The occasional notebook, things technicalities and articulation of the mind, commentries on life and God; personal and wider. 2012-05-20T03:48:22-04:00 'Mash (Thomas Herbert) gro.enihsot@srettel http://toshine.org Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. urn:uuid:a5dddb5c-83af-40d8-9d8a-406134db9ba7tag:toshine.org,2011-12-30:/articles/end-of-year-letter-2011/2011-12-30T12:00:00-05:002011-12-30T12:00:00-05:00

This year I thought I would make the effort to write an end of year letter since a lot of people assume I actually died a long time ago, entered el monasterio de Santa María de Montserrat, or ran off with Chloe the table dancer from the French Quarter.

tag:toshine.org,2011-11-24:/articles/spiritual-cannibalism-crossfit-and-carbohydrates/2011-11-24T16:12:00-05:002011-11-24T16:12:00-05:00

My new found passion for improving my fitness, health and longevity is not a negative, in fact I could argue that it is dramatically less self-selfish, Godly and significantly good stewardship not only for myself but for my future family. But the issue is that I have become so self-obsessed that I am impotent to any purpose outside of my own health.

tag:toshine.org,2011-08-26:/articles/how-i-lost-myself-and-left-facebook/2011-08-26T11:03:00-04:002011-08-26T11:03:00-04:00

Simply it is my flaws, my addiction for affirmation and my poor time-management that are my greatest hindrance to maturity. Facebook was merely the hand which shook the glass exposing that my life was not as clear as I first thought; rather it was full of the settled sediment of a misplaced identity.

tag:toshine.org,2011-07-18:/articles/can-pleasure-only-exist-if-memory-persists/2011-07-18T18:00:00-04:002011-07-18T18:00:00-04:00

This article is a series of thoughts and questions on pleasure; quite what it is and whether or not it has any worth, and if it can ultimately exist if life is finite.

tag:toshine.org,2011-03-12:/articles/true-romance-in-the-loveliest-sense-of-the-word/2011-03-12T00:00:00-05:002011-03-12T00:00:00-05:00

A brief commentary on objective love: the love between God, Jesus and His people. Understanding God's love provides the very centre of understanding the worth of ourselves and provides the means and ability for us to love others. True romance in the loveliest sense of the word.

tag:toshine.org,2010-10-14:/articles/submission-to-biblical-morality-without-god-will-never-make-anyone-happy/2010-10-14T21:09:00-04:002010-10-14T21:09:00-04:00

Is asking a non-God-centred society to live within the Biblical framework of relationships and morals with the exclusion of God, and promising happiness and fulfilment actually a lie? Surely living a God glorifying design for life needs God at its centre.

tag:toshine.org,2010-01-05:/articles/enneagram-enneatypology-and-the-glory-of-god-in-the-face-of-christ/2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:002010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00

Are our personalities fixed, or do they change? If who we are is locked up in our personal view of ourselves and the world around us, what about the obvious or not so obvious imperfections? The Enneagram may very well help in the identification, but our identity is found in someone infinitely perfect and outside of ourselves.

tag:toshine.org,2011-07-20:/notebook/disability-and-the-sovereignty-of-god-john-piper-john-knight-gospel-of-john/2011-07-20T16:21:00-04:002011-07-20T16:21:00-04:00

John Piper in this moving and challenging three part video series, talks with John Knight about how he and his wife Diane live with the reality of their son Paul Knight's severe disabilities and God's sovereignty through it all.

tag:toshine.org,2011-07-01:/notebook/free-audio-video-series-on-new-testament-textual-criticism-by-dr-daniel-b-wallace-of-csntm/2011-07-01T23:58:00-04:002011-07-01T23:58:00-04:00

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) have via iTunes U released a free audio/video series concerning New Testament manuscripts, textual criticism, history of the New Testament, and expert commentary on key verses. The videos also feature interviews and footage shot around the world of important people involved in the work of CSNTM, and Dr Daniel B. Wallace explains important aspects in the study of the text of the New Testament.

tag:toshine.org,2011-03-01:/notebook/simplemente-el-tramo-de-tiempo/2011-03-01T19:23:00-05:002011-03-01T19:23:00-05:00

It's simply about time-stretching; taking a segment of a sound file and stretching it across a greater length of time, creating a new sound texture. It's a bit like slowing down time so you can hold a single note in you ear to examine it.

tag:toshine.org,2011-02-13:/notebook/do-you-know-that-god-has-made-something-like-a-little-harp-in-your-throat/2011-02-13T21:00:00-05:002011-02-13T21:00:00-05:00

Can you sing? Do you know that God has made something like a little harp in your throat, you must not forget to thank him for giving you a voice. He'll be pleased if you learn to sing well. -- Unknown, hymn book. 1890.