Kingdom Triangle AUDIO

For those who just don't got the time to read...

Here's an audio interview with Dr. J.P. Moreland himself about his latest book, Kingdom Triangle.

ReclaimingTheMind.org presents Conversing with Scholars (click me!)

Battlestar Galactica Last Supper Wallpaper

Was trying to upload some new pics I took at the beach the other day, but my camera isn't cooperating today.

Enjoy this wallpaper I made, instead.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA season four returns to SciFi, Friday, April 4 at 10/9c.



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David Crowder Band, Illuminated & Ned Flanders-ism

Was at the Felix Event Center (Azusa Pacific University) last Saturday for the David Crowder Band concert. Took the church kids. Hung out all day. A game of Letter Line Up by Cranium, 디비디비딥, 아이 앰 그라운드 자기 소개 하기..., P'soy (is that how it's spelled) and Jack In The Box. Yum.

In between I wandered into the on campus bookstore. Snagged a brand new hardback copy of ILLUMINATED, the debut novel from music producer Matt Bronleewe (Jars of Clay, Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James, Leeland) for only $5!!!



It was a great read.

One pet peeve: Christian publishers aren't shy about violence in the novels they publish. (Violence as in, serial killers cutting up bodies and putting them in trash bags.) Yet, they insist on NOT printing curse words. So Christian authors get around this by having their book read, "She hit him in the teeth and he swore spitting out a bloody tooth."

But for some reason, ILLUMINATED has one instance where the author resorts to a Ned Flanders-ism (the guy from The Simpsons that always says, "Okily dokily, neighborino!" Which was diagnosed by Dr. Hibert as being Flanders' way of cussing without really cussing.) Bronleewe has one of his characters saying, "sonofagun" instead of "sonofab*tch."

Weird.

My Journey Through the 'Kingdom Triangle'

I've just closed the book. I'm done reading Kingdom Triangle by J.P. Moreland. It's a lot to digest. But for now it's basically saying that the balanced well-lived life will consist of a balance proportion of these three things in your life:

1. Mind - do you have a clear understanding of reality and rational reasons behind why you believe the Christian worldview?
2. Soul - are you cultivating a healthy emotional life; an intimate relationship with God?
3. The Spirit - are you growing in living in the power of the Kingdom of God; is the power of the Holy Spirit (the third Person of the Triune God) a reality in your life?

Already, I watch the news differently. (I'll discuss this later.) Which means I'm becoming a better thinker.

But even before that, my own life journey almost seems to outline this book. In middle school and high school, I read up on the scientific and philosophical reasons for believing in Jesus. Then in college I was introduced to the notion that one must attend to the care of one's inner life in a more purposeful way through a class I took in seminary. And finally, toward the end of my college career I discovered a church that seemed to satisfy my life-long search: "Why can't there be a church today, that experiences God the way the church did in the first century, as recorded in the book of Acts?" And I'm just barely learning how to wade. I know one day I will swim in this new dimension of living in the Kingdom.

So anyway, in reading this book I was introduced to an organization called the Sentinel Group that does global research on what the Holy Spirit is doing with his church.

And here's a video. Remember Acts chapter 2 and what happened as the believers gathered to pray?

Greetings, Nerrrrds!!

(Picture Conan pushing up imaginary glasses.)

Three things motivated me to start this blog:

1. I'm reading Kingdom Triangle by J.P. Moreland.
2. I'm able to watch Conan again, now that it's available online. (I can't stay up too late in the hour. I'm not a college kid no more.)
3. I just got the call yesterday from the AFI Conservatory. I'm scheduled for an interview. I've passed phase one of the acceptance process.

So, a new phase of life begins for me.

I can't really say where this blog will go, or who will read it. This will be sometimes zany, sometimes deeply philosophical. Who knows...

Life is full of the unexpected. So expect it!