Comments for Bloggin' Beav http://brianvirtue.org My personal outlet for thoughts and perspectives on life, family, leadership, ministry, and of course my favorite sports teams. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:56:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Oranges and Organizations by epiceng http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/oranges-and-organizations/#comment-1418 epiceng Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:56:39 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=915#comment-1418 I'm glad you'r on top of the organizational changes- because you can help explain it to the rest of us! hahahah I'm glad you'r on top of the organizational changes- because you can help explain it to the rest of us! hahahah

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by Beav http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1409 Beav Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:08:31 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1409 you can borrow it - when are you coming to get it :) you can borrow it – when are you coming to get it :)

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by Beav http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1408 Beav Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:07:58 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1408 it's like crack...want it so bad (but to clarify I don't want actual crack) it's like crack…want it so bad (but to clarify I don't want actual crack)

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by Beav http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1407 Beav Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:03:51 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1407 thanks Jim. I like those thoughts about the emphasis on Baptism. That does sound powerful. I'm amazed that now 2 weeks in, that giving up 1 simple thing already has translated to me being much more aware of Easter coming and more thought about my condition. Previously, I would rarely engage specific Easter related thought until a week or so before. thanks Jim. I like those thoughts about the emphasis on Baptism. That does sound powerful. I'm amazed that now 2 weeks in, that giving up 1 simple thing already has translated to me being much more aware of Easter coming and more thought about my condition. Previously, I would rarely engage specific Easter related thought until a week or so before.

]]> Comment on Conferences Or Christ? by Beav http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/conferences-or-christ/#comment-1406 Beav Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:56:26 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=907#comment-1406 youthful energy translates to more conference enthusiasm for sure. It's been a long time since I had some of that energy...kids went a long way to taking it away. It's a hard tension. Some stuff clearly needs to go, but there's areas in which there's not a lot going on that needs some venues like that. youthful energy translates to more conference enthusiasm for sure. It's been a long time since I had some of that energy…kids went a long way to taking it away. It's a hard tension. Some stuff clearly needs to go, but there's areas in which there's not a lot going on that needs some venues like that.

]]> Comment on Conferences Or Christ? by Beav http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/conferences-or-christ/#comment-1405 Beav Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:54:01 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=907#comment-1405 great point about the overseas issue. are conference venues flexible enough for different venues when they often cost $, more than what many can afford, and the educational and learning approaches might not resonate in different cultural settings. great point about the overseas issue. are conference venues flexible enough for different venues when they often cost $, more than what many can afford, and the educational and learning approaches might not resonate in different cultural settings.

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by Beav http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1404 Beav Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:50:46 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1404 it's like crack...want it so bad (but to clarify I don't want actual crack) it’s like crack…want it so bad (but to clarify I don’t want actual crack)

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by Susie http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1390 Susie Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:55:59 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1390 Beav-- my bro gave DIET COKE up for new years. weened himself with sprite which he doesn't really like and now drinks water. my bro in law is like you, literally drinks 2 liters a day. now i only drink it when i go out. its hard at first but what a good thing for lent! Susie Beav– my bro gave DIET COKE up for new years. weened himself with sprite which he doesn't really like and now drinks water. my bro in law is like you, literally drinks 2 liters a day. now i only drink it when i go out. its hard at first but what a good thing for lent!
Susie

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by carrie http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1379 carrie Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:05:19 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1379 beav, i wish you could've been at our Ash Wednesday service. it was really mellow and simple but really neat, i think you would've appreciated it. anyways, are you going to let me borrow Christians at the Cross or what? :) i'm hoping you left it with Bowen so i can get it tomorrow! i've been looking forward to reading it and wanted to have my friend read it, too! Dave and i are doing a 'prayer of review' during Lent this year nightly, (well, 5 nights a week to be exact) it's great to have that as the end of the day and do it together. it's just a recorded deal, i got it from the website - pray-as-you-go.org which has great meditations i download and listen to on the way to work everyday. it's super helpful for me and just really gets me thinking and reflecting and inspired as well. might be something you or some of the readers here would want to check out :) love you! beav, i wish you could've been at our Ash Wednesday service. it was really mellow and simple but really neat, i think you would've appreciated it.
anyways, are you going to let me borrow Christians at the Cross or what? :) i'm hoping you left it with Bowen so i can get it tomorrow! i've been looking forward to reading it and wanted to have my friend read it, too!
Dave and i are doing a 'prayer of review' during Lent this year nightly, (well, 5 nights a week to be exact) it's great to have that as the end of the day and do it together. it's just a recorded deal, i got it from the website – pray-as-you-go.org which has great meditations i download and listen to on the way to work everyday. it's super helpful for me and just really gets me thinking and reflecting and inspired as well. might be something you or some of the readers here would want to check out :)
love you!

