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.

February 2, 2008

On The Layers of the Call

As I have read again this morning Jeremiah 1, certain truth grows clearer. It seems as though God’s call on a life, his deepest call, may […]
February 1, 2008

On Success and the Language of Dependency

Oswald Chambers says, “The great dominant need is not the needs of men but the command of Jesus. The source of inspiration for the work of […]
January 18, 2008

On 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22

This morning as I read through The Lectionary, I encountered these verses. I am familiar with each particular sentence, but I have not thought of them […]
January 11, 2008

On Winston Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples and Ill-Rewarded Mercy

Churchill’s tour de force of early English history is remarkable. I find the account of the Viking onslaught on the monasteries challenging. Were these monasteries being […]
December 11, 2007

On Iterations and Expressions of the Prime Missiological Formula

Elsewhere I have written several versions of the prime formula. Here are some of the iterations: Expression: (CDE)s → !PVT Wherein:     C = Content     […]
December 11, 2007

On Riches and Francis Bacon

“Therefore, measure not thine advancements by quantity, but frame them by measure, and defer not charities until thy death; for certainly, if a man weighs it […]
December 11, 2007

On Devising a New Way to “Foundationalize” my Thinking

Because of the limitations in language, and because I cannot make paper multidimensional, it is so difficult to accurately place on paper what I perceive. It […]