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Oct 11, 2003
By | Posted at 18:19:27
Well, I wasn't so sure about a 1 1/2 hour simulcast (or actually non-simulcast — getting the satellite feed was too costly, so we opted for the DVD version) that much, but it was very good. Rick Warren was a good enough speaker to make the time go by fast, not bad considering, as the pastor's son said, “it was like five of your sermons.”
Indeed, it sort of was like 5 sermonettes, a preview of the next six weeks worth of sermons. It was interluded with videos as well as several musical performances, including one from Natalie Grant.
It was also nice because we got to watch it in the Southwestern Bell Auditorium at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, our church's next door neighbor. They were kind enough to open their spectacular doors for the evening, allowing us to use the theater and then their main “lobby” (the word doesn't do justice for the size) area afterwards. It comfortably held the 250-300 church members that went.
It was neat to see, considering that the Danforth Plant Science Center is one of the foremost bio-tech research centers in the world. It's a collaboration between Washington University in St. Louis and Monsanto Co. We have at least one Center employee that is a member of our church and a scientist that worked there that attended our church while in the U.S. So, there were a variety of reasons that it was interesting to go into the building that casts it shadow on ours.
But back to the actual point of the night. It was a good start to the 40 Days. For anyone whose church is saving the simulcast for tomorrow — I think you'll really enjoy it.
In case you haven't been here today due to BlogRolling being down, read on to the next post about Christopher's internet small group.
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By | Posted at 9:6:14
Well, Christopher had a good idea: he started a bulletin board based small group for those away at school that wanted to join in on the 40 Days of Purpose at his church. He was also kind enough to invite any of his blogging friends that might want to join, to do so.
Well, I've joined, and he said I could invite asisaid.com readers to join as well. If you'd like to take part in the 40 Days of Purpose with Christopher's small internet group, you can leave a note in the comments on his site and do so. Just click here.
This could be really interesting. I've often thought an internet small group might be neat (after all, in a slightly larger format, CS-FSLUG's CS-BibleStudy always worked well), but I hadn't thought about one for the 40 Days of Purpose. Why not give it a whirl?
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Sep 5, 2003
By | Posted at 19:45:12
It was a crisp autumn Sunday, not really unlike other early autumn Sundays. At St. Paul's Evangelical Church in Creve Coeur, MO, a visitor might not have expected that anything abnormal was about to happen. Two church services and Sunday School/Adult Bible Fellowships plugged along just like normal, but just an hour after the last service something that would attract the attention of observers around the nation would occur.
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Aug 29, 2003
By | Posted at 19:40:9
There is no greater love than this/There is no greater gift that can ever be given/To be willing to die so another might live/There is no greater love than this.” Steven Curtis Chapman wrote those words in reflection of the five missionaries who died in the early 1950's attempting to reach the Auca Indians.
I've been reading Through the Gates of Splendor, the story of the five written by the one missionary's wife, Elizabeth Elliot. It's really amazing the sincerity and excitement these men had at entering the jungles of South America and approaching a tribe who killed almost anyone that came near them. They gave up great opportunities, both worldly positions and other (safer) missions opportunities, to reach out to a group most people just tried to avoid.
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Aug 21, 2003
By | Posted at 19:26:3
Craig “Pressed” Tanner of Avoiding Evil has been doing an interesting series on the controversy between the Southern Baptist Convention and the CBF. Seeing some of this controversy reminded me of the controversy in the denomination that I grew up in, the United Church of Christ. I had always meant to write a post about the UCC, and I thought now might be appropriate.
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Jul 28, 2003
By | Posted at 19:48:19
In my recent post about President Clinton, something disturbed me about the response I saw here (and response elsewhere to the President's statements). I've noticed this before, but it really struck me this time. “Where is the forgiveness?” kept running through my head. It brought to mind a lyric that Steven Curtis Chapman wrote for a song called “The Change”:
What about the change
What about the difference
What about the grace
What about forgiveness
What about a life that's showing
I'm undergoing the change, yeah
I'm undergoing the change
It occurred to me that often times, especially in politics, we get so wrapped up, we don't have a life that is showing the change.
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Jul 20, 2003
By | Posted at 16:21:38
I was just thinking, what better way to acknowledge that you consider yourself a Bible geek (small “g”), and thus believe it is a generic term, than to put a button on your blog/site somewhere?
Here's a few to get the ball rolling:
Feel free to include a link to your own Bible geek graphics in the comments section!
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By | Posted at 14:44:10
I can't believe it. As I just found out on Sakamuyo, some guy that goes by the name Bible Geek has trademarked the name and has threatened to sue a Christian blogger that used the same name (see the original post on Cruciform Chronicle). This isn't Christian, and I would suggest it is even dubious trademark — after all, Bible geek is a descriptive term that is quite generic and used by more than just this one fellow.
Imagine if I trademarked the name Linux Geek or Computer Geek? It's really not that different in this case, except that someone claiming to desire seeing the spread of the Gospel has gone against Christian principles and threatened to sue another Christian for claiming to be a Bible geek.
While I won't claim that lawsuits are never acceptable, consider Jesus' words:
“Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right? As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled to him on the way, or he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”
— Luke 12:57-59 (NIV)
And can you guess Paul's stance on the issue?
If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
— 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 (NIV)
And yet, it would seem the Bible Geek® guy, who seems to fancy himself a Bible Answer Man, oh, oops, Hank probably owns that trademark, is busy threatening a brother in Christ and blogger who has the nickname Bible Geek.
This is a sad day for Christianity.
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Jul 15, 2003
By | Posted at 19:33:29
Well, after I posted my last post it occurred to me that there was a good message I could draw out of my head being stuck “Standing Still.” It all goes back to a discussion that I (along with several others) was having with Joseph Fell on Jake's site.
The argument that Joseph was making was basically that Eminem's “issues” were out weighed by the positives of his pulling-himself-up-by-the-bootstraps-and-making-it story. The oft used idea that music (or TV or whatever else) doesn't impact us beyond the simple value of enjoying listening to it also came up.
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May 13, 2003
By | Posted at 10:19:8
A father murdered his daughter and is caught not by anything the police find while searching, but through the attachment of a GPS (Global Positioning Satelite) unit to his cars. If it wasn't for the device, according to this article, he would not have been caught, as he had buried his daughter far off in a remote place.
They only were able to find convicting evidence by tracking where he went, and then using that evidence to later convict him. That's a great use of technology, but there is a major problem with it, and I think it could be yet another piece of the puzzle that will eventually be used against us.
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