NOAH TODAY

November 21, 2008

Noah Today

In the year 2008, the Lord came unto Noah,

who was now living in the United States, and said:
“Once again, the earth has become wicked and over
-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me.”

“Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing
along with a few good humans.”

He gave Noah the blueprints, saying:
“You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will
start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights.”

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Something I Don’t Get

June 4, 2008

Chronicles of Narnia Prince CaspianI watched the Chronicles of Narnia with Brandon the other day. We followed it up with the sequel Prince Caspian. Both entertaining but hardly “spiritual”. The author C.S. Lewis, is largely regarded as one of the pillars of Christian theology. Lewis wrote the Narnia series. Therefore many well meaning Christians give Narina a pass. It must be ok for C.S.Lewis wrote it. Yet the Christian community had a huge out cry about the Harry Potter movies.

Both movies share similar themes. Both had elements of witchcraft and sorcery. It’s a little hypocritical to endorse one but not the other IMO. If you hold hard to the legalistic view of keeping magic away from children, fine. Then keep your kids away from Chronicles of Narnia. When ready to teach your children discernment about what’s real and what’s magical then don’t “villainize” Harry Potter because it’s not authored by C.S. Lewis.

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Celebration of Hope 08’

May 4, 2008

Tonight Brian and I spent some time volunteering with Feed My Starving Children. We packed meals that would help feed children in over 50 countries. It was a great and rewarding experience. Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) invites volunteers of all ages to hand-pack meals for starving children. You can even plan your child’s next birthday party there and teach your children the importance of giving, serving and having compassion for others.

Willow Creek Community Church has been our home church for many years now. Over the last several weeks, the churches focus was Celebration of Hope 08’ Hunger. We were given the opportunity to participate in a number of challenges. Limiting our consumption (LIST), packing meals for others and experiencing a fair trade market. During the Mother’s day service, we will be able to offer our savings from our limited consumption use to raise money to feed over 10,000 children in Zimbabwe.

If you would also like to be a part of this experience and make a onetime gift, you can do so by CLICKING HERE and going to the church website.

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Positive & Encouraging

April 4, 2008

Looking for some positive input into your life? I have two sources to help you out.

KLove
During these days of political confusion, and economic strife it’s hard to find peace at home. KLove helps keeps my general outlook on life positive. If you’re in Chicago give it a try for an hour and see if you’re affected the same way. You can find KLove at FM 94.3. If you’re outside of Chicago you can listen online at KLove.com or click here for a station listing in your area.

Gospel Music Channel
I found a cool new resource on direcTV I’ve been enjoying this week, Gospel Music Channel. When I first stumbled on the channel I thought it was going to be old southern country music. I was totally wrong. GMC carries modern music for the whole family with contemporary beats. It’s basically a family MTV channel. I especially find it enjoying when I’m in the kitchen doing dishes. I can pop on the TV to GMC and get energized rather then listening to more news about how the whole country is going down the drain.

To watch Gospel Music Channel tune into 475 on Comcast & 338 on DirecTV.

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Reflecting the Book

April 6, 2007

Whale: the new way to sail
[Jonah 1] 1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

3 But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.

4 Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. 5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. 6 The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish.”

7 Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

8 So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

9 He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.”

10 This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.)

11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. 14 Then they cried to the LORD, “O LORD, please do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD, have done as you pleased.” 15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. 16 At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him.

17 But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.

Basically this story is about not listening to God’s will. God clearly told Jonah that he should go to Nineveh to share about God’s goodness. However, Jonah was scared because the city of Nineveh had a horrible reputation. Jonah tries to sail away from Nineveh. That’s when God sent a massive storm and the sailors threw Jonah overboard. Jonah was swallowed by the whale and taken to Nineveh. Rereading the story I’m reminded Jonah was inside the whale for 3 days. That’s crazy, think about what that experience must have been like.

Anastasia & I have a funny saying. When either one of us is outside of God’s will we’ll say, “watch out for whales”. It’s our cute way of telling each other we better check ourselves before going down the wrong path.

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