http://www.theologyforwomen.org/2013/01/gospel-centered-buzzwords.html
... but it can often be used in a way that reduces it to merely being a buzzword, something Wendy writes about briefly in the above post.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Brad House has transitioned out of MH into Sojourn
https://twitter.com/PBHouse/status/289149602614099968
Brad House@PBHouse
Brad House
Excited to be installed as a pastor at @Sojourn this evening. Humbled to serve with the elders and members of this church.
Grace Driscoll's father Rev Gib Martin dead
http://www.firstpres.org/news/rev-gib-martin-in-hospital/
http://marshill.com/2013/01/09/what-a-week?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pastormark+(PastorMark.tv)
Last Saturday, Grace's father, Gib Martin, finished his race on earth and got to meet the Jesus he served as a pastor. While on vacation a few hours away from Seattle after Christmas, his health took a turn for the worse. Grace's two sisters and mother were there with him on holiday. Our family was out of town getting a break, but Grace was able to come back and be with her dad for a few days before he passed away.
I was planning on taking our five kids to see him after school last Friday, but Grace texted early that morning saying he was declining fast. I pulled the kids out of school early and started the three-hour drive in the snow. Towards the end of the trip we were running low on gas, so I was watching for the fuel light to come on. It did…right after we ran out of gas about 10 minutes away from our destination! I did not want Grace to leave her father's side to come and get us, so the five kids and I hitchhiked a ride from a nice family.
We made it to the hospital, and although Grandpa Gib could hear us, he could not speak. We spent seven hours with him all together as an extended family singing, praying, crying, sharing Scripture, and chatting. I took our kids and their cousin to a hotel where they fell asleep around midnight. Grace stayed up all night at the hospital and was there at her father’s side when he died.
The next morning we all went sledding to enjoy one another. We drove home on Saturday night so I could preach the first sermon of our big Ephesians series the next morning to a standing room only crowd in Bellevue. The energy of the people along with their prayers helped me be focused, present, and on message, despite being emotionally and physically exhausted and distracted.
Thank you to everyone who is praying for my mother-in-law, Grace, her two sisters, and the grandkids in this season. We would appreciate you not sending flowers or gifts, as we truly only need prayer and deeply appreciate it. Grace is grieving well, and I am very thankful that I get the great honor of being her best friend walking through this season with her. A funeral will be scheduled for later this month, and I will be preaching, as Grandpa Gib requested.
Grateful for the life, rest, and work we have through Jesus.
Condolances to the Martin and Driscoll families.
http://marshill.com/2013/01/09/what-a-week?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pastormark+(PastorMark.tv)
Last Saturday, Grace's father, Gib Martin, finished his race on earth and got to meet the Jesus he served as a pastor. While on vacation a few hours away from Seattle after Christmas, his health took a turn for the worse. Grace's two sisters and mother were there with him on holiday. Our family was out of town getting a break, but Grace was able to come back and be with her dad for a few days before he passed away.
I was planning on taking our five kids to see him after school last Friday, but Grace texted early that morning saying he was declining fast. I pulled the kids out of school early and started the three-hour drive in the snow. Towards the end of the trip we were running low on gas, so I was watching for the fuel light to come on. It did…right after we ran out of gas about 10 minutes away from our destination! I did not want Grace to leave her father's side to come and get us, so the five kids and I hitchhiked a ride from a nice family.
We made it to the hospital, and although Grandpa Gib could hear us, he could not speak. We spent seven hours with him all together as an extended family singing, praying, crying, sharing Scripture, and chatting. I took our kids and their cousin to a hotel where they fell asleep around midnight. Grace stayed up all night at the hospital and was there at her father’s side when he died.
The next morning we all went sledding to enjoy one another. We drove home on Saturday night so I could preach the first sermon of our big Ephesians series the next morning to a standing room only crowd in Bellevue. The energy of the people along with their prayers helped me be focused, present, and on message, despite being emotionally and physically exhausted and distracted.
