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Advent Reminder

By michael lee ⋅ November 29, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

Every year, I have to ask Doug to remind me what the weeks in advent stand for. Since I don’t have a handy notebook near, I’m posting this here to remind me throughout the season, and so that I can find it with a snappy little blog search next year.
Advent is four weeks long. The [...]

A Grateful Heart

By michael lee ⋅ November 25, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

I’m giving the message tomorrow night at our Thanksgiving service. I thought about giving a 12-part dissertation on the dispensational reading of Romans, with annotated commentary from the Darby Bible. Doug thought it might be better to focus on gratitude.
First, a little music to set the mood.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Be Grateful by [...]

Gathering Eden

By michael lee ⋅ November 23, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

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Kyrie Yeshua,
We have no memory of happier times
except the mimeographed black and white
irrelevant and unlived kind
No touchstone of bliss to serve as reference
For reconstruction and renovation
Instead we forage through the present pieces of ordinary lives
gathering Eden from the disparate strands presumed to be
echos of the first thing, the better thing, the joyful thing
And perhaps the [...]

100, 101, 101, 100, 99, 98, 99, 100

By michael lee ⋅ November 17, 2008 ⋅ 27 comments

Well, the results are in. I’m never going back to the old way of teaching.
I’ve just finished grading Intro to Music Tech mid-term exams from the inaugural class of the new “Joy First, Theory Second” teaching method. The results were … staggering.
First, a little orientation. In this exam, the students walk into the room, I [...]

20 things I now know, that I didn’t know the first time around

By michael lee ⋅ March 4, 2007 ⋅ 28 comments

There’s nothing that comes out of a baby that won’t wash off your skin.
Crying is normal. Very, very normal. It’s not always your job to fix it.
At every baby shower, there was always someone who thought to give us diapers. I laughed and laughed at that person, thinking it was the lamest gift ever. Thank [...]

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