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Revisiting Facebook’s Effect on Marriage and Relationships

by Rhett Smith on November 17, 2009

[image by soundlessfall] Earlier this summer I was contacted by Irving Bible Church in Las Colinas, TX to write an article on technology for their monthly magazine. After talking with the editor at length we eventually agreed upon a topic that we thought would be of importance to the readers — We came up with [...]

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Self-Care Is Not Just About Doing, But About Being–And Some Books for the Journey

by Rhett Smith on October 13, 2009

[image by Tamara Areshian] In my last post, When You Refuse To Take Care Of Yourself, You Are Refusing To Take Care Of Those Around You, I just briefly reflected on some comments by Rob Bell at the Catalyst Conference 2009 and how I felt they played into self-care. Self-care is a large topic. For [...]

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When You Refuse To Take Care of Yourself, You Are Refusing To Take Care of Those Around You

by Rhett Smith on October 9, 2009

This caught my eye: Is there any way you’ve neglected to take care of yourself because of the allusion that you have to keep going all the time. You need to be fulfilled with energy and vitality so you can love what you do more than you did before. Have you been observing a Sabbath? [...]

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Is Facebook Making Your Marriage Vulnerable?

by Rhett Smith on September 28, 2009

[image by hikingartist] Chatter Magazine which is the great print/online monthly magazine for Irving Bible Church dedicated their October issue to technology. There are some really great articles in there like John Dyer’s Stop Bringing Your Bible to Church! My contribution was on the issue of technology and marriage, more specifically, Is Facebook Making Your [...]

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Our Identity in Social Media/Technology Engagement

by Rhett Smith on July 6, 2009

[image by LollyKnit] Identity in Christ One of the most crucial passages of scripture in the Bible in regards to our identity is Mark 1:9-14: “9, And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. 10, And straightway coming up out of [...]

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Identity & Relationality

by Rhett Smith on March 23, 2009

“The Quaker teacher Douglas Steere was fond of saying that the ancient human question ‘Who am I?’ leads inevitably to the equally important question, ‘Whose am I?’–for there is no selfhood outside of relationship. We must ask the question of selfhood and answer it as honestly as we can, no matter where it takes us. [...]

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Identity in Weakness

by Rhett Smith on March 19, 2009

This post is an ongoing reflection on the book Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s [...]

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Limits and Potential: Living Free Within That Tension

by Rhett Smith on March 16, 2009

“Everything in the universe has a nature, which means limits as well as potentials, a truth well known by people who work daily with the things of the world. Making pottery, for example, involves more than telling the clay what to become. The clay presses back on the potter’s hands, telling her what it can [...]

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Reclaimining Our “Birthright Gifts”

by Rhett Smith on March 11, 2009

“We arrive in this world with birthright gifts–then we spend the first half of our lives abandoning them or letting other disabuse us of them. As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our [...]

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In Violation of our True Self

by Rhett Smith on March 9, 2009

I have been returning time and time again to one of my favorite books on the topic of identity and vocation, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. I first read the book in 2002 when I was finishing up my M. Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary at it [...]

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