Sam Prellwitz

I have an amazing family. Not only do I have amazing parents, brothers and sisters, I also have an amazing wife who invited me into her wonderful family with an additional set of amazing parents and another wonderful sister. There are many things that make them such a wonderful family, but I think there’s one thing that makes me realize this more than anything else: they don’t keep score. They go out of their way to help in any circumstance and they never ask for anything in return. I think that’s a good picture of love.

I’ve been spending a little time thinking about one of my upcoming sermons. The series is tentatively being called, “I have a friend who...” The specific message I’ve been assigned is, “I have a friend who is apathetic toward everything.” I won’t give the message until May, or something like that, but it’s been on my mind.  While I was out on a run this afternoon, my head decided to turn a few things over that connected that message to this blog-post I’ve been meaning to write. It’s about the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I really do have a number of friends who seem apathetic toward most everything. I’ll attempt a lively debate with them, but they’ll dismiss any argument I raise. It seems that nothing (save perhaps the super bowl... another topic for another day...) can rile them up. Nothing fills them with passion and nothing gets their blood moving. I think it’s a characteristic of us gen Y’ers (I think that’s what ‘they’ are calling us). We have more access to mo...

I wrote this as a comment on Kyle Robert's blog: http://kylearoberts.com/wordpress/?p=381 It turned into a blog-post-length piece. So I thought I would share it. Kyle, I read an article recently in the opinion section of the New York Times online. It was a book, perhaps the same one (I can't seem to find the article), about spirituality and welling up experiences. It was written by two philosophy professors (again, their names escape me). They mentioned sporting events and corporate worship and the welling-up experience that take place in both situations. It reminded me of Plotinus or neo-platonism - a class I took my Junior year of college. Your post reminded me of the types of people Plato/Plotinus supposed could experience the good/the One. They are the lover, the musician, and the philosopher. Apparently the writers encouraged the reader to (and I'm combining my memory of Plotinus' and the article's language here) invite and appreciate it when some kind of grace...