What is culture making? In short it is doing work like Adam. It is doing work by the sweat of our brow. How do Christians work toward building a Christian culture? Well, we simply work obediently using the gifts, talents, and abilities that God has given us. Obedience is key. David Hegeman says: “Culture [is] [...]
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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein What is a good way to improve your communication? The best way to demonstrate to someone that you have mastery or understanding of a particular thing is to show that you can communicate it concisely. Next time you seek to [...]
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Tagged: brevity, communication, creativity, editing, einstein, revision, simplicity
“Why is procrastination wrong? Edwards argues that procrastination presumes upon the grace of God, assuming that he has given us future time when in fact our time may be short. We do not know whether or not we have tomorrow, so we must wisely improve upon the time God does give us.” This post convicted [...]
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Tagged: Jonathan Edwards, presumption, procrastination, work ethic
“The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way. The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox [...]
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Tagged: art, Books, N.T. Wright, paradox
I happened upon this blog post today by Randy Elrod. I liked a number of the things he had to say including… Regular exercise, the liturgy, holidays, periodic vacations, festivals, harvest, the Sabbath, a shower in the morning, a cup of coffee on the porch before work, all provide seasonal rhythm in the chaos of [...]
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Tagged: art, creativity, liturgy, Sabbath, seasons
The Seattle Music Weekly posted a write-up on Moscow and it’s musicians. “Even when I’m here in New York, the city is compressed down into a little village, a Moscow-sized place with the places I go and the people I know,” Ritter says. “Maybe there is something in the water there. It’s probably better than [...]
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Tagged: Finn Riggins, Horse Feathers, Idaho, Josh Ritter, Justin Ringle, Moscow
Seth Godin has some good words to say about those who want to ‘make it big’. There’s a hard work alternative to the magic lottery, one in which you can incrementally lay the groundwork and integrate into the system you say you want to work with. Read the full article.
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“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that [...]
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“Show them the details, show them the sin, show them the fear in a handful of dust. Then, when they show audiences the solution Christ offers to all the suffering common to mankind, it will look like a miracle worthy of falling on their knees for.” Megan Basham gives a brief and insightful look at [...]