John dubs why we hurry

We should outlaw them! At least TRY to know what you post about. If owners were committed to wining, they would find the best people for the job. Instead they fill the ranks with relatives, friends and political connections. Your dad should have spent some time teaching you how to spell, instead of teaching you that violence against helpless people is the best solution to problems.

Actually, I learned a lot from my Dad including some spelling, but not all of it. Violence is and was never in his nature when healthy, constructive criticism and discipline was needed. The Broncos have had a history of conduct detrimental to the league salary cap cheating which gave the team a competitive advantage. The league needs to come down hard on the team.

Management needs to set a positive example for the players of this league— a league that is rapidly becoming known for domestic violence. A complete investigation should be conducted with the potential of loss draft picks and a massive fine considered as punishment.

The league needs to set an example. I actually thought his handling of that call was outstanding. However, boys, the one take away you MUST remember is that no matter what; once a woman calls , the cops are coming…. You must be logged in to leave a comment.

Not a member? Register now! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. As a close friend of the organization, this story is craaaaazy. As a close friend of the organization I can say Bowlen has no close friends. What has he been charged with? The new American aristocracy in action. If his dad is named Pat then how is he a Jr?

The window is closing and there is no oxygen. Not a good combination. Might wanna think about changing the team colors. It would be nice to actually have a reporter investigate what he actually did. Did he restrain a crazy women who was drunk and try and get her out of his house?

Or did he attack her? Because in either case the man goes to jail. Its gas, water, and electricity! Sounds like he was sotally to be and got a raw deal from the cops. Pat Bowlen might want to get some advise from Tom Benson on changing a will.

Jed York is intrigued. Face it. Baby Bowlen is the new Charley Sheen. This guy is like is the American version of Uday and Qusay. And stupidity. Irsay in training. His idol must be Irsay. Oh, man. What a tool. Give that man a tax break. He meant to say he is a Blood IN the city. Same gang as Aaron Hernandez. What a D bag. He needs to be suspended forever and stripped of his last name. Life is hard.

This kid is a loser and deserves what he gets. Luckily, Elway is still the big toe of the city…. So step out and get some fresh air. Let that sink in. So, when Guinness — an esteemed scholar who has offered his astute observations through dozens of important books about the American condition and the times in which we live — writes about purpose and zeal and meaning, seizing the day, redeeming the time, we should listen, and expect something more than motivational pizzazz to do your thing.

He has earned the right to be heard well and deeply considered. Agree always or not, he is, as BookNotes readers surely know, one of my favorite writers and Christian leaders who I count as a friend. When we announced this book months ago and offered to take pre-orders we summarized it as the publisher had suggested, and it was not untrue: Os himself says this is sequel to his seminal, must-read s title The Call: Finding Meaning and Significance.

It was, as we have heralded, re-issued earlier this year in an anniversary edition with some new chapters. Yet, let me be clear. In Carpe Diem Redeemed Guinness is not giving us a guide to discerning our careers or a plan to maximize our impact. He is pondering how we might be timely. In a sense, this book is drawing from his lesser-known, small, potent treatise called Prophetic Untimeliness, which is, in fact, the title of his fifth chapter. His books are no different, offering the joy of logical argumentation, wrapped in the beauty of rhetorical persuasion.

I will read anything Os writes for as long as he writes and for as long as I am able. He is sometimes a bit stern, it seems. We dare not compromise, we must not back down; he exhorts us to be sturdy. Although he writes on civility and eschews talk of culture wars, he knows well the Biblical assumption that we are in for a fight.

The Christian faith, the cost of discipleship, is to be lived out through blood, sweat, and tears, and although he preaches about and stands in merciful grace, he has a stout bit of Winston Churchill in him. He knows what time it is.

He knows we cannot pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps, that we need more than a shot in the arm or a call to relax. We need an approach rooted in more substantive, deeper, sustainable truths. What is this day we are supposed to seize? Is there such a thing as destiny? Can we really discern the times while in our own time?

