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Archive for January, 2007
Using Our Imagination
Jan 29th
My wife is currently reading a book on imaginative prayer (Seeing is Believing: Experience Jesus Through Imaginative Prayer by Greg Boyd). She loves it, and I’m planning to read it next.
We did some imaginative prayer exercises at our last Pastors of Excellence retreat, and it was a great blessing to me. Basically, it is using your imagination when you pray — thinking of Jesus being in the room with you, talking to Him, and listening to what He has to say to you. It might sound ‘New Age’ but its really not. God gave us our imagination, and if it can help you in prayer, you should use it.
I often use my imagination in worship. I will imagine being in the throne room of God, experiencing His goodness, majesty, power, holiness, etc. I imagine the 24 elders laying their crowns before the throne and being completely blown away by the presence of God. The times when I can really focus on that vision are times of powerful, convicting, life-changing worship. I’m still learning about imaginative prayer, but I plan to make it an important part of my prayer life.
I’ll have more to say after I read Boyd’s book.
New Look!
Jan 29th
My faithful readers will notice that I’ve changed the look of my site. I liked the other theme, but I didn’t think it was very ‘readable’ — the font was too small and the colors made it difficult to read on some monitors. The theme I chose is not very exciting or colorful, but it is very readable.
I may change it again soon if I find something better that is also easy to work with.
Back On-Line
Jan 27th
My site was down for most of yesterday. It seems I tried to install a WordPress Plug-in that was not compatible with my version of WP. Thanks to Justin Baeder of WebbleYou who got me back up and running.
Future Engineer
Jan 25th
We’re very proud of our little girl. This appeared in the Ashland Times-Gazette….
New Blog
Jan 18th
I was recently introduced to an interesting new blog. It is called The Moratorium Site and I think it is rather creative. It should definitely get people talking (or arguing).
Here’s a description:
“This site is my little place on the web to rant and rave about certain things in life, be they TV shows, Movies, People, Ideas, Phrases, etc… that simply must be halted, at least for a certain amount of time.”
Check it out.
The Perfect Gift
Jan 16th
Here is the Perfect Gift for all the male members of your household.
My Birthday is March 13th. I’m just saying…..
(h/t to Dave Barry)
Would You Be Missed?
Jan 10th
Another blogger I read regularly has posted this question, and I reposted it here to get input from my readers.
If your church vanished from your community, would the community know it was gone? What kind of hole would you leave? What, if anything, would the community miss?
Here’s another question that a commenter left on that post: If you were no longer attending your current congregation, what would go undone? How long would it take before others noticed you were gone?
It’s been said, “When you die, you either fill a hole or you leave a hole.”
What do you think???
Jeff Slater
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