Office Tuba

OK, well we recently bought a Tuba... you'll have to wait until this summer to find out why, but here is the first installment of "The Office Tuba!"

BIG RED TRACTOR

Love?

The two greatest commandments: 1. LOVE God. 2. LOVE people.

 ³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”-Matthew 22:36-40

The two greatest commandments have one common word. LOVE. 

Well, what does that mean, to love? What is love? 

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

-1 Corinthians 13:4-7

In his book Crazy Love, Francis Chan challenges our character with a this famous passage in the bible. 

Go back and read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 again. This time, read it like this. Every time that the passage says the word Love, replace it with your name. 

Example: Brian is patient, Brian is kind. Brian Does not envy, Brian does not boast..... 

Gaaaaaa, when I read it like that I just feel like a liar. Don't you? When the bible tells us to LOVE people, It doest say "be nice." Its a call to love, just as we have been loved. 

"we love because he first loved us." -1 John 4:19

http://crazylovebook.com/

popular video

Alright guys, this video has been flying around facebook and youtube in the Christian circles.  What do you think?  Do you agree, disagree, think some is right?  Whatever you think I think the redeeming value of the video is it definitely gets you thinking about the church, religion, and Christ.

Can God Make a Rock So Heavy Even He Can't Lift It?

by. Jared Wilson 

I remember when I first heard this bit of immature atheistic reductio ad absurdum. I was in high school, and I didn't respond to it because the Nirvana-shirted, long-banged drama stud who said it didn't say it to me. He was laying it on his friend like it was theist's kryptonite.

My answer then, steeped in C.S. Lewis as I was, would have been along the lines of the nonsense of the question as framed. It is a rhetorical and hypothetical "gotcha" with no sincerity behind it, and in any event, it is sort of like asking, "Does the number nine smell red or yellow?"

My answer today is different. My answer today would not be to skewer the nature of the question but to inject its insincerity with the sincerity of God and all the weight of the gospel.


The truth is that God did make a weight so heavy he couldn't lift it. He did so not by building an immovable force -- we did that with our sin -- but by incarnating the frailty of humanity and willingly subjecting himself to the force. As one of us, yet still himself, he created the conundrum of the incarnate God, bearing a cross he both ordained yet could not carry by himself, becoming condemned in death and also victorious. And God was crushed according to the plan he himself projected from the foundation of the world.


So, can God make a rock so heavy even he can't lift it?


Yes. And he did. For three days only. And then he drop kicked it out of the mouth of the tomb.