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I recently was involved in an event called Godbeat LIVE. A friend of mine was putting on the event and asked me to host it. It was a fun opportunity and i was able to share a little Revolutionary Thought in the process.
Here is the video from the event
and below is the corresponding radio spot.
RT :: IMAGINATION
Well i have some new Revolutionary thoughts up!
2 new thoughts went live today and a couple more should pop up late next week.
So make sure you check out www.RevolutionaryThoughts.com and take a listen.
I would love to hear what you think.
More to come!
Grace, peace, & Revolution
Erik
Greeting friends and readers!
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Grace and peace
Erik
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I am impressed by my own spiritual insights. I probably know more about prayer, meditation, and contemplation than most Christians do. I have read many books about the Christian life, and have even written a few myself. Still, as impressed as I am, I am more impressed by the enormous abyss between my insights and my life.
It seems as if I am standing on one side of a huge canyon and see how I should grow toward you, live in your presence and serve you, but cannot reach the other side of the canyon where you are. I can speak and write, preach and argue about the beauty and goodness of the life I see on the other side, but how, O Lord, can I get there? Sometimes I even have the painful feeling that the clearer the vision, the more aware I am of the depth of the canyon.
Am I doomed to die on the wrong side of the abyss? Am I destined to excite others to reach the promised land while remaining unable to enter there myself? Sometimes I feel imprisoned by my own insights and “spiritual competence.” You along, Lord, can reach out to me and save me. You alone.
I can only keep trying to be faithful, even though I feel faithless most of the time. What else can I do but keep praying to you, even when I feel dark; to keep writing about you, edven when I feel numb, to keep speaking in your name, even when I feel alone. Come, Lord Jesus, come. Have Mercy on me, a sinner. Amen.
A Cry for Mercy :: Henry Nouwen
(from A Guide to Prayer)
.:: I think most HONEST Christian leaders can resonate with this. I do! So i thought i would share!
Grace and Peace
Erik
Tags: henry nouwen, prayer, quote
i’m the host for an event this Saturday here in the Nashville area.
This video is pretty funny.
Reminds me of SNL (saturday night live)
Here the video, and be sure to check out GodBeat Live!
Tags: GodBeat, Godbeat Live, Host
Thinking about grace and thinking about getting what you deserve.
Issues of Mercy & Justice i suppose.
My thoughts ::
Does God hold out on us because we don’t pray enough?
Does God give us more “blessing” or gift when we pray more?
Does God hold out on us when we mess up?
Does he give us more when we behave? When we’re good little Christians? And less when we don’t?
The list of questions could go on but I think that will do and you get the idea.
The good Rev. Thomas McKenzie made a point in his sermon a week or so ago at Redeemer that God doesn’t punish us. All punishment was absorbed in the person of Jesus Christ. I think that’s true. And I think it’s an important theological point. But it doesn’t answer the questions above. At least not for me.
Now I don’t think God works like that, giving and taking based on our “performance” or something but it sure feels like that sometimes, doesn’t it. Maybe it’s just the way we have been taught to think? Partly based on God in the OT and partly based on the art of coercion that the Church is WAY to good at.
So how does it really work?
How does God interact with us if not in the way insinuated by the questions above?
Thinking through the issues grace in real life and connecting the dots.
HELP!
Embracing Grace and peace
Erik
I’ve posted another RT (Revolutionary Thoughts)
I would love for you to check it out and let me know what you think.
I am posting a little more content at www.revolutionarythoughts.com
(which is actually just another page of this blog)
But check out that link / page if you would like to read a bit more.
And if you want even more, i have posted a few of these thoughts in written form at the eministries “fan” page on facebook. So check that out as well.
(i’m trying to get 100 “fan” so i can get my own URL.)
(yes it’s true, we live in a nerdy internet world!!!)
But enjoy!
and let me know what you think.
Grace and peace
Erik