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76 days 22hours and 21 minutes until i get married.
this makes me very happy. i miss her - a lot. | | |
| So... I wanted you all to know that Hannah is not my girlfriend anymore.
But, she is my fiancé!
So - yeah... awesome huh?
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| HumanityI wanted to spend some time with some friends the other night, so I pulled out the video projector, whipped up some Kool Aid, burned some crispy burgers, and set up a movie theatre in my back yard. We pulled out a classic... The Matrix.
As I watched the Matrix, a number of things were learned.
I will explain one of them:
1) Mouse begins telling Neo that he can set up a more personal meeting with the woman in the red dress. (Another character then says, "Digital pimp hard at work." haha) Mouse then says, "To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."
Is this proposition true? Is a life in submission to our impulses the essence of humanity?
Sure, living in submission to our impulses separates us from machine, but animals also have impulses. The impulse of hunger drives them to eat. The impulse of self defense causes them to snarl, bark and bite when in danger.
But we have a mind, unlike animals and machines.
The mind gives us reason, creativity, and a number of other things. We do not just live by learned behavior.
Thus, my premise is that to deny our impulses is to affirm the fact that we are human.
So first of all, don't live like an animal. This means: Don't listen to your body every time it tells you to give it a big mac or a gallon of fat frappucinos. Don't waste your life away looking at images of men or women and trying to merely satiate your animal urges. Don't live in submission to your own flesh. Dont let it control you.
Is self control the only thing that makes us human? There is more to humanity than even that. One becomes more human when becoming one of Christ's. What Christ has done for His children restores what has been broken since Adam's sin. Here are some verses to prove my point.
You become more free in Christ. You become more human. Reason and self control alone are insufficient.
Ezek. 36:26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Matt. 26:41 “Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Rom. 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
Rom. 8:13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Rom. 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
questions? ask 'em. i'll write back. | | |
| As most of you know, this Sunday was my last Sunday as an employee of the Church on Rush Creek. No, I was not fired because I am a crazy cracker. I left because of passions the Lord has put in my heart. So in obedience to the Holy Spirit, I left in order to follow Him.
The Lord has been shaping my philosophy of ministry the past number of months, and some of that didn't fit the position I had at Rush Creek. I didn't want to be going to meetings and sitting behind a desk for long periods of time. I also wanted to be dedicated to a more intimate and natural style of teaching and leading worship in song. I'm trying to live a life that loves the Lord in every aspect of my life, and so i believe that means my teaching needs to be a natural part of life as well. This means that I do not want to become business like, entertainment focused, or lecture driven.
How am I going to do this? I do not know... I am still working on it. All that I know is that because the Lord has burdened my heart about this, He will equip me to accomplish this. Pray for me as I do this. I'm hoping changes take place. big changes.
i will keep you all informed as these ideas develop
and i want you students to know that i love you, will continue to pray for you all, and will work at keeping communication with you. you've been a great encouragement. seeing your passion has increased my faith. | | |
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