This video ties in with our theme of relationships and sexuality (talking about involvement in sexual activity here) at Seed. As a student, hearing about relationships and sexuality always made me think in the context of people around my age. I would think about relationships in middle school and high school, how people already began sleeping together in high school. There are people from my high school class that have children already. And now in college there is newfound freedom. Everybody lives within walking distance. People can spend the night with each other without having to worry about parents, siblings, whoever. But sexual sin isn’t an issue for just kids. Nor is it an issue for just unmarried adults. It’s a symptom of a disease with which everyone struggles.
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Tags: Sexuality
Thanks to Steve Lutz, campus minister of CCO, for pointing out this video. This one really resonates with me.
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Tags: Church Trends
These days, Christians don’t seem to talk much about hell. This doctrine, more than any other, just seems too offensive to the modern pluralistic mindset.
In a comment to a recent post about prayer, Hannah explained that when she prays she likes to think of God’s attributes: his awesome power, his goodness, his love, mercy, compassion, and so on. It is fitting to praise God in this fashion, and it does help us to understand him better. But if this is carried too far (and I do not intend to suggest at all that she carries it too far), we may eventually start to think of God in terms of these attributes. God cannot be reduced to an adjective list. He is a living being.
Tags: Prayer
In a recent post, I claimed that the only truly Christian prayer is the prayer of Christ. This idea is difficult to grasp, and its implications are not entirely obvious. Does this mean that I don’t have to pray? Does it mean that my own efforts are futile? If Jesus has already done it all, then what exactly is my role?
We tend to think of personal prayer as something we create by ourselves; it should just bubble up from within our souls. So we begin by composing a prayer to God. But we don’t hear anything back. We don’t feel much of anything. We begin to think, “Something is wrong. I guess I’m not praying hard enough. Gotta get more intense! Gotta get more sincere!” As we try to do better, we continue this process of self-evaluation. The focus turns inward. Our prayer becomes introspection, a conversation with the self and about the self.
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There is a poem vivid in my imagination. It awakes memories of the colorful people that define so many of my experiences. This poem is a celebration of what it is to be living, breathing, a flesh and blood human. This poem is “I Sing the Body Electric” by Walt Whitman. Whitman writes not about the abstract term “humanity”. He writes instead about the real, raw experience of being in the presence of people. In his words is an appreciation of all people and the image of God in each of their bodies and souls, whether he knew it or not. Whitman also didn’t know it but he wrote this poem about my family.
Tags: Life
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