February 2010
3 posts
TECHNOLOGY: "Friends No More" Jumping off the...
I really appreciated this article in USA Today yesterday.I wonder if any of us would be willing to go this far. ‘Friends’ no more?For some, social networking has become too much of a good thingBy Marco R. della Cava USA TODAY Facebook reports that it has 400 million active users worldwide. Make that 399,999,999. Laura LeNoir is done.“I feel better, I feel lighter, I got my...
TECHNOLOGY: Twitter, Facebook, Buzz... oh my!!!
Now, the rating for how popular you are will be: FACEBOOK FRIENDS + TWITTER FOLLOWERS + BUZZ FOLLOWERS = Your “F.T.B.” popularity rating. What if they all crashed at the same time? What would happen to culture as we know it? Thoughts? Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
MEDIA and MORALITY: Using sex to sell products....
In a letter to the editor, John Piper addresses the issue of using women in their “underclothes” as a means to selling more product in his local newspaper.Christian, and non-Christian alike, will need to consider his concerns. As a 14-year subscriber and reader of the [name of paper omitted], I am writing to express the persuasion that your sexually explicit ads that often turn up in...
January 2010
6 posts
TECHNOLOGY: the iPad. A video SPOOF. Brilliant
The first of (hopefully) many iPad spoofs. Keep ‘em comin’.http://tinyurl.com/yb58aeg Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
MEDIA and MIND: this will affect the future of...
Young people spend 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computer Media are a full-time job plus overtime for children 8 to 18, a Kaiser report says. They devote 53 hours a week to those pursuits, an hour and 17 minutes more than five years ago.Reporting from Chicago - The amount of time young people spend consuming media has ballooned with around-the-clock access and mobile devices that...
MEDIA and MIND: this will affect the future of...
Young people spend 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computerMedia are a full-time job plus overtime for children 8 to 18, a Kaiser report says. They devote 53 hours a week to those pursuits, an hour and 17 minutes more than five years ago.By Bonnie Miller RubinJanuary 20, 2010 | 12:19 p.m.Reporting from Chicago - The amount of time young people spend consuming media has ballooned...
ART: "First art would imitate life, then life...
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GIFT IDEAS: Would you buy / play this game? An...
I saw this game at our local mall around Christmas time. Would you buy / play this game? Quick poll below. Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
BLOG POST: It's about time.
Am I the only one that goes through these blogging droughts?2 months. Wow. “Start at IV with D5W, TKO, with ringers lactate, defibrillate 400 watt seconds, and transport immediately.”(reference anyone?)“It’s alive.. it’s alive!!!!!!!!!!” Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
December 2009
2 posts
PHOTOGRAPHY: Burchell's Zebras
Brilliant.. on so many levels.http://tinyurl.com/37ymaw Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
THE MIND: "I think, therefore... I am, what I...
A small tweak on a famous quote. But it seems to hold true, that whatever I spend my “thought time” on, dictates the nature of my life and actions.So what do you spend most of your time thinking about? Lewis says this:“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… minds…...
November 2009
4 posts
ART and BEAUTY: A picture is worth... a billion...
National Geographic’s International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. (25 photos total) See the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
MOVIE REVIEW: A Christmas Carol ... 3D (a must)
This movie blew me away. This was one of the most unique cinematic experiences I’ve ever had. Now, that may be because this was my first 3D movie experience. I may never set my foot in another 2D movie again. I expected the old school glasses, the old school experience (from the 90’s) where it’s cool, but not effective in advancing the story. Not so here. You will know what I...
LIFE: Can you lead a good life without believing...
Great question. C.S. Lewis, in another brilliant piece of work, answers that question. Man or Rabbit?“God in the Dock”Here are some highlights: 1. “Can’t you lead a good life without believing in Christianity?” This is the question on which I have been asked to write, and straight away, before I begin trying to answer it, I have a comment to make. The question sounds as if it were...
