Awesomeness of this Week

Here's a quick update of cool things that God is doing:

For the bible study:

We've got nearly 20 guys that have expressed interest!! Of those 20, about half seem like they are really on board. That's absolutely nuts!! Praise God! I've been glowing the past few days, just amazed how the Lord is moving. Like I said before, its sooo incredibly easy to be joyful now, I hope and pray that His spirit will continue to fill me up.

Tomorrow (Weds) we're going to celebrate the last day of summer with a good ol' fashioned BBQ. We're not completely sure how many guys to expect, but its going to be awesome nonetheless.

For my job:

I'm so thankful/blessed/humbled to have already gotten a job in such a difficult time. I had my first shoot tonight with our video services for UCTV. It was a lecture provided by Karen Armstrong, who apparently is pretty big on the lecture circuit. She has a new book called A Case For God that is pretty popular.

It was pretty cool to film the lecture, I was the wide shot angle, so I barely had to fuss with the focus or zoom. Instead, I got to focus on the interesting lecture! Her premise is that most religions carry a similar theme-- do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And she made the argument that if people did this day in and day out, we would not have the host of problems today.

She might be paid the big bucks to have an observation as astute as this, but it is painfully obvious once one looks at scripture. Jesus says the greatest command is to love our neighbors as ourselves. If we really did this every moment of every day, we would embody the fruits of the spirit as well, and jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness would be vanquished. Unfortunately, our fallen human nature compels us to act in our own self-interest, even if it is at the expense of others. Ms. Armstrong also claimed that Christians need more compassion for others. This is true. My producer for the shoot, who was pretty open and said he did not believe in any kind of god, told me that religions should be more compassionate to others. I think if we were able to embody a stance of compassion, people would see the love of Christ through us.

Well these were some distant rumblings from within, hope you enjoyed it! Man I'm going on a tear on this blog, it feels good!