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I guess it’s time I start getting used to it. At 28, I’m getting old. My first realization of this came on my birthday in April. I was totally convinced that I was turning 29. It took my mom a while to convince me otherwise. But her persistence, i bet, was partly related to that fact that agreeing to my being 1 year older meant coming to grips with another year closer to 50 for her, and that would be unacceptable before its time. So, I’m 28, not 29. And I hope my memory doesn’t fail me next year into thinking I am turning 32.

The second indication of my aging is a piece of mail that I received a few days ago. It looked like any other piece of junk mail, but the word “Irvine” caught my eye. Irvine was a city that I lived in while I lived in California, it was the name of the city and of the high school from which I graduated in 1998. Yep, it was junk mail advertising my 10 year high school class reunion. I say junk mail because I don’t get it. I don’t get why I would want to go back to that place. I know that some people have good memories of their high school times, but I don’t. I was just the quiet and awkward kid who sat in the back of class so I could be better ignored by the cool kids. But don’t read that as me being bitter, because it was part of what brought me and formed me into who I am today… A loud and awkward old dude.

I just hope my hair doesn’t start going gray and falling out, requiring me to use just for men and cut it with the number 1 trimmer to camouflage the fact that my appointment with a cane is getting closer every day.

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I’ve been trying to read more lately. But, the problem with most of what I have been reading is that most of it is dry and is not engaging. And it is hard for a dry book to keep my attention when there is so much else out there that is begging for it. This, however, is not the case for Vintage Jesus, by Mark Driscoll. So far it has been a great read; challenging my faith and making me laugh at the same time. I have been reading it for the past few nights and came upon a paragraph that I had to share.

Sadly it is too common for churches not to speak of Jesus, which is a tragedy akin to a wife rarely uttering the name of her own husband.  In our day when there are innumerable contradictory beliefs about who God is, Christians must be clear that their God is Jesus Christ alone so as to communicate the same central truth that scripture does.  No matter how many verses are used, the Bible has not been rightly understood or proclaimed unless Jesus is the central focus and hero.

Mark Driscoll
Vintage Jesus, pp. 66

Exactly. I think that Christians in general and many churches (if not most) have such a low view of Jesus and the gospel that we loose the power of our faith for powerless religion. I wish all Christian leaders had the same attitude that is extolled in this paragraph (and in the book as a whole), about their savior.

I would highly recommend that all Christians read this book, it would give us all a much better understanding of our hero. You can buy a copy of the book at amazon.com.

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I can say (being absolutely convinced that it’s true), that Jesus is first in my life and that I desire to know Him more intimately and see people changed by His love. The problem is that my life so often proves me to be a liar (whether I am convinced of it or not). I find that idolatry seems to hide itself very well in my life. And it is always hidden to the degree that I can look at someone else and see their idol, and totally miss the fact that I am worshiping mine at the moment that I spotted theirs.

Mark Driscoll has a story that lends an interesting perspective to our American culture. Watch the video below and, if you can (without proving yourself to be a liar as well), tell me that you are not guilty of idolatry from time to time. I am sure that if you are anything like me, you struggle with this issue a lot. And, if you aren’t like me and you don’t struggle with idolatry at all, let me know your secret (you know, outside of moving into a cave all by myself and drinking well water and eating bugs). I’m sure there is some middle ground, Jesus help me find it.

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Man, I must be such a cynic to post this vdeo, but oh how true it is. But I got to say that it’s still not as funny as the one they did for George Bush vs John Kerry of 2004 called This Land. (Both videos have a little language, sorry).

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"After all is said and done, more is said than done."

- Aesop

Hmmm. Anybody else immediately think of the all-talk-no-action-politicians that are unwilling to do what needs to be done to solve our energy problems?

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