A real trip

Check out the NYC messenger riders cruising the streets. This is almost a spiritual experience.



Got it from Kloky on FB.

STIR 2011 - the promo vid

What do you reckon, did we do a decent job? Think it'll promote the event well?



By the way, if you're 16-27, then consider registering and getting along to STIR 2011, 21st-23rd of January. It's a conference for youth and young adults to be stirred up to serve Jesus in your local church for the year. Great time of fellowship, challenge, fun and encouragement.

Kutz: Dad or Cad?

Which of the early church fathers are you? Apparently...

You’re Tertullian! You possess many gifts, but patience isn’t one of them. You’re tough on yourself — and on others. You’re independent, too, and you don’t like to be told what to do. You wish the Church would be a little tighter in discipline. As for the pagans, you’ve pretty much written them off. Sometimes you think the Church would be a better place if you were in charge. Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers!

Recommended retirement age

An awesome quote I read this morning, despite being from a man who has raised my ire on more than one occasion. Beautifully put by none other than Sir Alex Ferguson:

Retirement is for young people. I’m too old to retire.

The real St. Eutychus?

Was Paul truly boring? I've got a new theory. Perhaps he was a bit more like Driscoll. In fact, perhaps he was better! Maybe he was really funny and interesting. I mean, why else would people listen to him preach all night? I bet he had heaps of hilarious stories from the baths that would keep the gentiles entertained for hours.

All things to all men, does that sound like someone who doesn't know how to hold an audience to you? Chris Rock has nothing on old St. Paul.

How can you reconcile this now-proven reality with the data contained in Acts 20:9 where Eutychus 'fell asleep' while Paul was preaching? Did he have no sense of humour? Was he just a really young 'young man' and needed a nap? Was he narcoleptic?

I would like to suggest that perhaps a psychosynopticising reading of the text may provide the answer. And so, I present to you my alternative reading of Acts 20:9:

lachschlaganfall
n. a condition in which a person falls unconscious due to violent laughter

A perhaps confusing conclusion to an inadequate essay

Having looked at history through the eyes of Barth, it seems that he understood his great battle to be with prolegomena to Scripture. His view of revelation and his Christology were driven by his attempt to escape from the epistemological presuppositions of his time and to establish a pure way of allowing God to speak. McCormack rightly makes the point that while Schleiermacher was concerned to establish the independence and absoluteness of religion, Barth was seeking to establish the independence of revelation. In this, the two men find both their similarity and their difference. In his desire to remove God’s Word from underneath the scalpel of historical criticism, Barth separated the Word of God from the Bible and located it in an experience of the Bible instead. In this, Barth was unable to himself escape from a philosophical prolegomena which he himself had inherited from Kierkegaard, despite distinguishing himself from some aspects of it. Having charged others with the crime of the possession of a theological prolegomena, Barth himself is not immune to the charge.

Telos

The purpose of this blog was to help me capture certain thoughts before they run away. My thoughts tend to do this. Here one week, gone another. My memory is less than stellar. And less than Stella.

And so, in a conversation the other night, I heard someone say something cool and said, "That's cool. I'm going to put it on my blog."

But I've now forgotten it.

I've also forgotten who said it to me, though I think I've got an inkling of that.

What was it that was so cool but I've now forgotten? Was it you who was talking to me? What did you say?*


*Not actually being the person or having even said anything cool to me in the last 48 hours ought not to be an impediment to offering suggestions.