Thank you to everyone who is praying for my mother-in-law, Grace, her two sisters, and the grandkids in this season. We would appreciate you not sending flowers or gifts, as we truly only need prayer and deeply appreciate it. Grace is grieving well, and I am very thankful that I get the great honor of being her best friend walking through this season with her. A funeral will be scheduled for later this month, and I will be preaching, as Grandpa Gib requested.
Grateful for the life, rest, and work we have through Jesus.
Condolances to the Martin and Driscoll families.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Announcement from Mark Driscoll that Bill Clem is resigning leadership of Mars Hill Ballard, Alex Early replacing him.
For those of you who've read the earlier blog posts about Bill Clem's role in getting Doxa to Mars Hill where it became Mars Hill West Seattle; and for those who read the earlier blog posts about Clem's salary and hours compared to those of co-founding pastor Lief Moi; this update may be of some interest. You can search for all Clem-related posts earlier in this blog at your leisure. 
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Monday, January 07, 2013
HT Jim West: But You See, The Thing Is, You Just Don't
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/but-you-see-the-thing-is-you-just-dont/
I'd quote from the post but it's short and easy to read. Rather I'll quote from a comment West makes in subsequent discussion.
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/but-you-see-the-thing-is-you-just-dont/#comment-52458
my greek teacher, once responding to a question in class, said to the questioner- ‘we aren’t washed in the blood of the subjunctive mood’. his point, in its context, was that the ancient greeks were no more slaves to grammatical rules than modern ‘common’ speakers. to build a doctrine on grammar rather than the context of texts and sensible and simple readings of texts is a rather poorly thought-out move. i would simply say, again, that in its context, and in the context of paul’s entire theology, divorcing faith from gift is a bad move.
I'll leave it to you, dear reader, to go read the rest.
I'd quote from the post but it's short and easy to read. Rather I'll quote from a comment West makes in subsequent discussion.
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/but-you-see-the-thing-is-you-just-dont/#comment-52458
my greek teacher, once responding to a question in class, said to the questioner- ‘we aren’t washed in the blood of the subjunctive mood’. his point, in its context, was that the ancient greeks were no more slaves to grammatical rules than modern ‘common’ speakers. to build a doctrine on grammar rather than the context of texts and sensible and simple readings of texts is a rather poorly thought-out move. i would simply say, again, that in its context, and in the context of paul’s entire theology, divorcing faith from gift is a bad move.
I'll leave it to you, dear reader, to go read the rest.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
you can learn something new every day if you want
Or maybe it's more accurate to say you can learn all sorts of new stuff month by month if you just stay alert.
For instance, I learned that a cellist can improvise a set of solos that use just harmonics.
That's pretty awesome!
I knew that it was possible to create a lydian canon by retuning a guitar to raised F (6) and then exploiting the fact that the guitar and viola have an overlapping set of natural harmonics to make a sweet contrapuntal waltz in C lydian using harmonics alone ... but that a cellist can improvise a solo just using harmonics was something I didn't know until today.
Again, that's pretty awesome!
I may have to write another sonata for cello and guitar just to make use of this new knowledge.
For instance, I learned that a cellist can improvise a set of solos that use just harmonics.
That's pretty awesome!
I knew that it was possible to create a lydian canon by retuning a guitar to raised F (6) and then exploiting the fact that the guitar and viola have an overlapping set of natural harmonics to make a sweet contrapuntal waltz in C lydian using harmonics alone ... but that a cellist can improvise a solo just using harmonics was something I didn't know until today.
Again, that's pretty awesome!
I may have to write another sonata for cello and guitar just to make use of this new knowledge.
