Comments for JamesLaws.com http://www.jameslaws.com Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:58:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 Comment on Lifestream for Week Ending, May 28th by James Laws http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/OsWsLW4lNt0/ James Laws Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:58:36 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/28/lifestream-for-week-ending-may-28th/#comment-3158 This link should help. http://www.jameslaws.com/2007/03/12/simplify-your-life-or-at-least-part-of-it/ This link should help.

http://www.jameslaws.com/2007/03/12/simplify-your-life-or-at-least-part-of-it/

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How do I follow other bloggers, such as yourself? and how does twitter work with all of this?

]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/28/lifestream-for-week-ending-may-28th/comment-page-1/#comment-3137 Comment on Leadership Evaluation with a little help from my friends by Chico Woo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/7rc2ELmblko/ Chico Woo Fri, 29 May 2009 02:35:38 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=687#comment-3134 You are courageous my friend. I have thought about doing what you are doing but I'm afraid of what I would find out. You are courageous my friend. I have thought about doing what you are doing but I’m afraid of what I would find out.

]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/21/leadership-evaluation-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-3134 Comment on Leadership Evaluation with a little help from my friends by jeremy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/FE3RxyxU2Tg/ jeremy Fri, 22 May 2009 19:29:26 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=687#comment-3111 The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...you're taking a bunch of big steps by doing this! Get the little book from Kevin that I let him borrow, The Truth about You by Marcus Buckingham. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…you’re taking a bunch of big steps by doing this! Get the little book from Kevin that I let him borrow, The Truth about You by Marcus Buckingham.

]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/21/leadership-evaluation-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-3111 Comment on The Shack – Enemy of Good Doctrine? by C W http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/XO8dv0P2ZUo/ C W Fri, 22 May 2009 05:35:21 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=628#comment-3109 This was a great counter-argument to Driscoll's youtube blurb. I enjoyed it. I would like to add one little comment on hierarchy after grappling with this myself. There is a distinct hierarchy in the home but it rarely need come into play. Mutual love, respect, and submission are the words of the day and on rare, rare occasions there may be an issue upon which there can be no agreement. Then and only then does the "tiebreaker" come in. It is so funny to me that we make such a big deal out of authority/headship because we are looking at it through power-struggle lenses. Headship need not contain a power struggle or any malice, ill-will, or lack of sacrificial love. I think if we could all get our eyes off of the fleshly manner of doing things and just take a moment to look at the way God does things, we'd have a real revelation on this issue. I think the Shack is trying to portray this different viewpoint to us and it is sad that we have become so religious that we just can't read it for what it is. It's an analogy. Period. Like the parables. Do I really believe Jesus is herding sheep up in Heaven? No. The Good Shepherd is an analogy. Just like this book. This was a great counter-argument to Driscoll’s youtube blurb. I enjoyed it. I would like to add one little comment on hierarchy after grappling with this myself.

There is a distinct hierarchy in the home but it rarely need come into play. Mutual love, respect, and submission are the words of the day and on rare, rare occasions there may be an issue upon which there can be no agreement. Then and only then does the “tiebreaker” come in.

It is so funny to me that we make such a big deal out of authority/headship because we are looking at it through power-struggle lenses. Headship need not contain a power struggle or any malice, ill-will, or lack of sacrificial love. I think if we could all get our eyes off of the fleshly manner of doing things and just take a moment to look at the way God does things, we’d have a real revelation on this issue.

I think the Shack is trying to portray this different viewpoint to us and it is sad that we have become so religious that we just can’t read it for what it is. It’s an analogy. Period. Like the parables. Do I really believe Jesus is herding sheep up in Heaven? No. The Good Shepherd is an analogy. Just like this book.

]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/06/the-shack-enemy-of-good-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-3109 Comment on Your Space and then MySpace by Website Design http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/-cvgySqWVUw/ Website Design Tue, 12 May 2009 05:16:28 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=669#comment-3046 great share great share

]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/11/your-space-and-then-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-3046 Comment on The Shack – Enemy of Good Doctrine? by James Laws http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/U_c84dtXllg/ James Laws Thu, 07 May 2009 01:04:50 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=628#comment-3020 Chico, thanks. Jenny, thanks and I look forward to it. Sarah, I agree and thanks for the comment. Jared, it's good to hear from you and i think you will probably like it. It's really a pretty good book overall. Chico, thanks.

Jenny, thanks and I look forward to it.

Sarah, I agree and thanks for the comment.

Jared, it’s good to hear from you and i think you will probably like it. It’s really a pretty good book overall.

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]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/06/the-shack-enemy-of-good-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-3017 Comment on The Shack – Enemy of Good Doctrine? by Sarah Beck http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/8-FppVA7wH4/ Sarah Beck Wed, 06 May 2009 16:35:46 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=628#comment-3015 Yeah, I was in for a shock when I went home for a visit and there were so many people (my pastor included) dead set against this book! It sort of reminds me when everyone was screaming about the terrible end times theology in the Left Behind series. Neither the LB series nor The Shack ever claim to want to have a new take on theology. In fact, the problems that everyone keeps talking to me about, I never even considered. I did think (all by myself, without help or anything) that maybe the author should have been clearer on salvation, but I also understood that, again, this wasn't really the purpose of the story. It's just a story for crying out loud! In my opinion, it relates a story of forgiveness, healing and redemption to a world that desperately needs to hear it without those so easily judged "Christian" connotations. And all the video with Mark Driscoll did was tick me off... apparently someone is judging a book by what he's read about it on the internet... Yeah, I was in for a shock when I went home for a visit and there were so many people (my pastor included) dead set against this book! It sort of reminds me when everyone was screaming about the terrible end times theology in the Left Behind series. Neither the LB series nor The Shack ever claim to want to have a new take on theology. In fact, the problems that everyone keeps talking to me about, I never even considered. I did think (all by myself, without help or anything) that maybe the author should have been clearer on salvation, but I also understood that, again, this wasn’t really the purpose of the story. It’s just a story for crying out loud! In my opinion, it relates a story of forgiveness, healing and redemption to a world that desperately needs to hear it without those so easily judged “Christian” connotations.

And all the video with Mark Driscoll did was tick me off… apparently someone is judging a book by what he’s read about it on the internet…

]]> http://www.jameslaws.com/2009/05/06/the-shack-enemy-of-good-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-3015 Comment on The Shack – Enemy of Good Doctrine? by Jenny Bryant http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jameslaws_comments/~3/-kQrb516yuM/ Jenny Bryant Wed, 06 May 2009 15:14:31 +0000 http://www.jameslaws.com/?p=628#comment-3013 Good review. :) I have more thoughts but a fussy baby, so I'll be back later! Good review. :)

I have more thoughts but a fussy baby, so I’ll be back later!

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