A Special Mother's Day Message From Mr. T

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Cool Video From Joel 2/Acts 2

I just saw a cool video of Joel’s prophe­cy (the one quot­ed by Peter in Acts 2) made by The Work of the Peo­ple. It’s def­i­nite­ly worth tak­ing a minute and thir­ty-nine sec­onds to watch.

I just saw a cool video of Joel’s prophe­cy (the one quot­ed by Peter in Acts 2) made by The Work of the Peo­ple

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Dorothy Sayers on Work

Around 15 years ago, I heard Eric Treuil quote Dorothy Say­ers to the effect that the car­pen­ter from Nazareth nev­er built any shod­dy tables. It was fab­u­lous. I’ve been think­ing about that obser­va­tion off and on ever since.

I recent­ly stum­bled upon it again, this time in its orig­i­nal form. It’s found in the essay “Why Work?” by Dorothy Say­ers which appeared in her book Creed or Chaos

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Here’s one of my favorite pas­sages:

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Church by all means, and decent forms of amuse­ment, cer­tain­ly – but what use is all that if in the very cen­ter of his life and occu­pa­tion he is insult­ing God with bad car­pen­try? No crooked table legs or ill-fit­ting draw­ers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could any­one believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heav­en and earth. No piety in the work­er will com­pen­sate for work that is not true to itself; for any work that is untrue to its own tech­nique is a liv­ing lie.

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[The Church] has lost all sense of the fact that the liv­ing and eter­nal truth is expressed in work only so far as that work is true in itself, to itself, to the stan­dards of its own tech­nique. She has for­got­ten that the sec­u­lar voca­tion is sacred. For­got­ten that a build­ing must be good archi­tec­ture before it can be a good church; that a paint­ing must be well paint­ed before it can be a good sacred pic­ture; that work must be good work before it can call itself God’s work. purse brite

The whole essay is well worth read­ing and I com­mend it to you.

God's Grandeur: One Of My Favorite Poems

While prepar­ing for this week’s ser­mon I was remind­ed of one of my all-time favorite poems. I won’t be able to use it in the mes­sage, so I thought I’d share it here as a bonus.

It’s God’s Grandeur by Ger­ard Man­ley Hop­kins

. You can find more of his poems at Bartle­by

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THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.  
  It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;  
  It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil  
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?  
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
  And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;  
  And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil  
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.  
  
And for all this, nature is never spent;  
  There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went  
  Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—  
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent  
  World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Do you have a favorite poem?

Reaching the Campus Tribes

Last year I had the chance to meet a guy named Ben­son Hines. He took a year to trav­el to near­ly 200 col­lege cam­pus­es to see what God was up to, and one of his stops was Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. We met and talked shop for a while and have stayed in touch via Face­book since then.

Ben­son has just writ­ten a free book called Reach­ing The Cam­pus Tribes

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about his obser­va­tions. His cen­tral the­sis: col­lege min­istry is a whole lot more like for­eign mis­sions than it is like youth min­istry

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It’s going to be ful­ly avail­able next Mon­day at http://reachingthecampustribes.com/

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Ben­son also has a blog: Explor­ing Col­lege Min­istry. Check it out.

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Worship for Believers and Unbelievers

One of my favorite MP3s is Tim Keller’s Preach­ing to Believ­ers and Unbe­liev­ers. I des­per­ate­ly want to preach in such a way that I nour­ish believ­ers while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly engag­ing non­be­liev­ers.

I don’t know of any com­pa­ra­ble resource that talks about musi­cal wor­ship. Does any­one know of a good MP3, arti­cle or book along these lines?

I’m not just look­ing for some­thing that says, “We should do this.” I’m look­ing for some­thing that says, “We should do this, and here is how.”

