Last night I had an experience that was hilarious, and at the same time odd enough that once, maybe twice in a lifetime would probably be enough. My little (bigger) brother was in town, and after we opted not to go to the Byrd, we decided on renting 3:10 to Yuma (see title). It was a pretty good movie, your average modern western - lots of shooting, lots of missing, fairly ridiculous outfits, and people eating with very dull looking silverware. Anyways, seeing as my house has no dvd player, and neither does Sarah, we ended up on her couch watching the movie on her fancy Macbook pro (note the bitterness). About 1/2 way into the movie I start to see my lady on my left start to drift, and soon after Jordan on my right started to twitch as he fell asleep. Soon after Jordan was definitely gone.
I turned to Sarah and pointed at J, we laughed, and 10 minuets later she was snoozin too. So I finished the movie in between two twitching people. It was pretty great.
On a sentimental note, it was really cool to get to sit in between my old family and my new one. It was cool to get to see the connections that are being built between our families. I Love it.
d
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Two Quotes
This may be my favorite post so far.
1. We were watching tv and Sarah asks..."Are you fatter than a fifth grader? Now that would be a great show. Yes, and 15 years older as well." It just made me smile, and also impressed me that Sarah was apparently 5 years old in 5th grade.
2. As we finish going through the book of John, Sarah asks, "What did Jesus do for three days?" This question led to a discussion of what God really requires/what it looks like for sin to be paid for. Clearly Christ is our full and final payment, but what does it look like to have our sin crushed in Jesus Christ. Anyways, it was great.
Those two quotes within two hours of each other.
holiday pounds have set back my race with Colin, so back to the gym it is.
d
1. We were watching tv and Sarah asks..."Are you fatter than a fifth grader? Now that would be a great show. Yes, and 15 years older as well." It just made me smile, and also impressed me that Sarah was apparently 5 years old in 5th grade.
2. As we finish going through the book of John, Sarah asks, "What did Jesus do for three days?" This question led to a discussion of what God really requires/what it looks like for sin to be paid for. Clearly Christ is our full and final payment, but what does it look like to have our sin crushed in Jesus Christ. Anyways, it was great.
Those two quotes within two hours of each other.
holiday pounds have set back my race with Colin, so back to the gym it is.
d
Monday, January 7, 2008
Green Coat
Todays riddle - What do my green rain jacket and my braces from middle school have in common?
Answer - they are gone. Oh and they were both green...sometimes...
Heres the catch, I really miss my jacket.
Answer - they are gone. Oh and they were both green...sometimes...
Heres the catch, I really miss my jacket.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Jesus died.
As we were going through John 14 tonight something struck me - we often gauge our suffering based on something so much less than what Christ new the disciples were going to face. This chapter begins and ends with Christ saying - "Let not your hearts be troubled." This begs the question, "Why would our hearts be troubled Jesus?" They are clearly sitting around the table asking questions about where Jesus was going, what he was doing, and he is very frank on the fact that they are not getting it, perhaps most clearly when he says in v29 that he is telling them these things so that later they will believe.
Perhaps all this is to you, like it was to me - just the beginning of a really bad week for Jesus.
But then these verses came alive with the blood of the Gospel - "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live."
I often read this from the standpoint of knowing the end of the story. "Yea yea Jesus, they get it, you will die, and you will return." That is such a terrible look at what is happening. Jesus, the Creator of the universe, the Author of life, God - is telling his friends, friends that have traveled with him for three years, are very committed to him, and are dear to him - that he will not leave them orphaned. He is not talking about the second coming here - he is talking about those three dark days that he was in the ground.
One.
Two.
Three.
Three days he was gone, and not expected to return. But then, PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW - HE RETURNS.
He comes back. He visits them before he goes to heaven. They see this and they do in fact believe.
Because he lives we too may live. Paul tells us that "...if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins...If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
Jesus actually died. It is so easy to see life, death, and resurrection in such a sequential and single dimensional aspect but think about the disciples. Jesus was a real person, who lived in a real place, who suffered a very real death.
Oh to Grace how great a debtor -
d
Perhaps all this is to you, like it was to me - just the beginning of a really bad week for Jesus.
But then these verses came alive with the blood of the Gospel - "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live."
I often read this from the standpoint of knowing the end of the story. "Yea yea Jesus, they get it, you will die, and you will return." That is such a terrible look at what is happening. Jesus, the Creator of the universe, the Author of life, God - is telling his friends, friends that have traveled with him for three years, are very committed to him, and are dear to him - that he will not leave them orphaned. He is not talking about the second coming here - he is talking about those three dark days that he was in the ground.
One.
Two.
Three.
Three days he was gone, and not expected to return. But then, PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW - HE RETURNS.
He comes back. He visits them before he goes to heaven. They see this and they do in fact believe.
Because he lives we too may live. Paul tells us that "...if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins...If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
Jesus actually died. It is so easy to see life, death, and resurrection in such a sequential and single dimensional aspect but think about the disciples. Jesus was a real person, who lived in a real place, who suffered a very real death.
Oh to Grace how great a debtor -
d
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Too Funny
Ok, so the other day I was surfing the Mars Hill website, and came across the fact that they had a facebook network. I thought that was pretty funny, so I went looking for it.OOOOOh friends, not only did i find it, to my great delight - friended Mark Driscoll. This was just hilarious. It took him a few days, but he added me as a friend. As you can imagine I totally lord this over Sarah's head, and will continue to do so until she friends him.
