Amusing juxtaposition.
Punny
Radical
I’m just starting to read the book “Radical” by David Platt. I think there’s a lot about this book I’m going to agree with it. For example, following Jesus when he was on earth looked more like “Give up everything you have, carry a cross, hate your family.” Which is quite different from “Accept, believe, confess, and pray a prayer after me.”
Face of Love
I just read a post about how easy it is for us to be nice and represent Christ to everyone except. Everyone except the person who is gay, or the person who acts like he’s gay, the person who is overweight, the person who is lazy, the person who broke your heart, the person who is a Muslim, the doctor that performed the abortions, etc. You can read the whole thing here if you want to.
I found it quite convicting.
I reminds me of the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11). The Pharisees brought her before Jesus. They were ready to stone her based on the law of Moses, and they asked Jesus what they should do (they were apparently trying to manipulate him). He said that whoever is there that has never sinned should be the first to throw the stone. Jesus was the only one there who fit that criteria, and he did not throw anything. One by one, everyone that was there left.
No one condemned that woman, not even Jesus. He told her that she was free, and that she should go and sin no more. We focus a lot on the “go and sin no more” part, but that didn’t seem to be Jesus’ top priority. His first priority was making others realize how disqualified they were to punish her for her sin.
“You are the face that changed the world. No one too lost for You to love. No one too low for You to serve. So give us the grace to change the world.
No one too lost for me to love. No one to low for me to serve.”
disORDER
The idea of entropy is that everything moves towards a state of disorder. No matter what, everything in the world moves to chaos and becomes less organized. It’s a pretty cool idea, and can be applied to a whole smorgasbord of situations (I’ve never actually seena smorgasbord).
Now, here’s the part I don’t know very much about (although I suppose I don’t know a whole lot about entropy either). Fractals exist in nature. Fractals are math formulas that create beautiful shapes. Shapes that look very mathematical, and often resemble nature, such a leaves, or a shell. But, they are also just math equations. That’s it.
So, even though we move from a state of order to a state of disorder (entropy), we are constantly re-ordering the world (fractals). I think that is very, very, awesome.
The Hunger Games.
It could have easily been two hours longer, to include all the details they left out and develop certain characters and relationships more. However, it was still a very well-done movie that deserves the hype.
There’s two ways I’d like to see The Hunger Games be a platform to speak to modern-day issues. One is that in this world, governments and people groups actually do oppress and sometimes destroy their own or other people groups. It just isn’t broadcasted as sport on our TVs.
The second is the way we, as a society, view entertainment. We’re very selfish about it, and often we find entertainment in the misery of others (this could be watching people flop on American Idol or get body parts chopped off in a movie).
That’s just what I’m thinking about this.
We believe that good has won.
And all of the people of God sang along.
Amen.
