A man without equal

the story of Jesus is one of glorius obserdity... he is a Man without equal.
He is the way, the truth, the life, and no one comes to the Father apart from Him.
Consider the following... (the author is unknown)

He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter’s shop till he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn’t go to college. He never visited a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth. When he was dead he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not effected the life of man on the earth as much as that one solitary life.

pride wins out

"I did this," says my memory. "I cannot have done this," says my pride, remaining inexorable. Eventually, my memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorism 68.

hmmmmm.. what do you think about this quote? By saying this, Nietzsche is displaying a massive dose of the common grace that he dismissed as thoughtless myth. Pride fuels the false self. It will own the day unless confronted and defeated by grace. Pride melts in the shadow of the cross.

the point of our new series in the gathering, my problem with religion

"The final problem is not to prove men wrong, but to win them back to Christ. Therefore, the only ultimate successful apologetic is, first, a clear, intellectual statement of what is wrong with the false doctrine, plus a clear, intellectual return to the proper scriptural emphasis, in all its vitality and in its relation to the total Christian faith, plus a demonstration in the life that this correct and vital scriptural emphasis meets the genuine needs and aspirations of men in a way that Satan's counterfeit does not."..........Francis Schaffer

we purpose to do three things:
(1) expose what is false
(2) set forth what is true
(3) though imperfect, seek to be a community that is living proof that the gospel makes beautiful human beings.