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9 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 7 Words of Encourageme... · 1 reply · +3 points

These could be for anybody, not just pastors. Though I fully understand your concern for pastors. Pride is such a wicked, insidious sin.

11 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 7 Tips to Read the Bib... · 1 reply · +1 points

Not a brag, but I've read through the Bible twice in my life, once as part of a Sunday School class going through a chronological Bible, and then with a plan put out by NavPress reading for different areas of the Bible every day. (This later plan I crammed into fourteen months. Some might say I failed, but I say that I read the Bible through in fourteen months.) There is something transformative about reading whole sections of the Bible at one time, somehow a bigger picture then greeting caught up on the minutiae of subtle meanings of a particular word. I'm not discounting that at all, but I think we need a balance of meaning(s) in our reading.

I started this plan again a couple of weeks ago. I have wanted to write about whatever occurs to me as I'm reading but have not created a good plan for doing so in my mind. Actually, I've come up with a workable plan, but I'm too lazy to implement it.

A couple of things to keep in mind: one, as Ron said, if you miss a day, just catch up or continue on from that point. Give yourself the grace to continue on. And, kind of turf in with this thought is the second thought: it's about reading the Bible, not completing the plan.

11 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 3 Questions to Write a... · 1 reply · +2 points

I generally get bogged down at "I suck at pretty much everything." Perhaps I should re-evaluate things (though things are kind of sucky right now, what with being unemployed for almost two years and all the financial fun that entails).

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - The Hardest Thing for ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Almost seems like there could be room for some kind of public advocate/liaison position, one who is passionate about the work and can share that with others. People tend to support the passion rather than the work. Or have some kind of manager come in to take care of the day-to-day matters to free the leader to become a true leader. Not to separate the leader, of course, but to truly free him or her.

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - True Confession: Life ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Not a pastor, just a guy. Several times I've started out to a party and turned around and gone home. Most of the time when I don't go to a planned, I don't even get out of my apartment. I'm not married or in a relationship, so I have no impetus to push myself. And, introversion coupled with depression? That's a match made in hell. Or at least purgatory.

13 years ago @ Captain's Blog - Let’s Get Physical · 0 replies · +2 points

That is hilarious, though I can't imagine discussing synonyms for organs in the testicular area.

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - The Top 50 Television ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I personally would add Babylon 5 (my 2nd favorite TV show ever, right behind The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Arrested Development.

Fawlty Towers is fantastic. If we're adding BBC shows, I would include Doctor Who. My inner geek commands me to.

14 years ago @ A Marked Change - Baby Daddy · 1 reply · +1 points

Congrats to you and Amy, Wes! I will keep you both in my prayers.

14 years ago @ trippcrosby.com - Streaming Thoughts · 1 reply · +3 points

I'm wondering what I'm going to watch now that I've finished watching After Hours. I'm kind of hungry, too, but I don't feel like going out to get food, and all I have to eat in my apartment is protin shakes. I've had 4 today. That's it. It's way too early to go to sleep (6:57). I want to see Super 8 this weekend, but I don't know if I'll feel like going to see it. Sinus problems suck.

It's about 74° in my apartment. I know because that's where the thermostat is set.

1700 titles in my library, and I don't have any clue what I want to watch. That is sad. Not sad in a "starving children" kind of way, of course. I don't know any starving children in Africa. or on any continent, but I know they exist.

14 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - Seeing God as Too Much... · 1 reply · +1 points

I relate to what Walter says. I have complete faith for everyone. Except me. I need someone to have faith for me.

I can comprehend God is bigger than my comprehension will ever be (even in heaven). I can comprehend that the Holy Spirit is even more "other" than God is "other". I accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. Growing up as an only child, though, and being completely rejected by all peers in elementary and junior high (primarily, and at church, too), I don't have any sense of connection with people. I mean, I have (very few) friends now, but I'm extremely guarded with people.

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