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Why People Are Getting Married Later

The Freako­nom­ics blog tipped me off to a fas­ci­nat­ing inter­view with the author of a recent book on mar­riage in Amer­i­ca. Two of the author’s respons­es stood out to me (empha­sis added):

Fifty years ago you had to be mar­ried to be a respectable adult in the Unit­ed States. Today, mar­riage is optional—you can get most of your emo­tion­al and eco­nom­ic needs by liv­ing with partner—and sin­gle par­ents can also get by. But odd­ly enough, mar­riage is, if any­thing, more impor­tant than ever to peo­ple as a sym­bol of hav­ing made it in life—of hav­ing a suc­cess­ful per­son­al life. Most young Amer­i­cans still want to get mar­ried, but they do it only when all the oth­er steps to adult­hood are in place—when they have com­plet­ed their edu­ca­tion, when they and their part­ners have jobs, when they have saved up enough for a down pay­ment on a house, or even have had chil­dren togeth­er. Mar­riage used to be the first step into adult­hood, but now it is the last. It’s the cap­stone of per­son­al life—the final brick put in after all the oth­ers are in place.

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So mar­riage is still impor­tant, but in a dif­fer­ent way than in the past. It’s a sym­bol of per­son­al achievement—the ulti­mate mer­it badge, the mar­riage badge.

And

One sta­tis­tic that stunned me: take two chil­dren, one grow­ing up with mar­ried par­ents in the Unit­ed States, and one grow­ing up with unmar­ried par­ents in Sweden—which child has the high­er like­li­hood of see­ing his par­ents’ rela­tion­ship break up? Answer: the Amer­i­can kid, because chil­dren liv­ing with mar­ried par­ents in the Unit­ed States have a high­er prob­a­bil­i­ty of expe­ri­enc­ing a break-up than do chil­dren liv­ing with unmar­ried par­ents in Swe­den. That’s how high our break-up rates are.

So… yeah. If it sounds inter­est­ing to you, check out The Mar­riage-Go-Round. Inter­est­ing­ly, the Google Books page is very sparse right now. How long does it take for new books to get a full list­ing?

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My Redeemer Lives Considered From The Standpoint Of Grammar

WARNING: gram­mar geek­i­ness ahead.

I hate songs with non­sen­si­cal lyrics, espe­cial­ly those that pur­port to be wor­ship songs. The lyrics of a song mat­ter far more to me than their accom­pa­ny­ing music: I would for­bid a song from being played in my min­istry for hav­ing bad lyrics but nev­er for hav­ing chords which I did not like.

And so I was espe­cial­ly pleased to make sense of some puz­zling lyrics in My Redeemer Lives

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in church this morn­ing.

The prob­lem­at­ic stan­za is

You lift my bur­dens
I’ll rise with You
I’m danc­ing on this moun­tain top
to see Your king­dom come

I was hung up on the word “to”, which I took to mean “I am danc­ing on this moun­tain top in order to bring about Your King­dom’s arrival.” In anoth­er lan­guage this would be called a dative of pur­pose. This trou­bled me, because as Lind­sey down­load the tragedy of mac­beth online down­load drag me to hell dvd down­load the name­sake online

said this morn­ing, “There are few things less like­ly to bring about the king­dom than danc­ing on a moun­tain. How about feed­ing some home­less peo­ple or talk­ing to some­one about Jesus?”

But then I real­ized there were at least two oth­er inter­pre­ta­tions of the word “to”. It could be like a dative of instru­ment (“I am danc­ing on this moun­tain top because I get a good view from up here which enables me to behold Your king­dom as it spreads on earth”) or like an abla­tive of atten­dant cir­cum­stances (“To see your King­dom come caus­es me to dance on this moun­tain top”).

I sus­pect it’s the lat­ter.

So now I can sing that song.

For the 1% of you who have been sim­i­lar­ly puz­zled, you’re wel­come.

For the 80% of you won­der­ing if I made up the words dative and abla­tive, check out Wikipedi­a’s list of gram­mat­i­cal cas­es.

Create a Facebook Friend List for Chi Alpha

I just sent this email to the stu­dents in my min­istry. If you find it help­ful, feel free to adapt it for your own church/ministry.

Hope you’re doing well in the after­math of finals.

Quick sug­ges­tion: take a bit of your free time over spring break to do a very sim­ple task that will help strength­en our com­mu­ni­ty.

