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Entries for September 17th, 2008

Feelings and Actions in Worship

I’ve grown up with the assumption that actions without feelings are meaningless and that it would have been better to not act at all.  The wrong feelings would compromise integrity, epitomize hypocrisy and nullify any good that came of the action.  This view was especially true for me in worship.  I felt like the worship [...]

Culture Making - a few quotes

I have about a hundred pages left to go in the book, but here are some selected quotes from Culture Making, by Andy Crouch that I want to remember.  I like how this book is filled with sentences packed with so much thought, that other books could focus on the ideas that briefly mentioned.  The [...]

Buying to Give Away or Share

This idea has been ruminating in my head since I started cleaning out my shelves of books that I read once, maybe twice and which now are collecting dust, in order to make room for Jenn’s new school books.  I typically purchase books on the friends recommendations or because I’m familiar with the author.  I [...]