HT: Sarah for posting this video.
This Gives Us Some Perspective
Categories: food for thought
Wayward Son
Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
A Thankful Heart
Categories: food for thought
“Thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.” (1 Thess. 5:18, “The Message Bible”)
The holidays have been a mixed bag for me. Some years have been wonderful, others not so much. I can remember in the not-too-distant past coming to the holidays feeling like I didn’t have a whole lot to be thankful for. Which was hard for me because this is my favorite time of year.
I’m thankful it isn’t like that now. But through those difficult seasons we learned something very important.
Messed-Up People Trying to Figure It Out
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
Ever watch those courtroom dramas on TV or the movies? Or follow real-life courtroom cases?
When the prosecution has a key witness that could seriously damage the case for the accused, or if some small-town joe sues the big corporation for some injustice that was done…the defense attorneys have a favorite strategy: dig for dirt. Look for any damning information about the witness, anything that makes him/her look bad, or dishonest, or whatever, and bring it out in court.
My Rantings About the American Music Awards
Categories: music, Rantings, whine-and-opine
Last night, I did something beneath me…
I watched a music awards show on TV.
A Community Giving Thanks
Categories: food for thought, random stuff
For those of you waiting with baited breath to see how our special house church Thanksgiving worship time went today…
…it went good. 🙂
We are normally pretty relaxed and laid back in our approach. So today we did a liturgy. 🙂
Using a mixture of singing, corporate Scripture reading, prayer, and sharing thoughts with one another, we covered a variety of steps concering giving thanks, including:
- We enter His gates with thanksgiving
- We seek to develop a lifestyle of thanksgiving
- We give thanks for what God has done
- We give thanks for one another
Update on our Re-Thinking of Worship…
Categories: changing mindsets, worship
A few weeks back, I began publishing a series of posts on “Re-Thinking Worship”, and talked about how my perspectives of worship were being expanded beyond the typical worship-leader sing-along format. (If you want to read the series–seven posts thus far–you can find them under the “worship” category in the right sidebar of my blog.)
A Coffee Analogy (from Someone Who Doesn’t Drink Coffee)
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Rantings
For someone who spends so much time in the local coffee hangout, it’s ironic that I don’t drink coffee. (Right now I’m savoring some hot apple-spice tea.)
I have a lot of friends who drink coffee, though. I have one friend who might as well be wearing a cologne called “Eau de Java.” The smell of coffee is all over him, all the time.
False Spiritual Benchmarks (part 2)
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought
Feeling a bit better today…thanks for all the prayers and well-wishes. 🙂
The comments generated from my earlier post on False Spiritual Benchmarks were good, and they have prompted some more thoughts on my part–now that my thinking is less muddled, that is. 🙂
I’ve gotten to pondering why we create these benchmarks in the first place. Why and how did we resort to measuring our spiritual health by how much we pray, or fast, or read the Bible, or any other specific activities we classify as spiritual? Again, not saying we shouldn’t do those things, but where did we get the idea that these practices are what make us more spiritual, “better” Christians, and so on?
A Weird Week…
Categories: random stuff
This has been a weird week.
I do not know why, but it seems like all these little decisions have to be made this week, all these little things have to be done…
…and I sort of feel like crap, so my brain is just muddled and can’t process all the data too well.
I get a little worried at what it’s going to look like when I come to. 🙂
My mind wanders, and I get easily…oooh, look at that.
Have you ever had times like that?
Blech…
Categories: random stuff
I’m not feeling too well the past couple of days. Kind of a cold/scratchy throat/cough/not-much-energy kind of thing. And my thoughts get muddled easily.
So no profundities today. Sorry. We’ll try again tomorrow.