tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90242092593759732792024-03-13T17:29:56.680-04:00Allen Bingham's NotesNotes from my work as a pastor in The United Methodist Church.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-15154019621991668682012-05-12T21:04:00.001-04:002012-06-27T22:35:30.506-04:00We Have Lost 93% of Our Food Variety in 80 Years via IdeaFeed @ Big Think
In the last 80 years, we have lost 93% of the diversity in our food seeds, according to National Geographic. The industrialization of agriculture as well as our current trend toward genetically modified foods has steadily put emphasis on a seed's ability to generate the highest yield per acre. "In 1903, we had almost 500 varieties of lettuce. By 1983, we had just 36. Radishes, peas, and beets Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-5232651773709094422012-05-12T20:51:00.001-04:002012-06-27T22:36:25.427-04:00For Better Health, Build Your Work around Your Play | IdeaFeed | Big Think
New research reveals that losing sleep could be a significant contributor to obesity. In a study at the University of Munich, researchers surveyed the sleep habits of more than 65,000 adults and found that "people whose weekend and weekday sleep schedules differed were three times more likely to be overweight than those who went to bed and awoke at the same time each day." When Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-77876025837708484232011-10-11T12:27:00.001-04:002012-06-27T22:37:08.302-04:00Making you life plan become a reality is even harder ... (via Michael Hyatt)
Realign your priorities as needed. Earlier in my life, my children were a high priority. Friends were a lower priority. Community service wasn’t even on the list. Now that has changed. This is natural. You have to adjust your priorities as circumstances change. Be flexible—while remaining true to your values.
Review your life plan weekly. It is not a document you finish and then file away. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-86329118753564772402011-10-10T12:23:00.001-04:002011-10-10T12:23:37.282-04:00Creating a life plan is not easy ... here are three first steps (via Michael Hyatt) Recruit a life plan accountability partner. If you want to finish your life plan and make sure you actually implement it, recruit an accountability partner (see Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10). The best option is a coach who is trained in life planning. The next best option is a close friend who learns along with you. Regardless, having an accountability partner is an important key to success. Regard Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-59939331879450022252011-10-08T10:53:00.001-04:002011-10-08T10:53:34.769-04:00Interesting that we always dismiss young people ... even if they might be onto someting (via Utne Reader) It’s always unexpected. No one predicted Tahrir Square. No one imagined tens of thousands of young Syrians, weaponless, facing the military might of the state. No one expected the protests in Wisconsin. No one, myself included, imagined that young Americans, so seemingly somnolent as things went from bad to worse, would launch such a spreading movement, and -- most Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-2852053148089682812011-06-04T17:21:00.001-04:002011-06-04T17:21:38.961-04:00Old Spice revenues up 107%!?! Perhaps the mainline church can spice it up! (via Len Sweet's napkin Scribbles) via deimos3.apple.com The Old Spice shifted from a company trapped in its past (and my dad's past) to a completely new demographics while revenues climbed 107% in the past year. The new demographics is reflected by its 1.3 million Facebook fans and 30 million views on YouTube. Leonard Sweet notes that the shift comes without leaving its core product - hairy armpits and facial foliage.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-36148819895995951632011-06-03T15:19:00.001-04:002011-06-03T15:19:20.774-04:00Are we defined by a generous spirit? What if we asked our friends who know us best? Thoughts on living generously.As I have mentioned at other times in our life together, I was made say "thank you" by my parents long before I ever knew the true meaning of gratitude. Why? So that I would know how to respond when I finally discovered that emotion on my own. Later I helped my parents prepare to file the family income tax form. As I was adding up my parents' annual contributions I offered my dad some teenage Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-35426651767679306472011-05-18T14:30:00.001-04:002011-05-18T14:30:10.723-04:00Dallas Willard offers spiritual wisdom in a conversation with John Ortberg (via Catalyst Podcast). CATALYST PODCAST EPISODE 124 Dallas Willard and John Ortberg On this annual Catalyst West Roadtrip Episode, listen in on a conversation between Dallas Willard and John Ortberg from Catalyst West one year ago in 2010. Plus some helpful tips on making your Catalyst West experience a great one.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-51416788137931256322011-05-17T13:12:00.001-04:002011-05-17T13:12:21.982-04:00Jesus said where your treasure is there your heart is also. Jesus says "follow the money" ... wish he hadn't!Recently I was listending to a conversation with Tim Sanders on his new book http://www.amazon.com/Today-Are-Rich-Harnessing-Confidence/dp/1414339119/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305650161&sr=8-1. Tim tells the story of his grandmother Billye taking him into her home and raising him as her own. In his early years Tim remembers the day a stranger happened to visit their very humble farm. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-58831947284904063172011-05-12T12:55:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:26:48.289-04:00When Our Dreams Become Nightmares ... thoughts on having Enough StuffThis past week I took off for a four day retreat with a duffle bag, a bag of books, and another book bag with several journals and my computer. As we begin our sermon series centered around Adam Hamilton's book, ENOUGH: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity, I have a confession to make. The stuff I carried to Camp Rockfish was the same amount of stuff I lived on for eighteen months inAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-81119403301708186882011-04-26T09:21:00.001-04:002011-04-26T09:21:58.773-04:00This Easter join a spiritual adventure with Gabe Lyons and the NEXT CHRISTIANS.Gabe Lyons begins his new book, Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America (2010), with the startling confession that several years ago that he was "embarrassed to call myself Christian" (3). He and Dave Kinneman described the source of this embarrassment in their groundbreaking book UnChristian: What a New Generation Thinks About Christianity (2007). Next Christians is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-36682850446490226682011-03-15T12:16:00.001-04:002011-03-15T12:16:47.203-04:00Rob Bell talking about LOVE WINS with Lisa Miller (via Livestream) via livestream.com LOVES