The Daily | Scripture & Memorization

Check out this quote from Dallas Willard in the Daily. As I've been reading the Psalms in the Divine Offices, it is so evident how the Psalmists always had the Word of the Lord before them, in their hearts and on their minds. We continue to affirm the incredible power of a life of prayer and Scripture, especially reading together as a community. There are a couple of us that do the Divine Offices, and some who do the Once-A-Day approach. If you are on a computer a lot, the Divine Offices Calendar literally makes it two clicks away to read a short section of Scripture and say a prayer. You can also print either out when the resources posting in Urban Monks every week.

A couple of us (well, Kate and I) have begun weekly Scripture memory and if anyone is interested in joining in, let us know!! We are starting with Colossians 3, about 4 verses a week.

All of these things are not ends in and of themselves. They are merely practices that train us in becoming more and more like Jesus - becoming his disciples. It is sometimes easy to forget that!

The latest and the greatest...

I forgot to post images from last week's Journey with Jesus. They are now up under TILT art!
Also, Sunday's image is there too.

Haven't been able to see where people have been posting stuff? There are lots of areas from prayer over the weeks where we can continue to pray for people. Check out these:

• Prayer this week;
• Reflections from a TILTer on the Journey with Jesus stations;
• Prayer stemming from the Commissioning Gathering;
• I could keep going...
• We're still interested on thoughts on the subversive social justice post - comment here;
• And of course, post your prayer/reflections/stories on community life and prayer this week.
  

Using the TILT blog

We have intentionally chosen to use a blog rather than traditional website in order to emphasize the community-oriented nature of TILT. A blog is more accessible, grassroots, dynamic, and more accurately reflects the changing 'organisim' which any community is. That being said, all the vitals are still available on the blog, usually in the sidebar.
TILT's website actually consists of five different blogs. A blog consists of "posts" - sorted by date, each with a Title and then associated content. The "title" of this post is "Using the TILT blog" and you are reading the "content" right now! Each blog is always accessible by the buttons underneath the header at the top of the page:At the bottom of every post you will see something like this:There is lots to do here! The dynamic nature of a blog allows users to post comments and spark online discussion regarding certain posts. Simply click on "Comments" at the bottom of an post. To learn more about comments, read about them on Blogger's Help Pages. Note: simply select "Other" and input your name when adding a comment. A major upgrade in the latest blog technology is the use of labels. Every post will have 'labels' attached to it, which are also found at the bottom of the post (see above image). For example, the sermon notes from December 12, 2006 on Luke 2 might have the labels "Luke", "Advent", "sermon", "notes", etc. If you would like to see every sermon on this blog on "Luke", all you have to do is click on the "Luke" label at the bottom of the post, and tada! every post with the label "Luke" will miraculously appear on your screen.
The sidebar of each blog contains much goodness and usefulness. Every blog will have specific links related to its section, such as these ones for the TILT art section:There is also a search box such as this one for the Daily@TILT:Simply type in something you are looking for, and if any post in that blog contains the word, it will come up! We are currently trying to make it so the search will simultaneously check ALL the TILT blogs. No success thus far.
Finally, the fun of the "Label Clouds"! Here is one example from TILT art:The label cloud displays all the labels used within the blog. To get all the posts with a specific label, simply click on the desired word. The label cloud's beauty is that the more often a label is used in the posts, the bigger the font and the more red it gets. So, you can visually see the popular labels etc. The desired effect is to have a "cloud" with varied text sizes and colours.