bread&tea

Humanities breath is frail. Empty words void of substance. Our faulty expository persuades others even less than it persuades ourselves, even while we let it deceive us. Now, I know I just asked this two posts ago, but, why am I a writer? WHY ME!?!? The answer to which, is of course, "Because I made you that way." A long time ago I always wanted to be a police officer. Then I seriously considered pursuing the career of a fireman (which is still a possibility for the future), and then finally decided that my career would be primarily ministry focused. Our finality is never so stable as we assume it to be though, and soon thereafter I resigned myself to a more passive ministry preparation: part-time work, school-finishing, local ministries, and personal growth. Interestingly, some seemingly insignificant detail was also added, I started a blog. At the risk of sounding cliche, "little did I know". Little did I know of God's bigger plan for me, a plan th...

For the past several months I have been mulling over one particular concept. That's not to say I haven't thought of anything else, but that this thought has never utterly left my mind so much as unfortunately important other things do. Like eating. And finishing high-school. And the rapidly lengthening grass... apparently all of which are of equal importance to my superiors. This one thought involves the Christian faith, as opposed to all other faiths. Here is a simple and yet amazingly cohesive expository of the Gospel in five minutes. (he says four, but the clip is five long) This is from Dare 2 Share ministries. *Note, the Adblock Plus add-on for firefox will block this video from showing unless you disable it. So good. I think this clip really shines in making the Gospel as simple as possible, but not simpler. Interesting side note, when the clip mentions all religions admitting that there's something wrong with us, I couldn't help but think that Christian...

I have enjoyed this two week hiatus, and yet hated it at the same time. Why did I start a blog? Constantly wanting to write, and constantly procrastinating, and constantly flipping between happiness and disappointment. The commitment is both thrilling and a ball and chain. I am tired of writing articles. Maybe they are more intelligent sounding, or professionally appealing, but that's not what I care about. Constantly reworking my every sentence to read like an erudite scholar's essay is stifling and only makes me loath writing. I've searched around the internet to find two quotes by Albert Einstein I wanted to share: "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius- and a lot of courage- to move in the opposite direction.” "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." So very true. Take Mark Driscoll or Ravi Zacharias for example, two wise and intelligent teachers. So much of their...

How important is somebody's life? Is it worth putting effort into a relationship with them? Is anything else worth more? To Save A Life proclaims the question, "What would you do to save a life?", as its proposed theme. Which, although a good question to ask, didn't come across to me as the movie's actual message. School violence is also one of its promoted themes, and another point I disagree with it on. So, despite being different from what it says, (I will explain shortly) that in no way ruins the movie itself. Here's some of the pluses for this movie: first, while it may be called a "christian film", I know the stereotype placed on that label is totally messed up- twisted and degraded to lies, and so I don't call To Save A Life a "christian film". Facts said, the film isn't preachy, and instead of trying to explain God, and show how a christian should live their life, (a completely hopeless task to show in a movie, because a...