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The Benjamin Effect

But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who ask

About Me

Well my best friend tells me that I am evil.....but I am relatively sure he was kiddingSeriously though, I am a Christian who takes my faith seriously. There must be a practical application for belief, otherwise it is not likely that we believe what we profess.

WSJ.com - Opinion: Look Who's Irrational Now
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585...

Atheists+are+more+likely+to+believe+in+Bigfoot.

this is an interesting article on the existence of belief and non-belief and what we as Americans really will and wont believe.Tim Fisher pointed me to this link

My Interests

This seems to very but normally I like discovering new things about the world around me and myself. You see I think that we are all someone. That someone who we are is maid up of some things that are fluid and somethings that are static. Some of the things that are fluid are good and some of them are bad. Some of the things that are static good and some are bad. I think that we need to try and weed out the things that are negative about ourselves and get rid of them, and we need to try to isolate the things that are positive about ourselves and develop them.That being said I am a Christian and I believe that the things that are good come from God. I also believe that the things that are bad are a product of our own doing, either as individuals or as a collective. So please do not think me some kind of humanist.Strange Facts
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I'd like to meet:

CS Lewis, Mark Twain, Third Day, Batman, Spiderman, David Hume, Ravi Zacharias, Francis Schaeffer,

Music:

It is really a balance of a lot of different things, my music preferences seem to be schizophrenic: David Crowder, Shane and Shane, Jars of Clay and Third Day and on other occasions I also like DMB, POD, KJ52, Grits, Pillar, Maroon5, FInger 11 matchbox 20 and much, much moreDavid Crowder Band Everything Glorious .. ..

Movies:

Well this is an ecclectic list....Shawshank Redemption, Patriot, Punisher, Spiderman, X-men, Batman, Sweet Home Alabama, the Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Bourne Identity and Supremacy, rounders, Oceans 11 and 12 really I like movies with a sence of epic...and much much more

Television:

We don't have television per say.....what we do have is a DVD player and tons of seasons of shows. We have Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis (yeah ok I am a nerd, get over it), Smallville, West Wing, Law and Order, Heroes, House, and more

Books:

Bible, anything by CS Lewis (particular favorites Surprised by Joy, The Great Divorce, and miracles), Everything I have read by Ted Dekker has been great, just finished Eragon and Eldest.

Heroes:

Jesus, Paul, Adrian Rogers, Tod Tanner, Keith Griffin, Bill Whidden, Randy Gillis, CS Lewis, My Parents, and my wife {fictional heros: Batman (ala Michael Keaton of Chritian Bale: the others were panasies), Spiderman, Green Lantern and the Punisher)

My Blog

inevitability

I was wondering if there isn’t and a certain ammount inevitability to our actions.  That sometimes when we falter if we didn’t see it comming in the first place and just did...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:47:00 PST

random thoughts from this week

It seems sometimes that I bifurcate my own life.  As it were dividing one part of myself from the other.  Attempting to compartmentalize my word, as if by pretendting one part of my life doe...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:28:00 PST

A question of importance (I think)

I was reading some email this morning and was sent two forwards that I read, I read them primarily because the person sending them does not normally waste my time or his with things that are either po...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:35:00 PST

all creatures of Our God and King

It seems to me that recently I have been wondering how God could use so frail and feeble a person, yet it seems that this is whom He has always chosen to use.  The weak He has rasied up conf...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:08:00 PST

rhetorical questions and guarded answers

There are times and places when we look in the mirror that best reflects who we are, where we have been and what we do and we have to pause momentarily to remember those things that the miror reflects...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:32:00 PST

na experience in worship

Standing in the midst of my peers, I feel the weight of my own hypocrisy.        &n bsp;   It draws my shoulders down as we lift praise to God. &n...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:49:00 PST

new places and horizons (spelling not included)

So here is the next step in the education of a Ben. We are just about settled in the little town of Wake Forest, NC.  We finally put together  a way to get internet that did not include stea...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:08:00 PST

mediocraty ends in death

Mediocrity ends in death   We strive and struggle only to find ourselves in the middle If we stand to the right              We are fundament...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:12:00 PST

thinking about the choices we make.

Josiah wakes up one morning and discovers that he really enjoys everything about his life.  Upon getting out of bed he walks to his coffee pot and pours himself a cup.  As he pours the cup h...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:43:00 PST

deep and yet not so deep

I find that the walls I stare at hold me hostage by their very nature. I am unable or unwilling to press against them and test if they are really there. Rather I am left melancholy and despondent. I a...
Posted by The Benjamin Effect on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:40:00 PST