If you use Face­book, make a friend list for Chi Alpha.

  1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn
  2. Click the blue “Make A New List” but­ton on the left side of the screen and call the new list “Chi Alpha”.
  3. On the next screen, add every­one in Chi Alpha. Use the phone list as a guide (I’ve enclosed the list of names below — just cut and paste them one at a time into the “add to list” box).
  4. Now every time you log in, you’ve got a sim­ple way to quick­ly check in with our com­mu­ni­ty. There will be a “Chi Alpha” link on the left side­bar of the main Face­book page that will show you the most recent sta­tus updates/shared links/whatever from the peo­ple in our group.
  5. Now add two or three peo­ple you are shar­ing your faith with to the list. When­ev­er you see their sta­tus updates pop up on the XA list you just made, remem­ber to pray for them and invite them to join us the next time you see them.

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It’s hard­ly going to rev­o­lu­tion­ize your life, but if all or even a lot of us do it then it will make our com­mu­ni­ty that much tighter. Face­book is a great tool for enhanc­ing real life friend­ships — max­i­mize it for the King­dom!

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College Ministry and Global Transformation

One of my favorite sub­jects to talk about is the strate­gic nature of cam­pus min­istry. As I was read­ing the most recent issue of Books & Cul­ture scar divx

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, one pas­sage from a book review popped out at me:

I saw a strik­ing pat­tern in these books [Evan­gel­i­cal Chris­tian­i­ty and Democ­ra­cy in the Glob­al South: Africa chil­dren shouldn t play with dead things down­load /Latin Amer­i­ca/Asia] that the edi­tors and authors did not men­tion: a dis­tinct source for much of the more prin­ci­pled evan­gel­i­cal social and polit­i­cal engage­ment across the regions. Repeat­ed­ly, the lead­ers of para­church min­istries and reform-mind­ed NGOs that worked on behalf of the poor and the vul­ner­a­ble, who spoke up for human rights and elec­toral reform and against cor­rup­tion and auto­crat­ic rule came from two sources: stu­dent Chris­t­ian move­ments and the world­wide net­work of evan­gel­i­cal lead­ers affil­i­at­ed with the Lau­sanne Com­mit­tee for World Evan­ge­liza­tion. Inter-Var­si­ty Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship joined the Peo­ple Pow­er move­ment in the Philip­pines, while Cam­pus Cru­sade played a cen­tral role in the for­ma­tion of the Cit­i­zens Com­mit­tee for Eco­nom­ic Jus­tice in South Korea. Like­wise in South Africa, it was the mem­bers of Youth Alive, the evan­gel­i­cal stu­dent fel­low­ship start­ed in Sowe­to by Cae­sar Mole­bat­si, who drove the Con­cerned Evan­gel­i­cals move­ment to resist apartheid in the 1980s. The Latin Amer­i­can The­o­log­i­cal Fra­ter­ni­ty, an evan­gel­i­cal net­work with strong ties to both the Lau­sanne Com­mit­tee and the Inter­na­tion­al Fel­low­ship of Evan­gel­i­cal Stu­dents, fig­ures promi­nent­ly in pro-demo­c­ra­t­ic evan­gel­i­cal work across Latin Amer­i­ca.

INFEMIT [the Inter­na­tion­al Fel­low­ship of Evan­gel­i­cal Mis­sion The­olo­gians] itself is a prod­uct of this net­work, which might help explain these authors’ inter­est in high­light­ing this strain of evan­gel­i­cal social thought and action. But it is indeed sig­nif­i­cant. Lit­tle could the Anglo-Amer­i­can founders of the Lau­sanne and cam­pus min­istry move­ments have imag­ined that their empha­sis on thought­ful Bible study and a “whole gospel for the whole world” would help ani­mate demo­c­ra­t­ic move­ments around the globe.

source: “Now What? Revival­ist Chris­tian­i­ty and Glob­al South Pol­i­tics” by Joel Car­pen­ter. Books & Cul­ture March/April 2009, page 36.

If you want to change a cul­ture, change its cam­pus­es. They are the steer­ing wheels of soci­ety.