Marching band – The Nexus

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (ESV – Read the chapter)

We are not God. That should be basic, but it’s not. A reversal of that fact is the fundamental deceit of the fall. We forget it all the time, in fact. We regularly are guilty of thinking we know better than God how to run His world. Things happen a certain way and we almost immediately start Monday-morning-quarterbacking the creator and sustainer of the whole cosmos. When was the last time you consciously processed a thought which began with, “Well, if I were God…”? Read the rest…

As we continue in our series, A Word on Reality, this past Sunday morning we looked at John’s call to make loving one another something that goes beyond being merely a slogan we claim, to an essential part of our identity in Christ. Read on for more…

A Call to Action

Have you ever seen or worn a t-shirt with a slogan on it? I suspect you have. I had one in high school that my folks recently dug up in one of their closets and mailed to me that read: “The football team will be performing before and after tonight’s featured performance of the marching band halftime show.” It featured a picture of a trombone slide piercing a football. Now, if you’re a football fan or player you may be rolling your eyes, but I’m comfortable admitting that I was a huge band nerd in high school. Also, our football team was awful. And with over 200 kids in the marching band, for most home games our parents easily made up the biggest percentage of the crowd. So yes, the crowd really was mostly coming to the game just to see the band. Read the rest…

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A Call to Action