Sanders Says: A theory about selfishness

Sanders Says: A theory about selfishness: "When I see someone behaving selfishly, I see a personal recession in full bloom."

Shape notes

Growing up, my church heritage used hymnals where each arrangement used shape notes. Shape notes helped me learn to recognize and follow music before I ever learned FACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.

I like shape notes. Most churches now project the words without notes on large screens. I'm not in opposition, but I do wonder what kind of impact it will have on harmonies in the next 15 years as fewer children are exposed to musical arrangements in worship today.

Matchmakers for God

You've heard it before, "I'm not a good person, God couldn't love me." Some people would even wait to become a follower of Jesus once they get all of their ducks in a row, or at least most of them.

Conversely, you may also hear statements such as "How could God have allowed something so horrible to happen?" An event might be enough to keep a person from having any desire to love God, whether God was the cause or not.

I risk wearing out Joe Beam's Your Love Path but loving God from our perspective has a lot to do with the first step of "Attraction". It's natural for people to assume if God is going to love us, we need to make ourselves attractive. Likewise, in order for people to fall in love with God, he needs to be attractive to them.

As the body of Christ, it might be wise to consider how we can be matchmakers and attract people to God. I'm not suggesting that God needs help, but people do.

Lastly, we must be sure we are matching for love, not gain.

More fun with Google Maps

I saw this great WIN on Failblog.org and decided to once again, see if I could find that actual location using Google Maps, based on clues within the picture. I did it.

I know. I'm weird, but it's fun.

The picture:

The Google Street View:


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Q & A with Life Church's Craig Groeshel

A lot of you may know that Dave Ramsey's recent Town Hall for Hope event was hosted at the Life Church in Oklahoma. Everything I've heard about Life Church is that they are remarkable at what they do. Still, when I saw this video made by Tyler Stanton and Tripp Crosby from a Q & A session at Catalyst (another event Dave Ramsey participated in) I thought I would share with all of my Lampo colleagues. The rest of you may enjoy it too.