Tagged! Books… April 6, 2008
Posted by JP in Blogroll, Discussion.3 comments
Just so you’ll know, Kc tagged me in a post a long time ago and I did not participate. Now as I force myself to pull away from life for a while and enjoy puttering at the computer I thought I would jump into this fray:
The first portion:
1. How many books have I owned?
1000+
2. What was the last book you bought?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
3. What was the last book you read?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. What are FIVE books that have meant a lot to you.
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin
Westminster Confession of Faith
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
*this is a tie between: “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secrets of a Man’s Soul” - John Eldrege and “When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy” - John Piper
The second portion:
1. One book that changed your life: I’m simply repeating what Kc said from what Rose said:
The Bible (I will qualify my answer to specify the Amplified Bible by Lockman Press, in my opinion it is the absolute best English translation in existence.)
2. One book that you’ve read more than once: Pilgrim’s Progress
3. One book you’d want on a desert island: Refer to Number 1. Duh
4. One book that made you laugh: Nothing really I can think of - most of my reading is theological, sci-fi/fantasy, or work related.
5. One book that made you cry [or feel really sad]: Wild at Heart - made me realize how much of my life needs to be reworked.
6. One book that you wish had been written: My life’s story… indulgent I know.
7. One book that you wish had never been written: Anything by Ellen G. White…
8. One book you’re currently reading: Refer to the first section regarding the top five books… reading, re-reading, referencing…. all the time.
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read: There are so many I cannot even begin to list them.
10. Now tag five people: Adam and Josh (I wish I knew if sofyst was still alive…) Luke, Nan, (okay, so I’ve run out of tags…. Seems like a whole world of bloggers has faded off into the sunset.
Pride and getting the ‘beam’ out… April 8, 2006
Posted by JP in Blogroll, Discussion, Good Sites, Churches, and Stuff, Uncategorized.3 comments
I was just reading through some blogs that I try to visit frequently and read a post by Casey at "Just So You'll Know", in which he talks about Church discipline and 'getting the beam out of your own eye…" and it's connection with the sin of pride.
As a card-carrying practitioner of the sinful pride brigade, I think his treatise tied together 'the beam' and pride extremely well. Read the post and let him (and me) know your thoughts.
If after we have resolved our own feelings concerning an offense and we find that one of the two conditions warranting discipline exist then the next requisite step is to “cast the beam out of thine own eye”. The beam and the splinter are an analogy Jesus used to illustrate the disparity between the sin of one who commits an offense and one who would rebuke him from a heart filled with pride. The beam in this analogy is nothing less than pride in any manifestation. The rest of the story…
