Reading Ray Bakke's book, "The Urban Christian".
~The Gospel is news, not advice~
Listening to Kanye West-The College Dropout (new album out yesterday)
~She got a light skinned friend look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend look like Michael Jackson~
Cynthia and I got a room mate yesterday. He didn't come home the first night, so we grounded him.
I am going to teach kids about worshipping the Lord in more ways than music...any suggestions? I've got interpretive dance covered.
ronzilla 2005
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
My Time at The Lynden Fair
I went to the County fair this last week and saw Jars of Clay...more like Jars of Lame. Here are some of my thoughts while the concert was going on:
-Is this the same song?
-When are they going to play "Flood"?
-What will they play after "Flood"?
-I hate when Christian bands do encores. I hate encores all together, but it's pretty lame when a Christian band does a set where people are worshipping and then after they are done, they go backstage and come out after people have been chanting, "one more, one more, one more" for the past five minutes.
-Jars of Clay does have a cool ministry that they are pushing: www.bloodwatermission.org You should check it out.
-Jars spoke about how their ministry asks for only $1 and it will give a person in africa clean water for a year. It cost $18 dollars to see them...imagine what it would look like if instead of going to see an acoustic set of a band whose songs I know only include "Flood", and a few of the hymns off of their new CD, the money was donated to blood: water missions. Imagine if the people of the fair donated $2 from every ticket sold, that would be about $4000-$8000, enough for 1-2 new wells in afica.
-I hate money sometimes.
-I know more about Christian music than I really would like to.
-I don't know as much about secular music as I used too...this has to change.
And then the show ended. YEAH!!!
ron
-Is this the same song?
-When are they going to play "Flood"?
-What will they play after "Flood"?
-I hate when Christian bands do encores. I hate encores all together, but it's pretty lame when a Christian band does a set where people are worshipping and then after they are done, they go backstage and come out after people have been chanting, "one more, one more, one more" for the past five minutes.
-Jars of Clay does have a cool ministry that they are pushing: www.bloodwatermission.org You should check it out.
-Jars spoke about how their ministry asks for only $1 and it will give a person in africa clean water for a year. It cost $18 dollars to see them...imagine what it would look like if instead of going to see an acoustic set of a band whose songs I know only include "Flood", and a few of the hymns off of their new CD, the money was donated to blood: water missions. Imagine if the people of the fair donated $2 from every ticket sold, that would be about $4000-$8000, enough for 1-2 new wells in afica.
-I hate money sometimes.
-I know more about Christian music than I really would like to.
-I don't know as much about secular music as I used too...this has to change.
And then the show ended. YEAH!!!
ron
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
A Rant For You To Read
I really should think before I write this, but that's what blogs are for right? There has been a lot of talk about where my church is headed and the things that we will be doing in order to get there, and I think that it sucks. We are headed into more of a "small group" thought in order to reach out to our county for the good of Gods kingdom. The only thing is, there is a church right across town who is doing the same thing. In order to reach this place of Small groups, we have to cut a lot of programs including some of our outreach programs...so who exactly are we reaching out to now, the white middle class families?
Our new pastor spoke this week and gave an amazing point that we sometimes forget: "There are no second class citizens. It's not that I hate the church, in fact I support them in there attempt to reach more people for Jesus, but it seems that they are almost forgetting the widows and orphans part of the bible and focussing more within the walls of teh church. It's almost as if the church as a whole is trying to become so friendly to the "world", that we are starting to adapt to some of it's traits. What I mean is that maybe we are starting to adapt traits such as self centeredness and this is why we are only looking at what's going on inside and not outside of the church.
I sang a hymn this last week at the Leadership Summit called "I love your church, O God", but I don't know if I really mean it. While I do love the church that Christ died for, I don't always love all of it's people. I think that the worst part about it is that I don't feel bad for saying that.
ron
Forgive me for I have sinned (Guilty Pleasure): I watched THe Chappelle Show Season 2, and I laughed my butt off. Probably one of the funniest things that I have seen in a while, and at the same time, the crudest, rudest, and most vulgar. God, why did you give me a sick sense of humor?
Our new pastor spoke this week and gave an amazing point that we sometimes forget: "There are no second class citizens. It's not that I hate the church, in fact I support them in there attempt to reach more people for Jesus, but it seems that they are almost forgetting the widows and orphans part of the bible and focussing more within the walls of teh church. It's almost as if the church as a whole is trying to become so friendly to the "world", that we are starting to adapt to some of it's traits. What I mean is that maybe we are starting to adapt traits such as self centeredness and this is why we are only looking at what's going on inside and not outside of the church.
I sang a hymn this last week at the Leadership Summit called "I love your church, O God", but I don't know if I really mean it. While I do love the church that Christ died for, I don't always love all of it's people. I think that the worst part about it is that I don't feel bad for saying that.
ron
Forgive me for I have sinned (Guilty Pleasure): I watched THe Chappelle Show Season 2, and I laughed my butt off. Probably one of the funniest things that I have seen in a while, and at the same time, the crudest, rudest, and most vulgar. God, why did you give me a sick sense of humor?
Monday, August 15, 2005
Willow Creek Summit
I, much like my friend Matt at Incarnational Ortho, went to the Willowship conference this past week. Though I've only been to one in my life, I was really skeptical going into this conference (with a name like Rick Warren on the bill how can you not be skeptical). I am glad to say that I was really surprised. From what I've seen for myself and heard from Summit veterans, the press was always on leadership and corporations-BOO. This year there was a huge emphasis on social causes and issues-Yeah!!! Even Rick Warren chimed in with a "shame on the church for not recognizing the AIDS epidemic in Africa". Although one of the many skits that Willow is known for did say (tongue in cheek), "AIDS in Africa, let Bono worry about it".
I really appreciated a lot of what was said at this conference. It was very refreshing to finally hear the church saying that we need to be involved in the world outside of it's walls. Very encouraging.
The only bad thing was I felt like Hybels was giving some "pointers" for pastors to strive and survive whent they are hurting...but all of his pointers were more aimed at mega church pastors rather than the small church guy.
Just what I observed. I heard a lot of things that the church has needed to hear for years now, and I heard other things that I didn't agree with...oh yeah, and I slept through the guy from South Africa. His speech pattern was so rhythmic.
see you soon,
ron
I really appreciated a lot of what was said at this conference. It was very refreshing to finally hear the church saying that we need to be involved in the world outside of it's walls. Very encouraging.
The only bad thing was I felt like Hybels was giving some "pointers" for pastors to strive and survive whent they are hurting...but all of his pointers were more aimed at mega church pastors rather than the small church guy.
Just what I observed. I heard a lot of things that the church has needed to hear for years now, and I heard other things that I didn't agree with...oh yeah, and I slept through the guy from South Africa. His speech pattern was so rhythmic.
see you soon,
ron
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)