Below is a collection of Dr. McGlaughlin’s most recent observations (500+). Most of these observations are made throughout the course of everyday life, captured by dictation, and added to FlintsNotes.com. You can read more about the observation capture process here. The content here changes 5 days a week, so be sure to check back often. Also, feel free to leave a comment in the comments section of each observation.

January 5, 2011

On the Ultimate Prayer

I think, experentially, and inferentially, perhaps logically, that the ultimate prayer is this: Oh God, rescue me from myself.
November 29, 2010

On Internal Integrity and Seeing Through our Predisposition

One needs a way to escape the integrated nature of their acceptance of faith claims. When a person fully embraces a faith claim, it tends to […]
November 17, 2010

On Maggie’s Prayer

This is Maggie’s (she is six years old) prayer today, “Dear Jesus, thank you for not making me fat, and help me to make enough money […]
November 15, 2010

On the Cognizance of my Limitations as Worship

As the years pass, I am painfully aware that all of my lamenting about the pain of uncertainty and the inadequacy of language represents an immature […]
September 20, 2010

On the Ultimate as Revitalized Soma

Elsewhere I have written on the difference between the conditions of the incipient and the ultimate. This condition reflects my extreme limits. Once one recognizes that […]
September 17, 2010

On Extending Theology beyond the Written Revelation

It seems to me that a missiological theology must do more than provide paradigm for its recipient. It must do more than provide model or method. […]
September 10, 2010

On Choosing between “Growth by the People” and “Growth by the Numbers”

It is clear that every venture I’ve been involved with involved the discipleship/pastoring process. I’m not sure that taking the business out of that context is […]