quote
Friday, July 03, 2009
"He [Jesus] did not start a movement of latte-drinking disciples who excelled in spiritual conversations. He founded the church (Matt. 16:18) and commissioned the apostles to proclaim the good news that Israel's Messiah had come and the sins of the world could be forgiven through his death on the cross (Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 2:14-36)."via crossroads
I like the quote... I'm not sure I'll like the book. The quote comes from the authors of Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion. Without having read the book, the title sounds a lot like a defensive view of "traditional church."
Labels: church
shuffle demons
UPDATE: The Shuffle Demons attempt to break the record for most saxaphone players came up short. A friend of mine went down... way to go Noel!
If I was to be in Toronto on Canada... which I am not... who wants to be around all that garbage [city workers are on strike & the garbage is piling up]... but if I was going to be in Toronto this is one of the places I would head to...
they are attempting to break a Guinness World Record for the largest saxophone ensemble... ever... they set the record at 900, back 2004, but then a group in Taiwan [I have trouble visualizing Taiwanese playing the sax] broke it last year with918
so if you play a sax... no matter how badly... get down to Nathan Philips Square
check out the article at blog TO
& if you've never heard the shuffle demons, here's their classic...
Spadina Bus
If I was to be in Toronto on Canada... which I am not... who wants to be around all that garbage [city workers are on strike & the garbage is piling up]... but if I was going to be in Toronto this is one of the places I would head to...
they are attempting to break a Guinness World Record for the largest saxophone ensemble... ever... they set the record at 900, back 2004, but then a group in Taiwan [I have trouble visualizing Taiwanese playing the sax] broke it last year with918so if you play a sax... no matter how badly... get down to Nathan Philips Square
check out the article at blog TO
& if you've never heard the shuffle demons, here's their classic...
Spadina Bus
Labels: music, music video, toronto
Nehemiah
This Sunday I am starting a series on Nehemiah. [I am making no claims on the length of the series at this point (this is an inside joke for some of my friends)]
I will be posting some notes and discussion questions over at occweb.blogspot.com if you are interested.
As I started preparation... this song has stuck in my head
I will be posting some notes and discussion questions over at occweb.blogspot.com if you are interested.
As I started preparation... this song has stuck in my head
Labels: music video, nehemiah
Canada Cancels All Debt Owed by Haiti
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today announced that the Government of Canada will forgive $2.3 million in debt owed by the Republic of Haiti through the Canadian Debt Initiative. With this relief, Canada has now cancelled $965 million worth of debt owed by the world’s poorest and most heavily indebted countries, including all of the eligible debt owed by Latin American and Caribbean nations.
quotes
Thursday, July 02, 2009
some quotes from Len Sweet's twitter
"Live such weird lives in this fake world that, though people think you are weird, they will see Christ in you." 1 Peter 2:12 [personal translation]
Children learn new ways of being active. Adults learn new ways of being passive. Hence Jesus' "There will be no adults in heaven"? Mk.10:14
Waylon Jennings was reading my mind when he said, "I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."
Jimmy Buffett sang in "Changes in Lattitudes, Changes in Attitudes" - "if we weren't all crazy we would go insane."
Still Crazy After All These Years! Paul Simon
"Christianity began in Jerusalem as a set of relationships; moved into Greece where it became a philosophy; moved into Rome where it became a government institution; then onto Europe where it became a culture; and then to America, where it has become an enterprise."
"When a body becomes an enterprise/business, isn't that the definition of a prostitute?" Matthew Berry
"Live such weird lives in this fake world that, though people think you are weird, they will see Christ in you." 1 Peter 2:12 [personal translation]
Children learn new ways of being active. Adults learn new ways of being passive. Hence Jesus' "There will be no adults in heaven"? Mk.10:14
Waylon Jennings was reading my mind when he said, "I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."
Jimmy Buffett sang in "Changes in Lattitudes, Changes in Attitudes" - "if we weren't all crazy we would go insane."