Could a more fruitful perspective be found in the Judeo-Christian view of time as essentially unfolding and meaningful? In that book, to make the point that what we believe about fundamental things really matters, he compares their respective views of death and dying, grief and hope. In a brief but essential section of Carpe Diem Redeemed Guinness discusses the differences between the Eastern and secularist views of time which are very different!

But, again, this is no cheap sloganeering but a deeply coherent view of purpose in light of a Christian view of history and history-making based on a Biblical view of time itself. I am sincerely not trying to balance out a lightweight and a heavyweight book in pairing The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and Carpe Diem Redeemed. Maybe over a Guinness, but I digress. Comer is a hoot to read, but remains substantive, important. Guinness is a different sort of thinker, has a different calling and audience, and brings a rare but not quite rarified viewpoint to the big questions about the nature of time and of our times.

This is a huge question. Guinness is no quietistic contemplative and as the head of a big church with multiple sites, Comer is no monk, either. This itself takes time, takes a willingness to be shaped by the liturgies of church and the rhymes of spiritual discipline and to do some serious pondering.

It is interesting to me that both Comer and Guinness have been influenced by the legendary Jewish mystic and civil rights activist, Abraham Joshua Heschel, who is perhaps best known for a dense, passionate book on the 8 th century Hebrew prophets and the little gem on time, The Sabbath. And it is one rooted, I might add, in patience, itself a virtue related to our coping with the passing of time. Such hope-filled long-term thinking comes from our profound grasp of the Biblical teaching of covenant.

Guinness writes,. The book is searching, eloquent and I highly recommend it. What more need to be said? How many more resources do we need in this genre of contemplative spirituality? With blurbs on the back from giants like Tilden Edwards and the artfully Celtic Christine Valters Paintner and the amazing Phileena Heuertz and the popular podcasting enneagrammer, Suzanne Stabile, you really need to pay attention.

And paying attention is much of what When Faith Becomes Sight is about. Is God breaking in to our mundane days? Is the Holy Spirit prompting us, wooing us, pushing us? Are we taking notice? Perhaps we are just too tired to care. Or too distracted. That has been a theme of the upbeat John Mark Comer book, even though he in his hip, whimsical way speaks hard truth about the urgency of changing our deadly habits the cause us to give in to superficial distractions.

I was drawn into the adventure of this book by its very structure. It is nicely written and wonderfully organized. There are a handful of chapters that comprise each section. What good stuff. There is a lot here. It is a book to read slowly. With or without a spiritual director or soul friend, or even without a healthy tool like this guidebook, we still, sooner or later, have to come to grips with our schedules, our time, our hours and how we fill them.

We have to slow down and take time to reflect. I myself skipped over the reflection questions mostly because I wanted to get done and move on. I trust that that is true. We must slow down and be attentive, and When Faith Becomes Sight, by trustworthy guides, can help. This is a book that is a joy to read but will best be absorbed slowly, with others, even. I mean, right in the middle of it you are just so grateful, so glad, so appreciative that you just hold its pages to your chest and smile and whisper a prayer of thanksgiving?

It is also my gladness for seeing a scholar that writes so well, a good storyteller who knows his philosophy, a professor that is as keen on telling about kayaking technique or his love for the Northern Lights as he is on the history of the sacred-secular dualism in Western rationalism or the scholarship behind certain schools of theological thought.

Further, I am nearly verklempt whenever I see a seriously Reformed Calvinist who is fluent in Catholic theology and spirituality and when I see an evangelically-oriented Bible scholar who cites so widely across the theological spectrum in this case, from Lutheran Joseph Sittler and German Reformed Jurgen Moltmann.

He so deftly weaves into his scholarship gracious moments by citing the likes of poetry by Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver and profound excerpts of Nicholas Wolterstorff and Sylvia Keesmaat and Tom Wright. He is a scholar who you should know and has done books you should read. Listen to A. Swoboda, author of Subversive Sabbath:. One might struggle to imagine how he could top that prophetic book.

