Month: April 2008

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What catches your eye?

I have been rereading the first three chapters of Genesis looking at the creation narrative and the events that occurred in the garden of Eden. When Eve ate the fruit she didn’t just grab it and eat, no the story tells us of how it was good, pleasant and desirable.

That’s the way sin is. We seldom imply jump in, but rather we are enticed, prodded (remember the serpent) and then we give in (see James 1). Remember to be careful as to what catches your eye and to not let temptation develop into sin.

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New Adventure

Well, my life long learner has kicked in again and I will be starting a new adventure this summer. I have been accepted into the Doctor of Ministry program at Bethel Seminary. I will be in the spiritual formation tract. My main focus will be looking at the use of Web 2.0 technology (ie this blog) to foster spiritual formation for both digital natives (those who have grown up with personal computers, etc) and digital immigrants (those of us who grew up with slide rules and $100 calculators that only did basic math).

The focus of my studies is something I am calling The Barbarian’s Call. It is an outflow of the barbarian sheep/ stupid sheep blog postings back in January. The web site is up, but there isn’t a lot there yet.

There are at least 4 components that I will be exploring in relation to the The Barbarian’s Call: love, community, courage & strength, and engagement.

I haven’t decided if I will lead a duel bloggers life or simply move all my blogging to the new site. We will have to wait and see about that.

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Music

One of the ways God stirs my soul is through the music of others. I love to listen to songs that make me think for a moment or maybe even longer. I am in the process of putting together a couple of iTunes iMixs. These are songs that make me stop and thing or spur me to action. To view them you will need iTunes on your computer.