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Re: ‘Gubbins – It’s A Word Game’ Review – Sometimes The Extra Gubbins Make The Difference

jbonewald — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:42:20 -0000

I like the game. I do wish the daily had some kind of leader board so you could compare scores with other players.

Re: http://wunderbonewald.tumblr.com/post/7745761823

jbonewald — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:48:17 -0000

I need to get some footage of us reading...he likes books and he likes to have us read to him; most of the time..

Re: http://wunderbonewald.tumblr.com/post/7236476242

jbonewald — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:17:20 -0000

alas, it only lasted one meal...we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Re: http://wunderbonewald.tumblr.com/post/7173678465

jbonewald — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:29:25 -0000

thanks anne-marie. it's hard to know the difference sometimes between what's normal for his age and development and what's appropriate for attachment as an adopted child.

Re: Un-Friending Jennifer Knapp

jbonewald — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:33:39 -0000

Ah...cool, I totally mis-understood the direction of your post. Thanks for the clarification.

Re: Un-Friending Jennifer Knapp

jbonewald — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:16:43 -0000

Alex, I don't know what Justin's position is on homosexuality, and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but all I think Justin is asking for is for us to first put aside our assumptions and commit ourselves to treat Jennifer as a child of the living God.

Personally, I think that one of the grave problems of Christianity today, is that everyone IS running around totally convinced that homosexuality is a sin, without really doing the hard work of examining the evidence or especially listening closely to the stories of those who are homosexual.

You can't listen to those stories and you can't try to do the difficult work of balancing those stories with the biblical record if the first response is to unfriend.

Re: Finding peace

jbonewald — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:53:53 -0000

thought I commented yesterday, but don't see it so here it goes: Congratulations! May you have the same success, soon, in selling your home!

Re: 11 must have WordPress plugins

jbonewald — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:52:41 -0000

nice list, there are a few one here I haven't heard of but will have to check out (holy scripturizer...) but many I use on my own site and the church's site.

Re: Why do you blog?

jbonewald — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:09:31 -0000

I don't know, which is probably why I haven't updated my blog in a long time. I used to do it to publicly think through some stuff, it was also a way to say what was going on in my mind about a variety of things. But now it just feels like a chore, probably because twitter lets me do that more quickly and easily, though of course less verbosely. So I just don't seem to blog anymore (and really over the last six months or so I've been reading less and less blogs too; not sure what that is about either.)

Re: This week’s menu (01.03.10)

jbonewald — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:37:59 -0000

we've kind of fallen off the menu planning wagon as of late. we used to do this on friday (our day off) for the coming week. Gotta get back to it.

Re: Top songs of 2009

jbonewald — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:06:03 -0000

Thanks for the encouragement...here's my not in any particular order list...

Fitz and Dizzyspells by Andrew Bird from Noble Beast
New Born by Muse from Origin of Symmetry
Eastern Hymn by David Crowder Band from Church Music
He Never Said a Mumbling Word by Welcome Wagon from Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
I love all three of the Webb songs you mention (+ State) so they go on the list.
Can't argue with any of the U2 songs either especially 2 and 7 on your list, and think its close to the best album ever by U2.
Comets by Fanfarlo from Reservoir (there is not one bad song on this album!)

Re: Heresy as Self-Correction

jbonewald — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:15:51 -0000

You have read far too much into my post. However as measure of what may or may not be acceptable within the bounds of Christian faith, I would hold to the Apostle's Creed. That certainly provides a deal of flexibility in other matters and an honoring of other traditions..

Re: Heresy as Self-Correction

jbonewald — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:28:39 -0000

that sounds like a pretty good standard to me. thanks for the Calvin quote!

Re: http://www.thechurchgeek.com/archives/1312

jbonewald — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:28:16 -0000

Chris,

Thanks for your thoughtful response. My guess too is that many of those who are yelling the loudest don't have the foggiest idea about Rob Bell because they are working with impressions and/or snippets of information. I appreciate the person who is willing to say they don't know enough about the situation to comment.

