If you haven’t read the book by Henri Nouwen that was inspired by this Rembrandt painting, you should.
If you liked that post, check out…Jesus for President… by Lon on March 24th, 2008Stand against the wind… by Lon on February 14th, 2006Inattentive in class… by Lon on January 31st, 2005The Forgotten Ways… by Lon on January [...]

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We had an awesome anniversary. I don’t know about other guys, but every year I think, how on earth am I going to top the last year?
This year my goal was to spend no more than ten bucks on the night (I was so tempted to do the fancy dinner thing, but that’d just [...]

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Continuing our Creativity & Spirituality series.
When it comes to creativity quantity quite often must preside over quality, at least initially. Yvz always tells me how the kids that she teaches always struggle with spelling when they are writing stories. She continuously encourages them to just make it up and simply get their ideas [...]

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Continuing on our Creativity & Spirituality series.
Groups of four were gathered and given a single styrofoam cup. Everyone was invited to communicate to one another what their hopes for the church might be.
The only catch was that they could only communicate in silence through manipulating the styrofoam cup.
What we discovered during the process…
- The [...]

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Continuing on our Creativity & Spirituality series.
I’ve been at IKEA seven times in the last eight days. I’ve found it extremely conducive for my school work, writing, scheming & dreaming. It’s got an excellent $1 breakfast, bottomless coffee or drinks, and a LACK of an internet connection.
I absolutely love having the world [...]

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Continuing our Creativity & Spirituality series…
Seeing the Divine, takes time.
In Exodus, after wandering the dessert for forty-years, it describes Moses seeing something there he had not ever seen before. He encounters a bush that did not seem to ‘burn up’.
As Moses approaches he discovers God calling out to him from within the [...]

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I think you’ll enjoy this one - recapping Stellar’s first four months of life.
Make sure you’ve got the volume up for this.

If you’re having problems viewing the clip you can try here or here.
If you liked that post, check out…Visioneering… by Lon on August 30th, 2008What have we done…? by Lon on July 19th, 2006Cirque [...]

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What if the whole earth was actually filled with the glory of God?
What if all of creation is groaning and hoping for even more beauty yet to be revealed?
What if since the beginning of time all creation has been screaming out that there is more to life than the visible?
* You can read a bit [...]

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Continuing our series on Creativity, and the last post on being the ‘workmanship’ of God the Master Artist, let me introduce you to someone special…

She has 300 bones. Yet no knee caps.
She can’t sit or stand on her own. Yet her thighs are becoming stronger than concrete.
She is incapable of saying a word. [...]

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Years back I was taught to memorize Ephesians 2:8-9. It speaks of how every one of us have been saved by grace through faith, and that it is not something we alone can work ourselves towards, but it is a beautiful gift from God should we be willing to receive it.
However as wonderful [...]

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