Brad Ferguson Dust of the Master

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:00 +0000

I was randomly typing numbers into my phone and found a combination that deleted everything. So I need your phone again.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:37:00 +0000

It's the afternoon: Afternoon challenge: Start and finish Essay draft.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Is enjoying studying today

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Surviving life after the lock out.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Finished "Watchmen" I do not know what to think.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:27:00 +0000

Testing something new with Ping.fm

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:19:00 +0000

Lunch and more "Watchmen"

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Back to "Watchmen" I love this assignment

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:21:00 +0000

Knowing it and living it maybe the greatest distance in existence.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:39:00 +0000

Is reading Watchmen and loving it.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:17:00 +0000

love this youtube video check it out http://ping.fm/N9T2K

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:19:00 +0000

Back to "The Jungle"

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:51:00 +0000

Testing something else out with ping

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:44:00 +0000

learning some of this web stuff domain registration, forwarding, web design, it is all not easy as it looks.

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:36:00 +0000

Trying out Ping.fm and I am not so sure about it.

What is Normal?

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:30:00 +0000

Normal is just the average of the odd.

Communication Bandwidth (Part 2)

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Why think about communication bandwidth?

1. You are only known by our communication.

You are constantly communicating. Think about it. Do you take care of your personal hygiene? Have you ever been in close proximity to someone who has not taken car of their hygiene? Did their order communicate something to you? Someone with poor hygiene dose not have to say a word to send a message. Sometimes you do not even have to see them do get a message.

2. The higher your communication bandwidth the more known you are.

This is assuming you want to be known. Do not be confused, I am not saying that you need to be or can be known by half of America. Communication bandwidth also deals with depth. The higher your communication bandwidth to more known by you friends, family, wife husband. Or, the more people that know you.

3. Influence

If you have information that your fellow humans need to know. It is pivotal to understand communication bandwidth. The higher understanding of communication bandwidth the more information is communicated. The more information communicated the more influence is given over the audience.

Communication Bandwidth

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:43:00 +0000

What is the Communication Bandwidth?

If communication the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs. Bandwidth the amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time. Basically, how much can someone communicate in a given time?

There are many factors to my communication bandwidth.

What am I communicating?

It could be location in town to meet for lunch. Maybe, something a simple as what time of day it is. Or something that is deep Truth in the Scripture.

Who am I communicating with?

Is it some one who knows the town? Are they in the same time zone as me? Are they a Christ follower or not?

What is my medium?

Speech, writing, text, email, art, dance, picture, ect. ect.

What time of day?

Is it day or night? Is it around meal time?

Why is communicate bandwidth important?

Communication bandwidth is all about being concise. With higher bandwidth you have the opportunity to a) communicate with more people, b) communicate more to the same audience.

(More thoughts on this come)

No Rest for the Whery

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Today, I was reading the gospel of Mark, I noticed that Mark writes like a junior higher. In the first four chapters, he jumps subjects faster than a water bug across a puddle. I was mentally tired form just reading. Then, the book opens up and lets you into a side of Jesus that is usually discussed. Several times Jesus us pysically tired, but he looks at the crowd has compassion then He ministers. Truly, no rest fot the whery.

Christ is Concise

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:02:00 +0000

Jesus was very concise. He did not miss use or abuse words. He just spoke perfectly.

Mid-air

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:51:00 +0000

Life in mid-air. I love the feeling I get when I jump. For half the time I feel like I am going Superman and soar into outer space and totally and defeat the law of gravity. Quickly, I realize my frailty. My humanness. As I begin to fall a miracle happens every time. Some part of my brain takes over and aligns my feet for a perfectly for landing. My brain pulls up programming from all of my falls as a kid, to know how to land. It is truly amazing to me to be in mid-air.

Living in a Photoshop World

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:18:00 +0000

Today we live in a world that we can not trust our eyes. We can draw back to one computer program, Adobe’s Photoshop. This one computer program devalues the strongest of human senses. We now have to question every picture see. Through software performing artist can have their voice put back on pitch, live. We see new and more astounding tricks in movies every weekend. We do not even know if people’s body parts are what they where given by God.

What does this mean for our society?

