Humans have 5 senses: Seeing, Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting. Sight tends to help makes sense of the other senses that we are using, so it is generally regarded as the most important sense, but today we want to talk about touch. In this final installment of the Jesus Unhinged series we are going to see…
Watch and hear this full message here. The story about Jesus calming the storm comes from Mark 4:35-41 and it starts out with an important directive that Jesus gives that we often overlook 35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” I think this promise is…
It seems like everything has a label on it these days. Warning labels, Identity labels, Description labels, Brand labels and Grade labels to tell you the quality of the product The problem comes when we try to define people by labels, we aren’t giving them freedom, we are trying to exercise power and control over…
Jesus called unexpected people into his little band of followers, fisherman and regular folk, but the most unexpected was a tax collector named Levi. As a tax collector, Levi, also known as Matthew, belonged to one of the most hated groups of folks in 1stcentury Palestine. Tax collectors were hated even more than the IRS…
Our American culture encourages us to push and pursue, to grow in productivity and even wealth and fame at all costs. And when we do things that go against that, it looks like we’ve come unhinged. Jesus always spurned opportunities to grow his fame and power in worldly standards. Early in his ministry in Mark chapter…
Jesus did some crazy things, things that made people around him consider him to be unhinged. And yet, the one thing Jesus calls us to do it to follow him…follow him into the unhinged, crazy things that he does. We use the word “follow” quite a bit these days and mostly it has to do with…
What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done? I mean so crazy that people might have called you unhinged? The Urban Dictionary (yes, I am so cool that I use Urban Dictionary) has kept an up-to-date record of what it means to be unhinged: 2005 – crazy, insane, psychotic, confused; a basketcase. not attached where it really counts, much…
Today wraps up our Blog series on the Ugly Christmas Sweaters. At Christmas time especially, our Thoughts, Words, Motivations can be just as ugly as our Ugly Christmas Sweaters. Thankfully it doesn’t have to be that way! Today we are talking about Ugly Actions We need to be mindful of our actions no matter what time of…
We’ve been talking about how our Ugly Christmas Sweaters can be just as annoying and attention-getting as our Ugly Thoughts, which become Ugly Words. Now we are talking about Ugly Motivations, that end up becoming Ugly Actions. Motivations are all about the big WHY…actions are about the WHAT (more on that next time!) Ugly motives…
Ugly Christmas Sweaters are quite the phenomenon these days, but unfortunately during this season we can be tempted to be as ugly as our sweaters. Last week we talked about our ugly thoughts…thoughts become actions, we can end up hurting others. Thoughts can also become words. We often end up saying things that hurt others without…
