a few meaningful distractions...

So I'm hooked.

Everyone went crazy about those nooma videos and i like completely missed the boat on them. Thank goodness CSF used some of them last year. As many may know, Rob Bell did those videos and also wrote a pretty darn good book entitled "Velvet Elvis." He is also the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Michigan. I've heard some of his sermons at my sunday school type class at church, but not very many. The one's i've heard have really challenged me.

So a friend of mine informed me that Mars Hill Church's website has their sermons available online every week. Dude, I can listen to Rob Bell any time I want...

...lol and i definitely have been. It has been good except for the one time when I actually took the time to do some homework for my Technology for Teaching 3hundredwhatever class. I was building a website and listening to one of Bell's messages and my computer decided to freeze. I lost over an hour's worth of good hard work on the website. sad...

ok the website thing isn't a big deal. But the messages are pretty amazing. If nothing else, it's a good substitute for tv time. they're at least 3000000000000000000000000000 times better than most of the crap that's on tv.

check this one out if you get the chance. It's over one of my favorite passages in the Bible--Psalm 77.


In other news, Ed Wojcicki came and spoke at the edge last friday and introduced an amazing author to me. Henri Nouwen is his name and writing amazing books is his game (yeah it was cheesy...deal with it). I'm currently in The Wounded Healer and am really enjoying it. It's always nice to find new authors (well...new to me anyway). I've mostly been reading stuff by C.S. Lewis and Brennan Manning lately and have really been challenged by them. However, I think sometimes I like to get really set in my ways and think that Lewis and Manning are the only two authors who can write something worth while. I was reading Nouwen's book and all of the sudden I was like "whoa...i can't even imagine how many other good books there are to read from people who have been changed by God through Christ." I got pretty excited and then overwhelmed because i wanted to read all of them. After that, my head felt like it was going to explode and i knew i needed to avoid amazon.com for a few days.

so yeah good book.

There's another one too but i'm not gonna talk about it until it gets here and i've read it.

yeah that's right i couldn't avoid amazon.com forever. I'm foolish and weak. :)


have an awesome night guys...and gals....
-dave