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Name: David
Country: United States
State: Delaware
Metro: Newark
Birthday: 7/20/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: Everyone. Holiday drinks at Starbucks. People different than me. Orange amplifiers. People the same as me. The British invasion. People that don't validate my beliefs. Truth and anywhere you find it. Getting rid of the box. Elliot Smith. Kanye West. Morrisey. Randomness. Beauty. The world behind our filter. Life in black and white. A movie afternoon. Creating. Following Jesus closely.
Expertise: Class A amplifiers. Guitars(unfortunately). Visual Communication(soon).
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  inlovewitheisley
Member Since:
11/9/2005
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| The new church...I have been reading this book called, "The Shaping Of Things To Come". It was written by 2 non-American authors who have some objective distance from the current western church. The book talks extensively about the future look of the church and how we need to return to the subversive revolutionary movement of the early church. Some of their examples were fascinating. Being employed by a typical evangelical church creates some unusual ties to tradition and current strategy. I think as leaders, we need to step out of that and truly challenge our box-like thinking. What do you think the future of the church will look like? How will the gospel be represented in this post-christendom, post-modern context?
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| So yesterday I co-started a clothing company. We are called "Trauma Fashion". Today we pressed our first designs. Right now it's just a fun hobby but if goes somewhere the sky's the limit.
Check us out and add us on MySpace!
http://www.myspace.com/traumafashion
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| Ok I don't do this a lot so listen up.
Whatever you are doing right now this minute, stop.
Go to your nearest record store or log on to your iTunes account.
Look up "Nightmare of You". The record is self-titled and it will change your life.
My gosh I can't believe I've lived so long without this cd.
Sorry that's all oh read this article.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760
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| "Happy New Year!", we shouted through the night.
When I woke up January 1st, I couldn't get this song out of my head.
So this is the new year and I don't feel any different...
So this is the new year and I have no resolutions
For a self-assigned penance for problems with easy solutions
I wish the world was flat like the old days
Where I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back...
I didn't feel different. I felt tired from lack of sleep and the
fact that it was 7:34 in the morning. I had to be at church
soon. Is Starbucks open on New Year's day? I can't believe I'm
going to be 24 this summer. I feel so old and
unaccomplished. Why am I in Delaware? Why am I not
famous?
However ridiculous these thoughts were that's what was going on in my head...
Nevertheless I am excited that the future is here, now, in our
hands. A blank canvas. We can use whatever hue we
want. We can paint the town red in anger or blue in hope.
We can bring lighter colors into this darkened world.
Grab a brush.
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| So it's wedding season in Delaware.
I guess I missed the memo. Two of my closest friends both went
ring shopping in the last month. Unbelievable. I guess the
aging process is inescapable. I feel older by the minute. I
feel even more single. So many of my friends are on their way to
marital bliss...which takes me to my next thought. How many times
have we heard "If I was only married..."? Or replace 'married'
with your pleasant adjective of choice(successful, famous, rich,
etc..). We think that another step or place in life will give us
whatever we are looking for. I'm sure that there are amazing
things about marriage. I believe the hype about it.
However, a rite of passage doesn't mean we change into someone
else. The struggles and weaknesses we had before remain.
They come with us in this journey. I used to believe the
opposite. I felt that sexual temptation and lust somehow
disappear when I get married, and I wouldn't have to worry about that
anymore. Some who are married have told me it's even more
difficult. We are who we are. I've heard that lonely people
try to get married to escape lonliness and lack of intimacy. But
their partners end up having an impossible responsibility. Erwin
was talking about contentment the other day, about how we try to find
contentment in external circumstances like success and fame or other
people. But those things never satisfy the hunger we have.
We wonder why celebrities check-in to rehab or fall into
depression. Any contentment we seek outside of Christ leaves us
empty-handed. Our hearts remain an empty, black hole.
But don't worry, I'm still pumped for marriage.
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