1) Take time to remember where God has brought you from.
2) Jesus is the example.
3) Be grateful God let's you in on what he's got going on
4) Leaders serve. View leadership through the posture of servanthood.
5) Encourage the good, identify the sin.
6) God is full of grace and mercy.
7) Following Jesus is active.
8) Pray it. Go for it.
9)"Worship had become much like the campaign speeches of politicians in our own day. It was full of empty words, misrepresenting one's identity, purpose, and goals. For many, worship was saying the right things and looking good in the right places. There were too little connection between the prescribed religious patterns and matters of the heart, righteousness, and Yahweh's will. To God's perspective, it was meaningless. Unrepentant sacrifice is no sacrifice at all. It is masquerading. it is an attempt to coerce God to ignore our real identity and enable out unrighteous habits. Meetings, assmblies, and services to honor God are dishonoring when we do not live the righteousness God desires."
don't do this.
10) The call > the situation.
11) J's authority doesn't enable autonomy.
12) When you give, give to the Lord.
1 John 2.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
4 months after reading through the minor prophets and "liking" them...i think i'm actually getting a concept of what they're actually about.
not so much in the "this book is written in this time, addressing these issues.." sense; moreso in the "wait...why is it that i ended up reading these out of nowhere..?" sense.
alot of it is exemplified in malachi 1.
6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master.
If I am a father, where is the honor due me?
If I am a master, where is the respect due me?"
says the LORD Almighty.
goes on to talk about all the ways the people disresct Him, and all the ways that they try to justify it and call it something its not. basically all centered around this theme of His people not responding to Him the way that their names for him would indicate that they should. the people argue against his accusations. he has his rebuttles; they're airtight.He notes, by name, people who followed him righteously as reference points and contrasts those people with the general population. The behavior is clearly different. Exhorts them in chapter 3
6 "I the LORD do not change.
So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
7 Ever since the time of your forefathers
you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them.
Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty.
it's basically a call exposing the hypocrisy. theres a reason we call God the things we do. when those things aren't backed up by how we actually respond to him in the ways we live we (as one so bluntly once put it) rape him of his glory.
1. we call him things
2. we don't mean them
3. he knows
4. he calls our bluff
5. we still make excuses about it
6. he gives us a chance to change how we interact with him
switching gears a little bit, but track the themes.
inductive study. gospel of mark.
john the baptists message: repent and confess for forgiveness
jesus message: repent and believe that the prophecy is fulfilled, the KOG is here.
common theme of repentance.
interesting: greek for repent is something like to have a change of mindset
another reoccuring theme through the beginning of jesus ministry is his interactions with scribes, pharisees, religious elite, perhaps... the churched, the leaders, the pastors. many of these encounters show them taking offense or incredulousness at some aspect of things jesus claims to be or be able to do. they rarely voice it. nonetheless he responds with something along the lines of "i'm going to do something crazy, so that you'll understand that i can do the things i say i can do (and am thus, who i say i am). "
i'm going to do something crazy, so you can change how you think about me. because i do this, repent. believe. prophecy is fulfilled. KOG is here. confess. there's forgiveness. respond to me, as though you actually believe that i am who i am.
tracking the themes? looking at God and living lives that challenge who he says he is isn't something that was reserved for israel. looking at jesus and living lives that challenge who he says he is isnt something that was reserved for pharisees. we often make the connection that "we are israel" or "we are the pharisees". But how often do we address that God is God. and that in light of us being israel or the pharisees, Gods rebuke to them stands for us. As does his offer to return to him. We're quick to call him god, father, lord, christ, savior, master, healer, comforter, the list goes on. What does my life call him? probably none of those.
what do i make of this? following God is an intensely serious thing. he has a reputation. we know his reputation, and should be a people that proclaim and protect it with integrity. when we don't, it should convict us like no other. i don't. it's starting to kinda convict me. only kinda tho. that reality...is a little bit more convicting. this is where repentance is supposed to happen.
not so much in the "this book is written in this time, addressing these issues.." sense; moreso in the "wait...why is it that i ended up reading these out of nowhere..?" sense.
alot of it is exemplified in malachi 1.