TIME and MEDIA: Making choices
Finding time to read the great spiritual classics is no mystery.Turn off the TV. Nothing on TV today will matter in 10yrs (via @RickWarren) Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
October 2009
2 posts
MUSIC: Anthem CD now available on iTunes!
Well, if you haven’t heard it by now… it’s time did. Available on iTunes @ http://tinyurl.com/yzw8lrpOr order online @http://www.anthemworship.com/ Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
GOVERNMENT and FAITH: We have a God-centered...
“… God himself is the foundation for our commitment to a pluralistic democratic order - not because pluralism is his ultimate ideal, but because in a fallen world, legal coercion will not produce the kingdom of God. Christians agree to make room for non-Christian faiths (including naturalistic and materialistic faiths), not because commitment to God’s supremacy is unimportant,...
September 2009
13 posts
PAIN: the role of trials and broken toys... in...
“My own experience is something like this. I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition, absorbed in a merry meeting with my friends for the morrow or a bit of work that tickles my vanity today, a holiday or a new book, when suddenly a stab of abdominal pain that threatens serious disease, or a headline in the newspapers that threatens us...
HELPFUL INFORMATION: ... H1N1... a bit of...
Another helpful visual from our friends at http://www.informationisbeautiful.net. Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
MUSIC: "Beautiful music is the art of the prophets...
“… it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” - Martin Luther Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
ART and INFORMATION: An incredible visual...
“The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible. Books alternate in color between white and light gray. The length of each bar denotes the number of verses in the chapter. Each of the 63,779 cross references found in the Bible is depicted by a single arc - the color corresponds to the distance between the two chapters, creating a rainbow-like...
PHILOSOPHY and MIRACLES: Science cannot prove or...
“Suppose you put sixpence into a drawer today, and sixpence into the same drawer tomorrow. Do the laws of arithmetic (i.e. science) make it certain you’ll find a shillings worth there the day after?”“Of course,” said he, “provided no one’s been tampering with your drawer.” “Ah, but that’s the whole point, ” said, I. “The laws...
THE ROLE of MYTHOLOGY: "What flows into you from...
One of the most helpful and compelling articles I have read in years. Lewis defines why we all love a good story / myth (movie, book, play, and even tv). It is a short read (5 pages). Stick with it. It’s worth it. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics - Google Books ResultSome key quotes: “What flows into you from the myth is not truth, but reality (truth is always about...
TECHNOLOGY (or lack thereof): My, how things have...
1.44 MB of informationEnglish 3141991 Found this cleaning out my desk last week.Kind of blows me (and others I tell) … that the internet didn’t really take off until after I graduated college. Man, I feel old. Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
AMES, IA: Ranked 5th BEST PLACE TO LIVE says AARP...
Best Places To Live The Simple LifeBy Sarah Mahoney, September & October 2009Rich culture, great food, low stress. Who wouldn’t want to call these affordable cities home? 5. Ames, IowaVibe: Wholesome Americana Population: 55,000 Median housing price: $159,270 Average commute: 17 minutes Average number of sunny days: 202 per year Most relaxing way to spend an afternoon: Paddling a canoe...
THE DAILY BATTLE: Do you want to be ready for the...
We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us— it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, “If God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion”? Yet you won’t rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God’s training ground. If you are not doing...
MY WIFE: ... is an e-shepherd. Or would that be...
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TECHNOLOGY: Any song... anytime... anywhere....
Yep, I am an user… an iPhone user. Not going to try and convince any of you that it is the most amazing piece of technology ever invented (I might be overstating that… well, actually, I might not be). Well, now there is one more reason to own one. RHAPSODY, on the iPhone. Basically, now, I can listen to ANY SONG… ANYTIME… ANY WHERE. My life will never be the same. ...
PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: A helpful analogy for the...
“In a way I quite understand why some people are put off by Theology. I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F. an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, “I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I’m a religious too. I know there’s a God. I’ve felt him: out alone in the desert at night: the tremendous mystery. And that’s just...