Still Crazy After All These Years! Paul Simon
"Christianity began in Jerusalem as a set of relationships; moved into Greece where it became a philosophy; moved into Rome where it became a government institution; then onto Europe where it became a culture; and then to America, where it has become an enterprise."
"When a body becomes an enterprise/business, isn't that the definition of a prostitute?" Matthew Berry
Labels: quotes
web site story
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Joel [one of my sons] is a fan of college humor.com check out this one
Labels: humour, music video
phil keaggy and randy stonehill
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
christianity today has a review up of Mystery Highway - a Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill CD
drive by media has an mp3 of the driving blues-rock tune Irresistable Future up for listening.
sounds like it could be a good one.
Labels: music
laugh with
I just heard this song
regina spektor on david letterman
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one's laughing at God when it's gotten real late and their kid's not back from that party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane starts to uncontrollably shake
No one's laughing at God when they see the one they love hand in hand with someone else and they hope that they're mistaken
No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door and they say "We've got some bad new, sir,"
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine, fire or flood
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
Or when the crazies say he hates us and they get so red in the head you think that they're about to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they've lost all they got and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize that the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
Or when the crazies say he hates us and they get so red in the head you think that they're about to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God in a hospital
No one's laughing at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
We're all laughing with God
official music video
more about regina spektor
regina spektor on david letterman
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one's laughing at God when it's gotten real late and their kid's not back from that party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane starts to uncontrollably shake
No one's laughing at God when they see the one they love hand in hand with someone else and they hope that they're mistaken
No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door and they say "We've got some bad new, sir,"
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine, fire or flood
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
Or when the crazies say he hates us and they get so red in the head you think that they're about to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they've lost all they got and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize that the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
Or when the crazies say he hates us and they get so red in the head you think that they're about to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God in a hospital
No one's laughing at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
We're all laughing with God
official music video
more about regina spektor
Labels: music video
Summer Highland Falls
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Thanks to milton brasher-cunningham for pointing out this Billy Joel song. I love the opening lines:
They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
Labels: music video
michael jackson
I will not even attempt to analyse the impact of Michael Jackson on the world of music. I simply want to say that in the midst of all the bizarre behavior, mental instability, and sexual abuse accusations (and these things can't be ignored), he was also brilliant; one of a kind. He influenced, more than that, he shaped pop music in a way that few do. He was gifted, talented, brilliant, one of the most iconic pop figure of the last 50 years, and yet, so many uncertainties, questions, strife, conflict… so uncertain of who he was.
The Jackson 5 "I Want You Back", their first #1 hit, on the Ed Sullivan Show 1969.
billie jean's moonwalk
Thriller, from 1987 show
Then there was the way his face changed over the years
The Jackson 5 "I Want You Back", their first #1 hit, on the Ed Sullivan Show 1969.
billie jean's moonwalk
Thriller, from 1987 show
Then there was the way his face changed over the years
Michael Jackson from taynjaymyangels on Vimeo.
one last one... I'll be there...
quotes
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson
US science fiction author (1926 - 2001)
US science fiction author (1926 - 2001)
Labels: quote
more coffee quotes
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
These quotes come from the Bar None Coffee Company:
- Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister – Bob Irwin
- I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee – Flash Rosenberg
- Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack – Herman Friele
- In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running – Jeff Bezos
- Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical – Jonathan Swift (1722)
- Nescafé no es café. (Instant coffee is not coffee.) – Mexican Saying
- I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless – Napoleon Bonaparte
Labels: coffee
They took my Kodachrome away
Kodak press release
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
Everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Uhm uhm!
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
O.K.!
Eastman Kodak Company announced on June 22, 2009 that it will discontinue sales of KODACHROME Color Film this year, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. Sales of KODACHROME, which became the world's first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to other films or digital capture. Today, KODACHROME represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak's total sales of still-picture films
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
Everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Uhm uhm!
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
O.K.!
