Michael Krahn : A Mind Awake

I’m fasting from the internet this week  so you won’t be able to contact me by email, Facebook, or blog comments.
If you desperately need me, you can email my wife at annemarie.krahn@gmail.com
Otherwise, I will return to cyberspace on Monday, July 14th.
In the meantime (since YOU are not fasting from the internet)…
Enjoy a song (one of […]

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People are… amusing?  Is that the right word for this?  I received these three comments on my Dawkins page.  I reprint them here for your enjoyment.  Let me know what you think…
Hello Michael,
Now the reason I came to your site is that an important message has been sent down, just like a News Update. I […]

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I started reading the bible from page one in January and I’m coming up on halfway now so I have some fresh thoughts about prophets.
Most seem hesitant to carry out what God tells them to do… probably because at various times they were sawed in half or killed some other way. Half the time they […]

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CT reviews McLaren’s latest book “Everything Must Change”
From the Tim Challies archives, a post on “Excessive Reading”
Have you seen “No Country for Old Men”? What did you think?
Andy Stanley is into a series on the ten commandments.  Here is part one.

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We can be patient when things go against us
thankful when things go well
and for the future we can have
good confidence in our faithful God and Father
that nothing will separate us from his love.
All creatures are so completely in his hand
that without his will
they can neither move or be moved
-    Heidelberg Catechism, Q & A 28
This […]

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Calvin’s Heidelberg Catechism:
What is the chief end of man?
To know God and enjoy him forever.
How much more effective could my witness be if I could first believe and then start with this in my attempts to show others Christ? I’ll keep referring to the subculture by which I was surrounded, the Canadian Mexican Mennonite […]

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I’ll make this a semi-regular feature.  Wordpress shows me which search terms bring traffic to my blog.  Here’s the first installment.  Highlights for this week include:
“rob bell crackpot” (never said that)
“solutions to desert survival simulation ” (no idea)
Search Terms for 7 days ending 2007-11-29
Today
 
Mcmanus, Spiritual Activism 
Yesterday
“ezra furman” “andy whitman” 
rob bell’s response to criticism 
rob bell crackpot 
rob bell […]

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You may have noticed a slight drop in the volume of my posting in the last couple of months.  The reason is that I’m taking some college courses and I’ve had to find and extra 20 or so hours a week to attend classes and do the work.I do have a long piece on […]

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A short history lesson by David Frum is my gift to you on this Christ-tide morning. Christ-tide? Read the piece:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=44a5695d-acbd-4f40-83b2-0e4266e90430

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I have a habit of envisioning my life from a bird’s eye view. I catch myself viewing my life in third person, as if in a dream - watching myself, simultaneously in control and predestined. After all, if its predestined then someone must already know, like the scriptwriter or director, even if they’ve kept the […]

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