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Where do you start when sharing your story…?

Nov 12th

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: Image by Rennett Stowe via Flickr

When you share your story (if you ever do) with others… where do you start?

Do you begin with childhood? Or you’re favorite memory? Or you’re darkest moment? Or somewhere else?

Now, thinking about those who are Christians reading this… where do you start your story (or testimony for those in the older generation …)?

The reason I ask is because I had a great conversation with Pieter here at YFC and he said something about our stories that made me think.

Why do we always start our stories/testimonies with the bad part (ex: God saved me from drugs, alcohol addiction, sexual addiction, depression, bad times, etc…). That is a big piece if that is truly where God met us, but what did God do yesterday? last week? the last year? the last five years? or so on? If we can’t see how God has made a difference yesterday, then has it been a life change and life relationship – or is it just fire insurance that helped you behave better for awhile. Not minimizing change, getting out of a bad situation and all that – just does your relationship go beyond that to include your whole life? (paraphrase)

I know my story always seems to start with all my crap and things I’ve done wrong… it got me thinking.

You’re thoughts?

Alcoholism, Christian, Christianity, Drug, God, Major depressive disorder, Religion and Spirituality, Sexual Addiction

Music Video controversy: “What Matters More” by Derek Webb…

Sep 2nd

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: Derek Webb via last.fm

Got an email from my friend Jeremy on Derek Webb’s new controversial song “What Matters More” off the album “Stockholm Syndrome“.

Below is the video, lyrics and a link to a website called Musical Squash who gives good thoughts and a review of the song.

Apparently the issues for the “Christian Market place” are his lyrics about homosexuality and the use of the word Sh*t (sorry for the blocking of the full word, what a sellout huh …)

Take a listen and jot down some thoughts if you’d like…

You say you always treat people like you like to be / I guess you love being hated for your sexuality / You love when people put words in your mouth / ‘Bout what you believe, make you sound like a freak / ‘Cause if you really believe what you say you believe / You wouldn’t be so damn reckless with the words you speak / Wouldn’t silently conceal when the liars speak / Denyin’ all the dyin’ of the remedy / Tell me, brother, what matters more to you? Tell me, sister, what matters more to you? / If I can tell what’s in your heart by what comes out of your mouth / Then it sure looks to me like being straight is all it’s about / It looks like being hated for all the wrong things / Like chasin’ the wind while the pendulum swings / ‘Cause we can talk and debate until we’re blue in the face / About the language and tradition that he’s comin’ to save / Meanwhile we sit just like we don’t give a sh*t / About 50,000 people who are dyin’ today / Tell me, brother, what matters more to you? Tell me, sister, what matters more to you?

for a review of the song and where these lyrics came from: Musical Squash’s reveiew of “What Matters More” by Derek Webb

Arts, broken, Christian, controversy, Derek Webb, Homosexuality, hypocrisy, love, Lyrics, music, poor

the furious longing of God… part 2

Jun 25th

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: Cover of The Furious Longing of God

to continue the posts after i just finished “the furious longing of God” by Brennan Manning; here’s the 2 part in a 2-parter on the things that really hit me in what he wrote. i’ll again do a quote/excerpt from the book and put a few comments below!

“My God, My Abba, Why, Why have You forsaken Me now”. St. John of the Cross said it will never be given to any human heart to understand the depth of desolation, utter abandonment, incredible loneliness, and complete forsaken that lay behind Jesus’ cry. But even in that cry, there is no indication that Jesus ever lost trust or hope or confidence in His Abba”

it’s kind of hard to fathom what Jesus could have felt. The weight of his task at hand, the emotions and thoughts of a human being going to die, the divine nature that was so in sync with the Father that has now been split… the sins of the world – past, present and future. for me, it kind of puts the petty things i complain to God about that He didn’t give me what i wanted or felt like He’s not hearing me.

Jesus said you are to love one another as I have loved you, a love that will possibly lead to the bloody, anguished gift of yourself; a love that forgives seventy times seven, that keeps More >