Archive for September, 2006
Bush’s Own Church Calls For Pulling Troops Out Of Iraq
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace urging President Bush to pull U.S. troops out of the country.
This brings up an interesting question of where Church authority and governmental authority mix.
However, trying to look at this declaration from [...]
The Practice of the Presence of God: Prayer
Friday, September 22nd, 2006Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite lay monk from the 1600s on prayer:
“I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer. Many words and long discourses are often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man’s gate. [...]
Friday night weather
Thursday, September 21st, 2006I was just checking the forecast and I noticed that tomorrow is Friday and it doesn’t look too nice out. Then I realized how many awesome Friday nights in a row we had for having The Rock outside at the terrace! Wow, God! Thanks for blessing us!
New Photos – The Friday Night Rock
Sunday, September 17th, 2006Kory Originally uploaded by mushin.
I have uploaded a boatload of new photos from The Friday Night Rock to The Rock’s Flickr Photo Pool which you are welcome to join and contribute to, though I reserve moderator priviledges, which I rarely excercise… but we’d like to keep [...]
The Newest Cyclone Fan
Saturday, September 16th, 2006The Newest Cyclone Fan Originally uploaded by mushin.
Elena says: “I can’t believe the Cyclones lost the first Iowa/Iowa State football game of my life!!!”