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.

November 15, 2007

On Pure, Uninterrupted Blocks of Productive Thinking

For years, I have set aside specific blocks of time in which to focus my activities. But I think I can accomplish still more if I […]
November 2, 2007

On Romans 1: 1-7

I love the way Paul contrasts the two words: Kurios and Doulos. It reminds me distinctly of my obligation to the King. I resonate when Paul […]
October 23, 2007

On Augustine’s View of Time

Augustine was particularly enamored with the concepts of memory and time. A poem stored up in a man’s memory has no temporal extension; it moves dimensionally […]
October 23, 2007

On Isaac Newton and the Life of Discovery

I think Newton serves as an inspiration for what I am trying to accomplish in God’s Kingdom. He’s an unlikely prototype, but I find his life […]
October 23, 2007

On Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions and the Life of Virtue

Jonathan Edwards forged 70 resolutions. I fear that I could not remember 70 resolutions, much less purposely keep them. It seems more important to distill this […]
October 23, 2007

On Martin Luther’s Life

It is fascinating that Martin Luther would spend 30 years delivering his twice-weekly lectures on the Bible and that as Collinson notes, “The reformation happened between […]
October 23, 2007

On Operating with a Provisional Philosophy

All of us, to some degree or another, are operating with a provisional philosophy. Many, like Kierkegaard’s drunken peasants, never think through any of their internal […]