Love Your Enemies
May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Do yourself a favor and click on over to Donald Miller’s recent blog entry on Loving Your Enemies. If nothing else, watch the video he has there. It’s especially appropriate given all the time we’ve been spending together in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. We only have a few lessons left and I’m feeling sad about that right now. I’m not sure where we’re going next, but I need to decide. Any thoughts?
I think a lot of you would really like Miller’s book Blue Like Jazz if you haven’t already read it.
He’s a Christian, too? I didn’t know that.
May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A couple of weeks ago I pointed you to an article in Relevant Magazine about Chuck star Zac Levi and his faith. The cover article of the latest issue is about Bear Grylls, the star of Man vs. Wild. It’s a great article, in which he talks about his faith and his life. You can click here to read it. Be warned, Relevant uses a digital format for their current issue that isn’t very user friendly. They do it so you can read the entire magazine as it appears in print. If you want to read the Grylls article, you can just click on his name on the cover. It will take you directly there.
Here some of the quotes I just loved:
What does [faith] mean? It’s about being strengthened. It’s about having a backbone run through you from the Person who made you. It’s about being able to climb the biggest mountains in the world with the Person who made them.
I remember having one moment when some really good friends turned their back on me in a really nasty way…And I remember praying a simple prayer up a tree one evening and saying, “God, if you’re like I knew you as a kid, would you be that friend again?” And it was no more complicated than that.
Jesus never said, “I’ve come so you can feel smart and proper and smiley and religious…[Faith] is about finding life and joy and peace, I am not at church a lot because I’m away a lot, so I kind of cling to the simple things, like, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
It’s worth trying to read the whole article. He talks about the parachuting accident he had when he was a member of the British SAS that left him with a broken back. He talks about rehab and his quest to become the youngest Briton to climb Mt. Everest. He also talks about his family and their domicile of choice (a houseboat on the Thames). I love the section about how his wife came to faith in Christ.
It makes sense the guy’s a Christian. You’d have to have some crazy faith to eat some of the stuff he eats. But what do I know? Is it really that much worse than what they serve at 7-eleven?
He’s a Christian? I didn’t know that.
April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’m a subscriber to Relevant Magazine, even though you can read a lot of their stuff online. Sometimes I feel a little too old for it. The same way I feel when I go to a rock show at the Norva. I realize I’ve become that old guy who stands in the back and just kind of nods his head to the music.
Anyway. Thought you might be interested in this article about Zac Levi, star of the the NBC comedy Chuck. Click here to read it. I don’t watch this show regularly but I’m told by a lot friends that I should. Check out this description of Levi’s house:
“Zac’s home is like a fraternity house,” explains Jeremy Boreing, Levi’s business partner, “home church” pastor and close friend. “You can’t walk in without meeting someone you don’t know. Two of the bedrooms are always used by someone who needs a place to stay while they’re struggling financially. Saturdays are open for barbecues and Sundays are for home church.”
Sounds like someone is living out their faith. The article goes on to describe the church that gathers in Levi’s house and how it provides a helpful anchor as he seeks to live as a Christian in Hollywood. I hope you’re taking the Good News about Jesus wherever you’re going today.
New Sunday School Class
April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
Just wanted to give a slightly overdue plug for Keith Cuthrell’s Sunday School class, currently running in the auditorium at 9:30 am. If you’re the kind who likes to be passive, this class isn’t for you. Every week, Keith has challenged us to reflect on some aspect of our life in Christ. What I mean by that is he has given us a thought-provoking question and asked us to write the answer as it applies to our lives.
Don’t fear. Whatever you write, you don’t have to share with anyone else. It’s strictly a chance for you to do more than just sit and listen to someone else. I’m getting a lot of positive feed back about it.
If you’re not coming to our Sunday morning classes, it’s worth the effort required to make it there by 9:30 on Sunday morning. Between Len Driskell’s great class on Leviticus during the first quarter of 2010, Keith’s class now and the other classes we have planned for the year, there are great opportunities to learn about God and ourselves.
See you Sunday.
Pray for You
April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Last Sunday I preached on Jesus’ command that his followers love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them. I talked about how difficult and “unnatural” an act it is to love our enemies rather than seek revenge. Immediately following worship Andrea Bolton told me about this video. Since then, Sharon Tomey mentioned it as well. You would have seen it on Sunday if I’d known about it beforehand.
I’ll just let you watch the video and meditate on it. It really makes my point quite nicely.
Great, now when someone tells me they’re praying for me I’m just going to be paranoid.
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