This means that people trust themselves even more than before. Why is this? Individual persons have to be the judge of truth of everything that they see and hear. A person is left to can only trust themselves. Also, we see greater response to the internal senses. If one goes to any self defense training one of the rules that they will learn to trust and act on their “gut feelings.”

They say this because there is something in us that is a truth gage. Like it or not I believe that when someone commits murder, rape, or steal, they know it is wrong. (I am counting out mental disease.) You can call it a conscience, the Holy Spirit, of God image in them. I am not defining it right now; all I am saying is that it exists. In today Photoshop society people have to lean internal, because the external has more lies than ever.

Turning the internal to the Eternal

People in Photoshop society are looking into internal. We as the church we must seize the opportunity to turn the internal to the Eternal. Listen to the Eternal Holy Sprit speaking to their internal. I trust that the Holy Sprit will do its work. So, that they my have an opportunity to live complete in the Eternal.

Bothering Me

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:02:00 +0000

A lot of stuff has been bothering me latly.

It bothers me that people speak without listening.
It bothers me that new is concerned about what sells.
It bothers me that I can't change the things that bothers me.
It bothers me that I can not communicate to people how much I love them.
It bothers me that I am not good at everything.
It bothers me that life is lived moment by momment with no do overs.
It bothers me that it seem like no one else is bothered about what I am bother about.
It bothers me when people stuyed about stuying the subject, instead of studying the subject.
It bothers me that I can not talk with the auther when I am reading a book.
It bothers me that I can not get done all that I would like to get done.
It bothers me that I do not have time to finish this post right now.

What bothers you?

A Picture of Jesus

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:43:00 +0000

Heb 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

He here in the passage is Jesus. Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God. What is radiance? Radiance is the brightness of light. So, the person of Jesus is the brightness of God light. This makes perfect since with the overarching story of he bible. How do we see the glory of God? Jesus. How do we know God? Jesus. How do we know the light of his world? Jesus. How do we know what is right? Jesus. Jesus is the bright ness of the triune God. Jesus is the exact imprint of Gods nature. If Jesus is exact the imprint of Gods nature, then, we can see Gods nature thought the person of Jesus. So what do we see in Jesus’ life that we can learn from? I see a life in balance. At times he was angry, other time patience. He was kind and loving along with stern and disciplined. He gave of himself freely but, set time aside for himself. Balance is what I see. I need to learn how to achieve balance. Jesus up holds the universe by the word of his power. What a statement. The word of his power sustains all life. We are living by the word of His power. The power of His world is what makes the tides move. The power of His word keeps the planets in motion. By the power of His word make s seed sprout. Wow what a statement to meditate on. The rest of the verse is great theology. He has finished his task of purification of sins. All of sin has already been defeated. All of the sin in the future are atone for. All of the sin in the past all of sin. All of sin is dead and gone, finshed, the chapion has come and won. Then Jesus sat down in the right hand of Majesty, the father figure of the trinity. He is waiting on the Father to tell Him that the end of fime has come.

The Choice of Joy

noreply@blogger.com (Brad) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:09:00 +0000

Biblical Joy is not an emotion. Biblical Joy goes deeper than human emotion. True Joy is rooted in something that is not human at all. True Joy’s foundation is Jesus Christ sprit living in the heart Christian. Joy is not of us this makes Joy transcendent of our situation. Joy dose not come form us or our universe this explains resiliency of Joy. Since true Joy is extra to our human experience. This means that Joy is a gift, a gift of God to the believer. If Joy is a gift given by God, than the receiver of the gift has a choice to receive and use the gift. This means Joy is a choice. That is why in the bible we are commanded to have Joy. Since Joy is of God, then faking joy then is sin. Joy is not smiley all of the time. Joy is like a home owner getting a great report form a building inspector. The home owner has assurance form an outside source that his house is not going to fall. That is the reason that when I have sin in my life I “lose the Joy of my salvation.” I lose the assurance of my salvation when I lose my Joy. I do not lose my salvation. In other word Joy my ace in hole. I have confidence when I carry the gift of Joy with me through my life. In my life I hear God saying, “Get the sin out, pick up the gift my Joy, get out into your life and live for me.” My prayer is that I my be able to do this.