Hey guys! Make sure to check out the blog tomorrow to get the first part of a new story called "The Junkyard" if you were hoping for Noah Elhardt then don't worry, you won't have to wait long :-) For those who really wanted SOMETHING today then go check out the Weekly Ridiculous, or read some of the old posts you may have missed.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
List Tuesday- February is cool... pun intended.
Reasons why February is Awesome
1. February has the highest monthly rainfall of the year for
Los Angeles, AND it’s the shortest month, which means that it’s like pure
concentrated rainfall! Which, when you think about it the idea of concentrated
rainfall is impossible. It would just be an empty can.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Guest Post- "The Exemplary Life-Liver" by ZACHARY MILLER
In my life I find that my culture is not where I am from but
what I do everyday, what my parents and grandparents do everyday, and what I
most closely relate myself to. For me this means that my culture is
Christianity and inasmuch I would have to say the most influential figure is
Jesus Christ. This choice is not so much because everybody knows who he is or
because he is the obvious choice but because he was real, logical, and
edifying.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Bible Wednesday- Mir-ACT-ulous
I'm LOVING the puns today. AND THE ALL CAPS... so just be aware.
So I got through 1 and 2 Timothy and they were both awesome (obviously cause they're in the Bible), but when I finished I knew I wanted to take on a bigger book, one that I didn't really remember all that well (so the Gospels were out of the question) and preferable New Testament... and when I looked through I realized that only one book fit that criteria, and so I opened up the book of Acts.
I've been preparing for Winter Camp all this week, and this year I was asked to lead a seminar type discussion that students could elect to attend. So I've been wondering what I'd talk about and thinking about what students wanted to hear about and finally I just asked me students. Luckily Omar spoke up with the idea of Miracles... but unluckily that is also a topic I don't know much about. Not one to back down from a challenge I gladly accepted assuming that it'd all work out in the end.
When I opened up the book of Acts it reminded me that:
1. The church is founded on the greatest miracle of all, Christ raising from the dead.
2. When the church started it waited for a miracle. They went to the upper room, replaced Judas, and then waited for the holy spirit to show them something miraculous. And of course it did. They all started speaking in tongues. The first outreach that the Christian church did was a miracle.
3. The next thing they did was a miracle. Peter and John see a man laying outside of the Beautiful Gate and they tell him to walk, and he does!
When I thought about how much the miraculous motivates ALL of the actions of the early church and made me realize just how much I'd ignored it.
Can a church exist with out the miraculous?
As more and more people talk about the early church and it's original intention how come we aren't seeing more and more people experiencing the miraculous?
Acts 3:6 "But Peter said, 'I have no silver or gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!'"
Our churches feed many people with hard work and with generous spirits, and I couldn't be more thankful for that, but do we heal people? I love how Peter says "but what I do have I give to you." and immediately does the miraculous.
Do we have miracles?
So I got through 1 and 2 Timothy and they were both awesome (obviously cause they're in the Bible), but when I finished I knew I wanted to take on a bigger book, one that I didn't really remember all that well (so the Gospels were out of the question) and preferable New Testament... and when I looked through I realized that only one book fit that criteria, and so I opened up the book of Acts.
I've been preparing for Winter Camp all this week, and this year I was asked to lead a seminar type discussion that students could elect to attend. So I've been wondering what I'd talk about and thinking about what students wanted to hear about and finally I just asked me students. Luckily Omar spoke up with the idea of Miracles... but unluckily that is also a topic I don't know much about. Not one to back down from a challenge I gladly accepted assuming that it'd all work out in the end.
When I opened up the book of Acts it reminded me that:
1. The church is founded on the greatest miracle of all, Christ raising from the dead.
2. When the church started it waited for a miracle. They went to the upper room, replaced Judas, and then waited for the holy spirit to show them something miraculous. And of course it did. They all started speaking in tongues. The first outreach that the Christian church did was a miracle.
3. The next thing they did was a miracle. Peter and John see a man laying outside of the Beautiful Gate and they tell him to walk, and he does!
When I thought about how much the miraculous motivates ALL of the actions of the early church and made me realize just how much I'd ignored it.
Can a church exist with out the miraculous?
As more and more people talk about the early church and it's original intention how come we aren't seeing more and more people experiencing the miraculous?
Acts 3:6 "But Peter said, 'I have no silver or gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!'"
Our churches feed many people with hard work and with generous spirits, and I couldn't be more thankful for that, but do we heal people? I love how Peter says "but what I do have I give to you." and immediately does the miraculous.
Do we have miracles?
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