July 2006
1 tag
St. Joseph of Arimethea
July 31st is the day that the Church remembers Saint Joseph of Arimathea. Words: Would you give up your own grave? It’s not something that we think about too often. Still, the costs that we spend on burial and internment are often extraordinary. We buy caskets and tombstone that are expensive and elaborate, almost as our final attempt to out-do death by showing it that we can be more...
2 tags
Saints and Days: Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus...
July 29th is the day that the Church remembers Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany. Words: What’s the shortest verse in the Bible? You’ve probably heard that the shortest verse in the Bible is John 1:35, “Jesus wept. This moving image of Jesus is often something that breezes by most followers of our crying God. It doesn’t seem right. Jesus Christ, present from the...
1 tag
Sts. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
July 29th is the day that the Church remembers Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany. Words: What’s the shortest verse in the Bible? You’ve probably heard that the shortest verse in the Bible is John 1:35, “Jesus wept. This moving image of Jesus is often something that breezes by most followers of our crying God. It doesn’t seem right. Jesus Christ, present from the...
1 tag
St. Johann Sebastian Bach
July 28th is the day that the Church remembers St. Johann Sebastian Bach, musician of the Church. Words: Johann Sebastian Bach. The name pretty much speaks for the man and the volume of genius work left behind. Even if you’re not a fan of classical baroque music - you know the name. What many people don’t know about Johann, besides the fact that he was a Lutheran, was that he was...
4 tags
Saints and Days: Johann Sebastian Bach
July 28th is the day that the Church remembers St. Johann Sebastian Bach, musician of the Church. Words: Johann Sebastian Bach. The name pretty much speaks for the man and the volume of genius work left behind. Even if you’re not a fan of classical baroque music - you know the name. What many people don’t know about Johann, besides the fact that he was a Lutheran, was that he was...
1 tag
Spiritual Man, Part II, Chapters 1 and 2
Book Club: The Spiritual Man, by Watchman Nee Part II Chapters 1 and 2 - “The Flesh and Salvation” and “The Fleshly or Carnal Believer” Want to participate in the reading and commenting but haven’t started reading yet? No problem! Pick up the book or buy it here (see sidebar) and get to reading and commenting. I will respond to comments from any chapter throughout...
4 tags
Book Club - Spiritual Man - Part 2 - Chapter 1 and...
Book Club: The Spiritual Man, by Watchman Nee Part II Chapters 1 and 2 - “The Flesh and Salvation” and “The Fleshly or Carnal Believer” Want to participate in the reading and commenting but haven’t started reading yet? No problem! Pick up the book or buy it here (see sidebar) and get to reading and commenting. I will respond to comments from any chapter throughout...
3 tags
Saints and Days: St. James the Elder, Apostle
July 25th is the day that the Church remembers St. James the Elder, the Apostle. Words: First place. It’s someplace that we all want to be, at least at one time or another. We want that blue ribbon experience. We want the trophy or the prize, or perhaps even the record. Our human nature seeks glory and notoriety. It seeks a name and a place of priviledge. We go after the bigger salary, the...
1 tag
St. James the Elder
July 25th is the day that the Church remembers St. James the Elder, the Apostle. Words: First place. It’s someplace that we all want to be, at least at one time or another. We want that blue ribbon experience. We want the trophy or the prize, or perhaps even the record. Our human nature seeks glory and notoriety. It seeks a name and a place of priviledge. We go after the bigger salary, the...
3 tags
Saints and Days: Mary Magdalene
July 22nd is the day that the church remembers Saint Mary Magdelene, the first eyewitness of Christ’s glorious Easter resurrection. Words: Did you see that movie? The other night I went to go see the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Maybe you’ve been a little late in seeing this movie or another movie that it seems like EVERYONE has seen. It’s frustrating for you and everyone...
1 tag
St. Mary Magdalene
July 22nd is the day that the church remembers Saint Mary Magdelene, the first eyewitness of Christ’s glorious Easter resurrection. Words: Did you see that movie? The other night I went to go see the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Maybe you’ve been a little late in seeing this movie or another movie that it seems like EVERYONE has seen. It’s frustrating for you and everyone...
3 tags
Saints and Days: Ezekiel the Prophet
July 21st is the day that the church remembers Saint Ezekiel the Prophet. Words: Does your church seem like it’s dead? Have you ever looked around your church and thought to yourself, “how can God use all of these people?” At times it can be a tough thing to answer, especially when you see the amount of conflict and strife that happens within churches these days. We’re all...
