Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Photo Phriday: And the winner is…
The first-ever tomcottar(dot)org online contest was a great success! Great creativity! After much consideration in a difficult situation I realized a few things.
1. I should have been more congnizant of Buffy (Spike Is My Personal Example) and Fight Club (Soap Inspires Mindless Pummeling of Enemies). Dang.
2. Personal emails sent to me asking "Is this [...]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Allure of Hope
At the risk of sounding more metro than necessary, I began reading The Allure of Hope this morning. Written by a chick, for a chick. (I have to use the word ‘chick’ or I’ll lose my ManCard for reading this thing…) It’s part of my Fat Rendering process.
So far, it’s really great. Jan Meyers talks [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in theology by tom cottar
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Rabbit in Your Headlights
Over at The Refinery, there’s, hopefully, a great discussion brewing on the video below. It’s Unkle’s Rabbit in Your Headlights vid (sung by Thom York of Radiohead). It’s a little disturbing to watch, but the payoff at the end is fantastic.
If you’re familiar at all with Thom Yorke, or Radiohead in general, you know that [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in culture, music, theology by tom cottar
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
The Rasterbator?
Granted, you’re probably reading this because the name piqued your interest…
This great little (free) program can easily take your favorite pics and blow them up to 2-story-house size and make your printer kick out hundreds of 8.5 x 11sheets to make it happen. Basically, it takes a raster-based image (like a JPG ….lots of tiny [...]
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Coming Soon….
In case you missed it yesterday, here’ s the teaser for our new worship building. The full-length presentation will be this Sunday!
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Quotable Monday, 9.24.2007
"It pains me to see the beautiful truths of Scripture being plastered about like beer advertisements. Many think it is wise to "get the word out" in this way but, believe that we are really just inoculating [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in quotable monday, stupid christian stuff by tom cottar
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
S.I.M.P.E.
This could be fun! Since Scott M brought it up, I’ll offer a box full of goodies to whomever comes up with the closest guess to what S.I.M.P.E. stands for in my Model for Rendering Fat.
Take a guess…serious or silly…if no one comes close, the most creative answer will take the prize of assorted [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in theology by tom cottar
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Foto Friday: Rendering Fat
If you’ve read my post on Rendering Fat, you’ll be happy to know that the process has been long this week…Everything in my life MUST fit into four categories, or I’m chunking it. My 24-hour plate is the only one I have and, since this is not a buffet, I only have so much room. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in theology by tom cottar
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Quotable Monday: 9.17.2007
I am blessed to have a handful of intimately close friendships that keep me alive.
They keep me sane.
They keep me accountable.
Last week, I got an email from one of my Fight Club-loving friends asking "How can I pray for you?" Before I had time to [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Quotable Monday: 9.9.2007
Worship is where I’m at today, kiddies. Although volumes have been written about it, I have yet to find a better description than the words of Louie Giglio: "Worship is turning our hearts affection and our minds attention to God". Worship is proclaiming the worth-ship of God. And, of course, that doesn’t just happen when [...]