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Archive for February, 2007
I just have to share, and I just now thought about it.
4I have my likewise books post-it notes sitting at my desk and it reminded me of the talk at youth group on Sunday night. We were going through the story of the samaritan and at one point the passage was read and my friend paused at just the right place and said ‘Likewise….go and do’. I laughed and no one knew quite why…
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22280 days
Hey all, just wanted to catch everyone up on a few topics. It’s been busy around the Juvinall household:
- Yesterday was technology day. We ended up severing ties with our dear ‘friends’ Verizon; we switched to vonage. Along with that, I followed the instructions on their site and made our house into a closed loop. If you cut your physical connection to Verizon, you can plug your vonage router into a phone jack in your house and suddenly all of your phones are vonage phones; it’s very cool. We also bought an iMac this year; yes, an iMac. Last night, after some struggle, I finally finished configuring it (it always is a struggle in a paradigm shift). We are owners of a computer manufactured by Apple…wow, I said it. I hear admitting it is a first step.
- Lord willing, we’ll have some big news to announce soon. Pray for us if you think about it, we’re trying to make something logistically work that will be…big.
- Along with that, Sunday was one of those Spirit filled days at Church where God really affirmed alot of things in our hearts. The talk is available here, and it was about God’s will for us, and death and doing your life well. Great stuff; we sang ‘We Rest On Thee’ afterwards, which, if one could have them, is our theme song as a couple (like Over The Rhine’s music, that song factors in a couple of key moments for us in our marriage). Anyway, couldn’t sing the second or third verse just for weeping; the Pastor led and I have to wonder what he was thinking. It’s a balm to have God really challenge, convict and encourage you all at the same time.
We go in faith, our own great weakness feeling,
And needing more each day Thy grace to know:
Yet from our hearts a song of triumph pealing,
“We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.”
Yet from our hearts a song of triumph pealing,
“We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.”
And on to lighter news: Nickleback.
1I knew there was a reason why they seemed…forgettable:
http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm
har har har (back at Dave Zimmerman 
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Titles that make me laugh
5“What’s so dangerous about the emerging church?”
This showed up in a ‘freebies’ section of slickdeals.net tonight; you fill out the form and they send you a copy. What makes me laugh is title’s like this because it’s a fake argument. The agenda of the book is obvious; it’s a book against the emergent church, but the title makes you think that it’s not and gives the people looking for some ammo the false sense that they are getting an objective look at things.
It’s humorous but also makes me a bit sad in that I’ve read or heard of far too many books like this that just ended up being divisive in the end; especially detailing churches that dear brothers and sisters are in. Instead of creating a conversation and seeking to understand, attack books like this one end up drawing people into an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ where I don’t think such a line exists or even should be drawn.
In the end I just don’t get it. The day is just too short and there are far too many real enemies out there for us to be drawing imaginary lines within our own house and selling it as Christian scholarship. We should be about the business of Jesus; about really becoming salt and light in the world and not arguing about the dangers of overconsumption of sodium. Are we really that way when our time is spent in lame attempts to discredit contexts where people are spoken to and meet God in a true way because it somehow looks different than the norm?
Disclaimer: I’m not in the emergent conversation but have tons of friends that are (and are blogging buddies with) and have a relative who recently came to know Jesus as a result of a church. I also have a passion for culturally relevant, high production quality worship – it ministers to my heart to see people care about how things look and to take care in making sure things are done with quality. Not for the sake of quality, but for a genuine desire to worship through their gifts; to see God in the details. I guess that is one of the reasons serving at Urbana 06 this year was an act of worship that I’m appreciative of the opportunity to be a part of…but I digress.
Further disclaimer: I’m always a bit gun shy writing pieces like this.
Wonderful image
3I couldn’t help but share this one. It popped up on digg today and it made me laugh, literally, out loud.
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In case, you can’t see it, the sticker on the top says ‘This computer is never obsolete’ – right above the sticker that says 533Mhz Celeron (a rather older, slower computer).
Basically, if you pay them 99 dollars every two years, they’ll upgrade your computer for you (written in fine print). The humor opportunities are endless when you involve marketing people .