McCain and Obama to Interview at Saddleback.

I don’t normally post about anything political in nature but this article caught my eye.

McCain and Obama will talk faith

How about that. The presidential candidates are going to talk faith with Rick Warren at Saddleback. This will be an interesting interview. Are they just going to tell us what they think we want to hear? Thoughts?

My Will

Here is a list of things that I tend to go through when I want to do my will over God’s will.  Just being honest here.

• I run from God by ignoring him.
• I think my way is the best.
• I get fearful to do God’s will.
• I’m doubtful about God’s will.
• Many times I have very little faith.

Do you always do God’s will or do you struggle with it?

The story of Jonah talks about ignoring God’s will.  To go against God’s will is to sin and it will eventually send you into the depths of the sea like Jonah.  Here is the prayer Jonah prayed.  Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.  Salvation can only come from the LORD.

Jonah 2

1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. 2 He said:
“In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave ^[a] I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.

3 You hurled me into the deep,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.

4 I said, ‘I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.’

5 The engulfing waters threatened me, ^[b]
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.

6 To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you brought my life up from the pit,
O LORD my God.

7 “When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, LORD,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.

8 “Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.

9 But I, with a song of thanksgiving,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
Salvation comes from the LORD.”

10 And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Tags: God's Will, Joanh, sin

Where are the posts?

Just in case the few of you that read my blog are wondering why there haven’t been very many posts lately.  I have been working on the Small Group Forum which starts up in 2 weeks.

Is that a good enough excuse?

Sleeping In.

My family is sleeping in one last time this summer.  We are even going to the 11am church service.  This is the last weekend for the summer and they all want to savor the last moments.

You know what School starts on Monday and I’m glad.  Everyone else can get up and get around like I have been doing all summer!  It’s going to be and exciting day tomorrow.

Anyone else starting back to school soon?

Online Life Streams.

I have a couple of new tools that add to the online life streaming I have been playing with lately.  The first one is drop.io.  It’s a cool application that lets you drop different kinds of inputs into your “drop” or life stream.  Here are some of the ways you can input data into your stream, for full details check out their site:

1. Files -  this can be any kind of file you want.  There is a html uploader on the site to add them to your drop.
2. Links - allows you to share bookmarks with others that subscribe to your drop
3. Notes - a short note or you can embed media in a note like youtube videos
4. Email - you get a drop.io email address that you can send stuff too
5. Voicemail - you get a number you can call and leave voice messages in your drop
6. Fax - does anyone still fax stuff?

The other life stream updater I have been playing with is Jott.  Jack told me about this one.  It’s a handy way to update your life stream if you don’t like to type.  You call into a jott phone number and jott asks you where to send your message.  You give it a destination like “me” and start recording your message.  Jott then takes and translates your voice message into text and sends you an email with the message in it.  You can send messages to places like email addresses, twitter, wordpress, and some others.  Jott does other things also I would like to encourage you to check it out.

One of the main reasons I was looking at both of these is because they both update your twitter feed.  It seems to me like Twitter is becoming more of a life streaming platform.  I have this little web of links where multiple sources of information flow in and out of twitter.

My blog -> feeds updates to twitter

drop.io -> feeds updates to twitter

jott.com -> feeds updates to twitter

sms texting -> feeds updates to twitter

Any of the above updates to my twitter sends status updates to Facebook.  Cool stuff.

What does this mean?

I have a question I would like to ask. In the book of Matthew when Jesus was giving the sermon on the mount there are a couple of verses that I would like to get your opinion on.

Matthew 5

An Eye for an Eye

38“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’^[g] 39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

In particular what does “If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.” mean to you? Have you ever been in this situation? What did you do?