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Well I am about done with Life Together. It’s been a slow read and not nearly as profound as I had hoped. Although VERY!!! good.
I’m sitting at fido right now with my wife across from me. I’ve got my headphones in and my head down as I sniff my lemon herb tea i am typing this post on my iPhone.
I just read something that I thought I would share, something that’s profound but paradoxical.
“let him who cannot be alone beware of community…”
Followed by
“Let him who is not in community beware of being alone…”
I thing Bonhoeffer is on to something there.
And I am pretty sure I don’t have the community thing down and I definatley don’t have the alone thing down. Maybe they are tied together!
I’ll be blogging a bit on this book after I finish over at community planting .com.
Lots of good stuff.
Back to reading!
Peace
Tags: bonhoeffer, Community
I’m sitting at a little coffee shop down town-ish today (crema)
It’s a cool little spot with a great view :: bridge, LP field, down town, etc!
Today is thursday so i am trying to do some writing today. But my A.D.D. and extraverted tendencies are kicking in and i just want to be around people. DISCIPLINE!!!
I also had coffee with Blake Bergstrom today. Blakes a campus pastor at Crosspoint.tv :: a great guy and a huge help and encouragement to me and the ministry God has called me to. I appreciate Blake and really enjoy chatten with him. God knows i need the encouragement these days and i am pretty sure he has put guys like Blake into my life because of that.
Well, it’s time to do some writing, or try and do some writing.
Wish me luck!
Grace and peace
Erik
Tags: blake bergstrom, coffee, cross point, writing
I have decided i need to be more intentional about writing. I have been talking for the last 3 years or so about this or that book that i’m working on, and it’s true, i’m not lying i promise. I have been SLOWLY working on a couple book ideas. It’s the intentionality and discipline that escapes me!
Discipline, especially spiritual discipline has never been my strong suite. This is one of the reasons why i study spiritual disciplines and preach about spiritual disciplines. Most people think you need to be an expert in order to preach or teach something, i strongly disagree with that! i preach on love, evangelism, grace, prayer, following Jesus, and i even preach on spiritual disciplines. NONE of which would i consider myself an expert in the field of. A topic like prayer is a great example. Over the past year or two i have preach 20 + times on prayer and the Lord’s Prayer. I think i have some pretty good stuff to say about it, all of which has come through my study and participation of the topic but in no way do i even come close to considering myself an expert pray-er. I would probably need to confess the opposite. I struggle with my prayer life, i’m scatterbrained when i try to spend time with the Lord. IT”S HARD!!! So i preach about it. Often times feeling like i’m preaching to myself as much as i am preaching to anybody else. i think that Spirit works like that! i love it!
The Anglican preaching John Wesley once said that he didn’t feel like he had any faith. i would expect his response to be something like, i better take a leave of absence to get thing “right” with the Lord. BUT no, Wesley said this, “i will preach faith until i have it.”
That’s kinda paradoxical but i think i like it.
I think i’m living that in lots of ways these days.
So today…
I am praying that Lord would give me the spirit of discipline and creativity to write something that might help people in their spiritual journey. And i pray that he would at the same time, help me in my journey.
I will be listening to Sigur Ros (great study and writing music) and writing about things like revolution, spiritual discipline, identity, and my life in Christ.
May the words in inspired and flow smoothly.
Writing
Erik
Tags: discipline, rhythm, wesley, writing
If you know me well you probably know i’m a pretty big Indiana Hoosiers fan. I am actually wearing my IU hoodie as i type!
Everybody asks me why and the short story is that a kid from my high school (Jamal Meeks) played at IU during the Bobby Knight era and i have never looked back.
Well this year has been a tough year for a true.
But also kinda of an exciting year.
Despite have the worst record in the Big Ten and the worst IU record in 95 years the team has been super inspirational.
Just about everybody is a walk-on and even the team manager got some playing time! AND Tom Crean is the couch! Exciting times!
An amazing story!
And Gene Wojciechowski, a columnist for ESPN wrote a GREAT article about the team today and there trying season. (READ IT) and there’s a video interview with the team manager / player at the top of the article. Worth watching.
There’s always next year.
Most fans just say that but IU fans can really look forward to it. Crean has recruited one of the top classes in the nation, 6 ESPN top 100 players are on there way to IU. And that’s just the start!
IU will return!
GO HOOSIERS!!!
Well i have been taking it easy on the blogging front during Lent.
I don’t think my blog is really social networking, at least not like facebook or twitter so i just thought i would take it easy on the blog but not necessarily give it up. But i will update you on my Lent activity sometime soon.
But for now :: The Singing Road!
I love this! I watched the 5 little video’s about the making of this “Singing road” on the Honda Civic site :: Check it out here.
I thought it was super interesting! Totally sometime i would want to be apart of!
No real point, just creative and fun! With a little lasting proof of your creativity! LOVE IT!!!
Check out the video’s for yourself!
Grace and peace
Erik
Tags: Honda, music, singing road