Monday, December 15, 2003
Well I reformatted my page so that I could add links to other blogs. If you read this and you'd like me to link to yours please email me at angelprty1@aol.com. I'd like to keep it to ministry/arts folks. My first link is for my friend Len Evans in Fairfield CT. Len is the one who gives me the nudges to post something to this page now and again.
He is also the author of many articles on youth ministry a speaker a youth pastor and an all around great guy. We are both members of the Interlinc Write Group together and I web master his upcoming youth ministry site It's going to be agreat resource when it's ready, stay tuned. Check out his blog, he's got a lot of great stuff to say.
And now onto the blog. How do you vent? Some people sing, some people shout, some people go ballistic. Me, I draw cartoons. I let my funny little people say what's on my mind. I have several characters and online strips. Scratch--a demon who makes commentary on the church and culture from the enemy's point of view. Chatting Crania (formerly talking heads) Where I deal with a lot of my frustrations with political correctness and the seeming exclusion of Christianity from it. A few of my things can be seen on the Megazeen web site ( http://www.megazeen-online.com ) online comics section. Please note, I don't think Santa and Satan are the same thing, the strip is a priority check for Christians. A new Chatting Crania strip on Christmas will be there next week. You can also see more of my toons on the A.M.O.K. web site.
It was while I was working on the latest Chatting Crania strip, that I was led to a passage of scripture. The passage is Phillippians 2:5-11. It convicted me so much that I changed my whole sermon. Here's the point. I am so defensive about all the political correctness stuff because I feel my rights are being violated. I feel like the ACLU is stripping me of my freedom and I want to stand up for my rights and the rights of all Christians. Look at the passage and see what Jesus did. Did He claims His rights as God in the flesh? No! He made himself nothing. He humbled himself and He served others, even His betrayer. He obeyed God to His death, and I am worried about a few nativity scenes. What would happen if instead of fighting these people we served them? What would happen if we humbled ourselves and showed them the love of Jesus? Verse 9 tells us Jesus humbled Himself and and was obedient and so God exalted Him to the highest place. How might God bless our efforts?
You see the final two verses of this passage changed my point of view. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of the Father. One day everyone will kneel before Jesus and everyone will confess that He is Lord. When that day comes for me, I believe that Jesus has washed me clean and I will enter the place that He has prepared for me. On that day the people who reject Him will know they were wrong and it will be too late. That makes me grieve, but hopefully it will also make me act. Hopefully I will be willing to lay my rights aside like Jesus did in order to share the love of Jesus that God may use me to draw someone to Him. I believe that is what Jesus did? What about you, what will you lay aside to share the Lord? Just a thought.
He is also the author of many articles on youth ministry a speaker a youth pastor and an all around great guy. We are both members of the Interlinc Write Group together and I web master his upcoming youth ministry site It's going to be agreat resource when it's ready, stay tuned. Check out his blog, he's got a lot of great stuff to say.
And now onto the blog. How do you vent? Some people sing, some people shout, some people go ballistic. Me, I draw cartoons. I let my funny little people say what's on my mind. I have several characters and online strips. Scratch--a demon who makes commentary on the church and culture from the enemy's point of view. Chatting Crania (formerly talking heads) Where I deal with a lot of my frustrations with political correctness and the seeming exclusion of Christianity from it. A few of my things can be seen on the Megazeen web site ( http://www.megazeen-online.com ) online comics section. Please note, I don't think Santa and Satan are the same thing, the strip is a priority check for Christians. A new Chatting Crania strip on Christmas will be there next week. You can also see more of my toons on the A.M.O.K. web site.
It was while I was working on the latest Chatting Crania strip, that I was led to a passage of scripture. The passage is Phillippians 2:5-11. It convicted me so much that I changed my whole sermon. Here's the point. I am so defensive about all the political correctness stuff because I feel my rights are being violated. I feel like the ACLU is stripping me of my freedom and I want to stand up for my rights and the rights of all Christians. Look at the passage and see what Jesus did. Did He claims His rights as God in the flesh? No! He made himself nothing. He humbled himself and He served others, even His betrayer. He obeyed God to His death, and I am worried about a few nativity scenes. What would happen if instead of fighting these people we served them? What would happen if we humbled ourselves and showed them the love of Jesus? Verse 9 tells us Jesus humbled Himself and and was obedient and so God exalted Him to the highest place. How might God bless our efforts?
You see the final two verses of this passage changed my point of view. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of the Father. One day everyone will kneel before Jesus and everyone will confess that He is Lord. When that day comes for me, I believe that Jesus has washed me clean and I will enter the place that He has prepared for me. On that day the people who reject Him will know they were wrong and it will be too late. That makes me grieve, but hopefully it will also make me act. Hopefully I will be willing to lay my rights aside like Jesus did in order to share the love of Jesus that God may use me to draw someone to Him. I believe that is what Jesus did? What about you, what will you lay aside to share the Lord? Just a thought.
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