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Much ink has been spilled about the new(ish) Twitter-craze. I myself have been tapping away 140 characters pretty regularly since January (see Twitter feed in the 3rd column).

Much of the commentary on said Twitter-craze has pointed out the apparent narcissism that that must be driving self-obsessed souls like me to write about my daily to-ings and fro-ings.

Personally I don’t really use Twitter in that way. For me, Twitter is a great tool to network people and ideas. It’s a great tool for ministry.

However, the accusations of narcissism abound.

I don’t want to spend time defending Twitter from here… So why not go and see what Abraham Piper has to say:

I use 140 characters to express my ideas; you use thousands. So who’s self-obsessed?

(via 22 Words)

A thoughtful article from John Piper.

How can we break free from entertainment addiction?

After giving some practical suggestions, he finishes with this very astute paragraph:

“One last suggestion: think about your death. Think about your death a lot. Ask what you’d like to be doing in the season of life, or hours or days, leading up to meeting Christ. I do that a lot these days. I think about the impact of death, and what I would like to be found doing, and how I would prepare to meet him and give an account to him.”

An interesting post over at the Desiring God Blog about President Obama’s recent application of the Sermon on the Mount to the current situation regarding the US economy.

Do you think he handles the text well?