Examen Me

Today hasn’t been that productive of a day.  So I decided that I MUST accomplish something worth while before I leave the coffee shop where I was supposed to be “studying”.  So I’ve decided to publish another blog about a wonderful site called Examen.Me.  If you’ve ever had a hard time developing your own time for personal devotions, or avoided keeping a journal at all cost because you really never knew how to start the whole process.  Examine.me is here to provide us with some direction.  It’s a website that has taken some of the most devotional and ancient practices of the Christian Fathers, and put them in a 21st century format.

The team behind the website describes Examen.Me describe the site like this: “We are working hard to build a web site (web app) that will let you interact with God by guiding you through Scripture and prayers while providing a journal to record your experiences…what we are working on could radically change how many interact with God on a  daily basis, at least that is the goal.”

Go check out the web tour, and register for your free account here

Here’s a screen shot of what the interface looks like:

Good Friday

Isaiah 53:3-10

He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;

Who killed God?

Matthew 7

This verse has popped up in several conversations over the last couple of months.  I believe its something worth committing to memory and meditation.

Matthew 7

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’