Finally
Jul 8, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Laughing | ITUNES: “Doxology” – Passion Hymns }
Someone other than the famous King James has decided to re-interpret the Bible in his own terms. Check out the One Translation. Here’s a little more about this new translation:
The ONE translation aims at a “new, fresh and adventurous” translation of the early Christian scriptures. It is designed both for mature Christians and for those who have limited experience of traditional Christianity or “may have found it a barrier to an appreciation of Jesus”.
But in its reporting the new translation, press and radio commentary has focused on translations of the small number of passages that refer to sexual matters. The Times newspaper talks of “St Paul’s notorious condemnations of gay sex” being “deleted and Christians are told to go out and have more sex.”
“Instead of condemning fornicators, adulterers and ‘abusers of themselves with mankind’,” says Ruth Gledhill, the Times Religious Affairs correspondent, “the new version of his first letter to Corinth has St Paul advising Christians not to go without sex for too long in case they get ‘frustrated’.”
Emo, eh?
Jul 7, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
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Power
Jul 7, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Ghetto-Fabulous | ITUNES: “When Doves Cry” – Bare Naked Ladies }
The Church
Jul 7, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Decent | ITUNES: “Better” – Hoobastank }
I just read this bit from Anna Aven and it reflected one angle of what I have been thinking about lately. Thoughts?
I feel as though the soil that the emerging church is being planted in is in many ways theologically barren. It’s full of cute ideas and relevant liturgies, but are we actually connecting the lost with the saving message of Jesus? It’s one thing to get people who don’t go to church into our doors because we’re doing a movie talk, but where do they get connected to the saving message of the gospel? When does it happen? Because I’m seeing far more complaints about the institutional church coming out then actual ecclesiological approaches for why we’re doing what we’re doing. A lot of times I think that what the emerging church actually came from was a bunch of Christians who were bored with the institutional church and decided to up and do something different. Which is fine. How we “do” church isn’t really important so long as it serves the Biblical function of church. What is the Biblical function of church? Good question.
Popular
Jul 6, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Swell | NOISE: Eric talking and looking at me }
You’re popular when you have wireless at your house.
Goodness
Jul 6, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Spectacular, Really | IPOD: “The Grand Duel (Parte Prima)” – Louis Bacalov }
I have had two great conversations in the last week.
The first was with Dan and Steve in the kitchen at Riv. We were talking about how our “cultural envelope” always affects our perception of things, as well as often affecting our theology, etc. Two people can go to the same conference or read the same book or whatever and have drastically different opinions. These two people often have the same passion for Christ and are both earnestly seeking to do his will, and yet they are diametrically different in so many arenas. They are both sincere, they both try to apply the word to their lives, etc. And yet here they stand, on the opposite side of issues. It makes me want to learn how to be a man who stands with conviction, but not dogmatism on issues. BTW, the best example I have ever seen in this is my friend Herschel. I am so excited that he is speaking for a session at this year’s HSLT.
The second conversation was with a bunch of the leader types at Riv this morning. We talked about the church’s mission in the world and about we often miss it and camp on the wrong things. We also debated the nuances of this and I was encouraged to see both that we are all thinking about these things and that even in the midst of minor disagreements, we can stay united. Kinda goes back to the first conversation.
July 4
Jul 5, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Even | NOISE: Jesse unpacking an air pump }
We had our annual trip out to see fireworks yesterday. And in honor of that, I finally got the “pics” section above working and added a new page of pics. But for those of you who don’t care to look at all of them, here are my favorites (and yes, I know I am in two of them…it’s a vanity thing):
On the way home, the kids were dancing in the van with their “Night Vision” goggles on and it looked pretty cool. Click on the pic to see the video:
Of course, we missed Cole, but at least she got to hang out on a boat instead.
X-Men
Jul 4, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Tired | NOISE: Wind }
Last night Grace and I stayed up way too late to watch X-Men 2. It was an awesome movie, but we are exhausted. We were up until 1:30 or so and had not processed that we had to be up very early in order to be in South Lyon at Crossroads (where I taught this morning). 5 hours of sleep is not enough. On the other hand, watching XM2 made up for the movie attrocity the night before. And not just because Hugh Jackman was in it for me and Halle Berry and Kelly Hu for Grace…
God’s Will
Jul 3, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Sweaty | NOISE: Central Air Pumping }
Dan did his first Riv teaching tonight and he did awesome. He taught on God’s will and how we are often whack on our approach to finding it, etc. As he was closing it up, he said the best thing. He said we as Chrisitians often spend so much time trying to figure out God’s will for a specific situation, but we spend very little time studying the Bible to learn about God’s moral will which is really the big deal.
iTunes
Jul 3, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Good | NOISE: Cole waking up from a nap }
Want a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs? If you download iTunes 100,000,000 song, you will get all this stuff. Yee ha. For more info click here.
