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Busted

It’s been a while since I posted some wrestling news, but looks like Rob Van Dam and Sabu have been busted in Ohio for posession of illegal drugs.

Two wrestling superstars from Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment may be tough in the ring, but they didn’t have enough muscle to escape drug charges after being stopped Sunday night by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Robert Alex Szatowski, aka WWE and ECW champion Rob Van Dam, and Terry Michael Brunk, aka Sabu, also a former ECW champion, were pulled over on U.S. 52, near Patrick Street in Hanging Rock at about 10:15 p.m. The two were apparently driving from their performances at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena earlier in the evening.

Heaven on Earth (continued)

Heaven on Earth
We need it now
I’m sick of all of this
Hanging around

Sick of sorrow
I’m sick of the pain
I’m sick of hearing
Again and again
That there’s gonna be
Peace on Earth

(continued from previous post…)
So you’re a disciple of Christ (if not you should be)? You’re waiting for that great “gettin up morning” when we’ll “fly away.”
I don’t blame you. I’m sick of sorrow, I’m sick of the pain. A great friend and I talked last night about the great Gospel song, “I’ll Fly Away” last night. He’s said that while growing up he always wanted Jesus to tarry in his return. He didn’t want Jesus to return before he got to experience marriage, kids and well those things that create kids. But now he wouldn’t mind Jesus coming back at anytime he so decides – especially after the horrible last year he’s experienced
And I don’t blame him. I think as Christians we all want to see Jesus return, but what about the interim?
“Now if there is a life of heaven and we can choose it, then there’s also another way. A way of living out of sync with how God created us to live. The word for this is hell: a way, a place, a realm absent of how God desires things to be. We can bring heaven to earth; we can bring hell to earth.
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now.”

“For Jesus, the question wasn’t, how do I get into heaven? but how do I bring heaven here?
The question wasn’t how do I get in there? But how do I get there, here?”

“Jesus’ desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth.”

“As a Christian I want to do what I can to resit hell coming to earth. Poverty, injustice, suffering – they are all hells on earth, and as Christians we oppose them with our energies. Jesus told us to.”

“The goal for Jesus isn’t to get into heaven. The goal is to get heaven here.”

This gives a whole new meaning to “On earth as it is in heaven.” Eric and I have talked about this idea numerous times as it relates to our different faiths. Why do so many Christians see welfare and social programs as an evil, liberal agenda? Are the means the problem or is it the end? Thoughts, comments?

Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth
We need it now
I’m sick of all of this
Hanging around

Sick of sorrow
I’m sick of the pain
I’m sick of hearing
Again and again
That there’s gonna be
Peace on Earth

More great reading this weekend from Velvet Elvis. Buy the book and read it, delve into it, question it and comment on it.
Bell gave an amazing recount of the Jewish life during Jesus’ time.
According to Bell, students learned the way of the Torah (the first five books in the Bible) and each believed the Torah to be the way, the truth and the life (someone else claimed to be the way, the truth and the life).
From the age of six, students would learn and memorize the Torah. By the age of 10 most would have the Torah memorized. I’m such a slacker.
Also by the age of 10, the students would begin to sort themselves out. Those with natural abilities towards the Scriptures would continue their studies, the others would go home and learn the family trade.
By age 13 or 13, the top students had the entire Old Testament memorized.
Around 14 or 15 the students would apply to be a disciple or talmidim of a rabbi. If the rabbi felt the student was strong enough, he would take the student under his guidance and teach him all he could about his yolk, or understanding of the scripture.
The disciples would follow the rabbi everywhere.
Now picture Andrew and Peter. They’re working as fishermen having learned their father’s trade. They weren’t good enough for the other rabbi’s. But then one rabbi comes along one day and says, “Come follow me.”
They immediately drop everything and follow Jesus.
Same for James and John.
Only they’re with their father, and probably younger and still learning their fathers trade. They may not be older than 16 and Jesus said, “Come follow me.”
If a rabbi calls you to be his disciple, then he believes you can actually be like him.
God has an increadible view of people.
“I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
I have been told that I need to believe in God. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that God believes in me.
The rabbi thinks we can be like him.”

… more to come.