I used to read serially, that is, I wouldn’t start a new book until I finished the one I was reading. Not smart.
One of the secrets to reading quickly is reading with interest. When you read many books at once, it’s easier to pick up one you are interested in and make progress. You can always come back later to a book when your interest is piqued again on that subject.
Well we’ve come to the end of the year and it’s time to look back on the top GSB posts of 2011.
The criteria is sheer numbers: the most popular posts are those who received the most clicks to view.
What’s interesting is that I would not necessarily have chosen these ten as the best, but they are the posts must clicked by you, the reader, and that is what is most important.
So, here they are in order of the most popular first.
Look, I know it’s Thanksgiving, and I should be reminding you of all the things for which you should be thankful, but I’m fixated on something else.
Will someone explain to me what is with parades? Apparently I’m just weird because people line the streets to see them, and are glued to their televisions to watch them.
We’ll see this phenomenon again today with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I’m all for being thankful to God; I just don’t get the parade thing.
I can only remember going to one parade–the Persimmon Parade, in Bedford, Indiana, when I was ten years old. The only thing I remember is wondering what a persimmon was and why it merited a parade. I decided to look into it–parades, not persimmons–and here is what I found. Continue reading “The Problem With Parades”
As I blogged a few days ago, you can’t truly come to know God in nature, only through Jesus.
But you can learn some things about God the creator from his creation.
Yesterday, I awoke to a stunning view of the largest mountain in North America–Mount McKinley (Denali). Knowing God created Mount McKinley, I asked myself what I could learn about Him from looking at this part of His creation.
God expresses His creativity within form. His creation is not entirely subjective like abstract art. It doesn’t mean whatever you want it to mean. Instead, it clearly speaks of two objective facts: His eternal power and His divine nature. (Rom. 1:20).
All the mountains surrounding Mount McKinley have the same form. They all have a base, a peak and ridges. This provides an objectivity, a point of reference, a structure.
But within that form, there is freedom, diversity, creativity. The base, peaks and ridges are of different shapes and sizes. No two look exactly the same. The sun reflects differently off of each ridge because of their shape and size, creating a palate of black, white and grays. There is form and there is freedom.
Leadership is essential to the progress of the kingdom of God.
