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Things that make me go, “Hmmm…”

Friday, June 5th, 2009

“At any given moment, each of us is a mixed bag of motives, the known and the unknown. In the end, God understands we all are pretty messed up but not outside the realm of his ability to save.”

“Maybe God’s idea of my salvation trumps the version I am too willing to settle for. Uncovering your true reasons for wanting God and learning God’s real purpose for wanting you are a couple of revelations you need to have in order to get down heaven’s road. The first requires a brutal self-honesty, and the second an elastic head and heart, both of which you sometimes need a little help acquiring.”

-from the “Real Introduction” to Jim Palmer’s Divine Nobodies

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Embracing brokenness

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Via the i-Monk :

I will be accused of a serious lack of good news, I’m sure, so listen. At the moment I am winning, Jesus is with me. At the moment I am losing, Jesus is with me and guarantees that I will get up and fight on. At the moment I am confused, wounded and despairing, Jesus is with me. I never, ever lose the brokenness. I fight, and sometimes I prevail, but more and more of my screwed up, messed up life erupts. Each battle has the potential to be the last, but because I belong to one whose resurrection guarantees that I will arrive safely home in a new body and a new creation, I miraculously, amazingly, find myself continuing to believe, continuing to move forward, till Jesus picks us up and takes us home.

Read the whole thing.

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Advent

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

I know, the Advent season has passed. But when you don’t post for over 3 months I think you deserve a little leeway. :)

We typically do Advent at church but this year we decided to do it as a family at home as well. And even though we have done it at church I’m still kind of a noob about the whole thing. Comes from growing up in the CofC where we’re anti any semblance of liturgy. But anyway, I think we’ll do it again. It was good to be able to have the kids participate in the lighting of the candles and good to have time to explain things. It was good for me as well. Perhaps I’m getting old but I’m wanting some rhythm to mark the time by.

I’ll leave you with this song. It was going through my head all during Advent and needs to be shared. Not only has my Deliverer come but he will come again. There’s a lot of hope in that.

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In Christ Alone

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Our blog friend Katiekind recently posted on her affection for a certain contemporary hymn – which just happens to be one of mine as well. We have a nice acapella version of this done by the ZOE Group that I finally found online at Imeem(which I’ve never used, so I hope it streams ok).

Hope you enjoy it!

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Pickled Christians

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I linked to this video in a comment on Jenn’s last post but she’s right, it needs its own piece of real estate.

Comments? Questions? Faint sizzling sensation down your spine?

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Ken Myers in Nashville this weekend

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

If you’re familiar at all with Ken Myers or Mars Hill Audio and have some free time on April 11th and 12th then consider setting aside some time next weekend.

The Humanitas Forum on Christianity and Culture will be hosting Mr. Myers along with Dr. Jeremy Beer as they speak on the intersection of discipleship, faith, and culture. The weekend lecture series is entitled More Than a Personal Savior :

Before Jesus commanded the Church to go and make disciples, he asserted his authority over everything in Heaven and on Earth. Yet many modern Christians (and their secularist neighbors) assume that Christian discipleship is a matter of private spiritual growth with few earthly consequences concerning the ways we order our time, make and spend our money, and think about our place in Creation.

In four presentations, Ken Myers and Jeremy Beer will look at how modern culture tempts us to shrink our faith, and how we might resist that temptation.

For more information as well as registration information just go here.

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An Apropos Quote

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
All over the quiet plains, beneath the snow on the high mountains, rustling through the cattails that congregate along the water, you can sometimes feel the presence of a promise. On cold nights when you look at the sky, sometimes your breath catches in your throat at how bright the night can be. The dark spaces between the stars aren’t as dark as you thought they were; not nearly as dark as the tree line on the horizon, and as you stand there shivering with your hands bunched in your pockets suddenly you remember that you’re standing on a rock in the middle of space. Suddenly the notion that there’s a Someone who made it all and knows us all no longer seems quite so far-fetched; indeed, it seems too good to be false.

But here we toil and we till the hard earth, where even the warm times with friend and kin are lonely because we know they won’t last long enough to quiet the ache. Our sadness points to Home the way hunger points to the feast, the way the light of the cratered moon is always facing the sun, always pointing to where the dawn will come like a pillar of fire when this rock we walk on turns again to burning day. All over the quiet plains and the cold stone cities full of dying and shame the promise is not drowned out by the weeping; it is declared by it.

God died as a man and rose again, and the sound of the fiery blast of Death exploding shook the firmament. Throughout the wail and shudder, over the shriek and moan of man the thunder has sounded and sung, and it is both the answer and the promise. It sings still, and you can hear what it says if you listen: love never dies.

-Andrew Peterson, from the cover of his “Love & Thunder” cd

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Back to Basics

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

When you don’t know which end is up it helps to get back to something basic. And Rich Mullins singing “Creed” is like comfort food for the soul. Enjoy.

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Prince Caspian trailer

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

For a taste of what’s coming in May…

It just gives me the shivers. For more high-res versions see NarniaWeb.

HT : Dawntreader

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An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

If I had to pick one musician who has affected me the most there’s no doubt who it would be – Rich Mullins. Rich passed away 10 years ago today but his is the music I still fall back on. He wrote songs with substance, about real life and real struggles. And then in the next breath he was singing about how great and glorious our God is. And there was no disparity in those two things. Because for Rich, Jesus wasn’t an escape from this world’s troubles, but our anchor amidst them. He would tell us to “reach out to Jesus, hold on tight”.

I still remember hearing about his death. I was at work, sitting at my desk and I must have gotten an e-mail or something. Next thing I know there are tears welling up in my eyes. I had never, and haven’t since, felt such loss at the death of someone I’d never met. Part of me was actually mad that he wasn’t wearing his seat belt that day. Kinda selfish I suppose.

I still can’t adequately describe what made his music so special. Oh sure, I could come up with some good words but in the end they would just fall short. So, I’m just going to offer up a song.

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