Archive for October, 2006

grace

Posted on October 31, 2006 at 1:38pm by Micah Fries 4 Comments

I don’t really like myself. No, that’s not true – often I really don’t like myself but the rest of the time I spend my life admiring myself. It’s funny, well actually more like disgusting, to me to watch how I vacillate between arrogance and disgust. What’s even more ironic is that those two thoughts,…

Passion = Purpose = Prosperity

Posted on October 29, 2006 at 10:56pm by Micah Fries 4 Comments

Passion is a funny thing. Without it, we wander around our little “worlds” viewing everything through hues of grey. Without passion life becomes hum-drum; just another so-so kind of day. With passion, however, comes vitality and life. Not just life in the sense of accomplishing the minimal task of breathing through a day, but life…

Contemplating culture, part 2

Posted on October 26, 2006 at 4:17pm by Micah Fries 1 Comment

As we think about culture, and our responsibility in it, I would encourage you to take a look at St. Anne’s Public House. It is a website that provides NPR type commentary but from an evangelical perspective. You can also sign up to receive their broadcasts through the mail on cd. I’ve chosen to take…

Aristotle

Posted on October 26, 2006 at 9:39am by Micah Fries No Comment

‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.’

Grab a partner and dosey-do…

Posted on October 23, 2006 at 4:28pm by Micah Fries 3 Comments

Hello friends. I am in the process of trying to open up opportunities for friesville to partner with other people. Please take a look at this page and let me know if you might be interested.

“Nobody is going to follow a broke man..”

Posted on October 22, 2006 at 11:16pm by Micah Fries 14 Comments

In the Atlanta Journal-Consitution today, an article was produced taking a look at the prosperity gospel that is becoming more and more prevalent today. After reading the article, I am furious! I’ve long held great disdain for the innacurate exegesis (or more correctly, the biased eisegesis) imposed on biblical texts by “teachers” like Creflo Dollar….