Life Together (Micro Review)

Claim: The Scripture provides the "directions and precepts" by which Christians live "life together under the Word" (17).

True classic; life-tested amidst dire circumstances.



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Slow Cooked Chicken...Yum.

Pastured Chicken, cooked in Stone Vertical Epic 090909

From Drop Box

Served with Savoy Cabbage, cooked in Grass-Fed Butter

From Drop Box

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Practicing Presence

without
self-knowledge,
learned from stillness, silence, present-centeredness,
I can only give
a blurry, false self.

but with self-knowledge,
a known self,
given
inward,
outward,
upward.

Informant
Wil Hernandez on The Present of Presence

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Integrity in research and anything else

to know reality,
to know how to respond,
requires developed insight:

a mind
trained,
able to see,
to trust,
to critique,
to act.

humility.

wisdom.

Informant
Lawson teaching on minimizing risk, declaring risk, and highlighting effect size.

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Passion is Insufficient:

impressive spirituality,
legal purity, and
insight
resulting in
self-satisfaction and dedication.

only new birth,
of Spirit,
by God,
will suffice,
resulting in gratitude
and love.


Informant
The Guy had a Problem--Do You?
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The Primal Blueprint (Micro Review)

Claim: Following ten simple, adaptation-driven rules of eating and moving results in a healthy, lean, fit, happy human.

Reasoned and clear; great primal lifestyle guide.



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Church attendance does not make me a Christian

"Christianity becomes confused when everyone is a Christian but no one is following Christ."

- Ed Stetzer, "Chicken Little was Wrong" Christianity Today, Jan2010, p37

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A Snippet of Sunrise: Feb 17

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There is a theological dissertation in there somewhere...

In our staff meeting Monday morning, one of my co-workers shared the following:

"Monday and Tuesday we offer grace for $15."

Now, the immediate context was late registration, but since we are a Christian university with a deep theological belief and practice, the humor of the statement was recognized immediately.

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Portable Seclusion

I've created a traveling office,
built and torn down,
trip to trip,
bus to bus:

Victorinox backpack

Sansa mp3 player

one hour of Relaxing Rain Ambience


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If truth has no fruit, check your heart.

kingdom truth sown.
some devoured by evil: emptiness.
some scorched by trouble: withering.
some choked by culture: unproductive.
some grows: fruit.

same seed.
different hearts.


Informant
Which Soil Describes your Soul?

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Still Ironing the Kinks Out of My Blog Voice

Some of my friends and acquaintances would say I think too much.  I disagree. I rethink too much.

I'm still trying to capture natural witwaw.

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Patient Heal Thyself (Micro Review)

Claim: Through the Maker's Diet, probiotics, and lifestyle changes, patients can heal themselves.

Science-experience in support, but tends towards sales pitch for author's company. Detractors.

Librarything Link

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Spiritual Formation-Educational Research Mash-up

16 weeks at the intersection of community and inferential statistics
16 weeks of reading and thinking and writing
16 weeks of expertise-creation
PhD spring 2010

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Does grace get us off the hook?

I say: Grace does not release us from responsibility; it recognizes our utter weakness and provides everything needed for responsible action.

What do you say?

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Kindle is nifty, but it doesn't replace paper

The industrial and technological revolutions resulted in a plethora of nifties, but let's not assume nifty equals progress.

Progress is much more holistic and complex.

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You are going to serve someone!

I will continue choosing to serve Jesus:

• obeying toward glory
• living ordinary life toward integrity
• leaning my ear toward truth
• prostrating my heart toward wholeness
  

Informant

• Why follow Jesus?

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Definition: Form

causing to come into being through an outline that provides design for dance, a skeleton that provides theme for variation, or guidelines that protect freedom.


Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "form" in synonym discussion under "make" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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Can reason dance?

rational and non-rational,
both necessary to life,
yet we insist on living
in one or the other.
somehow,
they dance together.
I'm not sure how.

Informants

• TTDE813: Humanity's necessary communal nature is founded in God's communal trinitarian nature.
• TTDE866: Data must be allowed to speak clearly and for themselves.
  

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The Coconut Oil Miracle (Micro Review)

Claim: Coconut oil and related coconut products should be consumed and applied for overall health improvement.

Good research base; excellent use suggestions; title is extravagant.



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Curried Hot Chocolate (non-dairy)

1/2 c Coconut Milk
2 t Curry powder
1/2 square Scharffen Berger baking chocolate, fine chop
1 T grade B maple syrup

How

• Heat coconut milk
• Add curry powder and maple syrup and simmer a few minutes to combine flavors
• Add chocolate and melt
• Enjoy immediately

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Do we even have groundhogs in California?

It is alleged that today, somewhere, a groundhog will emerge and either see or not see his shadow. Being a flatland Californian, I don't care.

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Food Pics--Monday 2/1 banana, beef, sauer kraut

Green bananas, cooked in grass-fed butter
and combined with no-nitrate, no-nitrite,
all grass-fed beef organic tube steak :-)

Stew beef, sous vide in the desktop water boiler,
topped with olive oil and black pepper

Red cabbage sauer kraut,
sous vide in grass-fed butter

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Diversity is Heart Deep

Touch the outcast.
Remember the forgotten.
Make neighborhoods and share.
Honor sundry loves and flex.
Know as intimate and acquaintance.
Connect faithfully in ordinary life.

Informants

• Black History Month
• Second Chances sermon

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