brent(inWorship)

Thanks to Alex for a great idea…

Putting Up The Christmas Tree from Brent Hodge on Vimeo.

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to you…

I love you tam!

Oregon vs Stanford 08′ from Brent Hodge on Vimeo.

I am enjoying this day with my wife and kids at Autzen Stadium. We’re watching Oregon vs Stanford.

If you follow me on twitter, I’ll be sending out Twitpic’s of the day. Otherwise, watch for us on the FSN broadcast. We’ll be under the new 85′ LCD Screen

I have an amazing wife. I am blown away everyday by the wisdom, grace and compassion that flows from her. I know God is doing amazing things in her and through her. I cannot imagine what He is going to do next.

Many of you know her from her blog. If you do not, you need to get to know her.

She has an incredible story. Some of which you may never have heard before. She has written some of it out for our friend Adam’s blog.

You need to go and read part 1

I read a post the other day that was talking about addiction. More specifically to internet addiction. Not pornography and things like that, but the social content. This post was concerned that we place too much value in our online presence and not enough to the “real” world. It was a very good post with lots of questions to test your involvement. I think I passed

After I read through it though, one thing stood out to me. The author asked the question, “do you think for yourself?”. That’s a great question. Where do we get all our information? Do we truly take time to seek God’s guidance alone, apart from our online resources?

Now, let me say this. I tend to do things online verses on paper. My documents are online via Google. My Bible is online via youversion.com. My social network is online via Blogs and Twitter. It was great to ask the tough questions and evaluate whether or not, I am addicted to being online, or if I am truly using the online environment for good. Here’s the deal. You can be just as addicted to books and newspapers as you can to the internet. We have to continually evaluate where we find our “fill”.

So, where do you get your “fill”?

Is your only source of being filled, online? What would happen if you disappeared from the internet for a week? Would you feel you are missing something? Or worse that you can’t function?

Are you afraid that your lack of involvement onine will diminish who you are in everyone’s eyes? That’s a tough one.

So what do you think?