:: IdeaJoy ::

:: Monday, March 22, 2004 ::

Good Question: Incarnate Forever - Christianity Today Magazine: What is the scriptural and theological support for the teaching that Jesus, the God-man, remains eternally incarnate?
Answered by J.I. Packer.

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:: Dave King 20:05 :: ::
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CFCN: Standoff ends peacefully

A three hour standoff in the city's south west Sunday afternoon ended peacefully.

Just after 2 p.m., the man called 9-1-1 saying he barricaded himself in the house in the community of Millrise and had a weapon.

Police surrounded the home and started negotiations. The man came out on his own and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Police say they have been to the same house before. The man had been drinking at the time of the standoff. No weapons were found in the home.

We watched this happen from out back window. The house in question is across the ally from us. There must have been twenty cops. I saw at least 8 SWAT team members, tons of other officers, a K9 unit and they had an amulance standing by. The news report only mentions one man. But we watched officers take another man who came out of the house an hour before.

CFCN played a clip of Kim talking about watching the cops take the guy down.

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:: Dave King 06:55 :: ::
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Reverend Joyleaf told me about this great ad: I Feel Great. Too funny.

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:: Dave King 08:33 :: ::
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LeadershipJournal.net - Catching The Passion Wave
Mel's movie caused a cultural wave, and we chose to ride it.
By Rick Warren

I think it's great that Rick's Church has been able to ride the wave of the passion. But what bugs me is it was all organized by his church. Why aren't the people of his church taking friends to see interesting movies and talking about them on a regular basis? Maybe surfing is the wrong metaphor, maybe we need to think like sailors who can tac into the wind, using not just Christian culture, but all culture to draw people to Christ.

I saw the passion on Friday, with a friend who is very interested in Jesus and it had a powerful effect on her, but as we talked afterward I realized the breadth of influences on her, her daughter who reads her Bible every night, American in laws who talk about their conversion, A Christian couple who welcomed her to Canada and helped her family with the transition to a new country. Personal witness and love are way more powerful than a movie. That got lost in the Passion outreach hype.

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:: Dave King 08:24 :: ::
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Who Said?

a word to the wise to the young artists - without spiritual guidance too much freedom can lead to spiritual decline

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:: Dave King 22:44 :: ::
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I had my first Kispy Kreme yesterday. A new Krispy Kreme is opening in Calgary, and somone delivered two boxes of their Doughnuts to our floor. There was much excitment. I warmed my dohnut in the microwave, as instucted by the Krispy Kreme devote in our group. It was warm, sweet, and melt in your mouth good. And yet I was a little disapointed. While it was good, much better than the recently revamped Doughnuts at Tim's, it wasn't as good as fresh Mrs. Dunsters Doughnuts from Fredricton. Hmmm whole weat dougnuts...

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:: Dave King 08:01 :: ::
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Return of the Jedi King

I finally saw Return of the King with Mike on Saturday. It was good, though not as strong as Fellowship, better than Two Towers. I think they'll hold together better, when viewed in an all day marathon.

In the batel of Gondor, I was reminded of the batel of Hoth. I'm sure scale of the Oliphants was influenced by the scale of Imperial Walkers. The sceens shot at the top of city had a definate Star Wars feel as well, more so than Ep I or II. Too bad we couldn't get Peter Jackson to do Episode III.

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:: Dave King 21:15 :: ::
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Visiting Mike and Carol in Edmonton. Listening to Mike play nobody's fault but mine and a couple of his ow tunes. He's playing his Johnson Steel guitar, or as I keep calling it the Dire Straits guitar. Course Mike is pointing out the guitar on the album cover, is by a different company. Musicians are so picky.

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:: Dave King 17:23 :: ::
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EASTERN ORTHODOXY THROUGH WESTERN EYES

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:: Dave King 08:07 :: ::
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Flickerings Epic Survey of Jesus Movies
From La vie et la passion de Jesus Christ to The Passion of the Christ By Mike Hertenstein.

My personal favorite Jesus of Montreal

Jesus of Montreal features a small theatrical troupe who are asked to "freshen up" a traditional Passion Play held annually at a local shrine. As in Kazantzakis's The Greek Passion, the Gospel story blurs into their daily lives, as the actors become echoes of the characters they play.

If you rent Jesus of Montreal, make sure to get the French with subtitles version. The transition between French and English is a huge part of the sub text, and the dubed English version just kills the movie.

I've also enjoyed the recent Gospel of John, going through the entire book of John in three hours, I had a fresh sense of how John focused on the question, Who was Jesus?

Mike's list includes: Monty Python's Life of Brian

The Gospel according to Monty Python goes thusly: Brian of Nazareth falls by accident (and most literally) into the role of prophet, and the people follow him despite his best efforts to shoo them away. Everything he does is interpreted as wisdom or a miracle by the slavish, worshipping crowds. No doubt the religious-epic genre was crying out to be satirized, and sharply; and this film is sharpest with the occasional dead-on parody of 50s-style Biblical drama. The satire is helped by the use of leftover sets and costumes from Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, and a soundtrack complete with those angelic "oohohhoohs" that always seemed designed to provoke a Pavlovian response in viewers, a great argument in favor of a mock-religious film about thinking for oneself.

Meanwhile, Jesus of Nazareth shows up in a brief cameo, in a famous bit where the back of the crowd mishears the distant preacher as saying "Blessed are the cheese makers" (though a liberal-interpreter hastens to note that the reference is not to be taken literally, but applies to any manufacturer of dairy products).

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:: Dave King 07:35 :: ::
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Why The Passion 'outreach' was all hype, and I didn't fall for it by Brian McLaren.

Thanks Jordan and Amen. Course it's nothing Steve Taylor hasn't said before, see: Easy Listening

How did we strike it rich?
Kissing up to the powerful

How did we make our pitch?
Satellites by the towerful

Why do you young people have to go and get caught up in a radical phase?

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:: Dave King 21:58 :: ::
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