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Into Oblivion

This title came to me as I contemplated recent occurrences, things I have seen and heard.  What does “into oblivion” mean?  “I am going to pound you into oblivion!”  The idea here is you are going to be completely pounded, completely destroyed, by the pounding that is about to happen.  “He's oblivious….”  In oblivion, oblivious, not aware of what is going on around you.  Fiddling while Rome burns, the old tale of Nero's madness, is that he was oblivious to important and emergent conditions while occupied with trivia.  You have heard this used, and perhaps used it yourself of someone who seemed hopelessly out of touch.

So what brings this to mind? Continue reading “Into Oblivion”

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Where Is All This Going?

I don't think I would be accused of being too lenient….   I could be wrong.  Who knows how others see you?  It's hard to get an outside perspective when you live inside your own head.  I like challenges.  Sometimes too much. I want to be intense, extreme, devout.  I don't care if I am known for being that, but I want it to be real.  Often I observe others who want to be known as extreme, because it's cool, or hip, or something.  Most of what I have seen in these examples is false.   Continue reading “Where Is All This Going?”

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When the Son of Man is Revealed

So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed………Luke 17:30

(I grabbed this verse out of it's context because it made me think of the Lord’s revealing in a different way, and I wanted to share this with you.)  The way this verse is worded makes me think of the idea differently.  The day of the Lord, the second coming, when Jesus returns…. they all sound different from “The day when the Son of Man is revealed…” Continue reading “When the Son of Man is Revealed”

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Interview with a Former World Racer

I have a good friend named Caleb Lorenson.  In the forge of affliction our friendship was created, but that is another story.  Maybe we will get back to that some other time.  Let's wrap the part about Caleb up by saying that I trust Caleb with my life.  Enough about that for now.

Caleb has a friend named Samara, and she is a missionary type, like many of us are.  Caleb and I were talking on the phone a few weeks ago, talking about a trip he had recently returned from to Thailand.  We talked for quite a while, and in the conversation he reminded me about Samara, and that she was back from the race.  I told him I really wanted to talk to her about it, because of my familiarity with The World Race.  It is something of an emerging expression of short-term missions in my mind, and I have talked with the founder, the director, and some of the staff in person in recent years to try to understand what they are doing and why it is experiencing such growth.  If Samara was willing to talk with me, in some ways it would make my exposure more complete.  I was hoping to get something deeper than the marketing view.  I did. Continue reading “Interview with a Former World Racer”