Fortuitous Bouncing
2009
October
31
So for those of you dressing up…..what/who are you dressing up as?
Rose and I have had 3 people back out last minute for taking over our lease. We would really appreciate your prayer that it would work out for someone to do so very soon.
Blogs
- “My concern resides in our age old tendency to reshape the gospel so that it matches our own personal ideals and passions, with the result that we create a mythical moral high ground to stand on, and thus stop growing” (read the full article here).
- Confronting urban violence with Jesus’ non-violence.
- Should the goal of Christians be to convert others to their faith?
- How not to blog.
- How not to tweet.
- Interesting book on how to live life without having a car. I used my dad’s car for this past week while he was in California, but I think I enjoy a lot of aspects of being carless.
- Have you heard of Foursquare? I’ll be the first to say that I don’t think it is all it is being cracked up to be, but here is a good post on why it just might be.
News
- For those of you who live in the Bay Area…it must really be a hassle to have the Bay Bridge closed until Monday now.
- How can an independent bookstore like Powell’s keep up with the online price war going on in the book sales industry.
- Veteran White House press reporter has 5 lessons for Obama.
- Too much sleep might be making you groggy.
Happy Reformation Day!
Tyler Braun.
I use Gowalla which is the same thing as foursquare. I just know more people using gowalla then foursquare, and that is why I would not switch.
i disagree w/ the idea that it should be our “aim” is to convert people. jesus told us what our “aim” is: love the lord your God w/ all your heart, soul and mind …and Love others as you love yourself. ….in his commission of “go to all the world and preach the gospel”…he wasn’t saying, “try to convert” no, he was saying “proclaim what the Lord your God has done”…but simply doing this: there will be many who are compelled to his kingdom, as He can reach their hearts, and for those who are not …it’s not our place to push them or “try to convince them” or “get them to come to Christ under the their ‘own’ volition”…b/c then it’s not their own choice, it’s our trying to prove we’re right. live as the LIGHT in the earth and people won’t be able to resist HIM.