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Archive for October, 2005

Theopedia

Stumbled across a neat site: Theopedia, an “Encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity.”

I haven’t poked around too much, but their statement of faith looks good.

HT: Doug McHone

All Things Well

You made it all
Said, ‘Let there be’
And there was
All that we see
The sound of Your voice
The works of Your hands
You do all things well

Chris Tomlin, All Things Well


Q: What’s the difference between a generalist and a specialist?
A: A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until finally, he knows everything about nothing. A generalist is someone who knows less and less about more and more, until finally, he knows nothing about everything.


FOR ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE CONFUSED, let me clarify: Chris Tomlin was writing about the Lord God Almighty. He was not writing about me.

Unfortunately, I do get confused on that point with alarming frequency.

You are reading the words of a perfectionist, you see, and it’s killing me. “Perfectionism kills your joy,” someone once told me, and so far, they have been right. It is exceedingly difficult for me to derive joy from anything I do unless I am blissfully ignorant of the faults in the works of my hands.

That’s pride, y’all, and God hates it.

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