]]> Comment on Conferences Or Christ? by carrie http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/conferences-or-christ/#comment-1378 carrie Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:58:59 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=907#comment-1378 i love your thoughts, beav. very thorough and balanced. I like the specific points you shared and especially the phrase "oppression by conference" :) seems like there is always some kind of conference happening and some are crucial and some not so much. obviously i grew up going to conferences (as did you) and i actually LOVE them, but in my context now i don't go at all and now it just makes me tired thinking about all the conferences you guys and the parents go to!! i think it was a lot more fun when i was younger and had a ton more energy! :) it's crazy all the conferences our parents had to go to and lug 3 kids around to! anyways, i do think you're right that there is nothing like face time. and to be honest, specifically one of the team leaders conferences i went to in Mexico while on Stint was one of the hugest times in shaping my perspective of leadership and my relationship with God. i still have all the notes (not too surprising for me) and remember specifically each and every talk from that time. So, we can all say we've benefited from what conferences do have to offer, but it's a matter of balance and remembering that just because something might be 'good' or have some beneficial aspects to it, that doesn't mean that it is the healthiest or 'best' option all the time. because there might be more lost (community in your own area, consistency, financial, etc...) when looking on the whole. i think you had great criteria for conferences and should submit it to the big wigs! :) i love your thoughts, beav. very thorough and balanced. I like the specific points you shared and especially the phrase "oppression by conference" :) seems like there is always some kind of conference happening and some are crucial and some not so much.
obviously i grew up going to conferences (as did you) and i actually LOVE them, but in my context now i don't go at all and now it just makes me tired thinking about all the conferences you guys and the parents go to!! i think it was a lot more fun when i was younger and had a ton more energy! :) it's crazy all the conferences our parents had to go to and lug 3 kids around to!
anyways, i do think you're right that there is nothing like face time. and to be honest, specifically one of the team leaders conferences i went to in Mexico while on Stint was one of the hugest times in shaping my perspective of leadership and my relationship with God. i still have all the notes (not too surprising for me) and remember specifically each and every talk from that time. So, we can all say we've benefited from what conferences do have to offer, but it's a matter of balance and remembering that just because something might be 'good' or have some beneficial aspects to it, that doesn't mean that it is the healthiest or 'best' option all the time. because there might be more lost (community in your own area, consistency, financial, etc…) when looking on the whole.
i think you had great criteria for conferences and should submit it to the big wigs! :)

]]> Comment on Conferences Or Christ? by omo http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/conferences-or-christ/#comment-1369 omo Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:53:25 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=907#comment-1369 i completely agree with you. i am not even involved in crusade anymore and i see the travel fatigue in my friends lives. it makes it hard to develop community when you are always traveling. Also i feel like the use of conferences doesn't translate well overseas. I don't know the solution to over conferencing though. i completely agree with you. i am not even involved in crusade anymore and i see the travel fatigue in my friends lives. it makes it hard to develop community when you are always traveling. Also i feel like the use of conferences doesn't translate well overseas. I don't know the solution to over conferencing though.

]]> Comment on Getting ready for Easter by Jim O'Connor http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/getting-ready-for-easter/#comment-1357 Jim O'Connor Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:45:17 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=905#comment-1357 Hey Brian, more power to you for working to cut back on Diet Coke and therefore caffeine in your quest to experience Lent in a new way. What you are doing is a good daily reminder of the events to come at the time of the Jewish Passover. I think we would all benefit from naming our addictions, whatever they may be, and working to diminish their influence over our lives. In my denomination we have changed the primary focus of Lent from a purely penitential time to a more ancient emphasis on Baptism. (This is not to say that we have completely blown off the penitential aspect). For centuries, Easter marked the time when new converts to Christianity came into full communion with the Body of Christ through Baptism. So these days, during Lent we reflect on our Baptismal promises and examine our lives and our consciences in light of those promises, asking God in His mercy for forgiveness for our weaknesses and moral failings and for the grace to do better. We try to live in a more recollected state during this time. Then at the Easter Vigil Service, when men and women come into the church through Baptism, the entire gathered community renews its Baptismal promises. It is quite powerful. Hey Brian, more power to you for working to cut back on Diet Coke and therefore caffeine in your quest to experience Lent in a new way. What you are doing is a good daily reminder of the events to come at the time of the Jewish Passover. I think we would all benefit from naming our addictions, whatever they may be, and working to diminish their influence over our lives.

In my denomination we have changed the primary focus of Lent from a purely penitential time to a more ancient emphasis on Baptism. (This is not to say that we have completely blown off the penitential aspect). For centuries, Easter marked the time when new converts to Christianity came into full communion with the Body of Christ through Baptism. So these days, during Lent we reflect on our Baptismal promises and examine our lives and our consciences in light of those promises, asking God in His mercy for forgiveness for our weaknesses and moral failings and for the grace to do better. We try to live in a more recollected state during this time. Then at the Easter Vigil Service, when men and women come into the church through Baptism, the entire gathered community renews its Baptismal promises. It is quite powerful.

]]> Comment on Screwtape for Systems by carrie http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/screwtape-for-systems/#comment-1286 carrie Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:41:12 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=892#comment-1286 Thanks, Beav, for sharing this. I'd really like to borrow this book when you're done. I'm wondering about how i can use these "categories of the soul" in a group therapy session somehow :) I like them a lot, especially knowing not only what you live for but what you'd die for, and not 'using or saving others' for your own salvation. although, i do believe the latter involves a really fine line since we are so called to be involved in others' lives and it's hard to know when it crosses the line to 'using or saving others' dysfunctionally. Thanks, Beav, for sharing this. I'd really like to borrow this book when you're done. I'm wondering about how i can use these "categories of the soul" in a group therapy session somehow :) I like them a lot, especially knowing not only what you live for but what you'd die for, and not 'using or saving others' for your own salvation. although, i do believe the latter involves a really fine line since we are so called to be involved in others' lives and it's hard to know when it crosses the line to 'using or saving others' dysfunctionally.

]]> Comment on Hitler: A Pathology of Evil (Review) by rajendran http://brianvirtue.org/2009/04/hitler-a-pathology-of-evil-review/#comment-1261 rajendran Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:11:41 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=349#comment-1261 For a normal world, give every one a normal childhood For a normal world, give every one a normal childhood

]]> Comment on Looking Back in Honor of the Shuffle by carrie http://brianvirtue.org/2010/02/looking-back-in-honor-of-the-shuffle/#comment-1254 carrie Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:04:06 +0000 http://brianvirtue.org/?p=896#comment-1254 I would watch it with you, brother!! :) I'm so glad you posted this!!!! I would watch it with you, brother!! :) I'm so glad you posted this!!!!

]]>