After being sick on Friday, I have loads to catch up on at work. I have several posts at work in my head…I just don’t have the time to get them down!
Hopefully this afternoon I’ll be caught up enough to spend some quality time writing. We’ll see.
In the meantime, enjoy the song that is currently stuck in my head (I’d forgotten how much I love this song!):
I love this video. She’s beautiful! Confident. Okay with who she is.
If only I had the same attitude….
So there’s a “Christian” version of youtube out there called “GodTube.” I’m not sure what I think about that. Found these videos, but since you can’t embed anything except youtube or google, I found them on youtube.
These are pretty darn funny.
There are more below the fold….
I hate being sick.
I especially hate being a grownup and being sick. I want my mom to be here taking care of me instead of me sitting in my apartment alone while the dog drives me nuts.
If I start to feel better, there may be some actual posts today. If not, check out the archives–there’s some good stuff in there!
I read entirely too much. But I love it!
AlterNet has a great article about the “new” movement of progressive evangelicals or “revolutionaries.”
In addition to the quote in the previous post, here are some gems:
[Jim] Wallis agrees. “The religious right is being replaced by Jesus,” he says. “They’re just really digging into Jesus, and what they read in [the Book of] Acts doesn’t correspond to their churches. And so they’re changing them or going out and creating new communities.”
The Revolutionaries’ faith in the Bible leads them to a gospel of social justice, but it also leads to a morality that is far out of step with mainstream American culture and the left. Sex outside of marriage, divorce, “lust,” “sexual immorality” and homosexuality are all things Jesus or other New Testament voices spoke about with varying degrees of intensity.
According to Wallis, the Revolutionaries are “breaking away from the Right in droves — but they will never be captured by the left. They’re going to challenge the left on a lot of things: For these Christians, sex is covenantal and not recreational. And they oppose abortion and they are not going to move away from that.”
Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn’t bloody and barbaric. That’s why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state. … I am sorry to tell you, that America is not the light of the world and the hope of the world. The light of the world and the hope of the world is Jesus Christ.
He also spoke out against the exclusive focus on abortion and gay marriage by many evangelical leaders. “Those are the two buttons to push if you want to get Christians to act,” he said. “And those are the two buttons Jesus never pushed.”
Yet the Revolution is not primarily a reaction to Republican attempts to politicize the church. What sets it apart from mainstream evangelicalism is not a liberal rejection of Republican politics, but rather a more radical rejection of conservatism and liberalism, and anything else that is not the “kingdom of God.”
To the Revolutionaries, what seems righteous or commonsensical to humans does not matter; all that matters is what God wants. Boyd writes in Myth of a Christian Nation: “To the extent that an individual or group looks like Jesus — dying for those who crucified him and praying for their forgiveness in the process — to that degree they can be said to manifest the kingdom of God. To the degree that they do not look like this, they do not manifest God’s kingdom.”
God, give us a vision for a new kind of world. We grieve, we honor, we condemn. But we want to move through that. We want to have asked the hard, hard questions. But we want to move though that too. And we want to be people of a dream, which we believe is your dream for the world. But then, God, we want to move past that. We want to move to action. … God, what would this look like? Show us millions of different ways to bless — to bless in such a way that it would literally shake the foundation of the Earth and capture us with this kind of dream. … Please, God, open our eyes.
Amen!
“No matter how you pick and choose your favorite Bible passages, if you know that Jesus died on the cross for you, that’s going to affect the way you treat other people. If you’re a Bible-believing Christian, maybe you choose to emphasize evangelism or maybe you emphasize works, but you can’t ignore Jesus’ example of unconditional love on the cross.”
~Heather Zydek
I love this article at Urban Semiotic.
My little baby boy is going to be three next month. They grow up so fast, don’t they?
The day I brought my baby home was the happiest of my life. Sure, he kept me up all night with incessant crying, he peed constantly and he barely slept, but I didn’t care.
I was in mommy bliss.
I cheered and told him what a good boy he was when he pooped for the first time. I giggled at every funny little face he made. I watched him while he slept, gently stroking the soft fuzz on his head and ears. I was hooked.
Strangely enough, most of my friends and family do not fully understand or condone my unwavering attachment to my baby.
“He’s ugly,” most of them say.
“He slobbers all the time, too,” agree the rest.
I just sigh and prattle on about his big brown eyes, his perfectly sweet disposition and the way he wiggles his whole body around when he sees someone he likes. My baby is, in fact, the most perfect English Bulldog that ever lived.
That’s exactly how I feel about DJ, no matter how angry I may have gotten with him. The rest of the article is great, as well. She talks about how she doesn’t think she could ever be a parent because she has so much love for her dog and knows she’d have to have even more for a child–that would, apparently, make her heart explode. 
1. Two significant statements.
a. The toxicity of this heart is so potent that when God wants to judge a man, all He has to do is turn that man over to his own heart.
I don’t like this. Doesn’t mean it isn’t true though. My heart is so sinful, that if left to my own devices, I would eventually destroy myself. That’s a tough pill to swallow.
b. A refusal to acknowledge our authority’s right to rule is a rejection of God’s ways and an evidence that our corrupt nature is ruling our lives at the moment.
God instituted authority for a reason. Not accepting that is rejecting God’s way.
2. The Bible teaches that the flesh deceives man–that is, it conceals truth. Page 40 lists eight truths from God that Satan wishes to conceal from man. Write out the ones that are most “concealed” from you in your day to day activities.
He has promised His grace for every trial and challenge of life.
He loves me and skillfully orders my ways for my ultimate good and His ultimate glory.
Other truths that I don’t think I struggle with:
3. Because our heart is so destructive, instead of demanding our own way, what should we be begging God to do?
Never to let us have our own way.
4. The text says that once Adam and Eve fell, God immediately reinforced His structure of authority. Why did God set up the accountability of the home, civil authority, and the church?
To restrain our nature of going our own way. If it isn’t restrained, it will destroy itself and everything around it.
5. Explain this statement from page 44: The same pride in a man that demands the right to make its own decisions will pollute every decision that man makes.
Because that pride causes you to make decisions that aren’t wise.
Memory Verse: Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
1. Two significant statments.
a. The natural man is a sinner because and only because he challenges God’s selfhood in relation to his own. In all else he may willingly accept the sovereignty of God; in his own life he rejects it.
Time and time again I find the truth of this statement. I constantly want God to be right and in control of everything but me.
b. Total depravity does not mean than an individual man is as wicked as is possible but that his fundamental crookedness has penetrated his total being.
2. If you do not seem to be experiencing the warfare of your flesh against God, what two possible reasons are discussed for that lack of struggle?
Going along with it and not feeling its pull OR it is craftily deceiving you by its silence
3. Charles Williams gave several “modern ideas about sin” that, of course, do not fit the biblical view of man. What are some other modern views of man that are used to explain his nature?
Economic disadvantage, immaturity, normal part of life, physical disease, mental problems, figment of imagination
4. What does the term “total depravity” mean?
See above.
5. If, as the Bible says, you are totally depraved and, therefore, every faculty of your understanding, will, affections, and conscience has been corrupted, what kinds of cautions should you take when making decisions and when relating to other people?
Definitely pray. Seek God first. Seek the wise thing to do.
6. Since man is totally depraved, what is wrong with the modern idea that man’s solutions are going to come from “looking within”?
You can’t look to the problem to find the solution.
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