billykangas

Really cool video...

http://www.95thesesrap.com/

This is really good actually... I'm impressed

A great man of God

Some great Comment!

Worship doesn't always go as planed Just ask the folks in the temple the day Jesus decided to show up with a whip... (John 2:13-16) Hiccups in worship are my favorite part of a Church Service. Then things go completly NOT according to plan, but wind up being perfect because of it... I have caused quite a few of these myself. I have fallen off stages on more then one occasion. One day I forgot to bring the Power Point Slides so we had to pull them off the web in real time. In the process we had a worship service with pop up ads of girls in Bikinis going off while singing "The Wonderful Cross." I have broken probably 100 strings on stage in my whole Career as a worship leader. These are all technical glitches... Even better then these are spiritual glitches. I have gone up to Preach and had a sense I was preaching the wrong thing as I got up to the Pulpit and just spoke from my heart. These are some of the best sermons I've ever preached. I have seen people get up and say something during worship that has thrown all the plans out the window because it was a truth that we needed to spend some time with... Even if it came in the wrong Church Season. These moments are powerful... One of my favorites was when Jay Bakker spoke at the St. Louis Youth Specialties conferance in 2003... If you haven't seen it Track it down! If you don't know what I'm talking about check out the following video: Have you ever experienced Beautiful Chaos in Worship?

I have often wondered what Marshall McLuhan has to say to theologians, and Christians. One man who has been asking these questions for a few years now is Shane Hipps. He is one of the few voices out there actually dealing with the theology of media. Shane argues that Incarnation is the Media in Christianity. Flesh and blood is the way God chooses to work... This idea is powerful but has a tendency to look at community that is not "flesh and blood" as counterfeit. In the following video he explains why. For another perspective on the question look at what Chris Ridgeway is doing over at "Jesus Under Plastic" I myself have an "virtual community" I love dearly... All of you are a part of it! So are all my facebook friends, Reddit.com/r/Christianity folks are a part of it, facebook seems to hold it all together, and of course Twitter. I have Three questions for Shane: 1) You rightly say History is required for community. However I fail to see HOW virtual communities LACK a history. Many of my friends online are people I have had a long history with. Some I have been talking to me for years though we haven't met. Some I talked to for years and were instant friends when I moved to Chicago. Others were friends I had from Michigan but I now only see online. 2) You talk about "message boards" but fail to take into account how we can now have "face to Face" contact over the Web. When my wife and I are apart we video Chat and play boardgames online Just like we do at home. It feels like she's still with me even though she might be hundreds of miles away. I understand that we could not sustain a healthy marriage indefinitely that way, but why not a friendship and a community? 3) Why is Proximity contingent on "flesh and blood"? A simple question, that probably has no easy answer. So do you agree with Shane? Take a look at the video!

Why Can't we have conversations like this more often

Rise!