Another Bit of Mail

I got another interesting flyer in the mail today.

According to thier website, Jehovah's Witnesses, "do not celebrate holidays that have non-Christian religious origins." Because of this Christmas is out. But I guess Easter is in:

I'm actually tempted to go, but I think the ruckus I would cause because of my lack of ability to hold my tongue would not be helpful.

I've been waiting a couple months for them to post it, and they finally did. Here is an excerpt from a sermon at the church we are going to.

"Finally, a learned discipline of patience strengthens our faith. A healthy and mature faith is evident upon understanding and accepting when we are recipients of God’s presence and when we are instruments. It is not so much an issue of being one or the other, but rather the awareness that God’s desires of us to be both. That is why corporate worship is so important. We are visually reminded every time we worship together that each of us experiences the presence of the Lord vertically in a one to one relationship with God, as well as a horizontally in our relationship with one another. It is the intersection of the vertical with the horizontal that forms the cross of Jesus. With out the awareness that we are both recipients, as well as instruments of the Lord, then a learned discipline of patience makes little or no difference in our spiritual lives. What was the most evident experience in your life that tested your patience? Amen."

Unfortunately one might be hard-pressed to find that kind of language at most churches today.
I would only add that while we experience His presence individually we can only corperately worship Him as a united body. Kind of hard to do that if you can't hear your neighbor singing because even the drums are micked and amplified. Just my two cents.

The Jesus Who Never Lived

For those of you who don't know, I have been working for a professor as a research assistant since November.
Among other projects I have been helping with is an upcoming book about Jesus called The Jesus Who Never Lived. It's about false Jesus's through the centuries, and the actual Jesus of the Bible.
I found it on Amazon of all places:
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Who-Never-Lived-Exposing/dp/0736923217/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203097252&sr=8-1

I think it will be a very helpful book, debunking a lot of misconceptions about Jesus.

I Got this letter the other day, and thought it was too good not to share.

You'll have to click on the individual pictures to read them.

Karen labled this as, "scary." I tend to agree.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Col 3:12-17.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Yeah, I'm still here

Ok, so I know its been....months...

What can I say, I been busy.

My mom sent me an email with some attachments I thought were funny enough to post. Bill, it reminded me of our college days. Here they are.

Bill, my college roommate actually got a similar one. It said, "The FAT bread has failed and the Kernal is panicking."

My favorite message I got on my compie was, "Windows has failed to laod the device. Therefore it will never attempt to load the device again." Of course it tried the very next time I booted it.

Anywho, that's all I have. Except for this:

Didn't know you could now upload video. Must be a new feature.

I LOVE THE OUTBACK