Friday, February 24, 2006

the politics of jesus

so for about a month now i have been reading The Politics of Jesus with a bunch of friends of mine across the us, a virtual book club if you will, and i have been totally digging this read. this chapter we are in now is called 'god will fight for us'. interesting. hopefully some good stuff. well about 2 pages into the chapter i come across this: "It is a general rule of proper textual interpretation that a text should be read for what its author ment to say and what its first readers or hearers would have heard it say." now if only i were taught this in bible school....anyways i think this fundamental fact has been left out of many interpretations of scripture. this reminds me of when i first started studing jewish culture and encourages me to continue to do so.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

rockets win!!

so the game last night was amazing!!!! the seats were awesome, the toyota center was great - all in all a great evening. here are the photos: Our View Warm-Up YAO!! Tipoff Rafer 'Skip to my Lu' Alston T-Mac Clyde 'The Glide' Drexler in the house and good ol Patrick Ewing what a great game, rockets pulled it out and tmac and yao had great games. it was so awesome being so close - i had never been to an nba game - with seats like these who wouldnt want to go back!! go rockets!

Monday, February 20, 2006

this wed evening

amanda + new job = rockets vs. clippers wed night!! whoo hoo! yep - i guess there is someone at amanda's school who has season tix to the rockets games and when they cant make it they do a free give away at school and amanda entered her name in the drawing and won for this wednesday!! i am excited - i havent ever been to a pro bball game, should be cool. i will try and take some pics for ya!

Sunday, February 12, 2006

noise

this morning in our service we showed the nooma video noise as a part of our worship. the focus of the morning was the difference between hearing and listening and when we were planning, i thought this could be a great tool for us to experience. and it went over well. i cant wait to hear about stories from this next week as to what God is doing here at fpc after what happened this morning. i am so blessed by fpc, what a great place. right now i am starting the second week of auditions for the 11o5 band. the first week was good, i am pretty confident we found our drummer, so that is really exciting! hopefully this next week we will have some guitarists show. we shall see, i am trying to surrender this process, but at the same time i know i have my own expectations. i will let you guys how it all shapes up. tomorrow i am taking another day to write - hopefully finishing the songs for the album. i am really excited about this project - i have been incorporating a lot of different writers from our body to speak into this project and write tunes. so cool. now i am just waiting on the budget to be approved.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

mr beam

so i must say one of my favorite things about itunes are all the 'exclusives' and stuff they have. a big thanks to marlow for the new live session with iron and wine. check it out...there is something about mr beam and his voice that just speaks shalom to my soul. great stuff.

march, the month of music

so next month here is the line up: march 9th: david gray and aqualung march 12th-23rd: i'm in the studio march 30th: death cab for cutie and franz ferdinand yessssssss, it has been forever since i have been to a show and this next month i am brought back with mr gray and death cab. woo hoo!!

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