One of my high school girls showed me this...it sparked some good discussion.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Monday, October 05, 2009
AnnMarie is Here!
It is great to have her here! She is going to be in Aix for a month. It just so happened that Dom & Hil are out of town so she has her own apartment (complete with dog) in the center of town... Here are a few pictures from her first few days...
wine and cheese with our neighbors, Clement and Mike.
Where AnnMarie is staying. Isn't it cute? 
wine and cheese with our neighbors, Clement and Mike.
Where AnnMarie is staying. Isn't it cute? 
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
ramblings...
The prophetic word unfailingly summons the church back to the purity of the gospel and to the scandal of the Cross. In his numerous letters Paul confirms that to follow Jesus is to take the high road to Calvary. Littered along the Calvary road will lie the skeletons of our egos, the corpses of our fantasies of control, and the shards of self-righteousness, self-indulgent spirituality, and unfreedom.
-Brennan Manning in "The Signature of Jesus"
We are reading this book right now as a staff. He says a lot of things that are close to my heart... things that make me say "AMEN!" really loudly, with no one else around.
The superificial, luke warm, bound, judgemental,& dull make me so sad because Jesus calls us- more than that~ He enables us to have a life of depth, firey passion, true freedom, grace, and joyful vibrancy.
"At the dawning of the 21st century, what separates the committed from the uncommitted is the depth and quality of our love for Jesus Christ. The superficial among us build bigger barns in the euphoria of a prosperity gospel; the trendy follow the latest fad and try to hum their way to heaven; the defeated are haunted by ghosts from the past.
But the victorious minority, unintimidated by the cultural patterns of the lockstepping majority, live and celebrate as though Jesus were near- near in time, near in place- witness of our motives, our speech, and our behavior. As indeed he is."
"The Signature of Jesus"
Actively trusting our God builds our faith... this is active. It is deciding to move out of our comfort zone. It is putting ourselves in places that we wouldn't naturally gravitate towards just because we want to be in the path of God...
Hud mentioned that everything of the Kingdom of God after The Fall is counter-intuitive. Giving grace is counter-intuitive. Forgiving lavishly is counter-intuitive. Choosing to trust is counter-intuitive. Pushing against where the society pushes us is counter-intuitive.
"Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals- these are the very things that destroy them."
Jude 1:10
Thanks for reading my ramblings...
-Brennan Manning in "The Signature of Jesus"
We are reading this book right now as a staff. He says a lot of things that are close to my heart... things that make me say "AMEN!" really loudly, with no one else around.
The superificial, luke warm, bound, judgemental,& dull make me so sad because Jesus calls us- more than that~ He enables us to have a life of depth, firey passion, true freedom, grace, and joyful vibrancy.
"At the dawning of the 21st century, what separates the committed from the uncommitted is the depth and quality of our love for Jesus Christ. The superficial among us build bigger barns in the euphoria of a prosperity gospel; the trendy follow the latest fad and try to hum their way to heaven; the defeated are haunted by ghosts from the past.
But the victorious minority, unintimidated by the cultural patterns of the lockstepping majority, live and celebrate as though Jesus were near- near in time, near in place- witness of our motives, our speech, and our behavior. As indeed he is."
"The Signature of Jesus"
Actively trusting our God builds our faith... this is active. It is deciding to move out of our comfort zone. It is putting ourselves in places that we wouldn't naturally gravitate towards just because we want to be in the path of God...
Hud mentioned that everything of the Kingdom of God after The Fall is counter-intuitive. Giving grace is counter-intuitive. Forgiving lavishly is counter-intuitive. Choosing to trust is counter-intuitive. Pushing against where the society pushes us is counter-intuitive.
"Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals- these are the very things that destroy them."
Jude 1:10
Thanks for reading my ramblings...
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