More on: Searching for God Knows What

More from Don Miller:

“Let’s say I was an alien and I had to go back to my home planet and explain to some head-of-the-aliens guy what people on this planet were like… the thing that defines human personalities is that they are constantly comparing themselves to one another.”…

“I kept thinking about this that night and I got out of bed and wrote my thoughts down on a piece of paper, you know, as if I were an alien. I put it down in a fancy alien voice:

Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems an oddity and, for that matter, a waste. Nevertheless, this is the driving influence behind every human’s social development, their emotional health and sense of joy, and, sadly, their greatest tragedies. It is as though something that helped them function and live well has gone missing, and they are pining for that missing thing in all sorts of odd methods, none of which are working. The greater tragedy is that very few people understand they have the disease. This seems strange as well as well because it is obvious. To be sure, it is killing them, and yet sustaining their social and economic systems. They are an entirely beautiful people with a terrible problem.”

New blog on church technology

Digital.leadnet.org has a new blog on church technology.
I believe the site “opened” today.
One of the first posts on the blog discusses the ways txt messaging from cell phones is changing relationships and possibly the church.

Over dinner one night, I’m talking with Dave Browning, who pastors Christ the King Community Church. He described the difference in technology use in Africa, where getting internet access is rather challenging, but everyone has a cell phone. So we explored how he might use text messaging as a means to communicate and equip his multi-site church leaders in Africa from where he is in Burlington, Washington. (I’ll tell you more about a back door way to do this in a future post.)
Then over a breakfast conversation, I’m talking with 2 parents who are amazed at what their teenage children are doing with txting. One parent described how some txters are so proficient with their cell phone keypad entry that they can txt underneath the desk in class. Yes, a hi-tech way for passing notes in class. One other parent confessed that she was not a txter, and she gets pleas for help with errands from her son, but because she doesn’t know how to read txt msgs on her cell phone, one of her sons sends a text message to another son in another state, who then in turn calls Mom to relay the message by a cell phone call!

It will be interesting to see where this blog with a number of tech-savy contributors heads.
And speaking of txt messaging, how has it changed your relationships or church?

Latest bin Laden video a fake?

I haven’t seen this covered anywhere else, but just noticed an article on Booman Tribune (thanks to Digg) suggests the latest bin Laden video is a fake after the video freezes from 1:58 to 12:30, while the audio continues.

Osama Bin Laden’s widely publicized video address to the American people has a peculiarity that casts serious doubt on its authenticity: the video freezes at about 1 minute and 36 58 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen! The words spoken when the video is in motion contain no references to contemporary events and could have been (and likely were) made before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Wonder why ABC News, the CIA and others either refused to report his, ignored it or if someone else produced a different video with the video frozen.
You can download the entire video here

Crusaders win big over Christopher-Newport

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Mary Hardin-Baylor 51, Christopher Newport 19

From UMHB:

Belton, TX – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team accomplished a variety of goals in the 2007 season opener. The Cru avenged last season’s opening loss to Christopher Newport, opened the season on a winning note and sent a message with a dominating performance against a ranked opponent. Fourth-ranked UMHB cruised to a 51-19 victory over the 12th-ranked Captains Saturday night in Belton to open the season at 1-0 and drop CNU to 1-1 on the year.

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‘Bone of my bones – flesh of my flesh’

Interesting thoughts/questions I wondered about while reading Genesis 1-3 this morning…

Gen 1:26-28 says God created man and woman, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them,” — on the 6th day of creation. Yet it isn’t until Gen. 2 that scriptures actually tells us about the creation of Eve. I wonder how/why that is? Does that signify the seven days took a lot longer than a literal seven days? Maybe 100 years for each day or 1000 years for each day?

If you read Gen. 2:15-24 it would appear that things happened in this order…

Adam was created. God told him not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge.

God realized Adam was alone. (v. 18)

God told him to get to work. Adam set out to name all the animals (probably not a short-term task). “So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.” (v. 20)

I bet as Don Miller suggests, in his book, “Searching for God Knows What” it could have easily taken 30-40 maybe even 100 years to name all the animals on the earth. I wonder if he named all the fish in the sea too? Did they all swim up next to the shoreline so he could name them?

Adam stays busy working “But for Adam no suitable helper was found.” (v. 20)

Seems like God realized Adam’s needs long before he did. I wonder when it hit Adam that he was lonely and needed human companionship.

I wonder if God was sitting there just waiting for that moment to arrive. Then He leans over and says to the angels gathered around watching things on earth in great joy – “Ha. See I told you Gabriel and Michael — I knew he’d realize his basic need in life is for companionship and relationship. He just had to get out and see the world a bit.”

Miller says that he bets Eve felt really loved.

Adam had longed for a companion. He didn’t even know what that would mean but when he saw Eve he said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

I bet Eve felt treasured because Adam had never lusted after another woman. Never abused another woman.

Never mistreated another woman and he was craving her presence even before she was created.

She was exactly what he was looking for.

Reminds me of our search for Christ. Before meeting Christ, we don’t know we’re even looking for Him. But we search and search and carry on with our work until suddenly we realize there’s something missing. We’re missing out on something bigger than us. Then once we find Him — we realize He’s exactly what our soul needed.

Anyways — just some thoughts — additions/comments/clarifications?