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an analogy….
I like wine. The tall slender bottle is pleasing to the eye and the level of purity of the grape makes it either instant vintage or “2 buck chuck.”
As many of you know I have been a connoisseur of wine since I turned 21… Let’s be honest, wine before 21 was really [...]
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I love metaphors and analogies that describe personality and behavioral traits, and this past week, Seth Godin chimed in with a dandy – the hunter/farmer metaphor:
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Culture comes from the root “to cultivate.”
Based on this definition we can presume that our unique culture comes from the cultivation of our T.R.E.E. – specifically our distinct Tradition, Reason, Experience and Emotion, that has shaped who we are and who we are to be.
Pornography is a deception of the senses. At it’s core is a taking away of the appreciation of beauty, of seeing the aesthetic creation of the Lord, and stripping it of it’s wonder and mystery. We reduce ourselves to animals, looking on beauty to gratify function, just like a wolf looks on a [...]
I’m an idea guy. I get wild extravagant ideas all the time, some of my most heretical have come while either driving in my car or when I’m laying in bed at night trying to go to sleep.
Some of these ideas have legs… most of them do not.
Out of the ideas that have legs, [...]
Ever since leaving home-home, I have been on a vagabond’s journey to find a place to call my own. The movie Garden State approaches this “search for home” in a scene with Zach Braff (Andrew Largeman) and Natalie Portman (Sam):
Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize the house [...]
God speaks through prophets, visions, a bush, a still small voice and a donkey… but can He speak through a fortune cookie?
I got this fortune the other night, as I was contemplating the vastness of the journey ahead…
When was the last time you looked at your future? The last time you held up your dreams and desires, like a well-paid strategist, looking for pathways and ladders that lead to the actualization of your ambitions?
I’ve found that looking ahead as a futurist or a strategist never led me down the pathway I [...]
It is safe to say that no business is perfect, and church is not much ahead of business… as imperfect people run the show. In truth we want (in our idealism) to be treated as a coveted assets but in reality are most times dealt with as a commodity. Napoleon Bonaparte was right when he said, “We are either kings or pawns of men.”
This is a short post on why I dislike the sports analogies when dealing with our sanctification (our journey with God after our conversion). The catalyst of this rant is found here, where the tagline is:
In the Win Every Battle® seminar you will learn the basic building blocks of indeed winning every battle regardless of [...]
