Month: December 2010

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The title is blank essentially, because I am out of pithy saying, songs, and ideas.  It’s a cold blank morning.  The sort of day where you just want to get under a blanket and watch an old movie.

So on this cold day 19 days before Christmas, here is a classic verse of the man who’s birth we will celebrate then

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:1-5 (New International Version, ©2010)

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Mere Mortals

In just a few weeks another Narnia movie will be released. On my way home last night, I heard an interview with a “C.S. Lewis expert”. He was talking about the several things about old C.S., like for instance that he died on the same day that JFK was shot and killed. But then he mentioned this quote from one of his books.

There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.
The Weight of Glory, “The Weight of Glory” (1942) p46

This struck me square in the face. Although I had heard something similar to this before, and maybe even have read this quote before, it was so new and fresh yesterday evening. Then last night I was listening to an interview with Francis Chan I found on the internet. In this interview, he was talking about having a passion for people, and asking if we really realize we are a supernatural being – full of the spirit and made to live forever. He also mentioned Paul’s anguish from Romans 9,

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,

Paul so wanted he people to follow the Christ that it brought him sorrow and anguish. That’s seems to indicate a recognition of the state of people.

I just wonder what my day would be like if I walked around not looking at people at strangers – as just mere mortals – who are in the way, but as supernatural immortal people who just like you will arrive at one of two destinations in the end. How would that change your day?

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.  Philippians 2:3-4 (New International Version, ©2010)

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It’s a Marshmallow World

I am finding my self just walking around singing Christmas carols everywhere I go.  On the way to the ‘facilities’ at work, I catch myself humming a little bit of “The Christmas Song”.  Or well moving around the house I may bust out a verse of “Its’ beginning to look a lot like Christmas”.

This morning, Amy has got me singing “It’s a Marshmallow World” since one of her first graders sang the entire song in her class yesterday while they were working on some arts and crafts stuff.

I find it good to sing and to express yourself after all “It’s the happiest season of all”

23 Sing to the LORD, all the earth;
proclaim his salvation day after day.  1 Chronicles 16:23 (New International Version, ©2010)

Find some time to stick a little song in your heart, and praise him for the salvation we have been given.
Now if I could just get this out of my head … “Its a marshmallow world in the winter….”

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Depth of Mercy

I stumbled across some older videos last night, and rediscovered a short clip that really delves in to the history of God’s mercy.  It was a great reminder to me about the depth and riches of the mercy of God.

So in view of God’s mercy take a look:

The message of the video, which I have shared before in the past is always a good reminder of our position with our Christ, when we choose him (for he already has chosen us!) – and that position is – forgiven, free and family.

1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Romans 12:1-2, The Message)