Modern Disciple Magazine for Men (MDM4M), published in Canada
SUMMER 2004
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A Letter to the Christian Soldiers |
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Why do We Hunger for Beauty?
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Kutless: Interviewed
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The Case for Exercise
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Amber Alert!
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Life After Prison
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Review: Cool Hand Luke |
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Viva IV
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d : a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm <the Copernican revolution>
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. - Romans 12:2 (NIV)
"Let me tell you what He did for me,
with the weight of my worries tearing my sleeve.
I cried to my Father the other night, the end of all hope.
"Show me the rope, which way to go"
As I fell asleep, he took away my worries.
He picked me up and put me on His shoulders.
I could see for miles.
He showed me that the mountain I'm climbing,
is not a mountain at all,
but a gentle slope leading home."
Cool
Hand Luke, "One Time"
I like the way the definition, the Scripture and the song lyric
fit together so well.
It is standard for each of us to process events and situations
through our experiences. For example, when I hear of a friend who
has given themselves over to marital infidelity, I immediately
filter that news through my own 35 years and personal experience
of having faced it and survived. However, God seeks to throw out
the old filter and give us each a new filter. He seeks to make all
things new - including the way we think and respond to flawed
humanity.
I FOUND ROCK BY GOING TO CHURCH
A big part of my Walk is the fact that I got turned on to rock
and roll from attending the various anti-rock seminars that travel
across the country. I want to thank those record-burning advocates
personally one day, because the few AC-DC, Led Zeppelin lyrics I
do know, I learned from those seminars. I could never have recited
Highway To Hell, but thanks to them, I know it forward and
back-masking backward. I am sure they will be impressed to hear
that.
After half a dozen or so, I attended a workshop with Al Menconi
www.almenconi.com. He taught me a simple principle that I have
never forgotten - filter your entertainment through the Word of
God. If it stands up to that test, keep listening to it. Don't
burn records. Don't play them backwards. On that day, I received
a new filter.
I recently heard John Eldredge speak about "conversational intimacy
with the Father", and have been fascinated by that concept ever
since. I was trying to explain prayer to my two children lastnight.
I love explaining how our Father drops whatever He's doing and
listens to us, when we call His Name.
And it made me
wonder... ---> Page 2
