'I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry.' [vs.1] If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and change your... ...pace? i won't lie, i used to sing "face" as the last word of that popular Michael Jackson song, and i still do from time to time... but wot a great way to start a psalm and a day or week or year... [...]
another psalm from David and again, it appears as if he hadn't committed his major facefall yet as he is still muttering about those who have "no fear of God before their eyes." [vs. 1] but once he has gotten over looking at "them" and "their awful sin" he has some useful things to say [so useful we turned them into songs... from songs into other songs that it] Your love, Lord, reaches to the [...]
been great hearing some thoughts from my friends and may have some more at a later stage but back to me for now... with psalm 35: as i was reading this psalm [of david once again calling besmitement upon his enemies for all the nasty things they are doing or plotting against him] i had the thought that david's only reference was the old testament God... now one of the big contentions of the Bible [...]
me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, Israel... that is how psalm 25 reads to me - starts off really good and positive and kind of like the sunday picture of a christian - look at me God, everything is together, You are good, i can sing all the words in all the worship songs and even believe that i believe them and You're great and thanks for all You've done and You're control [...]
this psalm is filled with a number of deep thoughts worth reflecting on, but i will just pick a few: 'I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.' [vs.8] this is the first verse that really caught my attention and really just spoke to me about living a life close to God - john 15 shares the picture of the vine and the branches [...]
i know it's early days, but already this is proving to be an exciting exercise for me and one of the benefits of working through the psalms is discovering 'new' ones... i am not saying someone has been sneaking into my bible and adding in new psalms when i haven't been looking but often when we read the bible we stick to the passages we know well and like and avoid the harder ones or [...]
"Are you doing what Jesus did and taught?" that line came up in the bible devotions this morning at the CCDA conference and it's not like it's anything new or particularly revolutionary, but it is a line i think must keep on being said and cried out and shouted and written down and sung about until more and more people take a moment to really hear it and digest it and pour their present life [...]
aka 'the boy who cried wolfpocalypse' as i sat in theatresports [improv comedy group i belong to] class last nite and people were joking about the whole rapture thing or lack of thing, it was a little frustrating to see how christians [to be seriously not confused with Christ-followers though] had once again managed to give the group a bad name... a laugh-out-loud point-and-mock bad name... but this time it was a truly ridiculous premise [...]
so a quick recap then: # everyone has sinned and as the bible says "fallen short of the glory (or high standard) of God" # the wages/punishment/outcome of sin is death (both now in various areas, but also spiritually and eternally at the end) # on Easter Friday, the man many believed had come to save the world is lying stretched out on a cross, dying an agonising death. # one of the statements Jesus [...]
i have a cool friend called kleinfrans [he's not] who is a really rad man, and he has a brain and thinkx about things and i think has some good stuff to say [and him and his rad wife michelle took us to play mashie golf, twice!] and so i wanted to stick up some links to the last three cool things he blogged about: http://ishouldwritemore.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/is-hell-real http://ishouldwritemore.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/zuckerberg-zombies http://ishouldwritemore.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/the-book-you-believe-in enjoy, comment, engage...