The 500 Year Question

My curiosity about Makoto Fujimura is still strong (see previous blog entry). Many of you may have been familiar with him, but he’s new to me. I found his web page, and he has a blog there. So I’m reading it, and he tells about going into an art exhibit for Fra [...]

Expressing Life

In a recent attempt to communicate the mission of Athens Vineyard (to be a community experiencing, expressing, and extending the life God gives through Jesus), I was explaining the expressing part of the mission. As we experience life, there should/must be an outflow of that experience, which is life expressed. We express it [...]

Life

To say that you have ‘Life’ can simply mean that you’re not dead.  Then there’s something that we talk about when we say that we are ‘experiencing LIFE’.  This is the kind of life that makes life worth living.  It involves doing the things that bring you life.  And not doing the things that destroy [...]

Body worship

I saw a picture of Britney Spears in the news in an article about her custody battle with Kevin Federline. 

She’s had two babies in less than two years, and I’m surprised she has had the discipline to whip her body back into shape so quickly.  IMHO, she does so because it has to serve her, probably on [...]

Prayer

A guy named F. B. Meyers once said, “The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.”
Why do you think people don’t pray?  They don’t think they’ll get their prayers answered.
The bible is chock full of promises that God will answer if we pray.  I’m afraid our American world view gets in [...]

Symbols and meaning

Ever since I read Ken Gire’s Windows of the Soul, I have paid more attention to God using everyday events to speak to me or get my attention.  (Don’t let that sound too dramatic.  I’m sure I still miss most of it . . .)  In the book, Gire illustrates how God speaks to us [...]

Passing tests and keeping pets.

Here’s the video that didn’t make the cut this week. Almost showed it, but it’s weirdness overruled.

The ring was a temptation to a lot of people. Wisely, Gandalf and others wouldn’t touch it. Galadriel knew it would test her – she passed. Some thought they could [...]

On being rich.

My 10 yr old daughter is at a horse riding camp this week. The people who own the horse farm, she tells me, have a 4 car garage, flat screen tv, another tv in the bathroom, fountain in the yard, stables, lots of pasture, horses, an aquarium in the wall filled with little sharks [...]

I want to catch waves.

I guess I’ll start off by explaining the title.
A fellow Vineyard guy was describing how the moves of God can be comparable to waves in the ocean. Sometimes they’re big. Sometimes they’re small. But there are always waves – at least somewhere. Right now, especially in places other than USA, God [...]