Today's snow and ice only delays, but does not cancel, what a Good Life might mean?
1. Resources for it?
2. How does one know that one is living It?
3. What does one do if one is not living It?
What might one say to these questions?
Have a warm week!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
January 31, 2010
Hope you're enjoying the snow.
Let us continue Sunday on what that "Good Life" might mean, to continue last week's themes. Let me encourage you and me to go deeper.
Please take a couple of more Bible passages listed last week, and explore them anew, or for the first time (as if for the first time). Live with those verses today, and see where they take you. If you are able to speak that to the rest of us, or to post them to this blog, that'd be a big PLUS. (We learn more from each other.)
This is all assuming that today's snow doesn't cancel things for Sunday....
Let us continue Sunday on what that "Good Life" might mean, to continue last week's themes. Let me encourage you and me to go deeper.
Please take a couple of more Bible passages listed last week, and explore them anew, or for the first time (as if for the first time). Live with those verses today, and see where they take you. If you are able to speak that to the rest of us, or to post them to this blog, that'd be a big PLUS. (We learn more from each other.)
This is all assuming that today's snow doesn't cancel things for Sunday....
Friday, January 22, 2010
January 24, 2010 - THE GOOD LIFE!
Bring Bibles.
We'll begin with images that we receive (through TV, Internet, advertising) of what "The Good Life" comprises. -->; You'll want to make some notes prior to Sunday, as you consume these media.
Then we'll figure out if these visions of The Good Life have anything to do with The Abundant Life that our Bible stories describe. Is the Good Life the same as The American Dream? Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream"?
Is there agreement? Where?
Disagreement? How?
Mountaintop experiences: What are they like? Had one? Two? Can one live on the mountaintop?
What does Deuteronomy 30:15-20 have to do with living? With Living Well?
On Sunday, we'll look at these verses in class, but you are wise to look them up prior: John 3:1-21, Matthew 4:6-21, Matthew 6:19-21, Luke 17:11-19, Luke 19:1-10, John 9:1-41, Luke 8:4-18, Luke 8:40-56.
We'll end up with your BEST IDEAS and BEST PRACTICES on how to live, in Oprah's words, "The Best Life Now" but as followers of Jesus.
Thanks, Gang. This could be pretty important. Bring your Bible.
We'll begin with images that we receive (through TV, Internet, advertising) of what "The Good Life" comprises. -->; You'll want to make some notes prior to Sunday, as you consume these media.
Then we'll figure out if these visions of The Good Life have anything to do with The Abundant Life that our Bible stories describe. Is the Good Life the same as The American Dream? Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream"?
Is there agreement? Where?
Disagreement? How?
Mountaintop experiences: What are they like? Had one? Two? Can one live on the mountaintop?
What does Deuteronomy 30:15-20 have to do with living? With Living Well?
On Sunday, we'll look at these verses in class, but you are wise to look them up prior: John 3:1-21, Matthew 4:6-21, Matthew 6:19-21, Luke 17:11-19, Luke 19:1-10, John 9:1-41, Luke 8:4-18, Luke 8:40-56.
We'll end up with your BEST IDEAS and BEST PRACTICES on how to live, in Oprah's words, "The Best Life Now" but as followers of Jesus.
Thanks, Gang. This could be pretty important. Bring your Bible.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Video Day Again!Yoo-hoo!
Send me your ideas for songs that have to do with the following New Year themes:
1. New beginnings
2. Good use of time
3. Living wisely
I'll be playing a song called "Time" from Pink Floyd, and talking about some of the lyrics. You'll be invited to do the same as I. Here are the lyrics.
Send me your ideas for songs that have to do with the following New Year themes:
1. New beginnings
2. Good use of time
3. Living wisely
I'll be playing a song called "Time" from Pink Floyd, and talking about some of the lyrics. You'll be invited to do the same as I. Here are the lyrics.
Time, Pink Floyd
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
You run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over,
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over,
Thought I’d something more to say.
Again, I'll talk about the above lyrics (some of them), and you are invited to do the following:
1. Send me your song idea, or bring it in on disk or mp3 player.
2. If there is a Youtube video of this, send me the link.
3. Prepare a few words to talk about your song.
4. Enjoy learning from others as we talk about the themes listed above, at the top, in ##1-3.
Marc (mmullinax (at) mhc (dot) edu)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Sunday, January 10
A Treat!
Fay Walker, the grandmother of Caleb and Ascher, just returned from visiting them in Colombia.
And now, she will visit with us, Sunday afternoon, usual time and place.
Don't miss this one!
Marc
Fay Walker, the grandmother of Caleb and Ascher, just returned from visiting them in Colombia.
And now, she will visit with us, Sunday afternoon, usual time and place.
Don't miss this one!
Marc
Saturday, January 2, 2010
January 3, 2010
Theme: Having Resolutions, and Being Resolute
Bring (please) a list (written, mental ... doesn't matter) of your change-ups for the upcoming year. If you are ready to go public with them, that'd be a plus!
We'll strategize on how to keep these, and not.
Marc
Bring (please) a list (written, mental ... doesn't matter) of your change-ups for the upcoming year. If you are ready to go public with them, that'd be a plus!
We'll strategize on how to keep these, and not.
Marc
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