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Good Post. Sometimes we get so caught up in the mechanics of our faith, that we start to think any deviation from those mechanics must not be “real” faith. Whether it’s the style of dress, style of worship, music, prayer, meeting structure, language, culture, convictions, we look at the outside image and not the root of faith–JESUS. Thanks for pointing out the validity of diversity with the Body of Christ.
Great post!
Very intriguing post!
I hope you all had great holidays! We continue to remember you in our prayers,
love,
Charlie
i fully agree with that we inevitably not only have but need structures and that the consequent question is about the nature of those structures. keep in mind though that it is a two-way road: people do create structures (by their giftings if you wish), but also do structures create people (by creating/ limiting spaces for exercising “roles” to be filled by biographic identies). so there might be times to start with the people and others to start with structures for people to grow into. just thinking along. cheers
i confirm your most important observation about germans: i, too, would love to drive Audi A4, even better Audi TT
GOOD QUOTE….. I AM FINDING MUCH OF THE ORGANIZED CHRISTIAN WORLD TO BE A BIT SELF CENTERED…….. MY LIFE AS WELL
I YEARN FOR HIS HEART IN MINE
HOPE YOU ARE ALL WELL, SAY HI TO KATE & ANNA
lOVE,
CHARLIE
I have been looking at using IdeaMason, but I was unable to successfully import all my records. I followed all the instructions in the videos for exporting and then importing, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I sen them this question, but hey have not replied to me yet. Can you offer any tips?
Interesting post! site is great!
Lovely deer!
nice image, beautiful metapher
Go Dubo Devo’s !!
Great words (obviously) from the heart of the psalmist reflecting my heart as well.
Keep in the battle, its not in vain.
Charlie
good one! Judi and I loved it and had a good laugh!
Curious. What about John’s post resonated with you enough to post on your blog? Could you elaborate?
one more nice topic in your blog and nice comments too keep it up, If you advise some more related links to topic. I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.
Thanks for the post and the tweets.
ditto.
You are so right, Paul! Slow to speak, slow to anger – absolutely, but not don’t speak or don’t get angry. Anger can sometimes be good – but only as a last resort – patience comes first. Thing is not to sin when we are angry (Ephesians 4:26). I know all this – but why do I fly off the handle so easily in some situations? :S
I am a Missionary to the USA, I am wondering if I can get my hands on 100 Bibles, at no cost to me. (So I can pass them out) It is getting harder to find anything free since the recession kicked in and people began closing their wallets.
I discovered your blog. Awesome man. Keep up the good work. Very cultured. Visit my blog at: http://www.GershomsBibleblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks David. I popped over to your blog as well. Looks nice.
Hi David, The US. could use some missionaries
If you are interested in getting some Bibles from Logos you can drop them a note. Just go to their site at http://www.logos.com. But they are mainly electronic Bibles.
very mind provocative… Met with our tech staff and had them watch it. More work, more changes, hopefully a gospel more effectively spread.
Thanks Paul
That is great Charlie. It’s a helpful video. I was shocked at some of the comparisons.
Just to let you know, the KLV of the Bible, made by Mr Klingon, isn’t a translation. It’s simply the output from a computer program that did a massive “find and replace” on the English text. As you can see from your sample image, there are a bunch of “the”s that didn’t get replaced because Klingon doesn’t have an article that takes the place of “the”.
This work doesn’t preserve the original meaning of the text. As an example the first sentence you have means:
Daq the tagh ghaHta’ the mu’
It begins place’s the, he accomplishes being him, The’s word
Qurgh, Thanks for the clarification. Its appreciated. I’ve been a fan of StarTrek since the first episode through to today.
well, that’s as may be… but according to my linguistics prof, there’s actually a group of people that banded together to make a colony that speaks only clingon… and are/were raising children that speake it as their native language.
That is pretty amazing. Here is a link to the fellow who created the Klingon Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Okrand Pretty interesting work done by a linguist.
Awesome… love Brian Regan. Nicki and I saw him live on Valentines Day–after taking a ride in our lunar rover…
That’s crazy, I know some people who will love that, I’m sending it to them now!
haha, dad, you’re dislexic. you can delete this after, if you want, but
His
Life for
Every
Person
is “H.L.E.P.”
did you re-organize the words or something?
also, for the record, no that is NOT all that I got out of this post. =)
Thanks for the laugh this morning Kate. I did not even notice. I think your mom actually read it as well and did not notice.
In what language would H.E.L.P. be an acceptable word order?
Been there, done that, no wait, am there now doing that…does this process ever really end?