so i've been reading this book called Blue like Jazz by Don Miller,
i've read it once and now i am re-reading it for my community groups,
Miller is a funny guy, he wrote mostly about his life and his journey with Christ,
from a quite different perspectives though ...
he posed the question of what do we really believe in?
i mean really what do we really believe in?
are we just believing in something cool that everyone else is doing?
like going to church, especially in the south, it's like a "requirement" of being cool right?
no wonder i came across this term called "Christian Jocks" in a book called Christian Culture Survival Guide ... kinda funny book ... but are we just doing this church thing because it's cool, or as one of my friend puts it, some people goes to church to make themselves feel good ... really? Do we really do that? i hope it's more than that, i hope when we seek God we feel good because of the joy that is set before us, but i don't think going to church seeking to feel good will work all the time because when convictions hit i don't think that feels good ... anyways ...
so what do i believe in?
Generic answer is always , i believe in Christ the mediator between man and God, i believe in God who created everything and is in controlled ... what else ? do i believe in love ? since God is love i better believe in love. how about patience ? fun ? do you believe in fun ? what about compassion, do you believe in compassion ? what about sports? do you believe in sports? what does the Houston Rockets ever done to me that i love them so much ...
i just saw the movie "Fever Pitch" with Andrea in Portland ...
one line really hit me though ... when Drew Barrymore asked Jimmy Fallon what did Red Sox ever done to him that he was willing to be a fanatic for the Red Sox nation ..
i don't know ... what does Aggie football ever done to us .. maybe it's entertainment or "aggie-hood" ... that makes us hate the Longhorns that much? ... i don't know .. just some thoughts that i had ...
then i was listening to a sermon by John Piper (http://www.desiringgod.org) ...
he talked about the book of Romans and book of James and what they all said about saved ONLY by faith, faith that is measured by love ... and how faith w/o works is dead ...
then i caught myself pondering again whether i truly love other people regardless of what they think of me ... it's been hard to love the people when they are so different from you ...
then what is love anyways ... it's abstract ...
what constitute love?
you tell me ...
those are my thoughts for the night ..
and yes here's my play list ...
some people has a lot of passion for nothing ...
that's really sad
some people has a lot of passion for something futile ...
that's even worse
R. Kelly - You saved me ( a great gospel song ... )
Kanye West - Jesus Walks ( i don't think Kanye really really really gets it, but he portraited the struggles vividly)
Eminem - Mocking Bird ( again, a song from a broken heart caused by broken life and circumstacnes ...)
Mat Kearny - Bullet ( "i'll take a bullet for you" , an unconventional rap song ... speaks more truth and life than the rest on the list ...)
KJ-52 - Rise Up ("you can't be the light of the world and ain't shinning ..") interesting song, more of a provoking song about living for Christ than anything else ..
Switchfoot - Love is the movement (love is the resolution ...) plain and simple , love is the resolution ...
Keane - Somewhere only we know (i'm getting old and i need something to rely on ...) a sweet song .. i love the piano /vocal part of this song ...
Gavin DeGraw - I don't wanna be - self-explainatory ...
those are the songs i like ...
~daniel
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