Above All Earthly Powers - Video Up
The video teaser for the 2006 Desiring God National Conference is now up.
One gets the feeling of a gauntlet being thrown down when watching this one. Should be an interesting time gathering of leaders. I pray this will be marked as an historic day in church history, where both mission and gospel are clarified. Where truth and culture are clarified. Where believers will come out from Christian cloisters and invade culture - without loosing our ball in the weeds. A middle road between emergent compromise and fundamentalist irrelevance is being forged in the 21st century wilderness of Western Culture. I think this conference will be of great service to the people of God.
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One gets the feeling of a gauntlet being thrown down when watching this one. Should be an interesting time gathering of leaders. I pray this will be marked as an historic day in church history, where both mission and gospel are clarified. Where truth and culture are clarified. Where believers will come out from Christian cloisters and invade culture - without loosing our ball in the weeds. A middle road between emergent compromise and fundamentalist irrelevance is being forged in the 21st century wilderness of Western Culture. I think this conference will be of great service to the people of God.
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posted by Reid S. Monaghan at Sunday, February 19, 2006
4 Comments:
I like the new look. But what is appearance but appearance?
I have a guy (Tim Challies) working on moving my blog to Moveable Type and having some banners rotate on the front page (mainly trees and rivers - which I like for "Change"). I wanted to play with blogger and see what the deal would look like.
Appearances matter because God gave us eyes - which perceive color, textures, beauty. Now does color exist in things and present itself upon the soul? Or does the mind create color due to certain sensible light which reflects from the thing itself. I think both - making Aquinas and Locke Kiss :)
The thing itself does not "exude" color as once thought, but it does have certain properties in itself which absorbs or repels certain wavelengths of light. These are perceived by our eyes and brains and so we experience "orange" - So a modern and premodern view of color can be perhaps reconciled. The thing does have a property of "color" but we can describe the whole process a bit more with the tools of modern understanding. Now, the postmodern view of color?
Postmodern View - Well, since there are color blind people, and people can see different colors trippin on LSD...well, there is no color, only that which you experience. And this is true for you and you can drive that way if you like. Wait a second, you better stop at the red light!!!
Thanks Sandy - I may make this a post :)
Man, I didn't mean to get you fired up on color and all. I was hoping you'd address the Hindu teaching of maya (illusion)...
I'll post on Maya later in the week :) Pray for me - I meet with three elders this afternoon for an important meeting.
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