Justin Rossow
Relationship Triad: Session 6
Speaking the Truth in Love: How to Be an Assertive Christian, Ruth Koch and Kenneth Haugk Session 6 Before You Meet I. Meditate 3-5 times on Ephesians 2:1-10 this week. Start with prayer for yourself and for others reading the same verse, that the same Spirit that inspired these words would open your heart and mind […]
Relationship Triad: Session 5
Speaking the Truth in Love: How to Be an Assertive Christian, Ruth Koch and Kenneth Haugk Session 5 Before You Meet I. Meditate 3-5 times on 1 Peter 3:8-17 this week. Start with prayer for yourself and for others reading the same verse, that the same Spirit that inspired these words would open your heart and mind […]
Relationship Triad: Session 4
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together One Anothering, vol. 1 by Richard C. Meyer Session 4 Before You Meet I. Meditate 3-5 times on James 1:12-26 this week. Start with prayer for yourself and for others reading the same verse, that the same Spirit that inspired these words would open your heart and mind to them as […]
Relationship Triad: Session 3
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, The Arbinger Institute Session 3 Before You Meet I. Meditate 3-5 times on John 13:1-17 this week. Start with prayer for yourself and for others reading the same verse, that the same Spirit that inspired these words would open your heart and mind to them as well. Then […]
Relationship Triad: Session 2
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, The Arbinger Institute Session 2 Before You Meet I. Meditate 3-5 times on Romans 7:15-25 this week. Start with prayer for yourself and for others reading the same verse, that the same Spirit that inspired these words would open your heart and mind to them as well. Then […]
Night Vision Goggles and Blended Spaces
One of my favorite Super Bowl ads is also a good example not only of metaphor theory in advertising, but of a phenomenon called “mental space blending.” Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner developed the theory of cognitive blending in their book The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. For my money, I prefer […]
Smoking Kills (Don’t Be an Idiot!)
Metaphor works by mapping narrative inference structure from one domain of knowledge or experience to another. This kind of cross-domain mapping can of course be accomplished through words, but because metaphor is primarily a function of thought rather than language, we should expect to find the dynamics of metaphor not only in the things we […]
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