May 2012
2 posts
In Adam, God has a creature, made in His own image, who He could talk with, give responsibility to, and entrust the care of creation into his hands. Adam was God’s man in the earth, set here to rule it under God’s authority and direction. Because Adam was a living soul, able to see and hear God he was the only creature like God, who as a creature, could be God’s representative to...
“If Jesus is Lord then Caesar isn’t. If Christ is our Lord then the...”
– Kurt Willems
April 2012
10 posts
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WatchLook at Jesus
WatchDoes our addiction to militarism, consumerism & entertainment reflect Jesus’ call? Pastor and former editor of Sojourners magazine Joyce Hollyday invites us to create systems of mass construction, not mass destruction.
Mimicking the counter-cultural behavior of Jesus
Excerpt from ”Speaking In Tongues part 3”
At times, Jesus accepts the honors being afforded to Him, but generally, He only accepts honoring or honorific statements when they come from those that do not possess any public honor (tax collectors, lepers, those that have been possessed by demons, unclean women, etc…) When the rich or the rulers attempt to honor Him, perhaps by calling Him...
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the...”
– Margaret Mead
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Communion message at Academia Church 4/1/12
Let us not forget that this meal has a long history. A story, and we are apart of this story. A story of the Jewish people, when they were slaves in Egypt. The people of Abraham, called by God to be the light of the world. Our God brought them from Egypt with a mighty hand and stretched out arm. He condemned the Egyptians, but passed over them and brought them through the Red Sea and into the...
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March 2012
34 posts
"Evolution of Adam" Reviewed
By Lawrence Garcia
The theory of evolution, it’s not going away. And for many, Christian or not, the evidence for evolution is compelling enough to warrant it as the most probable hypothesis for explaining human origins. Thus, for many Christians the ghosts of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution have been stirred and are once again haunting the church. The church of course...
Redemptive Love (part 2 of 2) →
the foundation on which John’s presentation of love, as expressed in John 3:16 is built, which is love as the redemptive act of God, rooted in the way in which Israel understood their Creator God and His intentions for His creation, which was its complete restoration and redemption. this was to be accomplished through His Christ and through the community of His Christ as they mimicked Him...
Redemptive Love (part 1 of 2) →
John 3:16 is to be understood in conjunction with Israel’s history, its conception of redemption, and in the context of God’s covenant faithfulness that is directed towards His redemption and restoration of His creation…
“A wise man does not accumulate for himself. The more he uses for others, the...”
– Lao-Tzu (c. B.C. 550)
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My 24 Day Challenge Results
Takes a lot of guts (pun intended) to post your shirtless picture all over the Internet but I knew I had to do it for motivation to follow through with the 24 day challenge. Well the results are in.
Lost 16 LBS
Dropped 6 total inches
Pant size went from a 38 to 34
Gained tons of energy (no longer feeling sluggish throughout the day)
All of this without working out. The 24 day challenge is...
Communion Invitations
By David Byrd
In Luke fourteen, Jesus tells a parable of a great banquet. A man had planned the event, invitations had been sent, requisite preparations had been carried out, and food and wine had been prepared in accordance with the number of people that had accepted the invitation.
Though we will not take up time setting up the context for this banquet, what we must say is that this parable...
Help Fight Hobophobia!
How To Feed The Homeless In Spite Of The Crackdown
by Keith Johnson
As Wall Street and their paid-for politicians continue to loot the American people, more ordinary citizens are finding themselves on the street for reasons other than drug and alcohol addiction.
Those who have never been on the street cannot relate to the hopelessness one feels.
I was once a vagabond myself, on the streets and...
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Paul and Justification by the Faithfulness of...
N. T. Wright explains how God called a covenant people so that through them the world may be put to rights. Wright shows how “justification” happens by the “faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah” and how we respond with covenant faithfulness. We, the people of God, have been set right in advance— in anticipation— of the whole world being one day set right.
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Rachel Corrie
Twenty-three-year old American activist Rachel Corrie was killed on this day in 2003. While countless Palestinian people have been killed the way Rachel was, her death marks a key moment symbolizing international concern. She was crushed by a bulldozer in Gaza as she knelt in front of the home of a Palestinian friend and tried to stop the demolition of her house. ...
A beautiful commentary on Acts 11 by N.T. Wright
Kony 2012
I’m on board with this movement 50% . First, I love that it is started on somewhat of a grassroots level by individuals who are moved by compassion to action. Second, I love how the filmmakers are using social media to spread this movement.
However, I can’t say that I entirely agree with the solutions proposed by the film. First, I really don’t buy the idea that the government...
WatchHappy birthday to my little honey badger Noah Joshua Trujillo. Thank you for bringing so much joy into our lives.
Love you
Watch“The restoration of the church will surely come only from a new type of monasticism which has nothing in common with the old but a complete lack of compromise in a life lived in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount in the discipleship of Christ” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Yeah I did it too...sorry
“As human beings made in God’s image and redeemed in Christ the ultimate...”
– Lawrence Garcia
Defeatist Eschatology
The rapture or second coming is not the answer to our present problems. We must take responsibility for what we face. We must address problems with Godly wisdom and kingdom authority. We must not sit idly by waiting for the rapture while evil dominates this world and destroys even more. Everyday innocent lives are lost because evil gained a legal victory in abortion. Slavery was an evil until...
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Abstract Conversations
Instead of telling our vulnerable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas and beliefs rather than about our lives. Academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that the more abstract our speech, the more likely we are to touch the universal truths that unite us. But what happens is exactly the reverse: as our discourse becomes more abstract,...
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February 2012
7 posts
Everything changes
This picture
This song
and this sermon
“The good Afghan”
Inspired me to say this…
“Everything Changes”