New Blog... good to go

My new blog is up. Come check it out. ... and for those who have my link on their blog, if you could change the address that would be sweet. The new site is: www.tymewithdyck.wordpress.com

New Blog

Sorry about the delay... I am working on a new blog... that I hope to have up and running soon.... that is why I have not posted in a while. Please stay tuned. When the new blog is ready I will post the new link here.

The Irresistible Revolution

A MUST READ!!!
I have taken my time reading this book over the last month and a bit. It is incredible... Incredible not in the sense of entertaining... incredible as in the sense of challenging. If you want to be live comfortably in the status quo than do not read this book. But if you, like increasingly many more people, are thirsty for something different than the status quo, thirsty for a Christianity that radically makes a difference in our world (neighborhood, country, nationally) than read this. But let us not just read it. Let us wrestle with it.
Studies show that in North America, their is no statistical difference between those that call themselves Christians and those who don't. We (many of us who claim to be followers of Christ) look exactly like our culture... how we talk... what we watch... where we live... what we value... what we spend our money on... etc... But Jesus was a radical. he was counter cultural... He came preaching the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom that flew in the face of worldly Kingdoms. If we are living as citizens of God's Kingdom then our economics, way of life, and values should be much different than the worldly kingdoms we physically live in.
Shane Claiborne (the author) has a wealth of experience all the way from working with Mother Teresa, to working with Bill Hybels at Willow Creek... and does not just offer critiques for the church, but alternatives, and he does so in a loving but challenging way. Because he lives what he believes, it is not as easy just to write off what he has to say.
Let's embrace such challenges and be willing to imagine what God's Kingdom should like for us and dream of how it could impact each person that sees it and encounters it. I believe that people are thirsty for it ... creation is groaning for it...
Give it a read...

Circle and 8th

So some of you may know about the band that I've been playing in for the last year and a half. We've kind of been in hibernation since before Christmas. We did some recording and then because of Lisa and I moving and having a baby etc... It's been a little slow on the band end of things. Anyways... I finally finished our CD and we're ready to come out of hibernation. Jon made a myspace page where you can preview some of the tunes: www.myspace.com/circleand8th We are hoping that having our music recorded will open more venues for us to play and share our music in. So if you'd like to book us for anything let us know!! Enjoy the music (i hope!?).

Joel and the Mirror

So Joel has learned about the mirror. Often when he's in the middle of one of his cryfests I go and hold him in front of the mirror, and he entertains himself. The mirrors get a lot of finger prints and foot prints on them but it's all good. On this particular day instead of holding him (which gets hard after a certain point... but my muscles are getting HUGE... but Lisa's are bigger), we put him in what is known as a Bumbo. So we just sit and watch himself entertain himself, by seeing himself. It's quite funny.






And this is just a cute picture that I really like.

FACEBOOK!?!?!?

Wow! Time flies... It's been a while since I've posted an entry... I hope not to have another lull like that for a while. But it's been a crazy couple of months. We are now moved into our new house, and are enjoying being close to work and friends.
But what I really want to talk about is FACEBOOK. The phenomenon that is sweeping the nation. How does something like this take off? I heard about it about a month ago, and within a month everyone and their dog is on facebook. It's the new fad. But after so much peer pressure I caved... I couldn't handle it. I joined. I know there'll be something newer and better soon enough, but for now I will enjoy connecting with people I didn't know still existed.
But I do find it quite fascinating how something becomes the "new thing". How we all bite into it, and get on it... and it multiplies. How does that happen? What is it that makes something so immediately successful and the masses just flock to it. I did. did you? share your thoughts...

There's No Place Like Home

10 days is a long time to be away from your family. Especially when a baby is as young as Joel is... because they change so much in 10 days. By the time I got back from Mexico Joel was quite a bit taller, calmer (thank goodness), talking (in his form of talking), and always eager to smile at anyone who will smile at him. It's good to be home.