Well, we have decided not to move right now after all. We just let the complex know to disregard our previous letter and that we want to stick around for another year. So, we will be Owings Mills people another year… watch out…
Web server problems
Posted by Daniel
on August 30, 2004
The server is back up and running now after some problems. My apologies for a couple of days of downtime. Another hard driver problem… but it should be in better shape now. Everything on the site is back up except the photo albums. Hopefully they will be back up tomorrow. And I will probably have forgotten to fix some other things too, so let me know if you find something that isn’t working.
Buying a house? 6
Posted by Daniel
on August 25, 2004
So, we have started the process of looking for a house and I have to tell you that it pretty frustrating. We don’t have money to put down and everything is sooooo freakin expensive. I guess this is where working as little as possible between the ages of 21-25 comes back to bite me… And this market… there is no reason homes should be 50%(at least) more expensive than they were last year. My salary sure didn’t go up that much. So, I don’t know if we will be home owners or not, but I do know that we are starting to look into it. Prayers would be appreciated.
Spiritually malnurished 4
Posted by Daniel
on August 24, 2004
I started doing Celtic Daily Prayer a while back. At first it was great because it brought some consistency to my prayer life. But now I am feeling spiritually malnurished living on that diet. I am going to take a little break from it and just concentrate on simple bible reading with The Message. Hopefully that will be enough to put things back into balance.
Spiritual disciplines and culture 2
Posted by Daniel
on August 22, 2004
Jeff Mount and I mentioned something about this on the Horizon message board a while back. It’s been a background thought in my head every now and then since. So, I thought I would explore it here. The idea is to try to figure out which spiritual disciplines were the hardest to practice in a certain culture and the effect that had on christians and the church as a whole in that culture.
The most obvious one to me is from Europe in the middle ages. Bible study was pretty much impossible. There generally was one copy of the bible in each town, and it was at the parish, and it was in latin. Most of the common people couldn’t read their own language, let alone latin. The effects that had on christians and the church as a whole would be some theological errors creeping in, quite a bit of superstition, and the idea that the church and it’s tradition was more important than scripture.
I would like to look into other cultures as well, but to comment intelligently I would have to study them more. I can however give a little analysis of our current 21st century American culture. There seem to me a few disciplines that are very hard to practice right now. I think the top ones are Solitude, Silence, Simplicity and Fasting. I would like to get other people’s opinions on this. Do you think there are others spiritual disciplines that are hard to practice now? What effects do you think it has on currect christians and the church as a whole? Leave me a comment and let me know.
