At NMCCH, basketball is a regularity. Tisha throws up an airball, showing everyone her “how not to play basketball skills.”
Of course, there is a very good reason I’m not playing…
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Tyndale Giveaways
It seems like forever since I’ve reviewed a book for Tyndale Publishers. I simply haven’t had the time to read materials not germane to school or work. Hopefully, in the near future that will change, and I can go back to reviewing books for them.
Nevertheless, I still keep up with what’s going on at Tyndale. Today I got an email from Adam Sabados, Tyndale’s Digital Media Coordinator, about some Tyndale Giveaways. If you are interested in obtaining free books, click the link I’ve provided and sign up for their Book Club Hub newsletter. You just never know…
You just never know who you’re dealing with…
I’ve grown up in and believe in a movement that is all about commands. Let me rephrase that…I’ve grown up in a movement, and still believe in a movement, that is all about some commands. Unfortunately, the passion had for some passages is missing when it comes to others.
Hebrews 13:2 for instance. It packs considerable command force linguistically, but I’ve never heard someone suggest that to not invite someone into their home when they had the opportunity was a sin. Something here has to give. If we looked at Hebrews 13:2 like other passages, nobody would get to heaven. Or, maybe just maybe, grace would actually mean something significant to those who did. But I digress.
Until the last several years, I never put much into Hebrews 13:2. I rationalized it away like I did so many other things. But that changed in one night. Hebrews 13:2 became real to me and I will go to my grave believing that the last half of the passage is, indeed, a real possibility. But that’s another story for another time.
Would we look at people any differently if we believed that maybe, just maybe, those people were more than who we thought they were? What if the panhandler at the exit of the local WalMart was something more? What if the girl with piercings in her nose, eyebrows, tongue and maybe even those some snake bites below her bottom lip was more than the outward would indicate? Is it even possible? If not, what are we to think of Hebrews 1:14?
Any thoughts?
Ending the Silence…
It’s been pretty quiet around here, of late. This is, partly, by design. I could give you a bunch of excuses, but I won’t. Honesty demands that I simply say, “I haven’t been feeling it.”
I’ve had mixed emotions about my use of a blogging forum. I got this thing going, jumped in with both feet, but hardly understood what I was doing. I stretched to find a purpose; I maneuvered to discover a niche. Inevitably, frustration would kick in, for numerous reasons, and I would surrender. But of late, I’ve been doing my homework. I finally broke down and got some help, and with an increased understanding about a lot of things, I feel as though I’m ready to commit to this thing once and for all.
Blogging is a form of expression. It allows people to find their voice. I’ve tried to force into a blog what a blog doesn’t necessarily accept. Instead of being an extension of who I am because it is where that is conveniently expressed, I’d made it something altogether different. I’m convinced…that is why I grew frustrated with it.
So I am launching out, starting afresh, and I can’t wait to see what develops!