He has done it. This book will change the way we think about discipleship. And it will change the way we think about how a discipled people can transform the world. This important book will now be required reading in my environmental ethics courses. You should realize that this book really is covering a topic that is unlike any other accessible Christian creation-care book we know: it is, as it says, about character, about virtue ethics.

In a moving story in the beginning Steven and some students are hiking and as they come to their wilderness campground, the find the place nearly trashed — litter scattered, burnt logs and ashes scattered, bark stripped from the glorious white birches. And, conversely, he revisits the story and comes across a wonderfully well-kept spot, protected, nurtured, stewarded.

And so, we start a journey that I found very helpful and — as many have said in recent decades — is exceptionally important; namely, a study of virtue ethics. That is, we need more than the standard sort of right vs. It ends up, there is a large difference between a person who is dutiful to obey the rules, to do good, and a person who desires to be good. I myself sometimes recommend the wonderful rumination on all this by Dennis Hollinger in his book Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World.

Smith whose You Are What You Love is a supremely excellent study of character formation, how stories shape our imaginations that in turn call us to live out a certain sort of vision of the good life. We live our of our hearts desires, he explains, which is shaped by some assumption and longing for and construal of the good. Bouma-Prediger is a great teacher and he not only explains what is meant by virtue ethics and how that school of thought about character formation, not merely obedience to ethical principles is an important aspect of uniquely Christian and deeply human ways of being a good person.

And then, just when it was getting interesting, he makes it even all the more interesting by telling us about a recent school of thought in our generation about Environmental Virtue Ethics, known as EVE in the biz, apparently.

Who knew? So, within the environmental studies field there is some insider baseball stuff about whether we need to go deeper than passing environmental legislation and policies to save the planet but to the question of what kind of people we must be if we are going to serve our fellow creatures in that capacity.

And, of course, to answer that, even though Aristotle and other virtue ethicists can help, people admittedly need deeper, perhaps more sustainable voices, calling us to a view of our selves and our role within creation. Perhaps our sacred story revealed in the Bible can help. I love that Bouma-Prediger writes unashamedly as a person of deep Christian faith. He is an evangelically-minded professor at a Christian college Hope College is affiliated with the Reformed Church of America.

And yet, he writes as if any seeker or nature lover or person curious about ethics and living well, might be listening in. He is like one of his heroes in this regard, the late, great Lewis Smedes. He, near the end of his days, was writing delightfully wise articles for places like Readers Digest offering all sorts of readers a Biblical worldview without the lingo.

Bouma-Prediger is perhaps more interested in Biblical exegesis than Smedes was, and remains a studious scholar, but he has this charming sense that in writing about Christian ethics and Biblical perspectives and theologically-informed virtuous ways of being in the world, he is not just calling out to church-folk and Christ-followers but all who care about the state of the Earth.

Earthkeeping and Character, then, could be — Lord, please! Anyone in the Christian tradition writing about creation care or Earthkeeping or environmental stewardship and the like will simply have to grapple with his wonderful insights and vital proposals. Bouma-Prediger knows the major textbooks and other people of Christian faith who have contributed wisely, profoundly, to this developing academic discipline.

This, too, is a remarkable feature of the book, how he interacts with these other key texts and figures, religious or otherwise, making some serious stuff so very interesting. May this book be seen not as an in-house religious resource for church folk only, but the serious contribution that it is to mainstream environmental ethics.

We need all hands on deck and only the most fundamentalist secularist would ignore this helpful vision for having something substantive to offer. One small thing that I really like which all might ponder: he does not like the world environment, much, and prefers the more wholistic, nuanced word ecology. I suppose it should be evident, but nobody has written this stuff with such passion, wisdom, and verve. He looks at wonder and humility, self-control and wisdom, justice and love, and courage and hope.

The stories and examples are thrilling, the trajectory of this both exciting and a bit challenging, if not overwhelming. Can we become these kinds of people, the kind the planet needs? And how does it happen?