It’s a new year at the iMonastery, but we have the same problem as of old. Scraps gather during the week that we are unable to get to, and we tend to be rather lazy around here and let them pile up until the weekend when you arrive. Then we all rush around with ourContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 1.5.13”
Category Archives: Jeff Dunn
My Purpose Driven Life
To be honest, I really wasn’t listening that much to the message from our pastor on Sunday. That is, until he used the “P” word. “Something something something, and to know God’s purpose for your life.” Sigh. Here we go. Whenever most people talk about “God’s purpose for your life,” what they mean isContinue reading “My Purpose Driven Life”
Saturday Ramblings 12.29.12
Well, iMonks, we did it again. We made it through another year. Or at least almost. I guess there are a couple of days left in this one. Might as well use them up before we throw out the whole thing. So if you are ready, let’s saddle up one more time this year andContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 12.29.12”
Looking For A Few Good Books
It’s the silly season here at the iMonastery. We’re still cleaning up from Christmas, and waiting for the calendar to turn. As I look forward to the new year (it can’t be any harder than 2012 has been, can it?), I’m looking at my bookshelves and not seeing anything that jumps out at me toContinue reading “Looking For A Few Good Books”
Another Look: Those Who Dance Are Considered To Be Insane By Those Who Can’t Hear The Music
And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. (1 Samuel 3:1, ESV) For so many of my almost 37 years following the Lord, there has been no frequent vision, at least not for me. My “words from the Lord” have come through sermons and books I read. EvenContinue reading “Another Look: Those Who Dance Are Considered To Be Insane By Those Who Can’t Hear The Music”
Saturday Ramblings 12.22.12
Well what do you know? The world didn’t end after all. As a matter of fact, here in Oklahoma we didn’t even get any rain. So we live to flip the Mayan calendar over to a new day. The doomsday predictors did leave quite a mess behind them. Just watch how many people rush toContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 12.22.12”
Christmas Quotes
Christmas itself is by grace. It could never have survived our own blindness and depredations otherwise. It could never have happened otherwise. Perhaps it is the very wildness and strangeness of the grace that has led us to try to tame it. We have tried to make it habitable. We have roofed it and furnished it. We haveContinue reading “Christmas Quotes”
Saturday Ramblings 12.15.12
Welcome to the very last Saturday Ramblings ever. Next Saturday would be December 22, and we all know the world is ending on the 21st. So load up now on all those extra helpings you’ve been bypassing. No need to diet this week. And we are loaded here this week with extra helpings of goodies.Continue reading “Saturday Ramblings 12.15.12”
Year ’round Christmas Music
I love Christmas music. Not, mind you, most of the cheese that passes as Christmas music, sung by artists knowing they can make a quick buck by whipping out a few “Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire” stanzas. (I especially love Jewish singers, like Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond, putting out Christmas albums.) I loveContinue reading “Year ’round Christmas Music”
The Darkness Of Advent
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. (Isaiah 50:10, ESV) Those who have been reading for a while know of my struggles with the feelings of darkness that, at times, seem to be crushing theContinue reading “The Darkness Of Advent”
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