Conflict mineral video for the Enough Project's video contest.
A pretty amazing piece of work done in collaboration over the last several days.
What's best... the people who worked on this video actually care about the Congo.
ENOUGH FINAL ENTRY from emote360 on Vimeo.
Four of us from the World Relief NEXT team are headed to Grand Rapids this Sunday to take part in a pastors conference called Poets, Preachers and Prophets.
We'll be sharing from the stage about World Relief NEXT and meeting with pastors throughout the conference at a NEXT table.
It's been a ton of fun getting ready for the conference with videos, some new coffee mugs and posters and the shirts that Ann Mara ordered up for us all.
We've also been able to collaborate on some cool stuff with WR Baltimore and a few new friends -- Check out the cover below of the take away piece designed by Jon Bell in Grand Rapids.
Had a great time hanging with our college pastor Matt Smith this afternoon. It kicked up some old thoughts of mine.
What would it look like for Christians and Churches to move beyond just service projects (programmed ways of giving) to becoming servants (programmed to give)?
I guess that I'm wondering if we are fooling ourselves about our obedience to Christ in serving others by our moments of servitude when what Jesus was looking for was a mantle of servitude.
Don't have the energy to go into it too deep, but just thinking that maybe we're not radical enough compared with Jesus' example?
"... whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew
One of my good friends and mentors is Ed Underwood.
Ed was an old Jesus Movement Christian out of the 70's who hasn't slowed down a bit.
I check his blog every so often and loved his post on legalism.
Click here and enjoy checking out Ed's blog!!
BIG BOXES of Antioch's new music CD just showed up!!!
Some 20 or so artists and musicians collaborated to make this project happen. It's unbelievable the quality of talent around here!!
So get your copy of "Called You By Name" and get ready for the most eclectic Christian CD you've heard in a while.
Super fun!!
One of the concepts that C.S. Lewis used regularly as a literary device was that of Mercenary Rewards.
The mercenary, for Lewis, was the perfect symbol of someone who doesn't act for true love or desire for the thing itself, but for the reward he receives - much like mercenaries don't care about the cause of a war, only the spoils.
One of the problems with how we tend to approach God is that we often embody the mercenary. Instead of realizing that God himself is our salvation, we ask for stuff we believe will save us. Instead of realizing that He is what we desire, we seek spoils.
“A joy there is that is not granted to the godless," prays St. Augustine in his Confessions, "but to those only who worship you without looking for reward, because you yourself are their joy." He adds, "This is the happy life, and this alone: to rejoice in you, about you and because of you. This is the life of happiness, and it is not to be found anywhere else.”
When we seek mercenary rewards from God, it betrays our nationality, our hypocrisy and our theology.
When we love God truly, we will, as scripture exhorts, delight ourselves in the Lord and rejoice in the Lord - not as mercenaries, but with undivided hearts.
Which do you desire more, God or what God can give?
I told Justin I'd throw up a little promo for the Pawn Shop Kings Concert this Sunday night at the Kilns at 7 pm.
If you've never heard these guys - they are brothers and have the most amazing harmonies and lyrics. Crazy unique!
Should be a stellar time!!
Here's the real thing.
(much better than the embarrassing out-takes!)
WHAT'S YOUR CAUSE? from emote360 on Vimeo.
I'd love to use all these quotes in my message this Sunday, but don't know that I'll be able to get to them all. Posting them here is the second best option!!
“Moreover, how can he give eternal life who cannot give happiness? For we mean by eternal life that life where there is endless happiness.” – City of God
“A joy there is that is not granted to the godless, but to those only who worship you without looking for reward, because you yourself are their joy. This is the happy life, and this along: to rejoice in you, about you and because of you. This is the life of happiness, and it is not to be found anywhere else.” – Confessions
“…it is you who are arousing their delight in these things; and anything that gives us joy through your Spirit gives you joy in us.” – Confessions
“… no one is blessed who does not enjoy that which he loves.” – Confessions
“… it is not without meaning that it is said that all sin is a life. For no sin is committed save by that desire or will by which we desire that it be well with us, and shrink from it being ill with us. That, therefore, is a lie which we do in order that it may be well with us, but which makes us more miserable than we were. And why is this, but because the source of man’s happiness lies only in God, whom he abandons when he sins, and not in himself, by living according to whom he sins?” – City of God
Looking forward to this coming Sunday more than I look forward to most!
Preaching a message that I've had in the back of my mind for a while called, "Big God" and also getting to hear the band do a bunch of songs on the new Antioch music CD that comes out the following week.
All in all, pretty excited!!
So Beth decided to put this little outtake together from some lines she wanted me to say for a World Relief NEXT video she's working on.
Two words come to mind when I watch it: Village Idiot :)
WHAT'S YOUR CAUSE OUT-TAKE from emote360 on Vimeo.
I'm pretty amped about the crew of interns who are here for the summer!!
We just had six over for dinner last night, saw the Lakers lose and then watched Gran Turino afterward.
Ton's of fun!
I keep telling everyone that Bend is the coolest place in the summer, but the 3 inches of hail in 30 minutes yesterday afternoon didn't help me. The Chicago kids, especially, think that Oregon is just a "rainy place."
Brandon Reynolds is heading up the intern program and I don't know how he's keeping all the balls in the air between the fun stuff and work stuff for all seventeen.
Last Saturday, Kyle Beall helped introduce the interns to Smith Rock and rock climbing. It is the first of a full line up of intern outings -- Central Oregon style. Below are some pictures that Katy Fein sent me from the trip!!
Bend, Oregon is a pretty cool place to live.
I could list a hundred little things that I love about it. Especially in the summer, it is as unique as anywhere else out there.
For example, check out the hot air balloons that sailed over our offices on Sunday as part of the "Balloons Over Bend" festival.
Check out the Congo piece about the work World Relief is doing in the DRC.
P.S. In case you can't tell... Beth Fischer is a pretty amazing videographer!!
If anyone has any intern love and would like to help us find part time employment for an Antioch Summer Intern or help sponsor an intern for Family Camp - contact either myself or Brandon Reynolds (brandon@antiochchurch.org).
We'd love the help!
Check out the video of the World Relief NEXT team that Antioch sent to Congo, Rwanda and Burundi last month.
Ben Edwards put this one together to show the "lighter side" of the trip!!
World Relief NEXT in Africa from Kip Jones on Vimeo.
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