaterial with material,
crossing the uncrossable divide.

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John 1:1-14
Norton Lectures (by John Mark Reynolds)

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What shall we pray for to the praise of his glory?

here,
in this dangerous, spiritual place,
these particular people:
thanked for,
prayed for,
for God-wisdom, not earth-wisdom,
for God-revelation, not earth-revelation,
from knowing God-hope, God-power.

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Pondering Amidst the Tall, Verdant Elegance

lemon-scented gum,
guarding the walk to Feinberg;
strength,
flexibility of years,
continuous display of fractal beauty,
sculpted in partnership with human hands,
standing among friends.

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Splat Poetry (Definition)

Intuitive style of poetry, flowing from the quiet pondering of various inputs, often with a discipline of listening, and resulting in spontaneous, barely-edited free verse.

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Related
- Splat-Poetry tag

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Twenty-five Ecclesiology Books Worth Considering

1. More Theoretical Works
• Robert Saucy: The Church in God's Program
• Darrell Guder: Missional Church
• Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen: An Introduction to Ecclesiology
• J. Scott Horrell: From the Ground Up: New Testament Foundations for the 21st-Century Church
• Frank Viola: The Untold Story of the New Testament Church
• Edmund Clowney: The Church
• Earl D. Radmacher: What the Church is All About
• Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton (editors): Remembering Our Future (Deep Church)
• Eddie Gibbs: Emerging Churches
• Joseph H. Hellerman: The Ancient Church as Family
• Robert J. Banks: Paul's Idea of Community
• Craig Van Gelder: The Essence of the Church
• Miroslav Volf: After Our Likeness--The Church as the Image of the Trinity
  
2. More Practical Works
• Frank Viola: Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity
• Robert Webber (editor): Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches
• Brian McLaren: Church on the Other Side
• Robert Banks: The Church Comes Home
• Robert Banks: Going to Church in the First Century
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Life Together--The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
• James C. Wilhoit: Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered
• Frank Viola: Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
• Tod E. Bolsinger: It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian
  
• Dan Kimball: The Emerging Church
• Michael Moynagh: emergingchurch.intro
• Kester Brewin: The Complex Christ
3. >25 not yet read, but on my list
• Wolfgang Simson: Houses that Change the World
• Brad Harper: Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction
  
• Mark Greene: Let My People Grow
• Roger Gehring: House Church and Mission
  
• William D. Henard and Adam W. Greenway (editors): Evangelicals Engaging Emergent--A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement
• Karl Barth: The Church and the Churches

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Notes:

• These are listed in no particular order.
• Works I've found especially useful works are in bold.
• I've commented on many of these on Stuff I've Read.
  

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It's not that you trust, it's who--Isaiah 36-39

Yahweh's true power,
displayed beyond doubt
to the user,
to the faithful,

active for healing
to the sick,
desperate, praying worshiper,

promised for rebuke,
soon.

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outline of Isaiah 36-39

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How have you experienced the "Shut up!" response to God's lavish blessings in Christ?

Even knowing I have been lavished with God's blessing in Christ, I so often miss the experience, setting my eyes on so many other things.

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Eph 1:9-14
sermon notes 5/17
Culture note: The Princess Diaries (the "Shut up!" response)

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Trying new stuff for meals this week

• Breakfast: kefir (homemade--1st time out), pinova apples (new apple), almonds, boiled eggs
• Lunch: chicken and turnips in gingered broth (never ate this before)
  
• Dinner: daikon and jicama, in sweet lime-red jalapeno dressing, with salmon (never ate this before)
• and whatever else strikes the primal fancy
  

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Public Art Requires Conversation

on Bardwell's wall
one thin layer of controversy,
standing 20 years:

Twitchell's Word,
spinning an undercurrent of speech,
aging,
awaiting destiny
and to finally dialogue.

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Tangentizing (Definition)

dialogical process by which allegedly off-topic tangents are leveraged to add insight, depth, breadth to the main topic. to be distinguished from mere side talk.