1 tag
St. Elijah, Prophet
July 20th is the day that the church remembers Saint Elijah the Prophet. Words: What are your odds? It’s a phrase that we use quite often when it seems like there is something on the line, when there is a risk of failure or success. We ask about the odds for good outcome in weather, sports, business, and even friendships. Elijah’s odds were officially 1 to 450. The chips were down and...
3 tags
Saints and Days: Elijah the Prophet
July 20th is the day that the church remembers Saint Elijah the Prophet. Words: What are your odds? It’s a phrase that we use quite often when it seems like there is something on the line, when there is a risk of failure or success. We ask about the odds for good outcome in weather, sports, business, and even friendships. Elijah’s odds were officially 1 to 450. The chips were down and...
4 tags
Book Club - The Spiritual Man - Chapter 4
Book Club: The Spiritual Man, by Watchman Nee Chapter 4: Salvation Want to participate in the reading and commenting but haven’t started reading yet? No problem! Pick up the book or buy it here (see sidebar) and get to reading and commenting. I will respond to comments from any chapter throughout the time period of the book. Please comment often!!! It helps me and others understand the text...
Spiritual Man, Chapter 4
Book Club: The Spiritual Man, by Watchman Nee Chapter 4: Salvation Want to participate in the reading and commenting but haven’t started reading yet? No problem! Pick up the book or buy it here (see sidebar) and get to reading and commenting. I will respond to comments from any chapter throughout the time period of the book. Please comment often!!! It helps me and others understand the text...
2 tags
Be A Saint: Beginnings
A website that challenges you to consider your place in the Body of Christ next to the heroes of the faith would be amiss to not give you opportunities to model the Life that we have to give away in Love to show Christ. For that reason, I’m opening up a new category along the lines of doing something good. The first thing I’m going to ask you to do is donate your money to the...
3 tags
Saints and Days: Ruth, Ancestor of Christ
July 16th is the day that the church remembers Saint Ruth, the Ancestor of Christ whose story is portrayed in the Bible. Words: In the 80’s a group of Australian musicians put together a contagious tune titled “A Land Down Under” about travelling across the world and finding out how their citizenship affected how people saw and interacted with them. Ruth, the Moabitess came from...
3 tags
Book Club: Spiritual Man - Chapter 3
Book Club: The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee Chapter 3: The Fall of Man Want to participate in the reading and commenting but haven’t started reading yet? No problem! Pick up the book or buy it here (see sidebar) and get to reading and commenting. I will respond to comments from any chapter throughout the time period of the book. Please comment often!!! It helps me and others understand the...
2 tags
Book Review: Way to Go by Alan Spence
Book Review: “Way To Go” by Alan Spence One Word Review: Deadly My brother handed me Alan Spence’s book before I took a trip and after I asked him, “hey, Mr. Scottish Literature, do you have anything fun to read?” He handed me a winner. “Way to Go” is about Neil McGraw, the son of a Scott undertaker learning to deal with and find meaning out of the very...
3 tags
Saints and Days: Isaiah, Prophet
July 6th is the day that the Church celebrates Isaiah the Prophet. Words: Squlech. “Mayday, mayday, mayday, this is an American vessel off the coast of Germany, does anyone hear this?” That’s what you hear at the beginning of a recent television advertisement. What you see is a young German radio operator at the controls. Nervously, he puts his mouth next to the microphone and...
3 tags
Music Review: Edison Glass
Music Review: Edison Glass One word review: Familiar Listen Here! Edison Glass @ Myspace I was turned on to Edison Glass by my Relevant Magazine. I take the word of Relevant with a grain of salt quite a bit of the time. They are good in the sense that they are a Christian magazine that reviews non-Christian music, but my taste is too old sometimes I suppose. Edison Glass, however, was a good...
4 tags
Book Club - Spiritual Man - Chapter 2
For this week I read Chapter 2 out of Book I in “The Spiritual Man” by Watchman Nee. If you would like to read along with me, please see the eariler post by filtering “Book Club” in the sidebar. Chapter 2: Spirit and SoulIn Chapter 2 it appears that Watchman is seeking to further explain his concept of what it means to be a “Spiritual Man” through isolating the...
