I took that Myer’s Briggs test and yes, this is my personality… “the theorist”, “the logician”
INTP
INTPs are known for their quest for logical purity, which motivates them to examine universal truths and principles. They are constantly asking themselves and others the questions ‘Why?’ and ‘Why not?’ Clear and quick thinkers, they are able to focus [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Posted in Spirituality, philosophy, tagged Brain type, INTP, Myers Briggs, personalities, personality on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pride cometh before depression
Posted in Religion, Spirituality, Temptation, tagged anxiety, depression, humility, pride on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Each day is a gift. We have done nothing to earn it, we don’t have a right to it, it is a gift freely given. We may feel justified in being depressed as a sign of our “true humility”, on the contrary, nothing could be more prideful than being depressed, for while one is depressed, [...]
I am broken
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am a broken individual… I have come to realize that one of the deepest forms of enslavement and brokenness is acquiescing to that which is detrimental, cognizant of it being detrimental, for its pleasure. What a hellish heart I have. Do not honor me for the good things I do, for all good things [...]
The Eikon – A Community Called Atonement
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Scott McKnight, Spirituality, Theology, emergent, emerging, love, philosophy, prayer on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Theologians normally call human uniqueness imago Dei or the “image of God.” The Greek translation of the Hebrew tselem (“image”) is Eikon, and it is this term that will carry what follows…
“Now the Lord is the Sprit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, [...]
A Celtic Prayer
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, love, prayer on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
REMEMBERING THE POOR
Remember the poor when you look out on fields you own, on your plump cows grazing.
Remember the poor when you look into your barn, at the abundance of your harvest.
Remember the poor when you eat fine meat and drink fine ale, at your fine carved table.
The cows have grass to eat, the rabbits [...]
The Santa Barbara Project Beginnings
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, emerging, love, prayer on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When God began to create it, it being formless and void, darkness being over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God hovering over it, God said, “Let there be light” and light was.
It begins as a formless and empty abyss of nothingness, foundationally nothing but darkness, yet the Spirit of God hovers [...]
Lord of the Rings
Posted in Christianity, God, Spirituality, love, tagged Lord of the Rings on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just got done with a Lord of the Rings marathon and I just wanted to post this dialogue and let it speak for itself, given the beauty of its picture:
Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the [...]
A Spirituality of Presence VI
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, emergent, emerging, love, philosophy, prayer on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This modernistic framework is simply not a large enough for me to use in understanding the world I indwell. It’s far too shriveled in on itself and it deadens imagination. It tells me that I cannot speak meaningfully of virtue and vice, of love and truth; things that are intangible yet infinitely meaningful. It suggests [...]
Morning Prayer
Posted in Christianity, God, Hebrew, Judaism, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Westmont, love, philosophy, poetry, prayer on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Holy Spirit, come. Holy Spirit, dwell here. Fill this place with peace overflowing, joy overflowing, and love overflowing. In all of your glory, come.
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
והארץ היתה תהו ובהו
וחשך על-פני תהום ורוח
אלהים מרחפת על-פני המים
ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי-אור
השמים = המרחב שאנחנו מכנים “היקום”; הארץ = [...]
8 year olds say the darndest things
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, emergent, emerging, love, philosophy, prayer on May 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was at the pool with my little brother today and asked him what he thought the biggest problem in the world is. He said, “Like when people are afraid to die.”
This made me think.The fear of death.
While it is true that much destruction can come from a sense of immunity from death, as seen [...]
