Praise the Lord

I'm in charge of music ministry at church, and I sometimes just want to tear my hair out because of all the niggly bits of admin!! [I am not one of those blessed with the gift of admin!] But I was heavily rebuked the other day, when slightly grumpy at the thought of all the organisation I had to do, I smsed one of the band members to remind her of the practice that evening, and she responded: "Coolio! See you later! Let's praise the Lord!"

What an awesome attitude to have :) I'd somehow lost the plot a little [maybe a lot... I definitely shouldn't have thrown the drum stick at our guitarist] [just jokes;)] and let all the little details distract me from the real reason why we were meeting and practising! Yay! Let's praise Him in everything we do!

The Carlights Analogy

While I was driving home the other day, a friend who was sitting with me in the car reminded me to switch on the car lights. To those of you who are freaking out a little at the thought of me driving around in the pitch dark.. I'm not that stupid. [I think.] It was twilight - light enough not to need to put on lights to see what was ahead of me, dark enough for my friend to be a li-ttle worried ;). But as I saw the cars swishing past in the oncoming lanes, I realized that sometimes we don't put on the lights for us to see by, but for others to be aware of our prescence.

And I thought, wow, what a cool analogy for the Christian walk. Sometimes we do things for ourselves. Other times, the things we do don't really matter to us, but we do them as examples/ models for other people.

Having said that, I can't think of a single example, so you're on your own there...

:)

DJ B?

Xenophobia: our response?

It was mentioned in church today that:

"Xeno + phobia" = "stranger + fear"
(i.e. fear of the stranger.)

However, did you know? The word for hospitality in the New Testament is:

"Xeno + philia" = "stranger + love"
(i.e. love of the stranger..)

I think that makes things pretty clear!