ebroussard - Latest Comments

Re: RESTORATION LIVE april 2

Earle Fincher — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:58:42 -0000

Hey! This is a Great event benefiting a Great ministry! Count me in! Earle Fincher

Re: Weapons of Choice

ebroussard — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:46:19 -0000

Chad…thanks for dropping by. Your new site looks GREAT, clean and crisp! After looking at it I would love to have you tweak mine in a couple of places?
Thanks for the tip on Nutshell Mail, can’t wait to give it a whirl.

Re: Weapons of Choice

Chad Ritchie — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:34:25 -0000

Eddie, I agree, Wordpress is at the top of my list as a "weapon of choice." When someone contacts me about building a web site, immediately my I begin thinking how this person/organization can get the most out of their site using Wordpress. The back-end dashboard is easy to understand and straightforward. OK, enough about Wordpress, I could go on and on. Check out my new web site I built using HTML 5 and Wordpress. www.chadritchie.net

I have "weapon of choice" for you to check out called Nutshell Mail. I was introduced to Nutshell Mail at the last Media & Technical GUILD of Hickory Metro Area. Instead of checking your Facebook, Twitter and other accounts or email throughout the day. You can schedule Nutshell Mail to send you a report at scheduled intervals throughout the day. Also Nutshell Mail offer the ability to filter your updates. Just so you don't get a report on who needs a carrot for their Farmville.

Chad Ritchie
www.chadritchie.net

PS-Good article!

Re: Weapons of Choice

Terry Johnson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:55:27 -0000

Eddie - I am not nearly as connected as you. I have to say I have learned alot about the connected world just observing you - seriously. Then I go and pick up what I find appealing and make it work for me. The two weapons of choice for me are Google and WordPress. I love Google Documents and how I can keep all my important stuff there and access it from anywhere in the world. Not that I ever go anywhere, but it's there in case I do. And I am just beginning to use WordPress and have enjoyed blogging from there. It's so easy to set up a page, make it look really nice and begin writing. There is more but those two came to mind first. Gotta go do some blogging!

Re: Ride:Well Bike Tour

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Re: my favorite heretic

Matt @ The Church of No People — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:40:24 -0000

I heard a quote from someone recently: that every great truth begins as a blasphemy. Awesome. That's Jesus right there.

Re: Ride:Well Bike Tour

Diogo — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:32:54 -0000

hi i would like to know the best and cheapest bike shop across the United States

Re: How Big is Your World?

Matt @ The Church of No People — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:18:57 -0000

Hey Eddie, thanks for commenting on my blog! I always enjoy hearing from readers. I'm with you about my newfound love of peoples' story thanks to social media. If I can ever do anything for you, let me know! Grace and peace.

Re: How Big is Your World?

ebroussard — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:52:20 -0000

Stuart...thanks for coming by...great thoughts and additions to the post. You can keep reading the paper, for a little while longer...

Re: How Big is Your World?

Stuart — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:49:38 -0000

Eddie - that really resonated. I'm a boomer from a two-stoplight consolidated school district in Ohio. I had to relearn how to have a conversation when I went to college, and the nature of my wife's calling means I "get to" move periodically (but not that often). This is difficult for one who tends to get attached to land and place. FB has permitted me to renew some family and other personal ties, and make some connections I would not have otherwise. LinkedIn has facilitated professional conversations I would have never had. Our website has brought business we would have never had. The web has cut into my book reading (and writing), and I do worry about time spent on it and social media. And our webmaster and we deal with hackers and malicious software. I think this all helps to keep me mentally fresh. I still read the newspaper.

Re: Amish Peace

Ken Brewster — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:08:18 -0000

Tammy, I used to work out of an Amish, market, like some work out of a Starbucks, eat breakfast lunch and dinner there sometimes, sit there and work. I got to know a few of the, befriended an 80 year old guy that looked like the guy at the end of the rainbow with a pot of gold, but grey, about 5ft tall, moved like he was 20, a great guy, humble spirit. I agree, also about some areas of their belief I don't agree with, but... God Bless

Re: Amish Peace

Ken Brewster — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:04:47 -0000

Thanks Eddie.

Re: Jesus report card

Paul Holderman — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:19:04 -0000

Immediately I was reminded of the future conversation at Christ's judgement where people would come and say, " Didn't we do this and do that in your name?!, Didn't we heal and perform miracles? (Didn't we go to church and tithe?)
What we Jesus criteria? He didn't "know" them and they didn't "know" Him either.
"Sorry I do not KNOW you"

Re: Jesus report card

Paul Holderman — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:06:53 -0000

I fail.
Jesus efforts will have to take my place and grades.

Re: Amish Peace

ebroussard — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:55:05 -0000

Tammy...thanks for you insight. Interesting that a womens study is centered on life as an Amish women. We need a mans study to do the same (our families would benefit). I did not run across their belief that Jesus is not God's son...I may need to do some more reading. Thanks for jumping in to the conversation.

