Categories: How I am, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: how I am, mission of Christ, ramblings
A few posts ago, I mentioned that I would devote some time talking about what I’m currently doing with music, and the role I think it’s playing in the context of mission. This post is my attempt to make good on that promise. 🙂
I know…you all have been waiting with baited breath. The suspense was driving you mad.
Categories: food for thought, Tags: ramblings
Unless you have nothing to do with American sports at all, or live under a rock, chances are you’ve heard the name “Tim Tebow” sometime in the past several months. Living in Denver, the home of the Broncos, we probably hear more about him than all y’all. He’s the young quarterback who replaced Kyle Orton this year in the middle of a losing season, and somehow ended up turning things around and taking the Broncos to the playoffs for the first time in years. People in Denver have been buzzing about this guy ever since the Broncos picked him up, and Tebow jerseys were common in the stores and on people’s torsos back when he was still a third string QB. It’s obvious that he’s still getting used to playing pro, and he’s young and inconsistent (as demonstrated by last weekend’s fiasco at the playoffs)–but it’s also obvious that the guy is extremely talented. At any rate, he’s injected a level of hope and enthusiasm into Bronco fans that hasn’t been felt for a long time.
Categories: General, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: creativity, holidays, people, ramblings
Thanksgiving isn’t until Thursday, but for us it starts today.
We’ve got plans with some friends on Thanksgiving itself, but this afternoon the loose-knit group of creative friends who have sort of adopted us will be having their annual Thanksgiving party. We did this last year, and we had a blast, so we’re looking forward to it.
The walls are plain and bare.
Over the past couple of years, the walls of our little flat have filled up with fine art photographs and paintings that my wife, The Wild One, has created. Â Now all those pieces are safely bubble-wrapped and waiting to be moved.
When we first moved into this place, there were literally boxes floor to ceiling, so many that we could barely move. It’s starting to get that way again, as we pack up our stuff. It’s getting harder to figure out how to move from one side of the apartment to the other–a stark reminder of how tiny this place really is.
Categories: Meanderings (look it up), Tags: ramblings
It seems like for many of us, it is one of those seasons when there is a lot of uncertainty in the air. We can see it even on a national level–as I write this, lawmakers are doing eleventh-hour scrambling to come up with a debt-ceiling deal deadline that they’ve seen coming for months (don’t EVEN get me started), and that’s causing a lot of uneasiness on a global scale. On a more personal level, I feel a lot of uncertainty around me and my family right now. Our current lease runs out at the end of August, and at this point we really need to move into a bigger place–but we’ve been so manic busy that we’ve barely even had a chance to look at what’s out there. And there’s all the other questions that come along with it–how much rent will we have to pay, what will be available at the time we need to move, wanting to make sure we move into a safe neighborhood that’s still affordable, and having the deposit money at that time we need it–all those variables that need to fall into place in a fairly short time span.
Categories: Meanderings (look it up), Tags: church, food for thought, missional, ramblings
Well, it looks like it’s time to take a step of faith. After spending nearly two years embedding myself in the local music scene, and finding several believers in the midst (and after being deliberately slow to act for awhile), I’m going to try getting a few of these musicians and artists together for a Bible study, to talk about faith, art, and the role of our art in mission.
I have no idea how it’s going to go, or how many people will turn up. Â It’s definitely an experiment. Â But I won’t know if it’s a good thing to do unless I try it.
Categories: random stuff, Things that Are Amazingly Awesome, Tags: ramblings, wonder
Well, it looks like here in Denver we’re about to get a taste of the massive heat wave plaguing the nation’s midsection. (Predicted high today: 99 Fahrenheit.) But for the past several days the thunderstorms hitting this area have produced a lot of drama–not just street flooding and stuff like that, but I mean drama in the sky.
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: experience, faith, food for thought, ramblings
Here’s the thing. If you’re going to get the full context for part 2, you’re going to have to read part 1.
In part 1, I rambled on about how I believe that faith in God must involve experiencing Him as well as believing in Him. In this post, I’d like to ramble some more, particularly talking about what experiential faith involves, what it might look like.
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: experience, faith, ramblings
You know, one inherent danger in blogging about this stuff (especially for people like me who tend to over-think), is that if we aren’t careful, we can end up approaching God, the church, theology and all the rest strictly as a mental exercise. I have some blogger friends who have vacated the online discussion simply because they got tired of talking theology and wanted to get back to simple, real-life stuff. I also know that when we try to approach God completely from the perspective of the mind, we’re bound to fall short. Inevitably there are going to be unanswered questions and apparent contradictions, and in some cases it has even caused people at different times to question their faith or abandon it completely.
Categories: General, Meanderings (look it up), moments of truth, Tags: authority, church, moments of truth, ramblings
Sorry for not posting in a little while…I sort of missed my weekly slot last weekend because I filled in as worship leader at the church community where I used to lead, so the current worship leader could go off to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and see Mumford and Sons play while it was snowing in June in the mountains and see the clouds part to reveal the snow-covered mountains just as they finished playing.
Lucky stiff. Anyhow.