6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master.
If I am a father, where is the honor due me?
If I am a master, where is the respect due me?"
says the LORD Almighty.
goes on to talk about all the ways the people disresct Him, and all the ways that they try to justify it and call it something its not. basically all centered around this theme of His people not responding to Him the way that their names for him would indicate that they should. the people argue against his accusations. he has his rebuttles; they're airtight.He notes, by name, people who followed him righteously as reference points and contrasts those people with the general population. The behavior is clearly different. Exhorts them in chapter 3
6 "I the LORD do not change.
So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
7 Ever since the time of your forefathers
you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them.
Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty.
it's basically a call exposing the hypocrisy. theres a reason we call God the things we do. when those things aren't backed up by how we actually respond to him in the ways we live we (as one so bluntly once put it) rape him of his glory.
1. we call him things
2. we don't mean them
3. he knows
4. he calls our bluff
5. we still make excuses about it
6. he gives us a chance to change how we interact with him
switching gears a little bit, but track the themes.
inductive study. gospel of mark.
john the baptists message: repent and confess for forgiveness
jesus message: repent and believe that the prophecy is fulfilled, the KOG is here.
common theme of repentance.
interesting: greek for repent is something like to have a change of mindset
another reoccuring theme through the beginning of jesus ministry is his interactions with scribes, pharisees, religious elite, perhaps... the churched, the leaders, the pastors. many of these encounters show them taking offense or incredulousness at some aspect of things jesus claims to be or be able to do. they rarely voice it. nonetheless he responds with something along the lines of "i'm going to do something crazy, so that you'll understand that i can do the things i say i can do (and am thus, who i say i am). "
i'm going to do something crazy, so you can change how you think about me. because i do this, repent. believe. prophecy is fulfilled. KOG is here. confess. there's forgiveness. respond to me, as though you actually believe that i am who i am.
tracking the themes? looking at God and living lives that challenge who he says he is isn't something that was reserved for israel. looking at jesus and living lives that challenge who he says he is isnt something that was reserved for pharisees. we often make the connection that "we are israel" or "we are the pharisees". But how often do we address that God is God. and that in light of us being israel or the pharisees, Gods rebuke to them stands for us. As does his offer to return to him. We're quick to call him god, father, lord, christ, savior, master, healer, comforter, the list goes on. What does my life call him? probably none of those.
what do i make of this? following God is an intensely serious thing. he has a reputation. we know his reputation, and should be a people that proclaim and protect it with integrity. when we don't, it should convict us like no other. i don't. it's starting to kinda convict me. only kinda tho. that reality...is a little bit more convicting. this is where repentance is supposed to happen.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
City & Colour - Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Rose Royce - 1978)
City & Colour - Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Rose Royce - 1978)
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vancancy
Love don't live here anymore
When you lived inside of me
There was nothing I could conceieve
That you wouldn't do for me
Trouble seemed so far away
You changed that right away, baby
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vancancy
Love don't live here anymore
Love don't live here anymore
Just emptiness and memories
Of what we had before
You went away
Found another place to stay, another home
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vancancy
Love don't live here anymore
read as intended, reminded of the spirit of 'Dissatisfied' and all of its implications.
basically read from the opposite perspective, God speaking to me. rocked.
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vancancy
Love don't live here anymore
When you lived inside of me
There was nothing I could conceieve
That you wouldn't do for me
Trouble seemed so far away
You changed that right away, baby
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vancancy
Love don't live here anymore
Love don't live here anymore
Just emptiness and memories
Of what we had before
You went away
Found another place to stay, another home
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vancancy
Love don't live here anymore
read as intended, reminded of the spirit of 'Dissatisfied' and all of its implications.
basically read from the opposite perspective, God speaking to me. rocked.
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