Author: Robert

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bpglobalpr

whoever is doing the fake bp public relations twitter page is hilarious. here’s an example:

We’re paying Google a lot of money to make sure you only have access to the best possible info on the oil spill: our info.

bpglobalpr

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moltmann directed study

while it is not finalized with nobts yet the syllabus for the supervised self directed study i want to do for my next d.min seminar has been approved by dr. holcomb, the prof who will be supervising my study. i’ll finish up going through the paper work with nobts tomorrow. for now i am pretty pumped about getting to focus on studying the TRINITY and jürgen moltmann’s thoughts on it.

for those that are interested here is the syllabus that i developed for this study.

i know most of you do not care a bit about looking at the syllabus but i thought i would post it for the random searches that have come my way because of people doing searches on seminars for d.min programs.

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the week in tweets – 2010-06-06

  • I love going to sleep while it is storming. #
  • using my jambalaya pot make me thankful for friends like @jesslawrence1, @meganckelly , and @joshcausey. today my neighbors are thankful too #
  • religion is the affair of the godless man – karl barth #
  • @theboy1der – i will begin now. i hope things improve. in reply to theboy1der #
  • "it is not me that has been exposed, but you, for i have seen the nipple on your soul!" #
  • anybody have a summer camp & need a preacher? i just got the estimate on repairing the "swagger" van's a/c – $2,100. i could use some work. #
  • why do people like to eat rhubarb? it just doesn't make sense! #
  • anybody have an old computer they want to get rid of? i want to make a home theater pc with xbmc but i don't want to spend any money. 🙂 #
  • @allimill – either works in reply to allimill #
  • @dhaltom7 – sure – how much sugar did you have to add to make it bearable? in reply to dhaltom7 #
  • I think I have somehow landed in some type of dark comedy road trip movie. #
  • @Keannan5390 – old is acceptable. it will be a linux machine. in reply to Keannan5390 #
  • anybody associated with @sptapestry possibly able to go to washington and pick up one of our projectors. i need it for the member mtg #
  • @pagitt – you guys were selling babies? i don't really expect a church to do that 😉 in reply to pagitt #
  • anybody involved in @sptapestry interested in doing a "financial peace university" group during the fall? http://bit.ly/cpYT1d #
  • i love living in the upper midwest but i do wish people would buy diet coke for meetings instead of diet pepsi. darn yankees 🙂 #
  • Meeting is better now. Diet Coke found! http://twitpic.com/1u5mmu #
  • I'm reading "After Our Likeness" by Miroslav Volf. 1st time I have read Volf. He's interesting thus far. #
  • thanks to @woot i'm now has running tv on my computer! *ati tv wonder install √ *ability to watch "the office" on tbs √ *happy robert √ #

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my favorite recommendation thus far

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many people have had some very nice things to say about tapestry, our faith, and the manner in which we love each other. for example, i once hired an atheist to come in and critique one of our worship gatherings. i wanted to see how she was received, experienced, and understood from one of our gatherings. she said some incredible things about the group that i get to lead. there have been others with varying beliefs that have come in and said very positive things about the group, both when and when i had not asked them about their experience. YET the above facebook status is my favorite critiques of tapestry thus far. it comes from the status of azza, a muslim citizen of egypt, a fullbright scholar, and the uwsp arabic instructor for the past year. she started coming to tapestry about 6 months before she had to leave the states. everyone who makes up tapestry immediately started loving on her – we all know how it feels to be a stranger in the land. she ate supper at many of our homes, went to movies with us, hung out with us, and even went camping with one of the families that make up tapestry. basically she was made to feel welcome and then shown a GOD WHO loves her by a group of people loving her.

she didn’t leave wisconsin as a follower of JESUS but she did leave knowing that a group of followers of JESUS loves her passionately because of their love for JESUS. so passionately that she decided to use her facebook status to tell other people to give tapestry a try. i like it when people do that.

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heartless – the tin man

i have never read or heard the back story of the tin man but this short film is incredible. really it’s worth the 20 minutes it will take for you to watch it. i wonder how many people are forced into efficiency because of things placed on them, decided they like that efficiency, and then lose sight of who/what they were working for in the first place. as a pastor i know this this is personally a temptation for me. it is real easy to work to reach, provide, care, etc. for people  you love and in the process begin to focus more on the work than on the ones that you were working for. it is real easy for us to lose our “hearts.”

i hope and pray that all those who have lost their “heart” will find it again. even better than that – i hope and pray that non of us ever lose our “hearts” in the first place.

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june prayer email

here’s the prayer email that i send out to all those praying for tapestry. since my computer crashed last month i am working with an older set of email addresses. if you have not received copy of this email and would like to then please let me know your email address.

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collaborative message – 2.0

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for anyone who wishes to take part here’s the link to this week’s google document that i have set up for preparation for this week’s message (the url is http://tiny.cc/james119-21). last week there several threads who helped developed the message and it was kind of cool. thanks for the input guys and girls.

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trying to be a good neighbor

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pam and i love our neighbors. we have great neighbors that we really love spending time with. therefore, we thought it would be a fun to have our whole block over to the house for memorial day. thanks to my baton rouge friends giving me a jambalaya pot when i left louisiana i made jambalaya and pam asked everyone else to bring what ever that would like. it was kind of the best of both worlds – a set meal and a potluck at the same time. with the addition of s few tapestry friends we ended up having 33 people over to the terrell house. it was a wonderful time and everyone agreed that we need to do this again. pam and i are thinking of making this an annual tradition.

JESUS said that we should love our neighbors. i think part of this teaching means that the people who are a part of the bride of CHRIST (i.e. the church) should be great neighbors. i wonder how many churches would be described as good neighbors?

memorial day is about remembering those who have died for america’s freedom. the danger is that if we forget the cost of our freedom we will neglect it. forgetting is a very dangerous thing. i think the same thing is even more true with the CHRISTian faith. to forget is the most dangerous thing to our faith. when we focus on ourselves and don’t know, let alone love, our neighbors we are probably showing that we have forgotten what JESUS taught.

i hope memorial day was a day of remembering for all of us.

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the week in tweets – 2010-05-30

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