Fitting the world in 140 characters or less.

Exploring the world in 140 characters or less.

This is Twitter.

Twitter is a conversation.

When you post on Twitter, you’re either continuing a conversation or creating one.

This is what many Twitter people miss- particularly businessses.

The goal isn’t to pimp yourself.

The goal is to contribute.

Twitter is a pulse.

There are millions of people (and growing) from all over the planet on Twitter.

Is there an easier way to check the pulse of the globe?

Especially without it being controlled by the media, government, or agenda-driven organizations?

Twitter is sociology on steroids.

What are people thinking at certain times of the day.

What events in the world are capturing the attention of the world.

Twitter has really become the new public opinion poll.

It’s an unfiltered collective and full of bias and opinions and that’s what makes it so wonderful.

Twitter is relational.

If you don’t have people that you know, or are getting to know, it’s not fun.

After all, who wants to talk to an empty room?

Sometimes, the best way to get to know someone is to know the little things about them.

Twitter is about the little things.

What people watch, where they eat, artists they listen to, authors they read, friends they chill with, what annoys them, what makes them laugh.

Twitter’s like a perpetual first date.

Discovering preferences, habits, pet peeves, life rhythms, characters, issues, opinions, wisdom, and absurdities.

It’s all contained in the hairball that is Twitter.

Twitter is what you make it.

It’s not Twitter’s fault if you think it’s pointless.

You just haven’t made a point yet.

That’s the beauty of Twitter.

It’s a blank canvas and we are the artists.

Find me on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonsalamun

There’s a great lie floating around our culture.

That some things are secular and other things are sacred. It’s perpetuated by church-going and God-rejecting folks alike. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Psalm 24:1 tells us the earth is the Lord’s along with everything and everyone in it. God’s a big God. He doesn’t look at his creation and see a slice that he doesn’t control. Neither should we. Yet Christians do this all the time. Secular work. Secular music. Secular films. Secular schools. Blah, blah, blah.

And culture lets them. It keeps them out of their hair.

But it’s all a lie. Everything is sacred.

This world is full of sin. Things aren’t as they should be. Yet Jesus stepped right into the mess.

I sin a lot. I am not as I should be. Yet Jesus stepped into my mess too.

Thank God Jesus didn’t act like many Christians. He didn’t see me as secular and avoid me.

He loves me, redeemed me, and is changing me.

What would happen if we started seeing everything as God’s? Whether it was intended for him or not. Culture. Work. Politics. Food. Places.The internets. Everyday things. Everyday people. It’s all his.

Every story is about him. Every song longs for him. Every philosophy is searching for him.

Look for it. hen you learn to see God in all things, even ungodly things, it will rock your world. Because you begin to get a glimpse of the hugeness of God. That he’s bigger, better, and more sovereign than you can imagine. He’s working through things many Christians would not approve of. He even works through the messiest of people.

People like us.

Stop splitting your life into slices. By what you think is God’s and what’s not. The truth is this: If you’re a follower of Jesus, God gets the whole pie of your life. Not just a slice. You are free to be whole. You don’t have to pretend to be any more or less than you really are.

Stop believing the secular/sacred divide lie. Stop living it too.

You’ve got better things to do.