VISION and POETRY: Be strong! We are not here to...
By Maltbie Davenport Babcock; 1858 - 1901 Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift, We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle; face it. ‘Tis God’s gift.Be strong! Say not the days are evil, - Who’s to blame? And fold not the hands and acquiesce, - O shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God’s name. Be strong! It matters not how...
August 2009
13 posts
HELPFUL INFO: The Buzz vs. The Bulge.
For all you weight watching, caffeine freaks. Sweet site… VISUAL INFORMATION @: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
GUIDELINES in LIFE: Freedom is not the opposite of...
In many areas of life, freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions… as finding the right ones, the liberating restrictions. -Tim Keller, The Reason for God, 47 (re:Tweet from Abraham Piper) Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
SUFFERING and HAPPINESS: linked together by the...
Samuel Rutherford, the writer of the Westminster Catechism, writes this about happiness, during his 2 year, unjustly given, time in prison:“If God had told me some time ago that He was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world, and then had told me that He should begin by crippling me in all my limbs, and removing me from all me usual sources of enjoyment, I should have thought...
VIDEO: I finally figured out what I want to be...
(3504 KB) Watch on posterous A crop duster guy. I love Iowa. Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION, and A.D.D.: The curse of...
In the world today, where information is abundant and piecemeal, we will most likely be skilled at relating many ideas and concepts… to many other ideas and concepts. We will probably, however, be unskilled at understanding any one idea or concept… with any significant depth. This abundance and accessibility of information is not helping our A.D.D. culture. Posted via email ...
OBVIOUS: The title of this article makes me giggle...
Fate of Obama’s Health-Care Effort May Boil Down to CostWashington Post - Lori Montgomery - 5 hours agoAlthough town hall meetings across the country have pitted fears of government intrusion into the medical system against hopes for expanded coverage for the uninsured, the fate of President Obama’s health-care initiative might depend … Posted via email from a hungry...
OBVIOUS: The title of this article makes me giggle...
Fate of Obama’s Health-Care Effort May Boil Down to CostWashington Post - Lori Montgomery - 5 hours agoAlthough town hall meetings across the country have pitted fears of government intrusion into the medical system against hopes for expanded coverage for the uninsured, the fate of President Obama’s health-care initiative might depend … Posted via email from a hungry...
CHURCH EXPERIENCE: C.S. Lewis, on what makes a...
“As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing, but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.”C.S. Lewis, from...
LIFE and FOCUS: First and Second Things... a...
““The longer I looked into it the more I came to suspect that I was perceiving a universal law…
The woman who makes a dog the centre of her life loses, in the end, not only her human usefulness and dignity but even the proper pleasure of dog-keeping….
Of course this law has been discovered before, but it will stand rediscovery. It (the law) may be stated as follows: every...
LIFE: It would do us all some good today to...
The Christian book says it this way in Psalm 39: 4 ”Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.That changes things, doesn’t it? Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
THOUGHTS ON MEDIA: the mind is an attachment...
“The moral is that there is no such thing as ‘mere’ entertainment. The human mind is an attachment machine, forming emotional bonds with stuffed animals, invertebrates and Izzie Stevens. A good drama might ease our loneliness, but a breakup is still a breakup.” —author and editor Jonah Lehrer, from “Television and Loneliness,” an entry for The Frontal Cortex on ScienceBlogs. I would...
VIDEO: I wonder what kind of training you need to...
</object> ______________________________I wonder what a a resume looks like for one of these performers. “Yeah, I’ve done extensive sound work for many types of weather systems. Oh… and I play percussion.” EXPERIENCE:“Rain Choir” from to 2007 - present. What do you think the next career move is for these folks?What fun. Posted via email from a...
"It is not the yoke, but the resitance to the...
Andrew Murray, “Abiding in Christ.” pg. 16Read the book for free, here. http://tinyurl.com/lh9e3d Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »