Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
strangemaps
Although I was led there via Marko’s post which referenced the map above, it’s a pretty intereting site in itself. If you have an interest in anything from history and politics to the Tombs of the Stars or the Kaballah Tree of Life, StrangeMaps is a great place to waste a little bit of time.
Need [...]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Quotable Monday, 1.28.08
"To obtain a person’s true opinion of you, make him mad!"
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
It connected with a Father Stephen quote Scott M sent me a week or so ago. It read "I believe that the love of our enemies is uttely essential to the love of God. If we do not love our enemies, we will [...]
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
I’m Not Sick (but I’m not well…)
Electile Dysfunction: (n). the inability to become excited about any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year.
sigh. Just call me a flagpole sitta.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzxDRA93Nk[/youtube]
1 Comment » - Posted in politics by tom cottar
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
24 and Counting
Today, I am 24 days out from the Austin Marathon extravaganza. My training has begun to taper back (so I don’t get injured at the last minute), which is good because I’m beginning to get bored (ususally a precursor to burnout). Yesterday I ran in the frigid drizzle to prove my commitment….sort of. I ran [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in running, theology by tom cottar
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Quotable Monday, 01.21.08
"Man can live without air for a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months–and without a new thought for years on end."
-Kent Ruth
Thoughts? (preferably new ones…)
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Forgetting and Straining, Part Three
In continuing my evolving thoughts in Philippians 3, it’s brought me to this thought: There is something mysterious and other-worldy about conversion, whether you experience it as a moment-in-time experience or a series-of-steps-on-a-journey. I grew up hearing the gospel as a child and heard it for years..over and over and over. Until one day…BAM! Like [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in personal, theology by tom cottar
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Quotable Monday, 01.14.08
"Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
–Philo of Alexandria, Jewish Philosopher and interesting guy
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Forgetting and Straining, Part Two
If you know me well, you know I get really passionate about a few things. At the height of those things is a ‘moral gospel’. You know, a certain, arbitrary set of rules that determine your degree of holiness. The problem with that kind of gospel is that you always have someone who attains it…and [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Eden’s Apple Pie
My heart was heavy this morning, knowing of the struggle of a dear friend. The detals are too much to post here. Almost immediately after, I checked my feeds and found someting by a friend of mine at Worship Trench. In order to get out of the analytical box we fall into when studying scripture, [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Forgetting and Straining, Part One
One of the greatest movies of the last few years has to be Memento.It’s one of those stop-what-you’re-doing-and-rent-it-tonite flicks that don’t come around very often. Guy Pierce plays Leonard, a man on a search to find his wife’s rapist/killer. The glitch is that while trying to rescue his wife during the ‘incident’, he suffered a [...]