2006-04-10

What's your religious philosophy?



You are a Believer

You believe in God and your chosen religion.
Whether you're Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu..
Your convictions are strong and unwavering.
You think your religion is the one true way, for everyone.


What's Your Religious Philosophy?

2006-04-06

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably Words of Affirmation with a secondary love language being Physical Touch.

Complete set of results

Words of Affirmation: 9
Physical Touch: 8
Acts of Service: 6
Receiving Gifts: 5
Quality Time: 2


Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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Ethics & Morality, cont.

Mike stated:
For example, honesty and truth-telling is an important moral principle, but there are times when the principle to love and care for those in need supercedes honesty. The example of someone hiding Jews from the Nazis is the prime example of this. Is it immoral to lie to the Nazis in order to protect those Jews, or are we in fact morally required to lie in order to carry out the command to love our neighbors and defend the oppressed?


I don't want to sound as a loveless bastard, but maybe there is more to this. What if we were meant to fight Nazi-ism directly but not lie and hide the Jews. Wouldn't God care and protect them according to His plan? Didn't God ask us to lay down our lives for Him? I know that I don't feel the full weight of that sitting here in my comfortable house with the many freedoms we have.

That leads into something that I have realized about emergent or post-modernism. I have not seen much reference to the evil in the world. More later, I gotta get going to work.

2006-04-01

Settlers gets ranked at #1

Found a ranking of games where Settlers of Catan made #1

New Disease

Found this regarding a new disease (MoDeD).

Busy

I have just been too busy to post lately.

I need to get the taxes done, but that is waiting for me to catch up on the finances. Working on a church plant. Need to get registered for another class. Learning PHP for the church website. Trying to stay ahead of my co-workers on .Net.

And in the midst of all this God is trying to change / grow me.