Tag: the church

• The Catholic Church, the NCAA, and Penn State Football

  I tend to stay away from topics I’m not involved with or have studied to some degree, but I am a follower of the greater Church Body, and an avid football fan (albeit Auburn Tigers Football not Penn State). I also try to steer away from current events as well, but in this case, it…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 23, 2012

  Life

  abuse, Auburn Tigers football, Catholic Church, christianity, current events, football, list, ncaa, Penn State, religion, sin, sports, the church, umc

• There is no Frigate Like a Book from the Pen of Emily Dickinson

  The more I try to learn and understand how prose and poetry works, the more I realize that I can’t recapture the the years of ignoring virtually all literature from my childhood. It’s like starting in grade school again and working your way up, only now you don’t have time to do so because of…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 16, 2012

  Life

  21st century, 22nd century, art, book, church, culture, Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, learning, Lenard Sweet, Literature, Online Writing, poem, poetry, prose, prose and poetry, religic, Shakespeare, short poems, society, spiritual world, the church, viral, William Shakespeare, word, words, world, world culture, writing, written word

• 10 Reasons To Learn Social Media if You Are a Christian

  I decided to start a series of sorts on social media and how we the people of the church body use, don’t use, or outright diss the majority of the world at this point. I’m hereafter coining this series of sorts as the SMFT (Social Media, Facebook, and Twitter) discussion. Part of the necessity of…

  Scott Fillmer

  June 27, 2012

  Faith, Technology

  baby boomers, blogging, blogs, connecting, connection, evangelism, facebook, generation, Instagram, internet, jesus, Leonard Sweet, list, lists, lost, naive, naivety, people, Pinterest, reasons, religion, SMFT, Social media, Social network, social networking, Social networking service, Technology, the church, top reasons, twitter, viral, youversion

• Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

  After months of looking at “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream” by David Platt, i finally decided i had to go ahead and read this book. Having read and studied several books and/or articles that discuss the concepts and failings of what we call the “American Dream”, I already had my own…

  Scott Fillmer

  March 21, 2011

  Faith

  american dream, book review, books, calling, church, culture, gospel, Life, missions, pop-culture, review, society, the church, the walk, to go