Thursday, November 20, 2014

Roots: How Did We Get Here

Our Epidemic of busyness.

Brigid Schulte’s Overwhelmed and our epidemic of busyness.:

"To be deep in the overwhelm requires not just doing too many things in one 24-hour period but doing so many different kinds of things that they all blend into each other and a day has no sense of distinct phases. Researchers call it “contaminated time,”"



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Francis Chan: Making Disciplemakers

The Bubble List: 31 Things My Sons Should Be Able to Do Before They Move Out | Emily Mendell

The Bubble List: 31 Things My Sons Should Be Able to Do Before They Move Out | Emily Mendell:

"Darn. In helping him arrange his evening, I had missed a teachable moment.

”The parental slip got me thinking about all of the lessons my boys have yet to learn before they leave the nest and frankly, the list I came up with in a minute's time left me a little panicked. So, in an effort to maintain some semblance of control of a situation over which I have none, I created 'the bubble list.'

”Since we grownups have a bucket list of things we must do before we kick the bucket, our kids have a bubble list of things they must do before they leave the bubble of our home and our protection."



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Three texts for making disciples...

http://www.churchleaders.com/mobile/pastors/preaching-teaching/177017-raymond-hollenbach-preaching-that-makes-disciples-three-texts-you-must-preach.html

The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic

The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic: "A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution."



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Forgotten God Videos

Forgotten God Website & Videos:

 

WEBSITE: http://www.forgottengod.com

   

Introduction:

Chapter One:

Chapter Two:

Chapter Three:

Chapter Four:

Chapter Five:

Chapter Six:

Chapter Seven:

Crazy Love Videos

Crazy Love Website & Videos:

 

WEBSITE: http://crazylovebook.com

   

Introduction:

Chapter One:

Chapter Two:

Chapter Three:

Chapter Four:

Chapter Five:

Chapter Six:

Chapter Seven:

Chapter Eight:

Chapter Nine:

Chapter Ten:

To start things off...

A nondenominational blog intended to foster ecumenical dialogue.

Core verses:

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’"  Matthew 22:37-38

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."  Matthew 28:19-20

"Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me."  Matthew 25:40

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.  James 2:17

"And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."  Joshua 24:15

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye." Matthew 7:1-5