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Why You Need to Start Talking to Yourself More
I have had quite the hiatus from blogging. I thought it appropriate to begin again by justifying what some closest to me claim is a persistent part of my life. I don’t personally believe them . . . . . me neither.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, pp. 20-21:
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.”
[ht:JT]
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How the World Is Changing
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On Aborting Down Syndrome Babies
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | ‘Dirty tricks’ over toxic waste
Darren Meisel sent this to me. It is repulsive and sad.
One of the largest class action lawsuits ever brought before the British courts is about to be settled. The case follows the illegal dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast three years ago, which has been the subject of a continuing Newsnight investigation.
More than 30,000 people from the West African country who say that they were harmed by the waste were involved in the action against Trafigura, a multi-national mineral trading company with a base in London.
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Norman Borlaug: The End of an Intentional Life
Yahoo News posted the following article on this amazing gentleman, Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who displays what it is to live intentionally. Here is an excerpt.
DALLAS – Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation.
Borlaug, 95, died Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home, said Kathleen Phillips, a spokesman for Texas A&M University where Borlaug was a distinguished professor.
“Norman E. Borlaug saved more lives than any man in human history,” said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program. “His heart was as big as his brilliant mind, but it was his passion and compassion that moved the world.”
He was known as the father of the “green revolution,” which transformed agriculture through high-yield crop varieties and other innovations, helping to more than double world food production between 1960 and 1990. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives.
Read the whole thing here.
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Remembering 9/11
The Big Picture posted some amazing images in remembrance of 9/11. Go here to find them.
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Peter Hitchens on China’s New Slave empire
Peter Hitchens has written this excellent and provocative article concerning China’s new aggressive procedure inside Africa. The beginning of the article reflects upon a horrifying time in Africa while investigating the trade.
I think I am probably going to die any minute now. An inflamed, deceived mob of about 50 desperate men are crowding round the car, some trying to turn it over, others beating at it with large rocks, all yelling insults and curses.
They have just started to smash the windows. Next, they will pull us out and, well, let’s not think about that …
I am trying not to meet their eyes, but they are staring at me and my companions with rage and hatred such as I haven’t seen in a human face before. Those companions, Barbara Jones and Richard van Ryneveld, are – like me – quite helpless in the back seats.
If we get out, we will certainly be beaten to death. If we stay where we are, we will probably be beaten to death.
Our two African companions have – crazily in our view – got out of the car to try to reason with the crowd. It is clear to us that you might as well preach non-violence to a tornado.
The article portrays the horrible life in Africa as China, without pretense or restraint, has entered and dominated the nationals there. He summarizes
As dusk falls and the shadows lengthen, the scene looks like the blasted land of Mordor in Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings: a pre-medieval prospect of hopeless, condemned toil in pits surrounded by stony desolation.
Behind them tower the leaning ruins of colossal abandoned factories: monuments to the wars and chaos that have repeatedly passed this way.
There is something strange and unsettling about industrial scenes in Africa, pithead winding gear and gaunt chimneys rising out of tawny grasslands dotted with anthills and banana palms. It looks as if someone has made a grave mistake.
And there is a lesson for colonial pride and ambition in the streets of Lubumbashi – 80 years ago an orderly Art Deco city full of French influence and supervised by crisply starched gendarmes, now a genial but volatile chaos of scruffy, bribe-hunting traffic cops where it is not wise to venture out at night.
The once-graceful Belgian buildings, gradually crumbling under thick layers of paint, long ago lost their original purpose.
Outsiders come and go in Africa, some greedy, some idealistic, some halfway between. Time after time, they fail or are defeated, leaving behind scars, slag-heaps, ruins and graveyards, disillusion and disappointment.
We have come a long way from Cecil Rhodes to Bob Geldof, but we still have not brought much happiness with us, and even Nelson Mandela’s vaunted ‘Rainbow Nation’ in South Africa is careering rapidly towards banana republic status.
Now a new great power, China, is scrambling for wealth, power and influence in this sad continent, without a single illusion or pretence.
Perhaps, after two centuries of humbug, this method will work where all other interventions have failed.
But after seeing the bitter, violent desperation unleashed in the mines of Likasi, I find it hard to believe any good will come of it.
Read the whole thing here.
Local pastor hopes to call younger generation of pastors to visit the sick
My good friend Brian Croft has written an excellent volume. Jeff Robinson interviews the author in this month’s Towers. Here is an excerpt.
It seemed almost natural for Brian Croft to write a book on ministering to the sick, but it took some encouragement from his pastoral interns.
Croft, who has served as senior pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville for the past six years, is the son of a medical doctor who grew up being unwittingly prepared for local church ministry by his father.
William Croft has practiced as a family physician for more than 30 years in New Albany, Ind., where Brian Croft grew up. The elder Croft has made house calls throughout his career and as a boy, Brian often accompanied his father to watch him care for and minister to both the bodies and souls of the sick.
Read the whole thing here.
Angela Mooney is the Winner!!
Here is my wife Angela, my boss Ron Ellis, President of the University at which I joyfully labor, and Angela’s first place winning truffle (miscellaneous category) at the last faculty banquet.
It will soon be available in the CBU cafeteria for lucky students to devour.
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