geekery.of.all.sorts

As of around 12am Monday, Gustav is only a 3. I wrote previously that it was a 5... I don't want to make a misinformed statement, especially related to sin and judgement, and then just gloss over the details. Credibility and details matter in these circumstances...and Gustav is a 3, not a 5.

I just read a post by my good friend William - I was gonna comment on his blog, but my comment grew into a post of my own. How often does that actually happen. Congrats, William, on initiating my first blog post of substance in 10 months or so. Enjoy: William correctly identifies that Ray Nagin and the government of New Orleans don't seem to behave any differently than they used to, despite Katrina. Now here comes Gustav, and maybe they'll get the message. To quote Chuck Pierce, 'God's going to keep washing New Orleans until it's clean'. So I'm in agreement with that...but I'm going to bring a slight nuance to defining Sodom and Gomorrah's offense against the Lord - and hence, New Orleans' as well. I feel like it's important to point out that homosexuality is not the scripturally defining sin about those cities. Even though the current usage of the word 'sodomy', or 'sodomite', etc points to homosexuality as the distinct...

So both people that will read this blog ( William and Jennifer, at this point ) already know that I worked all night to meet a deadline. Jenn says I have to go to bed now...so I can't blog anymore. Not that I had anything to say in my current mental state. night night.

So the fine cadre of friends that I have are now all on blogspot. So, due to peer pressure, I'm now a blogger once again. I don't have much to say right now, as I'm deep in a project and haven't had any thoughts that wouldn't put the rest of you in a coma for several days now. Curly braces, anyone? However, here I am, blogging away...or am I blah-ging? Ponder that, will ya? In all truthfulness my main question is how long I can keep doing what I'm doing ( day job, side job, family, church ) without one of those taking a serious dive. It's at a point where I don't feel like I'm doing any of them well. When I feel that way, Jesus just says 'ummm, you are, in fact, doing it...' so I guess I need to keep on doing it and not worry so much. This season is a wonderful exercise in breathing deeply while things feel wildly out of control. Talk about blah-ging. Go read Williams blog , or Jenn's . Eeeeyore.

So I'm struggling to find a quiet spot - my house is full of folks for Christmas, I'm not slowing down often enough or long enough...the external activity isn't any worse than my own internal activity.  Part of slowing down is my own choice to work against the momentum of how fast I'm moving.  So.  Now I am choosing to be slow. As I said in my last post, I'm meditating on 1st John.  Jesus is described as the Word of Life. So, borrowing from a bunch of stuff that I've read, here are my thoughts about the Jesus as the Word of God. There's a whole study of Jesus as the Logos, which goes back and looks at the pagan and jewish philosophers to understand John's reference to Jesus as the word.  That's all good stuff, and worth knowing, but I don't believe that we are required to know the history of the use of that Greek idea to get what the Spirit is saying through John.  The brain he equipped us with is sufficient, when inspired by the Holy Spi...

I was working on reading the Bible with my oldest daughter, age 9.  A couple of days ago, I had her read a little of 1st John, and we talked about it before bedtime. As I talked with her, the Holy Spirit connected something up for me about John's writings.  He starts the book by explaining that he is writing from his own personal experience with Jesus, the Word of life.  It hadn't occurred to me before this, but the picture of Jesus as the Word of God shows up at the beginning of 1st John, just as it does in John's Gospel. Jesus is displayed as the Word of God as a primary identifier at the beginning of both books. Like most deep things, it feels like that's a very simple thing to comment on.  But think about it - John thought so much on this idea of God talking to us through His Son, he pondered it so much, that John wrote about it all over the place.  Not only that, in the Gospel of John he writes that 'in Him was light, and that light was the life o...

Lots of stuff has happened since I got home, but one thing in particular I wanted to write about. So, one of the many topics that was spoken of at Roundabout was the future of Germany - regaining their national identity and being freed from shame. Dudi in particular has a strong sense of the importance of walking out that process. She, Petra and I talked about that at lunch one day during Roundabout - how Germany needs to be Germany so that the Kingdom can advance in Europe and the world. That was a stand-out topic for me while I was at Roundabout - I had thought about it a lot, and came home still thinking about it. Fast-forward to the Tuesday after Roundabout. I was at our early morning prayer gathering at Glory of Zion, where I go to church. Chuck Pierce is the main leader at GOZ, and was leading the prayer meeting...so he spots me and says 'Darren, when are you going to Germany?' He'd been traveling and ministering when I was gone, so he didn't know tha...