Life in Six Words

God. Our. Sins. Paying. Everyone. Life.

I went to Dare2Share’s Gameday event with my youth group this weekend.  The idea behind the conference is to encourage, inspire, and equip the next generation to win souls for Christ and the transformation I saw in my kids (as in the youth I teach and pastor not my biological children, because I only have one and he’s six months old… although he was there and had a great time)

The transformation I saw in my kids was …. It was God.  It was so encouraging to see them and that’s going to do a whole heck of a lot to get me through this week.

So here’s the video they based a large part of the conference around.  The gospel acrostic: life in six words.

GAMEDAY!

The post I might have written

On Wednesdays I like to talk about worship and prayer. Today however, I won’t. I won’t because I usually end up talking about music or maintaining a worshipful attitude but if I actually talked about music and posted YouTube videos here, it will be censored if the anti-piracy laws pending in congress are passed. Now I try to avoid politics on my blog but this time I’m not. Not only would my blog be censored and shut down, but WordPress would be shut down just for hosting my material. It’s a bit more complicated of course (it’s government of course it’s complicated) but at the end of the day, the post I might have written would be censored.

Check out sopastrike.com for more information.

Madlibs with the Bible

Remember mad libs?  You’d have this page with a list of word types – noun, adjective, verb, transitive verb, prepositional phrase, past perfect non-transitive preposition…. Ok maybe not the last one.  But you’d come up with this list turn the page and then insert your word choices in order in the blanks specified and then get some ridiculous story that almost always left people rolling on the floor in fits of painful laughter.

Listen

Have you ever listened to scripture? Not from an audio bible, although those are pretty good. I’m talking about reading scripture, just you , during your quiet time, aloud so you can hear yourself speak the words.

There’s something powerful about it, and it’s something I didn’t consider until I saw THE BOOK OF ELI. I saw it when it first came out, but I’ve really been thinking about the way the main character recites scripture. I know that he does it from memory, but at the same time it’s as if there’s something deeper, as if he’s reciting it from his heart.

Corny, but true. Here’s a clip.

(PS, BOOK OF ELI is rated R for brutal violence and language although neither appears in the clip)