I do think there is room, as you say, to recognize false teaching. What I object to and what I was hoping came across in my post is a point-blank labeling of a person as a 'heretic' without truly engaging in and conversing with them. Finding where they are coming from, learning how they got there.

As a side note: I should probably be honest here and say that I am probably a hypocrite, because I would have no problem labeling Joel Osteen or Rev. Sun Yung Moon as heretics, because I don't see anything that is recognizable to the core of the Christian faith within their teaching. Maybe I just think the term should be reserved for where it might come to actually have real meaning.

Back to my point: I might push back a bit and say that heresy, if that is what we want to call it, often arises out of inadequacies in the way the faith has come to be expressed.

Christianity, as I see it, is a flexible and often self-correcting religion. The bible itself reflects that...as much as we try to boil our scriptures down to a set of core doctrines, we minimize and downplay other things that are also expressed in the text.

Consider too that according to the standard of his day, Martin Luther was himself a heretic, and yet most of us Protestants are deeply indebted to the him. But to some extent we are Protestants in name only...we no longer value those who protest against what are seen as inadequacies in how the faith has come to be expressed.

Instead we just label and dismiss, which is what I object to the most in the variety of judgments against Rob Bell.

Re: http://www.thechurchgeek.com/archives/1312

jbonewald — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:24:03 -0000

Well, I am inclined to think along with you that 'success' has something to do with it too.

I am hoping at some point to answer a few of the specific charges laid out in Philip Johnson's post. Hopefully sometime this week.

Re: #Moltmann reflections: theology as biography

jbonewald — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:27:20 -0000

I remember in a class I took on Bonhoeffer being so thoroughly impressed with not only how his biography informed his theology but how his theology helped him live through the issues he confronted. In so many ways they were one in the same; an integrated whole. I see the same in Moltmann, a tremendous level of personal and theological integrity.

Re: Monday Matters: Well, actually, it’s Jesus that matters…

jbonewald — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:15:36 -0000

Evangeline - Moltmann didn't speak directly to this, but I suppose one application would be the God of civil religion. It is common for us here in the states to say "God Bless America." But what God are we really referring to? In that case God is not anchored to any specific self-revelation about who God is, God becomes whatever we imagine God to be.

Beloved Spear - Yeah, I hear you and I'm okay with the dialetic tension...I guess I would just say that the transcendent God has moved definitively toward us in Jesus Christ.

Re: Monday Matters: Well, actually, it’s Jesus that matters…

jbonewald — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:45:22 -0000

Yeah, I absolutely had that conversation in mind as well and was trying to figure out how to throw that in...but it kind of pulled away from the coherence of what I was trying to write here.

I get where the God is unkowable and the whole argument for uncertainty comes from. And I really love Pete Rollins book How (not) to Speak of God in which he takes on that issue of certainty. But I have to stop short of fully going there because I see the revelation of Jesus as the full revelation of God.

I do love however how Rollins, instead of using the word "true" uses the word "real." And says this "view of truth is concerned with having a relationship with the Real (God) that results in us transforming reality." That sense of "Reality" then is so much more full and dynamic than "Truth."

And, I'm just as jealous that you are going to Christianity 21!

jim

Re: The Story They Are Hearing

jbonewald — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:32:43 -0000

One of the best sermons I heard was Donald Miller at Mars Hill. He talked about how you can tell the quality of one's life by the quality of the story. All the best stories have really compelling plots. The question to ask is what might be lost if something abruptly ended the story?

Re: Monday Matters: A Good Question

jbonewald — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:36:34 -0000

Jim, Way cool! thanks for stopping by the blog!

Re: Monday Matters: Shame and the Gospel

jbonewald — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:43:58 -0000

this is good to know and to be anticipating....we are taking 5 of our kids to Minneapolis on a group work camp trip in two weeks.

Re: Monday Matters: A Good Question

jbonewald — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:30:36 -0000

I think a lot of it comes down to learning how to tell our story better. I'm sure the church is doing more good in people's lives than people actually talk about. I'm sure VBS impacted some of our kids in ways we just haven't discovered. I'm sure too that people are involved in the community in ministry in ways that aren't publicized. But if we don't learn how to talk about those things to one another we'll never know what is going on.