conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

wednesday linkage: 6200

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
- Alton Brown

At noon today I will meet Giada de Laurentis. Yes, it's true. I won't tell you how it happened. But I am increasingly excited. Yahoo! So, if I can get a photo, I'll post that too. We'll see. Heh.

In other news, we hit 6200 comments yesterday on the blog. Yep. I've cleaned the spam out as it has come along and we still have 6200 comments. That's about 1000 comments a year. My, we are a chatty lot. Well done, folks.

Not much else to say. Oh! I am not preaching this weekend. This coming Sunday is Reformation Sunday. At Community Church Reformation Sunday is often our Laity Sunday. I don't preach. The people rise up and take over. It is an ecclesial coup d'etat. Lovely.

Here are the links:

Sister Julie has written about prayer...well, she linked about prayer.

But Christ’s example tells us something else important. We are deceiving ourselves if we think that we can pray always, make prayer a kind of respiration of the soul in the midst of daily activity, if we do not set aside fixed times for prayer, when we are free from every other preoccupation.

Jane Ellen posted her sermon.

That is why it behooves us to remember that it is God we worship, and not (as vitally important as it is) the Bible. And in light of that, we do need to be persistent: in study, and in prayer, and in relationship-- yes, even (or maybe especially) in the company of those with whom we disagree.

Rev Ref posted his sermon.

This is why I don't offer easy answers, because the Gospel is bigger than a few specific verses. This is why I'm constantly trying to get you to look at the Big Picture. This is why I am willing to talk with people who disagree with me. This is why I teach that being a disciple is a daily process and that evangelism over time is better for everyone in the long run.

Rich has posted about the i-phone. "Let my platform go?!" Ha!

Arguments can be made about the vast distances over which American cellcos have to extend service; the daunting costs of tending and extending service. To all of which I say pish-posh: if everyone could buy any cell phone and download any amount of data for a low, low price per month, the market for such data services would explode, and money to make the upgrades would be pouring into coffers.

Well, there you go. You all enjoy your day.

Posted by tripp at October 24, 2007 06:01 AM