Missionaries

Hey guys. I have posted stuff about One Less Pizza before, but this newest video really helps put things into perspective on how much of a difference one can make by giving up small commodities. Check it out below...


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WHAT!!!!!!!

The Jesus Juke. | Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff

The Jesus Juke. | Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff

This is utterly genius.

Seminary

So, I recently began attending seminary. This is pretty much huge for me. I've learned so much in the first two weeks and it seems that most of the things I am learning should be Christianity 101. Seriously, why do they not teach you church history and hermeneutics upon conversion? It seems as though "How to Read the Bible" should probably be an essential thing to know. People assume they know way more than they really do about what the heck they are reading in the Bible. At least I did until I started taking this hermeneutics class. I would dare to venture that there is a lot of unintentionally misguided [or at least quite shallow] exegesis going on in the church right now, simply because we have a generally crummy understanding of how to read the Bible. And how would we unless someone were to teach us? It's just a shame that one must work toward a master's degree in order to learn something so fundamental. Maybe it's just my personal experience speaking here. Maybe I just haven't had much of a desire up until now to really step back and think about it. But I truly believe that most Christians DON'T KNOW how much they DON'T KNOW about the Bible. And shouldn't we be dying to know more if knowing Biblical truth is knowing the very God who inspired it?

Holla.

Gaining Community Through the Goal of Mission

Nothing Puts me in The Christmas Spirit Like This

Anybody Remember This Guy?

 

His name is Jesus of Nazareth.

He is the Son of God, and His birthday is in 11 days.

This Christmas, may we cherish the gift of hope we receive in Jesus.

Gungor... One of my favorite moments from Catalyst east 2010

The video doesn't even really do justice to how powerful this was.

Doing This One On Sunday...

Wow... He did That For Me???

Ephesians 2 

¹ As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. ³ All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. ⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

 I often have trouble understanding how to reconcile two equal yet opposite understandings of my relationship to God. Reverence vs. intimacy.

God is the omnipotent master and creator of the entire universe. Everything that ever was or will be is His creation and under His complete and utter control. This includes all laws of the physical universe that we know and do not know. Every single molecule on every world in every solar system in every one of the billions of galaxies in our universe or others was placed there by God. It is why we call Him God!

So this God. This great God. The same one who made our planet a speck of dust in an unspeakably vast cloud of galaxies. This God decided to come to our tiny "pale blue dot" in the form of a microscopic man... just so that we could know Him. Just so that His love could be shown. How can I forget to be reverent toward this God? How can I continue to do things that dishonor Him? What makes me feel as though I am bigger than God sometimes, or that I am somehow so important that He does not deserve my service? It is quite ridiculous, the delusional state I live in sometimes.

What is awesome about God is that He has made us so tiny yet He constantly displays His unending and unexplainable love for these infinitely small creatures known as humans. And that is why I am OK with being unable to easily reconcile these two ideas. It is obvious that God doesn't owe me anything, especially an explanation as to why He loves me.


Godspeed,

Christian