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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Project 10 to the 100 (Is Google God?)

A friend just showed me this link http://www.project10tothe100.com/ which is a Google project designed to collect ideas on how to help each other the most.

Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.

In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple wisdom that beyond a certain very basic level of material wealth, the only thing that increases individual happiness over time is helping other people.

In other words, helping helps everybody, helper and helped alike.

The question is: what would help? And help most?

This reminds me of an audio skit I heard back when I was a teen.

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posted by Dave at 6:53 am  

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Testing Our Christianity

tp_vol2_006 As I start off on this post, I realize that the title may not best sum up the content of the post.  But, here it goes…

We often tend to measure our Christian walk incorrectly.  Let’s pick an easy example.  The first fruit of the spirit is love.  We can present this to the Christian community in two ways.  First, “If you are not loving, you need to question your salvation.  Are you really saved?”  Second, we might tag on, “or is loving others simply something you are struggling with?”

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