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Buddy Matt Zimmer has a good post on real love. Quote:

...in a world where sticks and stones may not break bones but name calling really hurts, in a world where some come to Sunday worship and sing "it's all about You Jesus" but inside it's really all about them, these words from Jesus really press in on a person.

Preach it, brother!

Herein is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us...

1 John 4:10

Update: The link was broke, but it ain't no more.

I've added a new blog to my blogroll: zimmerzblogz. Matt Zimmer is a friend, co-worker, and all-around good guy. He's been posting a series on classic TV sitcoms, so you migh want to check his stuff out.

Blogging dad Dan Edelen has completed his series on business. I really need to read it all, and to make it easy, Dan has compiled a page of links to help us find it.

He also has a thoughtful post that echoes something I've pondered, namely:

Maybe we've done it all wrong. The amount of money I pay in insurance alone is criminal, but I'm probably underinsured compared with most people. I spend money to make sure nothing happens to my stuff, to my wife, to my child, or to me. Almost every insurance man I know is a backbone in his church. We talk about wise stewardship of the things God has given us, for sure, but what if our insurance was meant to come from the community of Christ instead? Should my house burned down, what if it was that community--a community that lived directly around me comprised of the saints of God--that shouldered that burden with me. And what if I shouldered theirs? Doesn't that make so much more sense than what we have now? [emphasis mine]

I think he's on to something here. He keeps thinking out loud, and comes up with this:

Sales of iPods continue unabated and people risk being oddballs if they don't have one. But what if we stopped working so hard to buy the massive overload of gadgetry we are told we must have in order to define ourselves or to keep us from being seen as out-of-step? Is out-of-step the worst label we could bear? Could we recover some portion of a life without these things, a life that has more of God in it and less Nokia or Sony or Dell?

Dan is a deep thinker and challenging. Read the whole thing.

He's got more going on, but I'll give you time to finish the first assignment. Back later.

Blogging dad Scott Lyons of Swept Over has a great and funny post that you won't want to read while eating.

You've been warned.