February is fun!
I'm a pastor and blogger from Connecticut who enjoys writing and keeping up on current events, tech issues, and theology.
Daily Spurgeon devotional blog:
http://www.TheDailySpurgeon.com
My church:
http://www.HTchurch.com
Pray Connecticut blog:
http://www.PrayCT.org
A friend posted the following as her Facebook status:"Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, God delivers by prayer." (E. M. Bounds)Therefore..."I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, lie down, rise up...and the answers are always coming!" (G. Mueller)
It's nice to see people quoting these old giants of faith who really invested their time and effort in actual intercession. The plain fact is that true intercession requires, among other things, a time commitment which we seldom see in the Western world. If there's a shortcut to prayer, we want it. If there's a hop, skip, and a jump we can take to receive answered prayer, that's what we'll do. But amidst the stacks of books on making affirmations, quoting promises and speaking positively, has something been lost? Everyone knows that the prayers of Mueller changed things, but I think the praying of Mueller changed Mueller. And this is also important. Should prayer really be one more microwaveable snack in our day, or should it be something made the way Grandma used to - with a lot of love, care, and, yes... time?
Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, developed a theory in the 1990s dubbed Dunbar's Number. The theory contends that the human brain is only capable of managing relationships--staying in contact at least once per year and knowing how friends relate to others--with about 150 people.
Until recently, it was believed that that only pertained to "offline" relationships.
Dunbar has now decided to shift focus to see whether Facebook has changed the number.
It hasn't.
Whether he would be or not, it's funny to watch him go on these shows and be roundly ridiculed, even though he truly is one of the few people who predicted the economic mess.
And not only did he predict it, he can explain to you why it happened and why it's going to get worse. (Here's a clue: we don't treat heroin addicts with extra doses of heroin.)
OK, no juvenile jokes about this please. But this was too crazy not to share.
