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“ Resurrection is not just coming back to life and going to heaven. Resurrection is the reversal of death.”
(via lj-pulse)
“ While it is the body that does all the action, the source of all the activity begins in the head. It’s the head that plans for the body, that directs the body, that drives the body, that inspires the body. The body does nothing purposeful without its head. The image this conjures in my mind is of the movies portrayed of zombies - the so-called “living dead”. The brain is completely inured, but the body still moves along. You remember: zombies animate, but they move without purpose or focus, and their movements seem very jerky and sluggish. There doesn’t seem to be anything attractive about zombies. Post-2008-financial-tsunami, the media coined the phrase, “zombie companies,” describing companies that were heavily in debt, constantly in need of bail-outs, and that really could not operate on their own. So I started wondering: what about zombie churches?”
Bobby Tsai, in his sermon: “Christ the Head of the Church”. It’s a good, hard-hitting sermon to FCC. And you get to hear an Elder elaborate at great length about headless zombies.
“ Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
C.S. Lewis, “The Weight Of Glory”. This quote came up as we were trying to distinguish lust from desire at twe12th today.
“ The hardest thing in my faith is that Jesus loves Rolando Mendoza. Not for what he’s done, he hates that as anyone should, but him as human being, not a human doing. I pray for spiritual and emotional peace for the families of anyone affected by this terrible incident.”
James Li, after 8 Hong Kong tourists died after being taken hostage on their tour bus in Manila, August 23rd 2010 (via check-point).
“ Essentially, I believe the world needs more, better sermons. And I’m passionate about this. I do not think a sermon should be boring; I think it should be electric. I do not think it should be something that people sit through so that they can go to lunch. I think it should be something that rattles your cage and disturbs you and comforts you and inspires you and provokes you; This is an ancient, primal artform. It’s the original guerilla theatre. And you look through the prophets and you look through Jesus—sermons, whatever you did, you didn’t sit back and just evaluate them. You were caught up in something, because the communicator was caught up in something.”
- Rob Bell explaining the premise for a conference called “Poets, Prophets and Preachers”. Tonight’s sermon at Resound reminded me of this. It was just that—disturbing, comforting, inspiring, provoking. Too hard-hitting to just sit back and evaluate. Thank you Nathan for saying yes to God and changing your entire sermon plan in the final few hours. We are all the better for it.
(via richwu)
