Grace Practicing a Local Instrument
Grace is playing the silver-spoon corn plate. Click here to play it in Quicktime. Click here if the first link doesn’t work.
What is Sin?
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God has made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. From p. 114, Velvet Elvis, by Rob Bell
How Beating a Vegan with a Bamboo Stick Helped Me Fulfill the Law
Galatians 5.14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‚ÄúLove your neighbor as yourself.‚Äù¬† (Neutered International Version) How is this: The big empty void of all of the ways of life you’ve been taught can be completely filled up in one word: LOVE. I find myself griping about a lot of things,…
The Joyless Reign of Rules
There are 2 interesting verses in Galatians 4 Galatians 4.11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. Galatians 4.15 What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. The…
Taking God's Name
Exodus 20.7 ‚ÄúYou shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. the KJV is actually a little closer Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless…
Power, Love, and Adventure
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV) For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. I’m looking at that, and I prayed it for God’s Church in the world, and I’m thinking about it. I used to read this verse as an anthem to have self-control….
Wait, That Didn't Count…
so the big question of what about all of my sins I now commit: they aren’t counted against me. I’m free from sin, not because I don’t sin, but because they don’t count. they don’t count? But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the…
Grab that Fear by the Tail
Then the LORD said to him, ‚ÄúWhat is that in your hand?‚Äù ‚ÄúA staff,‚Äù he replied. The LORD said, ‚ÄúThrow it on the ground.‚Äù Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the LORD said to him, ‚ÄúReach out your hand and take it by the…
Isaac talks about Easter
Singing and stories from Isaac on Easter. Isaac on Easter
David talks about a windstorm
We heard hollers out in the street, then a bunch of dust, then we all closed our eyes. It was pretty wild. Here is David’s take on it, among a few other things… David on a Windstorm