Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Hollie Willoughby Fakes

Christmas

morning it is again: Christmas, the feast of love ... more precisely, perhaps the love of God made flesh in Jesus the years wandered a little more than 2000 through the Judean night and was looking for a place to be born. and found a dirty crib ...

and today, 2000 years later, draws the love of god is still around and looking for a place in the world able to come, again and again. will they find him? will you give it to her? and if so, it will be a dirty manger or may be a little more?

around us a world that is destroyed, people are going to the dogs through mutual oppression, exploitation and abuse. a world that needs God's love, it needs nothing else as good ...

we give her this space? let us hope it is born in us, growing out of us, beyond us and this world is air to breath?

my life is nothing more than a shitty crib, I do not have more to offer ... but which will have Jesus. Lord, they take you, even against my will. What I can not bear to not be able to live through my participation ... I bear a world without Jesus ... I have to be yours!


Hark, the herald angels sing ...


Tuesday, December 9, 2008

What Do You Call An Italian Woman

the good is the enemy of the best

What the multitude of your sacrifices to me?, saith the LORD. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and have no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me - who calls because of you, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; The incense is an abomination! New moons and Sabbaths, when ye come together, calling of meeting I do not like! My soul hates your new moons, and annual festivals, they are a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. And if you spread out your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you, and when ye make many prayers, I will not hear, because your hands are full of blood. Wash you, purifies you, do your evil deeds out of my eyes, let away the evil of Learn to do well; seek legal help, the oppressed, creating the fatherless, widows out of business!
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usually 1.11 to 17, we read this text as under the heading of the Lutheran translation of Amos 5.21, which is quite similar: the outward worship does not do it. is saying you care about your heart attitude first and then you can also get extremely restorative. then read the question is rather "how can we offer appropriate" as "should we sacrifice at all." For all that the lists are prophetic here, but things which God of his people very has told in detail: the various occasions on various victims and the calendar of annual festivals, which are each to remember another occasion in the way of God with his people. are the foundations of Israel's relationship to his God.

but I want to read the text differently. for nowhere I can see, this is written, only doing this and that and then you can again ... here is: "Do not!" "Give up everything I have commanded you to surrender your imagination to God's relationship, which I, you, God has taught. Does not do what I have told you. Turns you away from me turns and you, the outcast and oppressed too!" This is strong stuff. God's commandments, and those were the victims and the firm to disregard, to be all the more obedient, can not come together in our thinking. Therefore, we prefer to stay in the conventional reading and read something about attitude, motivation and attitude of heart in it. and yet, here are the negotiations with respect to two, in the context of the section are compared to each other.

what if God speaks to us so? Are we prepared to our idea of God's relationship, yes - give yourself to God to do what he asks of us - in our imagination? what if the voice of the prophet was made to us and says, "Stop praising make stops to pray to, I do not want that you have community, not wants that you are my contemporary looks, you shall go out and you take care of the oppressed and disadvantaged in front of your door, "we are ready to leave on his word all behind us and to do that? we are ready, the good leave to the best to do if the situation there, no, if God calls?


Monday, December 1, 2008

Sets De Pattycake Online

why I emerge

I spent the weekend on the Emergent Forum 2008 and spent an unusually good time. a weekend full of good, deep conversations with people who share my thoughts or they can follow.

Following drives me since Sunday evening to ask what it is exactly what I on emergent ideas, this way of thinking and life of the community so much. it is not the fun of deconstruction (which I have), it is not the fascination of post-modern philosophy (which is present with me), not the will, political animals to believe (I am extremely politically extreme). and certainly it is not as malicious could suggest the will to tinker, I set pieces from a private Christian system

the fascination that this movement has on me, first and first theological reasons. I see behind it a seriously comprehensive reconciliation of the will of God. if the fall is not only the breaking of the heart of the relationship of man to God, but also a breaking of the heart and a shift of all the relations of things and relations with each other thinks, then reconciliation means not only the healing of the individual's personal relationship to God, but the healing of relationships within the whole of creation. which includes the relationships between people, the relationship of humans to their environment and also the ratio of natural phenomena one with each other. all these relations were broken and shifted part of the reconciliation in the increase of the cross.

in the relationships between people, so in society, which means trouble for me above all imbalance in the treatment options, which an individual has, therefore, power and powerlessness. I think that has a reconciliation that would reach beyond personal salvation, a company, on target, in which the imbalance of power continuously smaller: a society without sexism, racism, do with shared decision making, with a maximum distribution of economic (ie money), not paternalism and manipulation - in the language of theologians: marked by humility and charity.

heard all the reconciliation to the will of God and in my opinion can in no circumstances be dissolved out by one of the two sides. and it is this arc tried the emergent conversation to stretch: the personal reconciliation with God, which has traditionally been a high priority and aims to retain, never without the desire for a reconciled society, to think so throughout a reconciled creation. should be leading to a rethink in terms of structures in Christian communities / communities that are also a picture of society and just because they are socially and community of reconciled, first of all reflect the holistic reconciliation. but also a rethinking or first-time, think about the act of communities and individual in societal relationships into it.

fascinates me and I think that all in fulfillment the divine mandate for reconciliation is happening. that incidentally lead to employment with postmodern thought, the experimental transformation of expressions of faith and have hochdiskursive athmossphäre a big role there, makes my fascination in the decision to want to contribute to it