At the heart of the historical Jesus story is the provocative, compelling, subversive, beautiful insistence that nothing can ever be the same again, not after resurrection.
What we do with our lives matters…
Do you believe this?
May the our lives be living proof that Jesus is alive.
day 23 – a song that you want to play at your wedding
Well since I’m already married – and I only plan on doing it once… how about the song that was sung at our wedding?
Continue reading A song that you want to play at your wedding – The 30 Day Song Challenge
Today we wait in anxiousness…
Love has been buried.
Tomorrow we celebrate…
Love resurrected!
Death in his grave…
And proof that Love — that became flesh — Wins!
On Friday a thief
On Sunday a King
Laid down in grief
But awoke with keys
Of Hell on that day
The first born of the slain
The Man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave
day 22 – “ a song that you listen to when you’re sad
I’m trying to think back to a point I was actually sad….
I’m pretty certain the saddest day of my life was the day my sister Amy died.
I remember driving from Belton to Dallas that day listening to Nicole C Mullin sing My Redeemer Lives and Wayne Watson sing Home Free and Almighty over and over and over again.
Those songs were great reminders at the time but probably not my typical choice when I get down from day to day.
As I think back over the last year or so, my go to song has been OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass.
A great reminder for just about every occasion.
Let it go, this too shall pass….
And of course you can’t forget the video they did with the Notre Dame marching band…
“Every 19 seconds a mother looses her child due to water born diseases…”
A great new video from Charity:Water…
Grace isn’t fair – but it’s what God’s Kingdom is all about…
God’s kingdom is like an estate manager who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. They agreed on a wage of a dollar a day, and went to work. Later, about nine o’clock, the manager saw some other men hanging around the town square unemployed. He told them to go to work in his vineyard and he would pay them a fair wage. They went.
He did the same thing at noon, and again at three o’clock. At five o’clock he went back and found still others standing around. He said, “Why are you standing around all day doing nothing?”
They said, “Because no one hired us.”
He told them to go to work in his vineyard.
When the day’s work was over, the owner of the vineyard instructed his foreman, “Call the workers in and pay them their wages. Start with the last hired and go on to the first.”
Those hired at five o’clock came up and were each given a dollar. When those who were hired first saw that, they assumed they would get far more. But they got the same, each of them one dollar. Taking the dollar, they groused angrily to the manager, “These last workers put in only one easy hour, and you just made them equal to us, who slaved all day under a scorching sun.”
He replied to the one speaking for the rest, “Friend, I haven’t been unfair. We agreed on the wage of a dollar, didn’t we? So take it and go. I decided to give to the one who came last the same as you. Can’t I do what I want with my own money? Are you going to get stingy because I am generous?”
Here it is again, the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first.
