Archive for December, 2005

My Sense of Humor-This was too self-aggrandizing not to publish

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I took the “Humor Test” Jason had posted about on his MySpace site. Here are my results:
The Wit
(52% dark, 19% spontaneous, 10% vulgar)
your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK
You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you’re probably an intellectual, but don’t take that to mean pretentious. You realize ‘dumb’ can [...]

My week of Yuletide freedom and idleness

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

I’ve successfully spent three days relaxing. This is quite an accomplishment for me. I haven’t even felt particularly guilty for not doing any homework during these three glorious days. What I have done is finished The Chronicles of Narnia, Vanity Fair, and The Man Who Was Thursday. Now I’m planning to go to the market [...]

God acting amidst barrenness in Christmas

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

A part of the Christmas story I’d never heard before last quarter–God’s ability, and tendency to work amidst human barrenness and brokenness. He began with a promise to Abraham, that he and Sarah would have a child despite her barrenness and great age.
Then he made a promise to Mary, a virgin. Because she believed, was [...]

Luke 2:21-35

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to [...]

My name is MRI, (”Hi MRI!”), and I have a problem.

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

I’m ready to call it an addiction. I can’t help myself. It’s taking over my life, and I like it. I went into a bookstore (I know, I know, everybody at Lit Anon says I shouldn’t…) just to buy something for someone else. I swear! It wasn’t for me! I was there to buy Christmas [...]

Luke 2:15-20 KJV

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, [...]

Earthy humility

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I am reading a book by Madeleine L’Engle (see the recommended reading Page) and she mentions how the words ‘human’ and ‘humility’ have the same root word, ‘humus’ which means earth. We are of the earth and little better than dirt when all is said and done–to the dust we shall return and what not. [...]

In the Spirit of Christmas: Luke Chapter 2, King James Version

Friday, December 16th, 2005

The following will take about thirty seconds to read, but what a start for a great story! I like the KJV version, especially the part about the shepherds being “sore afraid.” I always hear this passage read in Linus’ voice as he recites it, blanket in hand, during the Christmas pageant. Luke 2: 4-14.
And Joseph [...]

OK

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Ok, go check out all those new links. Think about what sort of a world we live in and what sort of a church that world needs as you look through them. And also have fun. Send me any links that might fit well with those listed.
See you all (or most of you) tonight at [...]

Where are my socks? They appear to have been rocked off.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Nice to have a productive day once in a while. Student life (as you all know well) gets old. Big workload, no paycheck. So now, just for kicks (and units), I spend two days a week doing a big-girl type job. You know, get up, work for 8 hours, then come home and forget about [...]