This is quite possibly the stupidest scene from the stupidest movie ever. These guys look so goofy…did they really mean this to be serious or cool? Oh, the 80’s!
P.S. A special “shout-out” to Melissa Sydlowski who brought this clip back into my life. I’m not sure whether to thank you or strangle you!
I’m sitting at my computer with tears in my eyes. God, that I could ever say without wavering, “You are enough”. Sometimes the words of God spoken through a man of God like John Piper slice right through a heart and leave you devastated. I’m devastated.
“If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section. That is where lost people are found, and if you make them put their cigarette out to hear the message they will be thinking about only one thing: ‘When can I get another cigarette?’” - Neil Cole, The Organic Church
Who needs a movie? I can barely type because of the laughter!
I don’t like “praise teams”, but Hillsong music is so good, I don’t care.
You gotta read this post. Awesome picture of authentic worship.
Follow this link. Click on “Watch” the Risky Business service under the I love the 80’s series. This guy absolutely kills Eddie Van Halen’s famous “Beat it” solo. But he looks like Bill Gates! You won’t be sorry you watched!
This is a couple of years old, and if you’re not familiar with Saturday Night Live during the Will Ferrell years (more cowbell!) you won’t get it, but someone requested I post it…so here it is!
I’m not a big “CCM” fan, but I’ve always had an appreciation for the songwriting of Wayne Watson. This song is one that always convicts me over and over again. As a matter of fact, I actually have the words penned on the inside of my Bible that I used throughout college. Wayne explains how the song came to be, and shares the lyrics. Powerful.
I heard a country song years ago that told the story of an old, down and out kind of guy that walked into a church building. The worship service was in progress when he came in and as the song goes, he tells about how he doesn’t fit in. He notices that most of the people are dressed in nice clean clothes and he is dirty and wearing his worn out best. Then he starts talking to Jesus and says he remembered that people didn’t accept Him either. The singer describes his kinship with the Son of Man – outcast and rejected, hoping that the Savior would take him as he is.
I don’t know the artists’ name or even the name of the song, but I remember how it resonated in me.
I grew up in church – there all the time. As a child going off to church in my hometown, you wore your Sunday best and always entered the building with reverence. We always sat in the same seat while most other regulars held down their own places as well. I don’t know how we would have treated a stranger like the one in the song. Not many strangers came along in those days. I hope we would have welcome without prejudice but I don’t know.
The country song I heard, along with years of observation from the pew, got me to thinking. Have I formed some image of Christ that conforms to my definition?
Do I see him like the picture on the Sunday school room wall? What if he came in the form of a biker or a foreigner that I don’t know? What if he came in some bodily form that was repulsive to me?
I’ve always been fascinated with this question. What was Jesus’ personality like? From the scripture, we get a clear picture of His heart and His character – how he felt about His Father and how he felt about all kinds of people. But was He outgoing – type A? Was He gregarious and funny? Or was he private and melancholy? Being fully human as well as fully divine, did he have one dominating personality or was he a composite of all of them? I don’t know why but it’s interesting to me.
I suppose it’s interesting because so many of us quietly insist that, if we are to become like Jesus, then He has to be a little like me. I’m thankful that God made each of us unique – with unique fingerprints and unique gifts and talents. It’s His business to give what He wants. It’s my desire to pursue the characteristics of my Lord and try to imitate Him – to be conformed to His image while still retaining the “me” that he formed before the foundation of the earth. All the while, the thing to remember is “less of me, more of You”.
I wrote “Would I Know You Now” to express these thoughts.
Would I know you now?
If you walked into this place
Would I cause you shame
Would my games be your disgrace?
Or would I worship you
Fall upon my face
I wonder if I’d know you now
Or have the images I’ve painted
So distorted who you are
That even if the world was looking
They could not see you
The real you
Have I changed the true reflection?
To fulfill my own design
Making you what I want
Not showing you forth Divine
Showing you Divine
Would I miss you now?
If you left and closed the door
Would my flesh cry out?
I don’t need you anymore
Or would I follow you
Could I be restored?
I wonder if I’d know you
Will I ever learn?
I wonder if I’d know you now
Being a small church….being a new church….being a church without a lot of money. These are all reasons we could cash it in, and say, “We could never do that!”. But that would be letting fear rule us, and God has not given us a spirit of fear, so we will refuse to let fear cripple us. In the next 6-8 months our small, new church will be doing two “Big” things. Things that are big risks (not stupid risks, but smart ones!). Things that could clean out our bank account! Things that many “big” churches can’t or won’t do! But we refuse to sit pat…to sit around unnoticed while people are lost all around us. These are things that we will not be able to pull off without God, without His intervention. But, if we can do something without God….what’s the point of doing it at all!?? Sometimes the very things you think you can’t do are the very things you must do. At the end of 2008, The Journey Church will no longer be a hidden secret, but will be known to all who call Crofton home. We will not be ignored! As for what these “big” things are….keep checking back for the announcements!
Can’t wait to see these guys in concert on Thursday in B’More! Wish they would play the whole time and Casting Crowns would sit this one out!
Again, another conference that I couldn’t go to! Perry Noble and the guys down at Newspring Church put this conference on and have made the sessions and the PDF’s of the notes available for free online! Thanks so much guys!
Had some lunch with Carl and Lindsay Kuhl. They moved up here from Louisville, Kentucky back in January and will be launching Mosaic Christian Church in September at Arundel Mills Mall. It’s great to meet young people serving God and committed to doing Church differently. I will be praying for them as they do the hard work of launching that church.
Here is Our King/Not to Us Crowder/Tomlin
God of Wonders Marc Byrd
Old Rugged Cross Jeff Johnson
He Rose Johnson
Come Back to Me Trading Yesterday
Glorious Day Johnson
You’ve gotta listen to this guy. It’s about 4 minutes long, but it’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while. I’ll never pee the same way again (shout out to Boz!)
I’ve been very busy (and with a sick baby and Easter coming up) this past week so I know the posts have been rare, but come Monday the posts will be a rollin’. Got some good stuff for you so check back often!
Check this out….
As believers, how often do we miss God, simply because we’re focusing on something else and miss Him altogether? Just a thought.
I like change, so I will probably change my site every so often. I like it. What do you think?
From “Church Marketing Sucks”:
Erwin McManus has his thoughts about why churches are in decline. And it’s not bad design, bad web sites or poor use of technology.
“My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them … I think the bottom line really is our own spiritual narcissism. There are methods and you can talk about style, structure and music, but in the end it really comes down to your heart and what you care about.”
You don’t market country clubs. You don’t market your secret society. And you can’t market your church if the attitude within is one of self-indulgence and only caring about what works best for your members. Simply put, you can’t market your church if your church isn’t ready to sacrifice.
Here is a link to the whole article.
Check out this list of 80’s songs that they say are embarrassingly addictive.
I Love every single one of them!
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