Given to All

Jason — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:19:11 +0000

This week I have been thinking about grace and the gift of mercy and salvation that we have. Also, I have been listened to the David Crowder Band. There are two lyrics from two of their songs that have just stuck with me all week.

The first is from Oh Happiness, a very fun and uplifting song. The song starts like this

Oh, happiness
There is grace enough for us and the whole human race

That’s pretty cool isn’t it!

The second comes from How He Loves. It’s just one part towards the end of a song full of pretty pithy and catchy phrases.

If His grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.

Wow, that’s a great description of the grace that we have been given because of the death and resurrection of the Christ.

¹⁴Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

¹⁵But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! ¹⁶Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. Romans 5:14-16 (New International Version)

If you have been given that much grace and mercy, how about sharing it with those around you? It’s a pretty cool thing!

Shine your light and let the whole world see.

The Glory of Presidents Day

Jason — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:08:42 +0000

Today is President’s Day as you all know – a day that we stop and remember those Presidents of the past and provide them with the honor and glory due them. The honor of the Office of President or the POTUS, as we like to say, is incredible. I am alway impressed ( and bored) when I go to the Hall of Presidents at Disney World. It’s impressive because you can see – by the wonder and magic of Disney’s animatronics- all of the presidents lined up together have a gay old time. (Bored, because they actually speak, but its a great place for a rest, and a bit of air conditioning if its hot outside). Ok, seriously, the POTUS is in a position to be hailed and given glory, but despite all the greatness of any of these men, they are made or broken by the men around them. The people, the judges, the men in Congress and the press, can help or hurt the legacy that any of these men have left behind.

But consider for a moment the POTU ( thats the President of the Universe). The POTU, or God, has made everything. His glory is completely his.

¹¹“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
   to receive glory and honor and power,
   for you created all things,
      and by your will they were created
      and have their being.” – Revelation 4:11

And the best part is that he made you, and passed that glory on to you

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. – Gen 1:26-27

Stop and think about that. God is so glorious, and he made us. So today remember you favorite past president for their accomplishments – whether it be Reagan and the Wall, Carter and inflation, Lincoln and slavery, FDR and The NewDeal, Wilson, Washington, Kennedy, Clinton, Taft, Cleveland, Adams(squared), Bush(squared), McKinley, Jefferson, and so on. Give them their due! Thank God for them, Praise them, but also remember God put them in power and he made you!

“You make everthing glorious, and I am yours. So what does that make me?” – David Crowder Band

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Given to All

The Glory of Presidents Day