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Ten Useful Firefox Extensions

Can not do without it

• CoolPreviews
• Gmail Manager
• Shareaholic
• Xmarks

Handy

• Delicious Bookmarks
• Forecastfox
• NoScript
• Tiny Menu

Runs in back

• Adblock Plus
• Flashblock

What else?


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God is faithful, and us...well... (Isaiah 38-39)

how can one person
be so faithful ,
so foolish ,
so self-centered?

then again,
why am i shocked,
having just peered at one
in the mirror?

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When it comes to spiritual power, there is no comparison.

sermon on Ephesians 1:6-8

They lived in a city where spiritual power was an everyday experience, incantations sold on every street-corner.

Thinking themselves weak, they needed the truth: Jesus.

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Focusing on Protein and Veges

• Breakfast
  
• Garlic Paprika Oat Pucks
• Mixed Greens
• Boiled Egg
• Kefir with ground flax and nori
• Lunch
• Steamed Salmon
• Crimini, Broccoli, and Yellow Onion, sauteed in coconut oil
• Brussels Sprouts, steamed with Nutmeg
• Dinner
• Celery and Red Bell Pepper, with Sardines, topped with fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and fresh ground black pepper
• Snack
• Sunflower seeds
• Guacamole
  

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Relishing the Avian Symphony

each spring has an undercurrent
of celebration and competition.

in every nook and branch
new families come to be,
filling the sonic space with song.

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Matrix Thinking (Definition)

method for integrating apparently unrelated concepts by titling table columns with ideas from one concept, rows with another, and forcing new ideas from each pair.

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How does [column noun] [force verb] [row noun]?
Example: "How does ecclesiology mitigate undefined fear?

force verb: mitigate	ecclesiology	integration	cognition	formation
undefined fear	secure identity	systems perspective	continuous learning	Spirit-shaping
excitement	fond community	holistic context	informed trajectory	Spirit-directing
inadequacy	divine gifts	flexible means	internal improvement	Spirit-healing
ability	shared task	applied breadth	chastened assurance	Spirit-powered

UPDATE (7/13/09): I may have found an official name for this: morphological analysis.
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Necessary Bits in the Monkey Bars

• "Trinity"
• "The full deity and humanity of Jesus Christ"
• "Justification by faith"
• "The authority of Scripture"
• One holy universal apostolic Church

Would you add/remove anything?


For Further Reading
"A Call for Theological Triage and Christian Maturity ," by Albert Mohler [source of quoted items"]
Confession of Chalcedon, wikipedia
Nicene Creed, wikipedia
Definition: Monkey Bar Theology, me
Rubric for the Theological Evaluation of an Ecclesiology, me

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On what do you base this confidence?

the Rabshakeh got some things right

• Egypt did more harm than good.
• Horses wouldn't help.
• Yahweh sent Assyria.

but he blew it big on Yahweh.

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Isaiah 36-37

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This is why God is blessed

born as children,
adopted as heirs,
lavished beyond imagination.

chosen in the Chosen One,
life's boundaries set to image him.

why?

for the Father's pleasure.

Ephesians 1:4-5 sermon

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fermented, flavored, and fragrant

• Breakfast: plain, unsweetened kefir and sunflower seeds
• Lunch: green cabbage and leeks, sliced fine and sauteed in coconut oil; pork french garlic sausage, sauteed in coconut oil and sliced; with a sauce of beef stock, flavored by simmering in leek tops, strained, and reduced with dried ginger
• Dinner: cheese plate, with sliced blood orange, pata cabra , and bucheron st. saviol

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What are your favorite beverages?

Some of my favorite beverages:

• strong, dark roast coffee
• metromint peppermint water
• rich, smooth porter
• lapsang souchong tea
• super hoppy IPA

What are your favorites?

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The affect, which distractions do not adequately explain

broken bodies,
corrupted reasoning,
focused so here-and-now,
so back-then;

skating along,
with passion neglected,
yet, hearing persistent Truth's urging:

Christ behind me,
Christ before me.

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Further Reading
Philippians 1:20-21
Saint Patrick's Breastplate (music plays automatically)

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