Labels: film, music video
sounds of silence
Monday, June 22, 2009
an early video of Simon and Garfunkel
Labels: music video
random 101
bike trail
I don't think I'll be trying this trail anytime soon.
more photos at the link environmental graffiti
mazes
more at the link oddee
guitars
As part of Luminato, 1,623 people gathered in Yonge-Dundas Square to play Neil Young's Helpless. This was a new Canadian record for largest guitar ensemble. There was a group of over 1,800 players in Germany performing Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water. The Guinness World Record is held by Poland, where 6,346 people performed Hey Joe.
via daily dose of imagery
the moon in HD
HD video of the Moon from 13 miles above the surface taken by Japan's KAGUYA probe. The probe's orbit has been decaying since it began circling the Moon and will crash on the surface at 18:30 GMT on June 10.
via kottke
10 commandments
If God sent txt msg
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg's
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
8. dnt steal
9. dnt lie re: bf
10. dnt ogle ur bf's m8. or ox. or dnkey. myob.
M, pls rite on tabs & giv 2 ppl.
ttyl, JHWH.
ps. wwjd?
via fast company
bugatti
via wired
here's another bugatti
I don't think I'll be trying this trail anytime soon.
more photos at the link environmental graffitimazes
more at the link oddeeguitars
As part of Luminato, 1,623 people gathered in Yonge-Dundas Square to play Neil Young's Helpless. This was a new Canadian record for largest guitar ensemble. There was a group of over 1,800 players in Germany performing Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water. The Guinness World Record is held by Poland, where 6,346 people performed Hey Joe.via daily dose of imagery
the moon in HD
HD video of the Moon from 13 miles above the surface taken by Japan's KAGUYA probe. The probe's orbit has been decaying since it began circling the Moon and will crash on the surface at 18:30 GMT on June 10.
via kottke
10 commandments
If God sent txt msg
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg's
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
8. dnt steal
9. dnt lie re: bf
10. dnt ogle ur bf's m8. or ox. or dnkey. myob.
M, pls rite on tabs & giv 2 ppl.
ttyl, JHWH.
ps. wwjd?
via fast company
bugatti
The Bugatti Type 57C is as rare as it is beautiful, with just 710 built between 1934 and 1940. They’re all highly collectible and frightfully expensive, but this 1936 model is just a little more so because it is the car Ettore Bugatti himself drove.The suggestion is that it will sell for more than $12.1million in August
via wired
here's another bugatti
Labels: random
coffee quotes
Since this blog is call oncoffee... I figure it is time for come coffee quotes.
These come from the Coffee Cantata:
These come from the Coffee Cantata:
- A morning with out coffee is like sleep.
- Amazing what caffeine and no sense of self-preservation can do.
- Ambidextrous: Able to put sugar in coffee with either hand.
- At 16 cups of coffee a day, sleep becomes irrelevant!
- Caffeine Binge: That which is necessary to function normally.
- Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin!
- Coffee makes the world go round, love only populates it!
- Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death & sweet as love – Turkish proverb.
- Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend.
- Deja Brew: The feeling you’ve had this coffee before.
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons – T.S. Eliot.
- Life is too short for bad coffee.
- The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks – Sir James Mackintosh
Labels: coffee
bike lanes
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Orillia has a very limited number of bike lanes. Which is not good, since there are both hills and narrow roads. toxel points to LightLane which has an innovative solution for nighttime riding... create your own bike lane.
Labels: bicycle
jibjab
you gotta love the creativity of these guys
via bill kinnon
Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!
via bill kinnon
Labels: humour, jibjab obama
folk music
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Mark Knopfler [Dire Straits] & Sonny Landreth [American blues guitarist] performing in live the Mark´s song Cannibals on Night in London DVD, in 1996.
yesterday
yesterday
Labels: music video
sounds of silence
an early video of Simon and Garfunkel
Labels: music video
banksy vs bristol
Nathan wants to go to Bristol to see the graffitti artist Banksy. He has taken over the Bristol Museum. Over 40,000 have seen the exhibition in the first week.
Other photos here
And a review of the show.
Other photos here
And a review of the show.
Labels: art