WINS: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, a book by Rob Bell, releases today. I am reading it now on my Kindle. Posted via email from allen bingham's posterous Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-33803356274416974102011-03-13T22:09:00.001-04:002011-03-13T22:09:12.075-04:00Sabbath Keeping as joy and delight, not obligation and burden. Dan Allender sets a feast!Dan Allender's SABBATH (Thomas Nelson, 2009) is an invitation to practices that truly brings life. He first concedes that except for a few providential moments he may not be the person to write this text. Like many, in his drive to be successful in the hectic and harried world of academia, he let Sabbath practice fall by the wayside. Those moments, encounters across the world, a family emergency,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-24731518074130826512011-03-05T21:10:00.001-05:002011-03-05T21:10:31.707-05:00Spencer Burke wades into the swirl surrounding Rob Bell's LOVE WINS. 1 Cor 13 never sounded so good (via TheOOZE). If I speak in the tongues of popularity or of authority, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of speaking absolute Truth and can understand every secret God has concealed and conquer every doubt, and if I have a faith that can move trending topics on twitter, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I say I am only looking out for those who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-172790547600265042011-02-27T13:45:00.001-05:002011-02-27T13:45:06.895-05:00Ten things Americans waste the most money on (via 24/7 Wall St). Can you add to the list? 24/7 Wall St. reviewed how Americans spend money. One of the conclusions of this analysis is that consumer spending is relatively alive and well, despite the recession. This may mean that Americans continue to be over-leveraged. US citizens have, in general, brought down their indebtedness. However, holiday spending rose substantially from last year, and the extent to which Americans feel poor Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-4330562197838796032011-02-21T22:06:00.001-05:002011-02-21T22:06:24.545-05:00Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist - Seth Godi (via Seth's Blog) Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-7000530061088166212011-02-12T21:17:00.001-05:002011-02-12T21:17:38.590-05:00Struggling with God's purpose for your life? Mark Batterson's SOULPRINT will help you find the way.Mark Batterson states in SOULPRINT that as a former athlete "the older I get, the better I was" (59). And of course I want to laugh at him, but I know myself too well. I may not have been that high school jock, but I have those touchstones in my life where "the better I was" seems superior to "the me I am." Batterson challenges us to face this reality head on and decide that "the better I was" Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-32791627805281069192011-02-10T21:15:00.001-05:002011-02-10T21:15:17.336-05:00Seth Godin reminds us to think through what the customer wants before presenting ideas. True for preachers as well (via Seth's blog) The most effective way to sell the execution of an idea is to describe the use case first. And before you can do that, you need to have both the trust of your client and enough information to figure out what would delight them. Then, describe what a great solution would do. "If we could use 10,000 square feet of space to profitably service 100 customers an hour..." or "If we built a website Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-48341635196264764962011-02-03T12:24:00.001-05:002011-02-03T12:24:47.493-05:00Samuel Chand's CRACKING YOUR CHURCH'S CULTURE CODE reminds us of what we already know (and often forget) about organizationsOne of my mentors encouraged me to launch my ministry in every church with a study of John's letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor. I baulked at opening ministry with I percieved as a can of worms and then something hit me. These letters were written to the angels of the seven churches! Intuitively I knew that every organization I had worked with had a sense, an ethos, that was often hard Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-56661886067802318632011-01-26T12:16:00.001-05:002011-01-26T12:16:17.786-05:00David Platt's RADICAL ... a call to radical obedience to God and a rejection of the American Dream. You've been warned! Sometimes you just want to sit in your rocking chair and sometimes God put someone in your path to rock your world. Recently, some young adults talked with me about a study that was rocking their world based on David Platt's book RADICAL: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. I acquired a copy to check out their excitement and nearly fell out of my Kennedy rocker. Each ofAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-69280949181388818562011-01-26T10:30:00.001-05:002011-01-26T10:30:56.327-05:00Where are you on the illustrated history of content creation, circulation, and consumption? I am catching up to the 2000's! (via Mashable) via mashable.com Posted via email from allen bingham's posterous Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-37354182647380316592011-01-14T14:12:00.001-05:002011-01-14T14:12:34.404-05:00One more time I have to unlearn a three decade old habit! Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. (via Slate Magazine) Last month, Gawker published a series of messages that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had once written to a 19-year-old girl he'd become infatuated with. Gawker called the e-mails "creepy," "lovesick," and "stalkery"; I'd add overwrought, self-important, and dorky. ("Our intimacy seems like the memory of a strange dream to me," went a typical line.) Still, given all we've heard about Assange'sAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-39047705326837813402010-12-30T13:38:00.001-05:002010-12-30T13:38:06.515-05:00NC supplies 40% of US sweet potatoes (is that all?). What’s your state good at? (via One Block Off the Grid) via 1bog.org Posted via email from allen bingham's posterous Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-41874444122525202262010-12-30T13:35:00.001-05:002010-12-30T13:35:13.467-05:00NC supplies 40% of US sweet potatoes (is that all?). What’s your state good at? (via One Block Off the Grid) via 1bog.org Posted via email from allen bingham's posterous Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024209259375973279.post-3282701677166579872010-12-29T21:35:00.001-05:002010-12-29T21:35:28.667-05:00Help Jon Acuff with his next book about the "I'm, but generation" (via Stuff Christians Like) Because we are becoming the “I’m, but generation.” Whenever I travel and meet people or connect online with folks, our conversation inevitably drifts toward a simple question, “What do you do?” The most common answer I hear, from people of all ages, is simple: “I’m a __________, but I want to be a ___________.” via stuffchristianslike.net Posted via email from allen bingham's posterous Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401319124359646659noreply@blogger.com0