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Seeking Righteousness

I heard John Piper say in one of his “ask John Piper” talks a couple of weeks ago that every generation needs to look for holes in their theology. What is it we are missing that we can learn from other generations? For the puritans, they completely missed the boat on slavery. Theologically, especially in America, we are missing the boat on God's grace.   We have received grace from Jesus to bring about the obedience of faith. There is obedience involved in the Christian faith. Our obedience doesn't save us, but our obedience is the evidence of our faith and salvation in Jesus Christ.   I have been very disobedient. I have lived a life with the mindset that God's wrath is in the rear view mirror. That doesn't mean I don't feel guilty over my sin, because I do. It's just that I continue to show a pattern of resting on God's grace in certain areas of my life.   I know we don't like to talk about "works" or that there are rules to follow,
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The brilliance of Sufjan Stevens

Enjoy!
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thirtysomething

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There was no way around it, no place to hide. 30 was coming and there was nothing I could do about it. Slowly it creped up on me over 12 months, and now it is here. I am 30 years old. I sure as heck didn't let it take me without a fight! Wed night, Annie surprised me with a turtle pie during small group. She definately knows how to get straight to my heart. Thursday, I took the day off of work! I was able to catch up on some compilations I have been working on forever, wrote some music, drank several cups of coffee, went thrifting, watched Steve's keynote at Macworld, etc. Thursday night, Annie and I went to Pucket (awesome Thai place) followed by VIP seats at Monico. No one under the age of 21 was allowed in the theatre! Good times had by all. Friday night, I had 12 guys over to play video games. We had 2 projectors (Wii, Gamecube), 2 TVs, a Genesis, an Atari, some Guitar Hero, a little Sam Adams, and some Chicken Mariachi from Denatos. I schooled Geoff in some NHL '94, wh
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For the nerd in your life...

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It's almost Christmas and you haven't gotten anything for the mac lover in your life. You cringe at the thought of heading out to your local mac retailer, feeling completely inadequate as they ask you questions about what version of OSX you have or if you are using a power pc or an intel based processor, etc, etc. Well, here are a couple of low cost programs that you can download for your favorite mac geek without having to leave the comfort of your computer chair. I have always enjoyed journaling on my computer, but I have never liked all the digital clutter of word or other word processing programs. Writeroom is a program that gives you a full screen writing environment, similar to a typewriter. The config is simple. You pick a background color, a page color, and a text color. Nothing else is on the screen. I use a black background, a grey page, and white text. It creates a peaceful writing experience, and it saves on battery life for your laptop. If you are a very busy perso
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what happened

I made this video to show at Summit last week. While only 7 minutes, it gives you a very small taste of what we saw and did while in India. All of the people in this video affected our lived in some way. I have been trying to think of the right words to right on here to explain what the experience was like. It was nothing short of life changing. I think this video does better justice then my words ever could.
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Turning 30

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Daniel Cannon is now 30. I missed his birthday while in India. He is my friend. I like him. We have fun. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DC!!!!
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Child's play

I got to spend some quality time with the kids in Java Thanda on Tuesday. We taught them how to play "Duck Duck Goose", "Simon Says", and they taught us an awesome game where you have to guess who the leader is in a mob of kids and if you get it wrong, you have to either sing or dance in front of everyone. The mob gets to pick whether you sing or dance. I have some video of that somewhere. This video here is just everyone being silly in front of the camera. I had them follow whatever I was doing. Good times were had by all. :-)
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