more thoughts on the Church

The Body of Christ is awash with spiritually preoccupied Christians. Somewhere along the way we’ve been sold a bill of goods that busy-ness is next to Godliness and that we can have all the trappings of righteousness without a deep intimate relationship with Jesus. That’s crazy-talk and it’s been around since Moses. Literally. To the Children of Israel, God’s power wasn’t a theory. Think about all that great movie fodder: parting seas, water from rocks, fire on the mountain, all acts of God in Spielberg proportions. When all those astounding, holy, fantastic moments were happening all around them, the Israelites were sneaking around, worshiping idols, fighting each other and acting like Americans. Simply put, they were stubborn, hard-hearted people. All they had to do was rest in the reality and power of God. But they craved to worship their own craft. They melted gold to make calves, they complained about the menu, they horded treasures, and they promoted their own treadmill, me-first existence. In other words they had Egypt on the brain. Can you relate to that? I can. The pagan culture surrounds us and we begin to smell like it. We act like it. Aspiring to be successful we forget what is right. Our heart grows distant. Our soul cracks open and the world spills out of us. We are spiritually brittle.

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[Wanda]

the unholy trinity. me, myself and I
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[john the lesser]

now that is what i like...
...a full on rant

that was suitable for a little background music in between breaths

come on