Now as of today I went to post on his wall, and to which my adviser said, "NOOOO ONE DAY YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR ACTS 29..AND WHAT IF...JUST...NO!" (Of course she will deny this, but as always, what I say is fact for fact actual reality.)
Anyways. Thats just too funny.
Now as of today I went to post on his wall, and to which my adviser said, "NOOOO ONE DAY YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR ACTS 29..AND WHAT IF...JUST...NO!" (Of course she will deny this, but as always, what I say is fact for fact actual reality.)
Anyways. Thats just too funny.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Acts 4
11/2/07
Acts 4 –
During the dialogue following Peter’s second sermon, he and John and taken into custody because the religious leaders are, “greatly annoyed” at the spreading of Jesus’ resurrection. But it’s late, so they just throw them in jail until the next day. We then find two apostles in front of a council that will judge them, as is a quite frequent sight in this new spreading of the Gospel. Peter, “filled with the Holy Spirit,” then makes it quite clear that Jesus did the healing, and “Oh, lets not forget…you killed him. You should call on his name, because it is clearly powerful, and there just happens to be no other name that will get you to heaven.
The reaction of the council is hilarious and somewhat terrifying.
Sadducee #1, “Ok, these guys are bold, they have that going for them.”
Sadducee #2, “True, but they are clearly common men, and uneducated.”
Sadducee #3, “Yea but they were also clearly with Jesus.”
#2, “Alright so what are we going to do?”
#3, “Well they clearly did something amazing…”
#1, “Yea, lets tell them not to do that anymore.”
Literally they see the apostles’ works, see that they knew Jesus, and just missed the point all together. Completely dictated by what they (as righteous religious men) saw as necessary for their culture, they actually tell them to stop. The application here clearly stands that there are some who will oppose the Gospel with all that is inside them, and some that may just do it because they will not understand.
I love Peter’s response – “we cannot help” but preach. And even more beautiful, he doesn’t use the word preach. He says they cant help but speak about things they have seen and heard. He doesn’t limit preaching to a podium. He sees it as talking, for the salvation of souls.
Everybody is happy when they are released, and there is a very Jewish prayer.
Here the role of leadership is clearly seen. Peter and John were noted for their boldness. Then the people also prayed and received boldness. Leaders must lead. Fact.
Then everything gets communist and shared, which helps set them apart from their culture. How they spend and give their money really shows where their hearts are at. Take for example the son of encouragement that gives a whole fields profit to the Apostles.
God uses people. God also recognizes that money gets things. God doesn’t want money. God wants people, and their hearts. God did not grow up in a nunnery in the woods, He understands that money is a demand for goods, but ultimately wants a pure heart – out of which will flow gentleness and giving to others.
Acts 4 –
During the dialogue following Peter’s second sermon, he and John and taken into custody because the religious leaders are, “greatly annoyed” at the spreading of Jesus’ resurrection. But it’s late, so they just throw them in jail until the next day. We then find two apostles in front of a council that will judge them, as is a quite frequent sight in this new spreading of the Gospel. Peter, “filled with the Holy Spirit,” then makes it quite clear that Jesus did the healing, and “Oh, lets not forget…you killed him. You should call on his name, because it is clearly powerful, and there just happens to be no other name that will get you to heaven.
The reaction of the council is hilarious and somewhat terrifying.
Sadducee #1, “Ok, these guys are bold, they have that going for them.”
Sadducee #2, “True, but they are clearly common men, and uneducated.”
Sadducee #3, “Yea but they were also clearly with Jesus.”
#2, “Alright so what are we going to do?”
#3, “Well they clearly did something amazing…”
#1, “Yea, lets tell them not to do that anymore.”
Literally they see the apostles’ works, see that they knew Jesus, and just missed the point all together. Completely dictated by what they (as righteous religious men) saw as necessary for their culture, they actually tell them to stop. The application here clearly stands that there are some who will oppose the Gospel with all that is inside them, and some that may just do it because they will not understand.
I love Peter’s response – “we cannot help” but preach. And even more beautiful, he doesn’t use the word preach. He says they cant help but speak about things they have seen and heard. He doesn’t limit preaching to a podium. He sees it as talking, for the salvation of souls.
Everybody is happy when they are released, and there is a very Jewish prayer.
Here the role of leadership is clearly seen. Peter and John were noted for their boldness. Then the people also prayed and received boldness. Leaders must lead. Fact.
Then everything gets communist and shared, which helps set them apart from their culture. How they spend and give their money really shows where their hearts are at. Take for example the son of encouragement that gives a whole fields profit to the Apostles.
God uses people. God also recognizes that money gets things. God doesn’t want money. God wants people, and their hearts. God did not grow up in a nunnery in the woods, He understands that money is a demand for goods, but ultimately wants a pure heart – out of which will flow gentleness and giving to others.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Pope and Santa
Ok so a while ago (thought the actual time is debated) I agreed to read the Popes book on Jesus if Ryan bought it for me. He "yelled" at me the other day about it, so here is the deal - I will be reading it and posting my thoughts on here as I go. I promised to have it done by Christmas so that is what I am planning on doing. I hope it is enjoyable (the book and the blog).
Oh, and to my supreme delight, a little girl mistook me for Santa the other day at the grocery store. It was great, she was all "blahgabla Santa blahgabla" and I was all " What?" and Sarah was all laughing and yea...it was just beautiful.
no idea what Colin or I weight.
d
Oh, and to my supreme delight, a little girl mistook me for Santa the other day at the grocery store. It was great, she was all "blahgabla Santa blahgabla" and I was all " What?" and Sarah was all laughing and yea...it was just beautiful.
no idea what Colin or I weight.
d
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