dominic eidson

How should christians behave?

Posted by Dominic Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:50:00 GMT

A recent disaster that swept through southern and central Texas got me to think more about something that’s been on my heart for a while.

Typically, when there is a disaster or some sort of situation, there is never a lack of people to volunteer with helping out. Whether this means caring for people, searching for people, delivering food or blankets, doesn’t matter.

Among non-christians, there is often the perception that we only do these things for the purpose of pushing our beliefs (or, in some cases, religion).

While there are christians out there who have this m.o, I’d like to think that for most of us, it’s about helping, caring and loving people, and not about “the numbers.”

So I think it’s important to evaluate our heart and our intentions as we get involved with helping and caring for people - the act of helping, caring and loving them should be in the forefront of your mind, not the feeling of obligation that you have to share the gospel or your faith with the people you are helping.

Remember, it’s about loving people, not converting them.

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Hurricane Ike and chance of rain...

Posted by Dominic Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:57:00 GMT

This is what we did at work thursday:

Indicate on this page how many inches of rain
you think we'll get, and how many GW's you put 
on your guess.

(We'll audit the edit history -
no last-minute changes saturday through monday)

    * 3.00" - D***** - $1
    * 0.5" - M***** - $1
    * 2.78" - M***** - $1
    * 0.00" - R***** - $1,000,000 (real money)
    * 1.5" - C***** - $1
    * 1.6" - C***** - 1 latte (true currency)
    * 1.4" - C***** - $1 
    * 3.5" - B***** - $1
    * 0.75" @ ABIA - S***** - $1
    * Trace - R***** - $1

On the flip side, the last 3 days have been spent coming up with disaster scenarios and how to keep hospital systems running despite any disasters…

I figured we needed a break for some silliness.

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