Re: Amish Peace

Tammy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:31:28 -0000

Eddie, The Amish have fascinated me for a number of years now- ever since visiting Lancaster, PA on a vacation trip our family took. I "studied" them some after returning home and have since read numerous Christian fiction novels about them. While the books are fiction, they are written such as to allow a really good "look" at the way they live their lives. Right now our Sunday School class is doing the study "Becoming a Woman of Simplicity". According to the study the definition of a woman of simplicity is "one who lives a God-paced life." "She waits for God's leading and has time to be still and know her Lord." "She is a woman of profound simplicity because she has only one focus: being simply and purely devoted to Christ." While I have a problem with parts of the Amish beliefs - - like the lack of acknowleding Jesus is God's son - - they are the greatest example of "one who lives a God-paced life and being fully devoted". Full devotion should certainly make it possible for us to forgive as Christ forgives. Unfortunately, like you, I'm still a bit too "worldly" to be prepared to enter their lifestyle.

Re: Ride:Well Bike Tour

ebroussard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:57:37 -0000

Matt...Thanks for dropping by.

Re: Ride:Well Bike Tour

Matt @ The Church of No People — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:59:04 -0000

Hey Eddie, thanks for Facebook following my blog! I've been following the Ride Well tour for a while. It's pretty cool what they're doing. I don't think I'd ever be able to ride that much!

Re: Eucharist

ebroussard — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:30:51 -0000

"should be the center piece of our everyday living" love that...thanks Tim

Re: Eucharist

Tim — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:26:19 -0000

Eddie,
Good comments. We, at the church of Christ, observe the "Lord's supper" every Sunday and it is the center piece of the worship service. Jesus commanded this "sharing of his body and blood" prior to His ultimate sacrifice. The examples of the first century church leads us to observe this at least weekly. However, as 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 states, we must be of the proper mind at the time of taking communion. It should not be just tradition, ritual, or common place. We need to remember what He intended it to mean....the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord, and the way to our salvation in our death (to sin), burial (in baptism of His blood), and the resurrection (into a new birth or life). This "communion" should be the center piece of our everyday living, without this there is no purpose for us.

Re: Eucharist

ebroussard — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:00:30 -0000

Having spent 20 years in the Baptist church and another 20 years in non-denominational churches…Communion has been a monthly “practice” at best. Thanks for commenting, peace to you.

Re: Eucharist

Bosco — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:23:01 -0000

Thanks Eddie for your comment at http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/... and your invitation to comment here. Others have already made the point, I think, that the Eucharist (Lord's Supper, Breaking of the bread, etc) was central in the New Testament - it is what we are commanded to do by Jesus. His meals were central to enacting his Kingdom message and it was inevitable that a meal enshrined his ongoing message and life. It is a command that has not been broken across 100,000 Sundays of our history. So I'm not sure where you get the idea that "most churches stop[ped celebrating] the Eucharist from being every week?" Most churches celebrate the Eucharist every Sunday at least. For Martin Luther, certainly, the Eucharist was central. So it was not essential to the Reformation to take the focus off the Eucharist. The Reformation in England resulted not in lessening the focus on the Eucharist - it continued to be celebrated at least every Lord's Day - in fact there came to be a stronger stress on receiving communion than the Medieval inherited tradition had had it. It is wonderful to see people like you, picking up the Biblical texts and looking at them afresh and seeing that there we find encouragement to celebrate the Lord's own service on the Lord's own day.

Re: Eucharist

ebroussard — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:13:23 -0000

I was hoping someone from a more liturgical background would jump in the discussion. I have been attending the early service of a local Episcopal church for about 9 months now and I am humbled by the focus on the Eucharist. I know the Reformation may have been good in some aspects but taking the focus off of the Eucharist and on the preaching has not been so good for me (just now starting to understand that). Thanks for your comments and I so agree with you…”the family should eat together and argue later”…much later!

Re: Eucharist

Stu Smith — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:27:19 -0000

Eddie - It looks like you don't come from the more liturgical end of the Church. We Lutherans most commonly refer to this sacrament as Holy Communion, even though we don't consider ourselves especially smart or important. Lutherans, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics share an understanding that Christ is really, bodily present (not symbolic) in the bread and the wine (we use wine) and celebrating communion in worship is core to Christian community. Anglican writer NT Wright (highly recommend - he speaks to us all across the spectrum) describes the action of Christ in communion as reaching back across the thin membrane between Heaven (where God is present) and earth (where it's more ambiguous) to be really present with us. Why would anyone not want to experience that as often as possible? In our tradition, we are moving from monthly + feast days (a compromise with the 19th Century idea that communion should be rare) to a return to celebration at every service. Of course the practice in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches for their entire histories. Some of my Catholic friends celebrate it daily. Meant to be something we all experience together, Eucharist is often where we are most broken as the church - some Lutherans won't commune with my brand (ELCA), as we don't (normally) intercommune with Roman Catholics (although any communing Christian can commune in an ELCA congregation). To me, the family should eat together and argue politics later.

Re: What’s the difference between IN and OF? part1

ebroussard — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:43:48 -0000

AMEN! thanks Melody...