Code of Faith

I picked up Getting Things Done by David Allen last summer and worked my way through about half the book. There were a lot of good things I picked out.

• I purchased a physical inbox and process everything in it every couple of days.
• I created a filing system and bought a label maker to simply the process.
• I made a moleskin replacement out of old plastic covers from a notebook and duct tape. I also got a pen, the Zebra F-301 Compact, which fits comfortably in my pocket.

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I was cleaning my apartment the other day and was moving the old computers I have laying around.  I also noticed that I had run out of shelf space and had just crammed books in various places.

Then the thought occurred to me to re-purpose  the old computer cases.  From the front it looks like an old computer that has passed its prime.
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This New Year was truly the turning of a page.  I graduated from seminary last month and so now I feel like I have this wide expanse before me.  The only problem is I don’t know which way to go.  I’ve got a lot of ideas rolling around in my head.  However, many of these hair-brained ideas lead to the five years that prefaced my coming to seminary. Read More

It finally hit me this morning.  My seminary career is at a close.  When I moved here four years ago, I couldn’t envision actually graduating.  I came here with the simple leading of the Spirit.  No audible call, no clear direction, no vision and no idea of what the future held.  I simply knew that this was the next step. Read More

I’ve had the privilege of attending the Willow Creek Leadership Summit the last two years. Last year, I didn’t really know what to expect. This year, with my upcoming field study, I had a sense of anticipation. There were a lot of great speakers and this year there were a lot of small statements that spoke directly to me. They were convicting and I’m still working to live these out. Here are a few of the statements that stood out to me. Read More

I had to write a book digest for my Adult Small Groups class and decided I would go ahead and post it.  Part of the assignment was to come up with a guiding principle from each chapter.  These principles would be used by those starting small groups.

Bonhoeffer wrote this book while working at an underground seminary living with 25 students.  He is very systematic and prescriptive in this book.  He begins by looking at what Christian community is and is not.  He then moves on to discuss how the community is to fellowship at various points of the day.  Following this, he looks at how the individual is to go about their individual devotions which in turn will strengthen the community.  Bonhoeffer concludes the book by looking at the ministries that the community is to perform for one another and how confession and communion are to occur within the community.
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Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:5-7

How many times have I read passages on humility and pride and thought, “I’m doing ok in this area.” And then I go about my day. There have been other times that I have stared at the word “humility” trying to understand what it really means. Read More

I spent this weekend “drinking from a firehose” as Jon Pozadzides put it on the first day. I’ve been using and developing for WordPress for the last few years so I wondered what I would actually get out of WordCamp.  Several of the speakers reiterated things that I knew but have failed to act on.
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I’ve never been one for exercise.  I was on the track team in high school but I was a discus thrower.  We tried to avoid running whenever possible.  I’d have spurts in college where I’d lift weights and ride the exercise bike but nothing that serious.  Also I never considered what I ate. Read More

I’ve been flying below the radar for the last few months.  After a month of looking for a job and coming up empty, I fell into a couple of contract positions.  I have the freedom to work from home and when I want.  But I also live with the fear that at any moment these contracts could end and I would be back at square one. Read More