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Are You Addicted To Your Cell Phone?

July 25, 2008 in Cross Point Church, God, Religion with 67 Comments

I’ve heard rumors for years that cell phones could possible be linked to cancer. According to this TIME ARTICLE I read yesterday, at least one doctor actually thinks they do!

The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don’t find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Sounds like a bunch of hogwash to me. But just in case, I might start using my hands free device.

I’m not too worried about getting cancer from my phone, but I am focused on reducing the “noise” it creates in my life.

I’m very excited to announce that starting this weekend I will not be getting work emails on my phone for the first time in years! Planning on making this a habit from here on out. Just one more step toward reducing the noise so I can become the person I feel God is calling me to be.

While we are talking about cell phones, I’ve got a couple of questions.

1) What kind of cell do you have? (I have an iphone)

2) How many minutes a day (on average) do you spend on your cell? (I talk about 90 minutes a day, usually in the car)

Does This Shake Your Faith?

July 9, 2008 in God, Religion with 49 Comments

Time Magazine, along with many other media outlets, is promoting the heck out of this guy named David Jeselsohn, a Swiss-Israeli collector, who bought this ancient tablet from a Jordanian antiquities dealer. The article states…

The tablet appears to date authentically to the years just before the birth of Jesus and yet — at least according to one Israeli scholar — it announces the raising of a messiah after three days in the grave. If true, this could mean that Jesus’ followers had access to a well-established paradigm when they decreed that Christ himself rose on the third day — and it might even hint that they they could have applied it in their grief after their master was crucified. (CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE).

So my understanding is this guy is saying that this is proof that the early Christians could have used this information to base their account of Jesus’ 3rd day resurrection on.

While many scholars say the interpretation of this tablet is sketchy at best, it wouldn’t bother me a bit if it were true. This doesn’t shake our faith. IF the early Christians had wanted an example that they could use to make up a 3 day resurrection story, they had a lot more than this lame discovery. They had the whole Old Testament.

Over and over again the Old Testament uses the “third day” as a day of deliverance, hope, and new beginnings.
-When Joseph was in prison, he said to Pharaoh’s cupbearer: “…In three days, Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your job … “(Genesis 40: 13)

-When Israel was trapped in slavery, Moses asked Pharaoh: Let us go three days into the wilderness. (Exodus 5: 3)

-When Israel was threatened with being wiped out, a young girl named Esther says that she will fast for three days. Then she will go to the King to seek deliverance for her people.

-When Jonah is swallowed and is in the belly of the big fish … does anybody want to take a guess how many days he’s there? He’s there three days before he’s released.

And there are more examples, but repeatedly, the Bible speaks of this third day.

I say all of this to say, I really don’t think Mr. Jeselsohn’s discovery is actually much of a discovery. Sorry to burst your bubble sir, but I don’t think it really proves anything. There is nothing new here. So like many before you, enjoy your moment in the limelight. This theory, like the ones before it, will be at the top of the Time article list for a few days and then we will never hear anything about it again. Then again, you may land a PBS special and your 15 minutes will be stretched to a whopping 25.

I’m wondering…when stories like this one get released, does it in any way shake your faith? It’s OK, you can be honest.

Who is Most Influential?

May 9, 2008 in Church Leadership, Friends, God, Leadership, Religion with 36 Comments

Time Magazine just released their annual top 100 most influential people in the world. The most influential person in the year (according to voters) was Shigeru Miyamoto. Shigeru created Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda and is the “father of modern video gaming” having recently develop the Wii video game system.

Other notable were…

#7 Al Gore

#12 Tiger Woods

#53 Brad Pitt (not fair because my wife voted for him like a thousand times)

#71 Britney Spears (Oh, for love of all that is holy)

#94 Condoleeza Rice

Outside of Jesus, whose been influencing you? Tell me here.

For me, it’s a guy by the name of Dallas Willard. Dallas Willard is an amazing author who has really helped me comprehend spiritual transformation. While I have been familiar with his work for some time, lately his books have been rocking my world. I’m reading two of them right now. Both, Revolution of Character and The Spirit of the Disciplines, are helping me understand how to receive this life Jesus has offered me.

How Do You Relax?

April 4, 2008 in Uncategorized with 15 Comments

salt caves

I read an interesting article in Time magazine about the new rage in relaxation techniques. Click here to read the article. The article states that “Eastern Europeans have long thought that just sitting in naturally occurring salt caves could relieve allergies, asthma, eczema, hypertension, ulcers and stress. ”

Since we don’t have too many of these natural salt caves, we’re doing what we do best in America. We are building simulated salt caves all over the place.

So what do you think? What are you doing these days to relax when you can’t make it to your local salt cave?

just trying to relax,

pete