Indian/first nation tribes in the Pacific Northwest and environmental advocacy
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/336808
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/25/iron-ocean-dump-haida-salmon_n_2019435.html
The Haida salmon cultivation scuffle has to do with an iron dump in the ocean by an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest, the British Columbia area. This has sparked controversy because, well, the belief is that even if the iron dump in the sea managed to increase the salmon run the concern is that the salmon will have fed off toxic algae and that that, in turn, will be toxic for the people of the tribe. Another argument is that the method is inefficient, though precisely what method of cultivating agriculture or animal food staples is efficient might be exactly the sort of production-line approach that might be considered problematic for the environment, couldn't it?
It would appear that the person who came up with the idea of the iron dump was trying to develop a creative solution to salmon cultivation while accepting that global warming is a significant issue. But this has not necessarily kept some environmentalists from saying the idea is too risky. The tribe, however, has been willing to put its own money into the project and has done the deed already.
For those who remember Pacific Northwest tribes and ecology from the last decade, we got the Makah tribe getting criticism from environmentalists for a whaling tradition dating back millenia. Now here I put my bias in plain sight, I've descended from a tribe in the Pacific Northwest and while ecological concerns are certainly things I can respect ... it does strike me that in the first two decades of the 20th century it looks like Pacific Northwest Indians in the US and Canada can run afoul of environmental groups for either doing what they've always been doing and on a very small scale (Makah) or taking some initiative to remedy a significant staple food problem in a way that accounts for global warming (Haida). None of these tribes have ever been near as big as the white industrialist and post-industrial cultures that, say, have industries that get mercury into the water supply to a degree that PNW Indians are four times more likely to get cancer. Why? Well, because those trace toxic metals accumulate faster if they're in fish and you're four times more likely to eat fish because it's been one of your staple foods since before white people showed up, that "might" be why.
So whether it's white people taking the land or then using federal laws and ecological paradigms to tell them what they can't do with the land they still have it can kinda, sorta seem like American Indians can't win for losing. Of course you'd hope that this kind of scandal could by itself obliterate the stupid cliche of the American Indian in touch with Mother Nature who cares about the magical land, eh? ;-)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/25/iron-ocean-dump-haida-salmon_n_2019435.html
The Haida salmon cultivation scuffle has to do with an iron dump in the ocean by an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest, the British Columbia area. This has sparked controversy because, well, the belief is that even if the iron dump in the sea managed to increase the salmon run the concern is that the salmon will have fed off toxic algae and that that, in turn, will be toxic for the people of the tribe. Another argument is that the method is inefficient, though precisely what method of cultivating agriculture or animal food staples is efficient might be exactly the sort of production-line approach that might be considered problematic for the environment, couldn't it?
It would appear that the person who came up with the idea of the iron dump was trying to develop a creative solution to salmon cultivation while accepting that global warming is a significant issue. But this has not necessarily kept some environmentalists from saying the idea is too risky. The tribe, however, has been willing to put its own money into the project and has done the deed already.
For those who remember Pacific Northwest tribes and ecology from the last decade, we got the Makah tribe getting criticism from environmentalists for a whaling tradition dating back millenia. Now here I put my bias in plain sight, I've descended from a tribe in the Pacific Northwest and while ecological concerns are certainly things I can respect ... it does strike me that in the first two decades of the 20th century it looks like Pacific Northwest Indians in the US and Canada can run afoul of environmental groups for either doing what they've always been doing and on a very small scale (Makah) or taking some initiative to remedy a significant staple food problem in a way that accounts for global warming (Haida). None of these tribes have ever been near as big as the white industrialist and post-industrial cultures that, say, have industries that get mercury into the water supply to a degree that PNW Indians are four times more likely to get cancer. Why? Well, because those trace toxic metals accumulate faster if they're in fish and you're four times more likely to eat fish because it's been one of your staple foods since before white people showed up, that "might" be why.
So whether it's white people taking the land or then using federal laws and ecological paradigms to tell them what they can't do with the land they still have it can kinda, sorta seem like American Indians can't win for losing. Of course you'd hope that this kind of scandal could by itself obliterate the stupid cliche of the American Indian in touch with Mother Nature who cares about the magical land, eh? ;-)
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