in him is the fullness of all things

pc ( uc davis ) So I've been thinking a lot about the Israelites--how silly they were, how slow they were to learn, how easily they forgot everything, and how similar I am to them. Kind of sobering BUT it is also reassuring to see how God's love for them endured through all their disobedience and stupidity because I know he will be as long-suffering towards me. I've been thinking about one story in particular--you may know it. It's the one where Moses goes up to the mountain to meet with God as well as to get the 10 commandments. What does he find when he comes back down the mountain? The people have fashioned for themselves a golden cow. Now I don't know exactly what must have been going through his mind but the first thing I would have thought would be a cow?! Of all the animals that you could come up with to make an idol of... you came up with the cow? Not a bear, not a lion, not even an elephant? Heaven knows that a cow doesn't strike terror in the heart o...

Music Playlist at MixPod.com I hate all your show and pretense the hypocrisy of your praise the hypocrisy of your festivals I hate all your show Away with your noisy worship Away with your noisy hymns I stop up my ears when your singing ‘em I hate all your show Instead let there be a flood of justice An endless procession of righteous living, living Instead let there be a flood of justice Instead of a show your eyes are closed when you’re praying you sing right along with the band you shine up your shoes for services but there’s blood on your hands you turned your back on the homeless and the ones that don’t fit in your plans quit playing religion games there’s blood on your hands Ah! let’s argue this out if your sins are blood red let’s argue this out you’ll be white as the clouds let’s argue this out quit fooling around give love to the ones who can’t love at all give hope to the on...

Oh you know, just fiddle-fartin' around late one night. Sorry about the crappy audio quality :)

"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated." — D.A. Carson

Sometimes, I try and run away from God--not necessarily deliberately, but subconsciously, I guess. I get caught up in a cycle of sin and I think that God is too angry with me and that there is no way that I could possibly face him. Have you ever felt that way? Whenever I find myself in that place, the Lord seems to draw me back with this song. [Luke 15:11-32] In a whirlwind caught away Broken lips have carried you to a place Where you don't know just how you ever got this far away from here Thinking somehow you could cross the point of no return But my love will never end Whatever reason you've been running I just don't care anymore Already forgotten whatever happened with what went wrong I just want you to come home Incarcerated, borrowed shame Freedom was the promise they took away And now you're left with what you find so hard is forgiving yourself I see something far away Could this be the day to take you in these arms and wash all of the wasted days and year...

I am having an incredibly emo moment right now. My Ghanaian black starred brethren have managed to rip my heart out of my chest and crush it to a million pieces.