Archives For 2. Contextualize

Wedding Vows

August 30, 2012 — 5 Comments

My wife and I are headed out of the country today. When we return we will be having a wedding in our backyard! I believe it will be a wedding that will be cataclysmic to the “other realm.”

It got me thinking about my wedding just 2.5 short years ago. I am thankful for our wedding. I am thankful for our wedding vows.

But this upcoming wedding will blow the top off any other wedding procession. Continue Reading…

What Matters

August 24, 2012 — 7 Comments

30 years today. August 24, 1982.

I have broken into the third decade.

It’s not my birthday. I’m actually 35. I’ve been in my 30′s for a while now. However, I “said the prayer” 30 years ago.

If I only would have known what that meant at the ripe young age of 5.

But that doesn’t matter. Continue Reading…

It’s Time

August 22, 2012 — 6 Comments

Some of you have been beaten down and bruised by an illegitimate system. Some of you have been spit out left for dead by those who you were once close to.

It’s time.

Some of you have been squeezed by rules that seek to destroy. Some of you have been broken by laws that offer no hope.

It’s time.

Some of you have been chosen to be healed. Some of you have been called to be free.

It’s time.

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Greet One Another

August 16, 2012 — 12 Comments

With a holy what?

You want me to what? Kiss that guy? You’ve got to be kidding me! Why would I kiss anyone?

And you think that’s holy?

Holy miss is what I say! I’m going to suggest the good ol’ Jon Acuff side hug … because I don’t want to be seen as fondling or groping or doing anything inappropriate with another Christian.  Continue Reading…

Hacaliah

August 9, 2012 — 4 Comments

There was this guy named Hacaliah. He was born in captivity. He married a fellow captive woman and they had captive kids.  Their captive kids were raised under some crazy rules that were not Hacaliah’s family’s true destiny.

You see, Hacaliah was in Persia. He was a Jew, living under the authority of King Artaxerxes. His kids were running around the land of the current day Iran. And then something happened … Hacaliah’s son had a job interview.

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