New Wine, New Wineskins

This entry is a sort of preface to a series I’ll be beginning next week:  My Unabashedly Biased Top Ten Spiritually Significant Films of the Past Two Decades.
While I was writing about the first film on the list, the video (at the bottom of the post) of Mark Driscoll’s comments on “Avatar” during a sermon [...]

Sometimes a ridiculous caricature of something or someone is useful for confronting and correcting the screwed up “images”  that somehow get “filed” in the cracks of our gray matter.  These videos were created by a youth group to confront the wacky, though often unspoken, “images” people have of Jesus.  \”Vintage 21 Videos\

Check out this U-Tube video on leadership. Very interesting demonstration of how leadership works, and what it takes to really start–and be a part of– a movement! Pertaining to New Wine, who do you think the Lone Nut is, (eh-hem) and how well are we following/leading?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter.  I have been looking for a little inspiration/instruction to aid me in my participation of the Lenten season.  Thankfully,I came across a little article in a devotional anthology, “Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter.”  It provided me with the “entry [...]

In the long tradition of Christians spiritualizing poems about marriage, I offer “The Wild Rose” by Wendell Berry:
Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,
suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was [...]