Author Archives: asacredrebel

Sometimes I wonder what leads me to do the things that I do. I wonder how we can without thinking be so inhuman, so threatening, so out of control. I wonder if thinking realy changes this? I wonder how our being claimed by God as the children of the Kingdom, co-inheritors with Jesus Christ, andContinue reading “Why are we so stupid?”

Open mouth insert foot…. Have you ever done something to someone that is just wrong? And then thought about what you did and felt really bad for it? Well that just happened to me. The family was over at some friends house having dinner, and we started talking about Easter candy. So I asked myContinue reading “Oops I did it again….”

I am wondering why it takes a natural disaster for us to rally and do something about the needy in the country, let alone the world. Sure as a church and a country we rallied when the tsunami hit and we sent aid and help to those in need, and now we are faced withContinue reading “Why do we not have a Reverence of Life?”

Romans 8:12-25 Consequently then, Brothers and Sisters, debtors we are, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh For if according to the flesh you are living, you are going to be dieing, but if by the spirit, you are exterminating the works of the body, you will be given life. For asContinue reading “Groaning Heirs”

How many of you can tell me where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001? If you were in school, you probably know what building you were in, what class room you were in and what was happening when the announcement came over the speaker. And if you were working, you probably knowContinue reading “C.O.C.O. to Go (Holy Trinity 2005)”

Have you ever wanted something really bad? Have you ever wanted something so much that you did not think you could live without it? Have you ever wanted something but not had the resources to get it? Or how about at Christmas or your birthday, have you made a list and checked about a billionContinue reading “χαρις is given”

Luke 24:13-35Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.Continue reading “Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?”

John 19:38-42And after these things Joseph of Arimethia, who is a disciple of Jesus secretly because of the fear of the Jews, requested Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus, and Pilate permitted. Therefore he came and took his body. And Nicodemus came also, the one who came to him first by night,Continue reading “Coming Out”

John 13:1-17And before the celebration of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to return from this world to the father. Having loved his own, the ones who are in the world into the end he loved them and having become dinner, the devil now had thrown into the heart of Judas SimonContinue reading “Unfamiliar Intimacy”

Matthew 21:1-9And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Beth’phage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If any one saysContinue reading “What do you need?”