10. David Crowder*Band - Remedy Club Tour (live)
9. Reign of Kindo - Rhythm, Chord & Melody
8. The Jealous Sound - Got Friends
7. Edison Glass - Time is Fiction
6. Straylight Run - Un Mas Dos
5. David Moore - Breaking You Down
4. Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale
3. Anberlin - New Surrender
2. Emery - While Broken Hearts Prevail
1. Search the City - A Fire So Big the Heavens Can See It
Details coming tomorrow.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
My One Word?
I've decided to start keeping a journal this year, and here is the entry that I wrote today:
1/4/09
Ah, another year, and with it comes another word. Last year my word was "present" with the idea that I needed to enjoy the present and not worry so much about the future. Looking back, this may have been a pretty safe pick for me. I've never had all that much trouble enjoying the present. Sure I had some issues with work and with money, but not nearly to the level of many other people that I know personally. So this year I want to challenge myself a little more. At church today "self-control" popped into my head and basically stayed there for the length of the service. I'd like to come up with a few possibilities before I make my final decision, so here we got with number one:
Self-control: A lot of the things I'd like to change to become the person I envision start with self-control. I'd like to become slower to anger, especially in sports. I'd like to work harder at work and slack off less. I'd like to be more habitual with my gym routine and with limiting my portion sizes when eating to become healthier. Same with trying to floss regularly for my oral health. But most of all, self-control will help me with my spiritual health. I need to be more active in our small group activities and lessons. I need more time for journaling and quiet time. I need consistency in prayer and reflection. All these things can be accomplished if I show a little more self-control.
So when I got home I figured it'd be a good thing to see what the bible thinks. I said a quick prayer that God help guide me to a word that will cause positive change in my life and then opened my bible to the index and found:
SELF-CONTROL
shown by ability to hold your tongue . . . . . . . . . . . . Prv 13:3
** needed to grow spiritually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pt 1:6
** Sort of my exact focus!
2 Peter 1:5-8
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perserverance; and to perserverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure; they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!
(No idea what I'm taking about? Check out www.myoneword.org.)
1/4/09
Ah, another year, and with it comes another word. Last year my word was "present" with the idea that I needed to enjoy the present and not worry so much about the future. Looking back, this may have been a pretty safe pick for me. I've never had all that much trouble enjoying the present. Sure I had some issues with work and with money, but not nearly to the level of many other people that I know personally. So this year I want to challenge myself a little more. At church today "self-control" popped into my head and basically stayed there for the length of the service. I'd like to come up with a few possibilities before I make my final decision, so here we got with number one:
Self-control: A lot of the things I'd like to change to become the person I envision start with self-control. I'd like to become slower to anger, especially in sports. I'd like to work harder at work and slack off less. I'd like to be more habitual with my gym routine and with limiting my portion sizes when eating to become healthier. Same with trying to floss regularly for my oral health. But most of all, self-control will help me with my spiritual health. I need to be more active in our small group activities and lessons. I need more time for journaling and quiet time. I need consistency in prayer and reflection. All these things can be accomplished if I show a little more self-control.
So when I got home I figured it'd be a good thing to see what the bible thinks. I said a quick prayer that God help guide me to a word that will cause positive change in my life and then opened my bible to the index and found:
SELF-CONTROL
shown by ability to hold your tongue . . . . . . . . . . . . Prv 13:3
** needed to grow spiritually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pt 1:6
** Sort of my exact focus!
2 Peter 1:5-8
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perserverance; and to perserverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure; they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!
(No idea what I'm taking about? Check out www.myoneword.org.)
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